Interview with Ron Braunstein aka:Necro (ex-Injustice guitarist)

First off thanks for setting up this interview it's always a pleasure to meet someone that is not as fimilar to me, so it's cool to hear from someone new.

"Not to many may know you in the Metal World so here is some basic questions to get things started".
 ACTUALLY, THATS NOT CORRECT, ALOT OF PEOPLE KNOW ME INTHE METAL WORLD, I HAVE WORKED WITH ALOTOF LEGENDS, ALTHOUGH I HAVENT GOTTEN THE PROPER PRESS YET, ALOT OF PEOPLE AREAWARE, I GOT A SCORE OF 10 FOR THE PREFIX FOR DEATH ALBUM I DROPPED ON SMNEWS.COM, AND BORIVOY FROM BLABBERMOUTH ALWAYS POSTS UP MY NEWS, JUST ANEXAMPLE OF SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE AWARE OF NECRO

What are your Name's and what do you do in your band/groups?
MY NAME IS NECRO AND I RHYME, MAKE BEATS, PLAY GUITAR AND MANY OTHER ISNTRUMENTS LIKE BASS, PIANO,KEYS, MOOG, ECT.

Who are your influences?
MY INFLUENCES ARE BOTH FROM METAL AND HIPHOP AS WELL AS 70'S SHIT, LIKE SLAYER, METALLICA, MEGADETH, OBITUARY, DEATH, SEPULTURA, KREATOR, DESTRUCTION, VOIVOD,CARCASS, SABBATH, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, THE LIST IS LONG AS WELL AS RAKIM, KRS 1,KOOL G RAP, BIG DADDY KANE AND MORE.

Your more well known for being rapper how does the change from Rap to Metal been for you?I NEVER CHANGED FROM RAP TO METAL, I DO BOTH GENRES AND FUSE THEMTOGETHER ON CERTAIN TRACKS, I WAS PLAYING IN A DEATH METAL BAND CALLED INJUSTICE WHEN I WAS 11 YEARS OLD OPENING UP FOR SEPULTURA AND OBITUARY AT LAMOUR'S IN BROOKLYN ALL WHILE LIVING IN THE GLENWOOD HOUSING PROJECTS OF BROOKLYN, SO I WAS METAL AND HIPHOP ALL IN ONE AS A KID

What are the Reasons you choose the style you play over any other type of music?
I LOVE EXTREME OBSCURE AGGRESSIVE CREATIVE DARK MELODIC BRUTAL VIOLENT PORNOGRAPHIC MUSIC, IT JUST GETS ME INSPIRED AND PUMPED UP, IT GETS MYADRENALINE GOING

Where are you currently located?
BROOKLYN, NY

What is your favorite song to perform? Why?
I LIKE ALOT OF TRACKS, BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FOR YOU TO DIE TO GETS THE CROWD PUMPED AND PITTING, THE PRE-FIX FOR DEATH IS BRUTAL LIVE, SO MANY TRACKS, WHO'S YADADDY? GETS THE GIRLS NAKED ON STAGE

What is the most enjoyable part about performing?
MANY THINGS, ITS A GREATWORKOUT, ITS EVIL, TO HAVE ALL YOUR FANS IN FRONT OF YOU, SELLING OUT A CLUB THAT PACKS 1000 AND SEEING THESE KIDS GO INSANE FOR YOU, VERY ILL, IM GETTING ADDICTED TO DOING SHOWS RECENTLY

What's the best/worst experience you have had so far playing live?
JUST WHEN THE BITCHES DONT GET NAKED ON STAGE, SOME SHOWS THE GIRLS WERE PRUDES, AND THATS ANNOYING, ALSO IN SOME CLUBS THE SOUND SUCKED, CORNY SOUNDMEN, BUT FOR THE MOST PART SHIT HAS BEEN GREAT

Do you have any advice for people starting a band?
YEAH BE ORIGINAL, AND STUDY THE HISTORY OF YOUR CRAFT

How long have you been creating music?
SINCE 10 YEARS OLD ID SAY ON GUITAR, I STARTED PLAYING BY LIKE 9 AND IN A YEAR OR SO I GOT REALLY GOOD ON GUITAR AND STARTED WRITING METAL RIFFS, TECHNICAL SHIT

What Instruments do you use? What brands do you prefer to use?
I USE GUITAR,BASS, KEYBOARDS, PIANO, I LOVE FENDER, FENDER BASSES AND GUITARS FROM THE 60'S AND 70'S ARE THE SICKEST, I LOVE MOOGS, FENDER RHODES IS ILL, ALL 70'S GEAR IM INTO, VINTAGE SHIT, WHEN I BECOME SUPER RICH I WILL SPEND ALOT OF LOOT ON BUYING VINTAGE GEAR, I WANNA OWN A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF VINTAGE SHIT AND HAVE IT ALL IN ONE HUGE STUDIO AND MAKE ALBUMS THERE

