A well needed trivia. I’ve always been a huge fan of Grinder which I consider one of the finest thrash bands from Germany. Their “Dead End” pleases me more than some better known albums of Kreator, Sodom, Destruction or Tankard. I’ve done a couple interviews with Andy Erguen (one you can read here and one I’ll post soon in the blog) and in 2014 I was asked by one Russian label if it was possible to reissue Grinder’s demo “Sirens”. One thing led to another, and the owner of the label asked if Grinder’s first demo “Scared to Death” was available for reissue too. I need to say, that this demo is very rare and I had to bother Grinder’s original drummer Zeljko Knezevic and a friend of the band Timo to digitalize the demo and send it to the label. We also did an interview for the booklet of the upcoming CD. Everything was ready… and nothing happened. The label postponed the reissue for various (I suspect fake) reasons and the interview was buried on my hard drive. A while ago I managed to find it. So here is the story of the very first steps of Grinder told by Zeljko the Shellshock!
