Nutrition is a duo from different sides of the USA (introduce yourselves please !) - how did you guys meet up ? Have you ever met face to face ? If no, do you consider it a more creatively free process to not be in a band and yet be able to share ideas ? Would a band situation lead to a Euronymous / Grishnakh type relationship ?

Jeremy Mauney: I founded Nutrition as it's vocalist, creative advisor and artist. I'm also a writer, illustrator and graphic designer who spent the last several years living in Tokyo, Japan working as an assistant illustrator to Fist of the North Star creator, Hara Tetsuo. Recently I've moved back to my hometown of Lexington, KY ('Horse Capital of the World'!) but should be returning to Japan soon (hopefully). Nutrition was originally the idea I had for a politically driven thrash band, but later decided to go with a sci-fi black metal approach, somehow the name stuck. The two of us originally met after I posted an online ad looking for musicians interested in playing sci-fi influenced black metal during early Spring of 2009. Roland contacted me and I checked out his solo post-black metal project, Inlaid Rust , as well as some of his videogame scoring. I loved it all, and I knew that he would be the perfect person to work with. Although we still have not yet met face to face (which may sound very strange for some), we have shared online conferences and often talk to each other online. I'd love to meet up with Roland and play some live gigs in the USA or possibly Japan since I'll end up there soon anyway. I actually used to be the vocalist for a Japanese death metal band called Detritum, and I love the metal scene over there, gigs were always fun. I'm pretty sure Roland digs the idea of kicking some gigs in Tokyo, I know he likes some of the same anime and strange Japanese films that I do. So maybe it will be then and there when we finally get to meet.... but I think we'll be busy playing Street Fighter at the massive indoor arcades and drinking large cans of Asahi Super Dry rather than trying to stab each other. I'm a stoner... and he seems like a pretty mellow dude, a great person to work with so far. Our ideas usually blend very well, we just build the songs up starting with a theme.

Roland La Goy: I started off on the central coast of California, right here. Yeah, we met-up on the deep, dark 'net' though (and ONLY there thus far). Everything's easier with the internet and PCs and shit, nowadays. A mess like Nutrition couldn't have happened 10 years ago, no joke. Far as meeting up to 'band': it'd seemed to me from-the-beginning that J. Mauney was interested in pulling this mess together to play live as a real band. Whether that actually happens (and whether or not we get the chance to attack-and-kill each other because of it) depends on what amount of green paper we can pull together! Considering that we're both (just) middle-class mothers on different sides of the bloody country. I'd also probably go insane beforehand too (far as a LIVE Nutrition band goes)... the music is way too complicated to make it work in any live setting... ever. Gotta say that sometimes I could honestly wake up screaming after having thought of Nutrition LIVE the night before. O' course though... if Jeremy's down, then I'm down.

The music is totally bombastic sci-fi Blackish Metal - pretty hard to find a comparison - what are your main influences ? Surely more than the standard BM ? Literature ?

Roland La Goy: Personally, I been into Black Metal for-a-bloody-ever. The stuff's gone stagnant nowadays, though... and that's why I'd stopped caring about what it's fans/artists think of new shite. I'm recently doing whatever it's gonna take to air-the-shit-out and bring it right-back (as most BM acts aren't interested in keeping the stuff from dying-off). In Nutrition, I'd been influenced by Sci-Fi film OST's, (heavily reverb'd) 80's electronic stuff like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and junk... bs like that. A lot of dark fun, PC games and Cyberpunk fiction on the side. It all shows in the act, obviously. We didn't hold off on nothing to get Nutrition's ET/Sci-Fi setting/theme down. But yeah, Black Metal acts like Gorgoroth, Absu, (oddly enough) Amesoeurs, (goofy) Catamenia inspires here. Shit from CA, USA (the home-state) cuts me in half as well... I'd never forget Weakling or Leviathan. Those mothers know their Metal, Black at that. Mix-'that'-in, and there you go, Joe.

