Warcode took form back in 2008 as a project of Vasilis who along with the help of his best friends Pete and Milt recorded a demo EP. Pete took over the role of the vocalist and Milt handled the recording aspect of this project. Soon after the release of the first EP Milt joined the band as the second guitarist and Victor with Lefteris came along to fill the space of drummer and bassist. With this line up we’ve performed live around Greece (and played some shows in Bratislava Slovakia) as well as recorded our debut album back in 2014 titled “Vortex of Chaos”.
2) How's the actual lineup?
After some lineup changes throughout the years the band consists of Vaios Sven (vocals), Milt Argyriou and Vasilis Karaoulis (guitars), Dimitris Kontogiannis (bass guitar) and Vasilis Manitsas (drums).
3) Who writes the music, the lyrics and where do the lyrical ideas come from?
At this point we must say that everybody in the band contributes with his ideas either concerning the lyrical part or the musical part. But concerning the lyrics me must say a big thank you to our good friend Mao who contributed much, both for Vortex of Chaos and Post-Modern Delusions.
Huge topic! We could speak about the Greek underground scene much. There are many great bands in the Greek underground, many bands that have given birth to Extreme Metal scene in Greece and generally many other genres. Sometimes it seems that there’s a unity within the underground scene, but sometime it feels that it’s you against all, if you know what i mean. Anyway, there are many cool and great bands in the Greek underground scene such as Mortal Torment, Murder Made God, Inveracity, Mass Infection, Dead Congregation etc.. Do yourself a favor and check these guys!
5) Comment about the album Vortex of Chaos.
Our first piece of work as a collective. We’ve busted our asses writing and rehearsing the songs for this album! If memory serves well we had to record it 2 times in order to make it right. The lyrics on this album consist of various topics , for the most songs on the album the main aspect of the lyrics is sociopolitical and more deeper, hard to analyze matters portrayed in songs like “To Predict a Retribution” and “Beauty of Extinction”
6) Tell us more about the album Post-Modern Delusions
Now, concerning Post-Modern Delusions, the main trigger of the lyrical composition is consequences of war. War gives birth to hate, pain, everyday problems and discrimination. At least we don’t want to observe in apathy. We see the world getting crazier and crazier and somehow we want to make a stand against all this madness. Musically speaking the album consists of aggressive, fast paced metal which is our cure from everyday routine. We know it sounds cheesy but it’s the vile truth.
07) Have you played many gigs?
We have played a good amount of live shows over the years here in Greece, We made a mini tour on central Europe back in 2015 which was a great experience and we continue to try to play as many gigs as we can. Nowadays the pandemic of Covid 19 has strike us and we’ve had to cancel some gigs we had planned to promote our second album.. A real shitwreck situation!
8) Which is the ideology o Warcode?
We can ‘t say that we have a specific political ideology. Two thing are certain. One we despise how Capitalism ruins the world arounds us. And two we absolutely despise every extreme act. We despise fascism, racism, sexism and every kind of discrimination. That’s all, end of story.
9) Tell us about your favorite bands and albums.
How many pages do you want this interview to be? HAHAHA! Just kidding. We would say some bands like, Emperor, Immolation, Celeste, Murder Made God, Running Wild, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Sepultura, Slayer and Villagers of Ioannina City (VIC). So, let’s just focus on the bands because the albums would be many many more!
If you check our bandcamp page, you could see that there are some Vortex of Chaos Cd’s left, but we also have t-shirts Cd’s and a special wooden case (we really love that!) about Post-Modern Delusions.
11) Any future plans?
Future plans. Hmm, if we survive this Corona piece of shit virus, we want to do more and more live shows. We already miss the stage. But in the meanwhile we are already working on some new ideas for the new Warcode album. Amen!
12) Thanks for the support. Any last comments?
Thanks for having us here Hell’s friends Zine, it was a pleasure. Check our music, if you like it you can support us. Stay heavy, stay safe and support the underground scene around the world. Tchau!
Warcode links:
https://www.facebook.com/Warcodeband/
https://warcode.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbI84ocf-wna711y6FMh5Iw
warcodeband@gmail.com
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