UP CLOSE AND VERY PERSONAL WITH MYKE TERRY AND SLIM FROM
BURY YOUR DEAD
Interview by Marisa Connelly/Photos by Kim Stock

Tell me about your new album.
Myke: It's called It's Nothing Personal, it [came] out May 26th on Victory Records. It's twelve songs that you can live your life by. And it's the most awesome thing you will ever hear in 2009.
Slim: It's like going to a party that's really really good, and just getting too drunk to f*ck. That's what this record is about.
Myke: It's whiskey d*ck.
Slim: Pushing rope, you know what I mean?
Myke: All night long.
Slim: And you're still going for it. And the girl is like, asleep, but still sort of awake.
Myke: And you're like, 'I just gotta make it happen!'
Slim: And you put on like, three condoms, and you're just like, 'It's the condom I swear!'

So because of line up changes, how is the writing different?
Myke: It hasn't changed one bit.
Slim: I've always written 99.9% of things. Yeah, so the record is great. The writing style hasn't changed, it's just gotten more grown up.
Myke: More awesome.
Slim: Well, we've been a band for nine years, you know what I mean? In a nine year period personally you change, mentally you change- hopefully. Some people don't, but there's been so much negativity that's happened to this band personally and career wise over the past year. With just all kinds of bullshit, and then the van flipped, and then all kinds of more bullshit. As soon as that whole thing happened, I was f*cked up at home after getting out of the hospital- f*cked up on painkillers. I just wrote the record and that's how it came out. It's like a big heavy wave. And I've heard that most people write better when they're f*cked up. And I was f*cked up. This is going to be the saltiest record of 2009! When you hear it, you're just like, 'Ooh!' It sounds like it hurts. It sounds like our feeling were hurt. I was physically hurt, and mentally just a complete f*cking mess. And [Myke] came through with the equal part to that.
Myke: If I were to write a suicide letter, it would sound like that record. That's the way it would read.
Slim: And we've never been that type of band to be like, 'Oh, we're deep, there's so much meaning to what we do!' We've always just wanted to have fun.

Myke, in another interview, Bubble [bassist] called you “The Bearded Shadow” and “Alabama Black Snake.” Do you have any other nicknames?
Myke: Um, I have a few. Sometimes they like to call me Mr. Wipe-Me-Down, The Blacksnake Moan, Sauce. You don't have enough tape for all the nicknames that I have.

You guys usually seem to have some really crazy stories from the road, like strippers farting in people's faces? Any new ones?
Slim: Ok, so we went to Panama Beach because we had a day off. The day started with all of us getting off the bus, we all went to the beach. Our tour manager/drum tech got called Lil' Wayne five times just walking on the beach. Because he's short, black, dreads, covered in tattoos-and he just went with it. Then we went out to dinner, then went back [to the bus]. It was spring break, so we're sitting on top of the bus yelling, 'Show us your tits!' and other members of unsaid people said, 'You want to party? Show me your dick and balls!' And who knew that a couple people driving by- because it was bumper to bumper traffic-would actually do it! We saw plenty of dicks and balls. So we locked the bus door and said, 'Come on up and party now that you've shown us your dick and balls!' And they came over and they couldn't get up.
Myke: And we'd say, 'We have nothing for you.' Except water balloons. We pelted them with water balloons.
Slim: Yeah. And the next day we woke up, after consuming vast quantities of adult beverages, and we were advised that it was HIGH SCHOOL spring break. It just changed the dynamic of everything, I think.

Well, hopefully half of them were at least 18.
Myke: No, no they weren't.
Slim: Everything we did was pre-approved. Nothing we did was illegal. We didn't shoot c*m on an underage person. That did not happen. But did we throw beads for girls who wanted to wear beads?
Myke: And it just so happens that they returned the favor.
Slim: By showing off their breasts.
Myke: Or stomach rolls.
Slim: Or fupas.
Myke: Or foreskins.

What are fupas?
Slim: Fat Upper P*nis or P*s*y Area. It's a fupa. The drum tech for Suicide Silence is named Fupa.
Myke: Ok, think of stories, what else have we done?
Slim: We flipped a van and all lived, for some reason.

That's a good thing that you guys weren't seriously hurt.
Slim: That was cool. Do you want to hear a song from our new record?

Yeah, definitely.
Slim: At least that way you can tell people if it sucks or not. You can tell me to turn the suck down.

Ok, so before the listening party, any last words?
Slim: Bubble tried to kill me. Bubble tried to take me out so that he could run the band.
Myke: Oh god! It's so true! Conspiracy!
Slim: Yeah! Print that! Bubble and [Chris] Towning [guitarist] tried to kill me so they could take over the band.
Myke: Notice they are the only ones that didn't get hurt.
Slim: At all! Myke got stitches and broke his thumb. [Drummer] Mark [Castillo] cut his face off! I smashed my leg, I look like a leper now.

[laughing] So, anything else?
Myke: No, that's it.

Well thank you!
Myke: Thank you. Now lets turn this into a d*ck sucking marathon!!!

Info: myspace.com/buryyourdead