your question:

11/01/2023 Ekans

I've been listening to these Darkthrone album commentaries by Fenriz and he's blatantly honest when pointing out which parts of his music are tributes to some other artist (say, "this part's a Bathory-style riff", "this is a Mayhem-style riff"). With that in mind, I was thinking about how a few parts in Egg have kind of a Voivod vibe to them (specifically the "A stagnant pale perfume..." part and development thereof and, in a sense, the "There's no place like home" section). Were you consciously resorting to that particular jar of musical honey or was it something that came naturally?

my answer:

I’m not really sure where Egg came from. I can hear some of Oingo Boingo’s Ain’t This The Life in there. I’m sure Voivod seeped in somehow. Rrroooaaarrr and Killing Technology were both on our radar when that song was written, but I can’t say for certain. We were already thinking compositionally by the time GILF was written, so I was thinking about displacement of rhythm and intervalic inversion and such.