Jeremy Mauney: I went into this project knowing that I still wanted to include politically driven lyrics, but adding that element of the supernatural and dark extraterrestrial conspiracies - dealing with themes like that seem to work well with the sounds I wanted to experiment with. Recently I've been listening to a lot of Darkthrone (did not like F.O.A.D, but am loving the new one), Immortal, Burzum - and at the same time - classic synth-rock/pop from the early 80's, especially Electric Light Orchestra's album Time, which is a concept album based around a guy who is picked up by someone- or something- in the year 1981 and left stranded hundreds of years in the future. Vangelis' Blade Runner and early 80's albums/soundtracks have had a lot of influence as well. I love that shit. Also, to answer your question about literature, I actually base most of my lyrical content on the research of people like David Icke and William Bramley - as well as other conspiracy researchers and documented extraterrestrial and/or paranormal accounts.

Jeremy Mauney: Well, this is something that I've been interested in ever since 2005, while I was living in Japan. It sounds extremely 'out-there' to some people, but there is just so much intriguing evidence, and it's just infinitely interesting. Most people are aware of the banker dominated political system, but a lot of people are not too informed about the crazy rituals that our world leaders, world bankers, and secret society members are a part of behind closed doors - and why our currency and political symbols are completely saturated with babylonian cult symbology. You come to find out that most religions and ancient mythology - including Norse - seem to have a common bond that ties them together. I highly recommend the book, Children of the Matrix (by David Icke – J Fog) - How an Interdimensional Race Has Controlled the Earth for Thousands of Years and Still Does. I'd have to spend several hours getting into the details in order for anyone to even begin to understand the subject fully. Basically the theory is that the Earth is controlled behind the scenes, often via 'possession' by interdimensional shapeshifting extraterrestrial reptilian humanoids. These reptilian humanoids or 'reptoids' are said to have basically been playing god with humanity from the dawn of civilization, dating back to ancient Iraq (Babylon/Sumeria). They have single handedly gained control of the world's political system and are are aiming to completely centralize power on Earth while dumbing down and reducing the population via chemical and biological warfare (GMO's, aspartame, flouride, vaccines, etc). Many of these beings are said to live undergound and operate there in the open with 'illuminated' humans who worship them, just as ancient civilizations once did. It's definitely worth doing some research on.

Roland La Goy: Gotta say, Nutrition's themes can definitely be taken seriously. Though, I personally leave a lotta the conspiracy-naysaying to other people (like Jeremy). In the end, if people dig Nutrition cause they relate to the (serious) conspiracy-theory'd side that Jeremy throws in, or cause of the Sci-Fi fun I bring... it's all good. Sure any fan can grow to love any-and-all parts o' the Nutrition-mess in the end, especially when The End's so god-damn close!

Jeremy Mauney: Honestly, I don't think a musician should ever have to limit themselves to a preconceived notion of what something should sound like, black metal was created as something different and raw during a time of mass commercialization of other music genres including mainstream heavy metal - it was free expression in the darkest - rawest - form possible. We just happen to deal with extraterrestrial conspiracy themes - rather than satanism - which in the end still tie into myth, occult, and religion from our lyrical standpoint. Overall, I really haven't even thought about what the reaction would be, I just knew what I wanted to create. Thankfully we've heard nothing but good things so far.

Roland La Goy: I dig the process of a good production of good music. Bloody-hard to get that right nowadays. I bring up 'The Information Age', far as it goes. Right now's a time when ANY mother can show ANY other mother ANY-fucking-thing, whether it's worth experiencing or not! Yeah though, every new deal I take-up is a test on how well I can pull the shit off. For me, Nutrition was a personal fat step-up in composing and producing Extreme Metal music... and it was the first time I didn't NOT LIKE something about the final mess, gotta thank Jeremy for the gems in the theme and general vox he'd pulled off, mhm. Even with that, Nutrition definitely ain't gonna work in no commercial/popular ('POP') Metal 'market'. Stuff that don't sound so much like other stuff usually gets panned before people realize it ISN'T there to piss you off. Said-panning will last years before someone gets the mind-enough to think of the act as simple-a-bloody AURAL entertainment. Nutrition knew what they was getting into beforehand, so the act don't aim up-high to the (so-called) top... I'd say. "Death To Music" is fitting, either way... legit at least, 100% true-to-the-cause. Thanks for that, yep.

Jeremy Mauney: Thanks DTM and thank to all of our listeners! Keep fighting the battle for humanity!