What do you feel you bring to the scene?
BRUTALITY, ORIGINALITY, CREATIVITY,REALNESS, LONGEVITY, I KEEP HIPHOP ALIVE AND TRUE 80'S METAL ALIVE

Describe your sound, as I'm sure your influences have a big part in it. Please explain more on that?
IM JUST ABOUT THE CUTTING EDGE, I ALSO TRY NEW FLOWS, AND NEW BEATS AND I EXPERIMENT ON EVERY ALBUM WITH LIVE INSTRUMENTS AND IJUST STAY CREATIVE AND FRESH, TOO MANY IDEAS TO BE WACK

Who are some of your favorite bands to play with and/or bands you would like to play with?
ID LOVE TO OPEN FOR SLAYER, METALLICA OR MEGADETH, OR SABBATH,GROUPS LIKE THAT I LOVE, HONESTLY THE TOURS I WILL BE ON THIS SUMMER WILL BE AN HONOR FOR ME BECAUSE IT WILL BE NEW EXPERIENCES FOR ME, SO TO MOVE FORWARD TO ME IS AWESOME, THATS MY GOAL, GET AHEAD DAILY

If you had to pick a band that doesn't get the respect or exposure they deserve, whom would you pick?
IT SEEMS PEOPLE BITCH ABOUT METALLICA AND FORGET THAT THEY GAVE US 4 GODLY ALBUMS AND THATS ENOUGH, NOT EVERY BAND CAN DROP 10 IN A ROW, I THINK VOIVOD ARE HIGHLY SLEPT ON, THEY WERE ONE OF THE FIRST BANDS TO DO SOME OFFTIME BACKWARDS CHORDS SHIT AND THEY DESERVE MORE RESPECT, ID LIKE TO SEE MORE DEATH METAL ON MTV, I DONT SEE ENOUGH OF IT, THERE IS ALOT OF BANDS THAT DESERVE PROPS, TOO MANY TO NAME

Do you have any professional releases? If so where were they done?Do you like the recording?
I GOT A WHOLE CATALOG OF SHIT, I DROPPED 4 NECRO ALBUMS SO FAR, I NEED DRUGS, GORY DAYS, THE PREFIX FOR DEATH AND THE SEXORCIST IM WORKING ON ALBUM 5 NOW, I NEED DRUGS WAS MORE OF A COMPILATION WHEN DROPPED, SO GORY DAYS WAS THE FIRST ALBUM I REALLY MADE FROM START TO FINISH AND PREFIX FOR DEATH IS THE NEXT BRUTAL ALBUM, SEXORCIST WAS ALL PORN SO TECHNICALLY IM WORKING ON MY 3RD BRUTAL ALBUM, BUT IT WILL BE MY 5TH SOLO NECRO RELEASE, REGARDLESS IT WILL BE GODLY I RECORD EVERYTHING IN NY ALWAYS, AND I LOVE THE RECORDING PROCESS, MIXING IS LIKE WORK, BUT MAKING BEATS AND RAPPING ON THEM IS MORE FUN THAN ANYTHING,PERFORMING MIGHT START RIVALLING THAT PROCESS BECAUSE IM GETTING REAL BIG AND PLAYING IN FRONT OF 2,000 IS A RUSH

If your not currently on a label what label would you choose to be on if you could? Why?
I RUN MY OWN RECORD LABEL PSYCHO+LOGICAL-RECORDS FOR THE LAST 7 YEARS AND HAVE GROSSED OVER 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS IN THIS TIME

What Band(s) annoy you the most? Why?
I HATE THE EMO SCREAMO BANDS, THEY R GAY AND IT WOULD FLY IN 1986, BUT BECAUSE KIDS ARE NOW LOST AND BECAUSE METAL IS CORPORATE THE KIDS DONT KNOW BETTER, IT USED TO BE ABOUT ART NOW ITS ABOUT MONEY ONLY, I HATE ALL THE FAG BANDS OUT, TOO MANY TO NAME

What venues do you like playing in most? Why?
I ENJOYED A FEW OF THEM ON MY TOUR BUT NONE SPECIFICALLY STOOD OUT TO MENTION, I DIDNT ANALIZE IT THAT MUCH, FOR ME AT THIS STAGE THE BIGGER THE STAGE THE BETTER, THE MORE PEOPLE THE BETTER, IM OVER SMALL CLUBS WITH SMALL CROWDS, MAYBE WHEN I PLAY SOME FOOTBALL ARENAS ILL BE READY TO GO BACK TO SMALL CLUBS, BUT FOR NOW I NEED TO GRADUATE

