Pic courtesy of: The Profane "Our music is a mix of metal, rock, some hardcore and punk. But the heart and soul of the band is rock and metal definitely"

CR: Hey man how are you! Let’s begin with the basics, why you please introduce yourself to our readers?
David Arriola: Ok; David Arriola, singer and manager of The Profane speaking!

CR: You are also one of the founding members of the band right?
David Arriola: Yes, it’s actually two of us the ones that started the band, me and my brother Marcelo, who is the drummer of The Profane

CR: Before The Profane you guys had another band, Slow Agony…
David Arriola: Well actually this band started out as a sort of side project… let me explain and perhaps give you a short Bio on us. The Profane started out mid June 2003, by my brother and I; during that same time, we had another band going called Slow Agony. We wanted to create a side project from Slow Agony, to have a place where we could use all of the great ideas that we had but could not use in Slow Agony. Some time later Slow Agony had a “guitar crisis” and that made the band stand still; and like I said at that same time The Profane was already starting to take shape… and well after that pretty much everything started to happen very quickly, we recorded our first material, and released it, and of course began to play some shows, always getting a very positive reaction from the public.
Little after that the option to record our first full length came with the proposal from the Colombian label HATEWORKS; like they said the rest is history, we are now working hard to promote our music everywhere we can.
This is our current line up: David Arriola (vocals) , Marcelo Arriola (drums) , Diego Arriola (bass), Sebastián Centurión (guitar).

CR: I can read three Arriola’s there, are all of you brothers?
David Arriola: Yes, right now we are three brothers in the band.

CR: The Profane’s music is very ala Entombed; you now that death n’ roll popularized by some great Swedish bands. What direct influences would you “blame” for this peculiar way of playing metal, peculiar for a Latin American band that is?
David Arriola: Well yes, I do think Entombed is one of the bands that inspired us, but also the latest works by Carcass; also Motorhead, Black Label Society and many more. Our music is a mix of metal, rock, some hardcore and punk. But the heart and soul of the band is rock and metal definitely.
We really needed to make that “fusion” of all the genres and sounds that we liked, but never stepping away from what has always define us, been metal musicians.

CR: I don’t know if you have heard a band from Shagrath from Dimmu Borgir, Chrome Division? They also sound very familiar to what The Profane is doing over in Paraguay!
David Arriola: Yeah man! That is one of my favorite bands, and I also believe we sound similar, but with one difference; I believe bands like Chrome are actually trying to copy or revived bands like Motorhead, or even AC/DC; and what we are trying to do is not copy them but to put all of those inspirations and sounds into one outfit that has a personality on their own!

CR: The Profane is one of those bands that is really showing the world that Latin America can pretty much play any genre derived form heavy metal, I might even venture on saying that you guys are one of those bands pushing the envelop; because there are clearly very few bands trying to expand the metal sound in our side of the continent…
David Arriola: Well I don’t really know about that… all I know is that we do this because we love it, we worked very hard to get where we are right now and we are going to keep that up. What really helps us is that pretty much everywhere we go people seem to like what we are playing, and as long as the people keeps reacting this way we’ll continue to deliver as best as we can. We hope we can get everywhere with our music.

CR: Now that you mention the audience, with what kind of audience does The Profane feels more comfortable with, I mean the sound of the band can certainly be very well received by a more rock n/ roll oriented sort of crowd?
David Arriola: Pretty much all of our career has been inside the metal scene, from nu metal to the most extreme genres; very few with rock bands really. But I have to tell you we will like to be included in pretty much every aspect of rock music.
We feel much more comfortable playing with bands from the “middle of the road” you know, bands that are not so extreme, places and audiences that enjoy the fusion of different genres, since the more extreme metal scenes are a bit close minded, but not a real problem with that either, I mean we do enjoy extreme metal also.

	Pic courtesy of: The Profane "Our sound is just like that you know, very artisan, dirty, raw; since the creation of the band we came to the agreement that, that was the way the band was going to sound"

CR: There are words, phrases that for some reason have become synonymous with the style of music that you guys play, you know words like: Whiskey, Motorcycle, Leather jacket, do you know what I mean? A sort of subculture within this music style.
David Arriola: I think that is also pretty important, is part of the rock n´ roll attitude; is almost like a brand, part of the image etc. in our case we use way to much the phrase FUCK OFF!!! Jajaja
I think this sort of music is a mix of elements and those clichés are part of it. Off course it has to be done with sincerity!

CR: Speaking about what you just say, regarding the close minded attitude of many if not all extreme metal fans (A point I totally agree with you) I just wanted to ask; don’t you think that perhaps that same close minded attitude that we both don’t agree much with, was the reason why metal survived and will continue to survive, despite the trends or attacks made by society towards this musical movement?
David Arriola: Sure… I totally agree with you. What I’m saying is that I dont really understand much their close “mind set” when it comes to The Profane, I mean is not like we are trying to put pop inside our music, or even clean vocals for that matter; our metal just has a bigger “flavor” of rock that’s all, its aggressive, dirty and very provocative; all elements I think have been used by some of the most well known bands around, Venom, Slayer, Celtic Frost. Anyway I just can talk about our style of fusion.

CR: Let’s talk a little about “Chaosbreed” an album I was really impress with if I haven’t mention that before… I don’t know if you had the time to read the review we wrote about it; well in any case I still get very surprised every time I have the change to hear a well produced album from Latin America, we seem to suffer a lot from bad recordings around here, anyhow… what are the aspects or aspect of the record that you like the best?
David Arriola: The album was recorded were it was placed, it was done under our rules and it sounds like we wanted it to sound, crude, dirty, provocative. Chaosbreed was recorded by us and our live engineer; it was all done at home my friend.

