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Pegazus are:
Johnny Stoj - guitar
Robbie Stoj - drums
Cory Betts - bass
Rob Thompson - vocals
We interviewed PEGAZUS from Australia, one of my favourite´s Nuclear Blast bands.Their
latest album, "The Headless Horseman" is scheduled to be released in February
2002. So expect more power and true metal,Pegazus well known style!. Here´s what Johnny
Stoj, Pegazus lead guitar answered in name of the band.
1.-What happened with your
drummer,we heard he had an injure,is he ok now?
Yeah, Robbie had a pretty severe injury in his groin area for nearly 2 years from
what they call hernia...it is a bad tearing of the muscles and is very painful at all
times. It became difficult to even sit down, so playing drums and playing lots of double
kick drumming was becoming nearly impossible to do for more than 15 minutes. He is all
fine and back to perfect health now that he has had the operation a few months
ago...Robbie actually just finished recording all his drum tracks for the new album last
week and I gotta say, that I have never heard him play better with so much more power and
confidence...I think the operation was a success...hahaha :o)
2.-When do you expect to finish your latest album?
We have been in the studio now for 3 weeks and we are actually halfway there...we expect
to finish the final recording in 2 weeks time, then we will mixdown and master it and the
new piece of KILLER Pegazus metal will be ready to unleash upon the world of metal! :o)
From our knowledge, Nuclear Blast Records is scheduling the new album for worldwide
release in February 2002.
3.-What do you expect with this new album?
A hell of a lot of album sales hopefully....hahaha :o) No, really, it's just
fantastic to be able to record a new album with a bunch of really cool fucking metal songs
that we do know the fans have been waiting for so long and will really like very much,
especially since it's been 2 years when 'Breaking The Chains' was released. This is also
the first album with new vocalist Rob Thompson at the helm, and this in itself is very
exciting for us because the band is really having so much fun together now and all we want
to do is get our asses overseas to play some wicked fucking metal for some wicked fucking
fans on 'The Headless Horseman Tour 2002'! :o)
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4.-Are
you planning any southamerican tour soon?
We would really love to come and play some shows in South America very soon. We are hoping
that the new album will be very well recieved not just around the world but very much in
South America like our previous albums! We do get quite a bit of mail from fans from all
over South America and I think for us to play some shows there hopefully in 2002 on the
"Headless Horseman Tour" will be one wild fucking time for all!
5.-Are you going to participate in any Thin Lizzy tribute album?
We recorded two Thin Lizzy songs last year while we were still looking for a new vocalist,
so I sang them myself because Robbie and I used to be in a Thin Lizzy Tribute band in the
very early 90's, so we definitely wanted to be a part of that. The songs we recorded were
'Warriors' and 'Jailbreak' and I think Nuclear Blast Records will release a tribute to
Thin Lizzy album in January 2002...? I also wrote an actual song about Thin Lizzy's Phil
Lynott which is a real tribute song called 'Ballad Of A Thin Man'...this will be on the
new Pegazus album , also with me singing the lead vocals, as this was done just before Rob
Thompson joined Pegazus. That particular song is very Lizzy sounding, full of great twin
guitar harmonies and lyrics in a similar style to how I imagined Phil would write...we
even sent that song to his mother Philomena Lynott, who wrote a personal letter back to us
letting us know that she totally loved the song 100% and that, in itself was worth the
effort of creating such a song! :o)
6.-How´s the new singer going?
Rob Thompson is doing absolutely fantastic and so far, the response that we have had from
fans and friends all over the world who have actually heard the demos of our new songs,
just love the traditional approach that Pegazus maintains even with a new vocalist such as
Rob. His voice has slotted into the band like a hand fits into a glove... he was made for
this role as the crazy metal mad frontman! :o) We have played a few live shows around
Australia in the past year and we honestly have never had so much fun on stage as we are
having right now and we really cannot wait to get out on tour and kick some serious ass
together soon.
7.-Any final words?
Thanx for all your support always and I do hope that we not only will get over to South
America to play some shows sometime in the near future, but it would also be fantastic to
meet you and all the great friends and fans that this band has over there in South
America...
THE PEGAZUS WARRIORS ARMY!!!
Metal Forever!!!
Interviewed by Jerec
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