The reaction from our fans was so positive, we thought we’d stumbled upon something a little different to what everyone else was doing. Spencer: We did the last album back in 2015 called Every Trick in the Book which was a concept album about literature with every song based on a book, so that was what birthed the idea of an album with this theme. Has this horror album been a long term idea? Spencer: I think that was so terrifying about Halloween in the first movie, he obviously got a little more supernatural towards the others, but it could really happen – Michael Myers was just a guy with a knife who, for whatever motive, wanted to kill everyone in his wake. You could be Michael Myers then, he’s just a normal guy! Spencer: I’d definitely be the killer so I’d survive the whole thing! How long would you last in a horror movie yourself? I was happy that we could cover the grandfathers of the genre on the album but also putting out some of the lesser known movies that deserve some more recognition which weren’t mainstream successes like Silent Night, Deadly Night. Later down the road, Ghostface from Scream was a really big one for me, that movie took the slasher genre cliches, turned them on their heads and made very self-referential jokes while also being very scary and violent, taking the horror seriously. Michael Myers got me into horror, then obviously Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. Spencer: It’s really hard to nail it down to just one, I cover pretty much all of them on the new album. I remember I got a report card from my kindergarten teacher which said, “Spencer claims a lot of things including seeing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre” – this is kindergarten! My parents were cool enough to let me see those movies even though I was really young and it just built from there – it was that forbidden fruit feeling. I’d stare at the cover art of these movies like Friday the 13th, Halloween, Creepshow and Silent Night, Deadly Night and I became infatuated with the genre. I would wander around the store and, for whatever reason, I was drawn to the aisle that said horror movies. When I was seven or eight, I would go shopping with my mom to the grocery store in my town and I would hang out in this little video store to kill time while she was doing shopping. Spencer: I got into the genre at a very young age. What’s your earliest memory of horror movies? I’m hoping that continues to spread around not just the metal community but the horror world too, I’m very excited to see that start to unfold. Spencer: I think slowly but surely, people who might not even listen to metal but love horror are coming out of the woodwork and discovering the band. I thought it would get a great reaction from our fans but I didn’t think it would be this powerful, so I’m really excited that everyone is really responding to the album and exceeding my expectations. The fans seem to have really got behind the record and the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Spencer: The year’s been great, we just got word that our album did very well in its first week, shattered all the records we’ve held in the past and debuted in the top 30 on the Billboard 200 chart in the US and we’re very excited. Frontman and sole surviving original member Spencer Charnas tells Distorted Sound all about his horror movie infatuation, the attention to detail on the record and how the band are ending 2018 in style. From A Nightmare On Elm Street to The Crow, each track on their fifth album The Silver Scream pays tribute to a classic slasher and, with a little help from some famous friends, the Boston baddies take on each villain one by one. Masters of the metalcore concept album, ICE NINE KILLS have turned their hands to a record inspired by timeless horror movies.
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