MI: Alright, Birth. Why do you call yourselves Birth?

DG: Just a cool name I guess.

LK: It started with two songs I wrote about cycles. Birth and then pain and death and birth. Dror liked the name of the song and then it became the name of the band … our previous logo and name were only temporary.

MI: What was the other name?

DG: Our previous name was Mental Infusion. It sucked.

LK: And then we sounded totally different. Back then I was way too deep into melodic shit and thrash, which is where I came from musically. After working with Dror I started to develop a new style.

MI: The world is repeating itself…can you elaborate on that?

LK: At the time I felt like all is stuck … no matter how hard you will try you will always come back to the same point. Back to the same old shit.

MI: Has that changed?

LK: I guess that a bit. Nowadays it’s just about doing our best and to try to be better … as humans, as players, as friends.

MI: Who’s in the band?

LK: At the beginning, wow, we had a lot of line ups. Dror is the one who always was
there. The line up is going to change soon … for a long time me and Dror been talking about bringing another guitar player. We found a really great one which played with us for one gig … the one with Betzefer … but since then we are thinking what is best … we are planning to audition some guitar players in the next weeks.

MI: Matan Cohen rocks.

DG: Matan? from Betzefer? Yeah, is a “kli!” Our current lineup: Lemmy-guitars, Noam – bass, Tomer – vocals and Dror (me) on drums.

LK: The best drummer in Jerusalem! He can also play circus music!

DG: Yeah well… just in order to make Lemmy go out of his mind.

LK: lol … you are playing way too much saka and shit or what ever you call that … music.

MI: So what do you guys call your type of music?

LK: Dror probably got some long names to describe it. I call it thrashcore.

DG: Well, thrashcore is much too specific. Most of our songs are a bit different from each other.

LK: I love a lot of different kind of music … what can I say?

DG: So I think it moves between death, thrash and metalcore.

LK: I think that also everybody in the band are bringing their own “thing” to the band so my riffs don’t sound too much like Sepultura or Slayer lol. We got a lot of the 80’s stuff mixed with a new wave of modern thinking …. a lot of that is coming from Dror.

MI: Do you have any music out online?

LK: We haven’t released anything yet.

DG: We are planning to record a demo soon… but according to now there is nothing.

LK: We got some live recordings but they sound like crap. We want to release something better … something listenable.

MI: You’ve been part of the Jerusalem metal scene a long time, no?

LK: Yep … I love this city. Been my hometown for the past 20 years.

DG: Yeah, the scene here is great. The people are much “warmer” than any city in
Israel.

LK: And here we also have a scene. In Tel Aviv its just people from all around the area.

MI: Matanya, can you describe a little about what you try to get across with your songs in the writing?

LK: Why to try when you can succeed?! When I write it’s usually for myself. When I am alone in my room I’m starting to let out all of my hate and anger … and sometimes music just comes to me. When Arafat died I was watching the T.V. holding a classic guitar. When he died I was happy but I was also very angry. I hated him so much I wanted him to die in suffers and tears. So I wrote a song that later became the song “Samara”. I write ideas which later on me and Dror are working on them. Then Noam is doing his part. Kinda like James and Lars lol. And lyrics … that’s Tomer’s job. I am letting him do what ever he wants. In this band we work that way. Every one has the freedom to do his own thing as long as it’s working good on the songs. But lots of the ideas and the rewrites are inspired from Dror’s drum lines.

MI: Awesome, is there anything else you wanna tell the world?

LK: Sason!

DG: Yeah, I agree with Lemmy.

LK: To the world?!

MI: Well, to the Internet. What’s Sason?

LK: He is the meaning of all life! lol he is some funny friend.

DG: Lemmy will speak for me.

LK: Well, I guess that I can say cheers! And that Jerusalem is the best place to be! Rock on!