CR: So no recording studio?
David Arriola: Well, yes because we have a small recording studio right where we practice.
Our sound is just like that you know, very artisan, dirty, raw; since the creation of the band we came to the agreement that, that was the way the band was going to sound.

CR: But the mastering part of it was done in PLATINUM STUDIOS in the US, was that Hateworks decision or you guys decided that?
David Arriola: That was the label’s idea, they have a policy of creating great quality records so that they can be introduce to a big array of countries and scenes, like the US and Europe; off course it was a mutual decision, we are very pleased with the results.

CR: The intro of the album is a sort of “political speech”, who is it and those it represents for the band?
David Arriola: The one in the intro of the album is a speech by former dictator president Stroessner, and the song speaks about this character, about him never feeling anything for all the damage that he did to the country; and the one at the end was a speech by his successor Andres Rodriguez, another torture for our country. These people did so much damage for so long to our country.

CR: I have heard a little about Stroessner… do you get involved in politics, or you just use it as inspiration for The Profane?
David Arriola: I don’t get involved in politics; it is just my opinion about that terrible era for our country.

CR: All right, then jumping from politics back into music… in the song Death's Squad there is a sort of harmonica there right?
David Arriola: Yes a harmonica, a very important blues instrument, another big influence for the band.

CR: There are also other instruments in the record, like a piano that resembles that 1950’s rock era, I think it is in Drowning Shit…
David Arriola: We also use a güiro, tambourine, percussion instruments, piano, harmonica, but all of this only as a soft base for the music to show a couple of our influences, we will never use anything that will overshadow the importance of the guitars, drums, bass and vocals; they are just little details that’s all.

CR: Do you include those instruments on the live performances?
David Arriola: No, live we go as caveman jajajajaja and 1000 kilometers per hour

CR: Speaking about live shows… you guys where in Brazil last year right?
David Arriola: Yes, we here over there last year, playing at a festival along side Sepultura, in a city called Cuiaba; we where also in Campo Grande, Dorados and a couple of shows in Colombia, we where going to Lima but we had to cancel that one because of the earth quake. We are also very active here in Asuncion and other parts of Paraguay.

CR: How different are those crowds in comparison with the ones in Paraguay?
David Arriola: There are a couple of differences, in Brazil people go insane, in Colombia they watch carefully and supported, and in regards to Paraguay it depends of the audience that we have, sometimes everything is pretty cool others they are just calm.

		Pic courtesy of: The Profane "I think we are a band that shows different styles without departing from our roots, we never stray away from playing metal."

CR: Going back to the record before I forget, a “typical” questions here; is there something that you will change to the final result?
David Arriola: Well, I would have liked to record it with a producer that specializes on bands with a similar sound to ours, somebody like Billy Anderson, you know so that everything would have sounded noisier, but generally speaking I like the record as it is. Does that answer your question?

CR: Yes sir!
David Arriola: I also like Tomas Skoberg

CR: You guys also have a previous work titled “Death n’ roll”, how do we get a hold of that material?
David Arriola: Well that material is out of stock right now, but we are in negotiations to try and get it out there again through a Peruvian label; I hope that falls into place soon; it will contain that material plus some live songs and a couple of pre-productions.
That material was recorded in the rehearsal room of a friend, it has a very nice raw and aggressive sound. Speaking of switch I’m quite a fan of albums with a sound like the latest Dark Throne record, their latest work are pretty fucking cool.

CR: So you also like that old school black /thrash sound?
David Arriola: Off course I’m a metalhead from the heart!

CR: I was looking for interviews with you guys, to get a couple of ideas on what the hell was I going to ask you, but I just found an interview in Portuguese; how that side of the promotion working out for you?
David Arriola: Well we are taking it slowly in that department, we have done a couple of interviews and we are working pretty well in Argentina in that department.

CR: I have had the opportunity to listen to a couple of bands from your country aside from The Profane, I was very surprised by the work of Violent Attack and Sabaoth; how do you see the scene in your country right now?
David Arriola: We have some very good bands here, the scene is quite small but very strong; we are working very hard to make it grow, to make it less informal you know, putting up quality shows etc; it can be hard at times but I think we are achieving something here. Regarding records and sales of records, well is hard you know because we don’t have what can be consider a “specialized” label, very few media outlets, almost non existent fanzines, a couple of radio shows… we are fighting with very little but always moving forward.
On the other hand, there are some “big media” (newspapers) that are helping out announcing gigs and stuff.

CR: To wrap it up… what do you think is the single characteristic that distinguishes The Profane from the rest of Latin American metal bands?
David Arriola: I think we are a band that shows different styles without departing from our roots, we never stray away from playing metal.
You know sometimes people take it as a bad signal when we say we mix metal with punk; but one thing we must remember is that punk and hardcore have been a huge influence on metal music; Slayer dedicated a whole album to that sound, the old and new sound of Sepultura was due to that also, and like a thousand examples more.
Well and rock is the base of all of that is in it? Just let Cronos and Lemmy tell you that.
We are not a trend fusion band, I think we mix the most sincere sounds always keeping it underground.

CR: All right man, thank you so much for taking this time to speak with us!
David Arriola: No problem I enjoyed the chat!