How's the public response to you been in a live setting?
IN LONDON I MADE THE FRONT COVER OF THE NEWSPAPER AND THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOUND ME TO BE DIGUSTING AND TASTELESS SO I CURSED THEM OUT ON STAGE AND MADE THE CROWD DO CHANTS CURSING THEM, I SELL OUT ALOT OF CLUBS, I SOLD OUT LA, NYC, AND TORONTO,
SO PEOPLE ARE LOVING ME, AS THEY SHOULD, IF THEY WANNA LIVE THE KIDS MOSH PIT VIOLENTLY AT MY SHOWS AND WE INSPIRE VIOLENCE, KIDS GET INTO BRAWLS IN THE FRONT ROW, MY MUSIC IS BRUTAL

What do you do in you spare time when not playing HipHop and Metal? Hobbies?
I FUCK GIRLS, WORKOUT, RUN, PLAY HANDBALL, MAKE BEATS, WRITE RHYMES, FUCK BITCHES,WATCH MOVIES, READ BOOKS, FUCK BITCHES, FUCK BITCHES, DID I MENTION? FUCK BITCHES

What's your feel on the whole mp3 or bootleg trading on the Internet?
I DIDNT LIKE IT PREVIOUSLY, BUT NOW I ACCEPT AND LOOK AT IT AS PROMOTION, MIGHT AS WELL HAVE A BRIGHT SIDE TO IT, KIDS WILL BUY MERCH AND COME TO SHOWS SO IT IS WHAT IT IS, ILL MAKE THE GRIND WORK

Do you miss the old tape trading days as much as some other metal brothers do? any cool stories you like to share about those days?MISS IT?
I MISS THE WHOLE MOVEMENT OF THE 80'S, I DONT MISS SENDING OUT MAIL, THATS FOR SURE :) WITH COMPUTERS NOW ITS THE SAME SHIT, YOU CAN TALK TO MORE PEOPLE, BUT AS FAR AS TAPE TRADING, ME AND MY BROTHER HAD SKITZOPHRENIA ON TAPE FROM TAPE TRADING WITHSOMEONE IN BRAZIL BEFORE SEPULTURA DID THEIR FIRST SHOW IN AMERICA, BEFORE THEY DROPPED BENEATH THE REMAINS, THATS HOW FAR BACK WE GO, BILL MY OLDER BROTHER WAS HEAVY INTO THE TAPE TRADING I USED TO SEND LETTERS TO BANDS AND TRY TO GET RARE MUSIC FROM THEM, I WOULD MAIL GROUPS LIKE DESTRUCTION AND KREATOR TO GET SHIRTS, I REMEMBER MAILING PESTILENCE AND I THINK PATRICK SENT ME A PESTILENCE SHIRT, THIS IS WHEN A MOTHERFUCKER WAS LIKE 11 YEARS OLD, SO I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS, I WAS IN A BAND AND WE WOULD SEND OUT OUR DEMO, I GOT A LETTER FROM 1990 FROM ROADRUNNER DENYING MY DEMO, SAYING THANKS BUT THEY WERENT INTERESTED, BACK THEN YOU ACTUALLY HAD A LETTER SENT TO YOU : WE WERE IN METAL FORCES IN LIKE '89 WITH A DEMO REVIEW WHENTHEY HAD THE PENPAL NAMES IN THE MAG, SO I KNOW THOSE TIMES MAN :)

What's in your CD player? What do you listen too most?
METALLICA IS IN MY CD PLAYER CURRENTLY, AND OBITUARY CAUSE OF DEATH WAS IN MY CD PLAYER THE DAYBEFORE, AND BEFORE THAT CURTIS MAYFIELD

Do you think cover art is just as important as the music? If so give some reasons why?
OF COURSE, ITS A PRODUCT AND IT NEEDS TO BE QUALITY, SO OF COURSE IT NEEDS TO BE ON POINT, PEOPLE REMEMBER COVERS FOR YEARS

Who does all the artwork and album designs for you including flyers and any promotional stuff?
I USE A TON OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE, I NEVER USE ONE PERSON BECAUSE NO ONE ARTIST WILL DELIVER EVERYTIME, SO YOU NEED TO USE A FEW PEOPLE

Does you have a website or link so people can get more info or merch?
YES, HTTP://WWW.NECROHIPHOP.COM AND HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/NECRO

Is there anything else you would like to add to this interview?
YEAH I WANT PEOPLE TO GO TO MY WEBSITES AND BUY EVERY PIECE OF MERCH THEY SEE, ROB YA MOMS POCKET BOOK IF YOU MUST, WHATEVER IT TAKES, GO KILL A FAG AND ROB HIM, WHATEVER IT TAKES, BUT SUPPORT THE SICKNESS OR ILL FUCKING KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there anthing you think we could do to better improve the webzine?
YEAH, ADD MORE NAKED BITCHES :)

THANKS
NECRO