DISMEMBER’s FRED ESTBY Explains Why They Chose To Reunite & Why They’re Not Touring

Dismember initially reunited to play Scandinavia Deathfest in October 2019 and has been taking part in stay ever since. So why did Dismember get again collectively after breaking apart in 2011? In response to drummer Fred Estby in an interview with 69 Faces Of Rock, folks requested about it for years. Then in 2017, Estby realized that there was real curiosity in a Dismember reunion, which prompted him to contact his bandmates.

“I moved to america in 2016. I toured — I am a sound engineer, so I did lots of front-of-house jobs for different bands, touring with different bands. And other people typically got here as much as me and could be, like, ‘Are you Fred from Dismember?’ I am, like, ‘Yeah, why?’ ‘You guys ought to tour once more. You guys ought to play once more.’ And I am, like, ‘Yeah, no matter.’

“Folks say that they usually do not actually imply it. However after a few years, like round 2017, I used to be, like, ‘Oh, perhaps there’s a actual curiosity that’s sufficiently big for us to perhaps take into consideration taking part in collectively.’ And we weren’t all on the identical web page then, however we let it go. So we sort of forgot about it. However then round 2018, we began getting actual provides to do festivals and so forth. And other people have been truly saying that, like, ‘No matter you need, no matter you want inside cause, we wish you to play.’ So, we lastly obtained on the identical web page, all of us, and we have been, like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it once more. Let’s examine how this goes.'”

Estby later clarified that Dismember is not going to be doing any lengthy excursions anytime quickly, as he feels it’s going to in all probability have a adverse impact on the band. Estby additionally notes that everybody in Dismember agrees that touring would not be enjoyable, and why the hell would they do one thing that is not enjoyable? They’re Dismember. They’re legends who hardly have to show themselves on the market.

“We don’t do any lengthy excursions. We do not do greater than two exhibits in a single weekend. If we begin touring once more, you are gonna begin seeing the unhealthy sides of being away from your loved ones and your house and your work, and you may’t take off from work. All of us have careers that we do not wanna quit. So, that is primary. Quantity two is that we promised one another that any present or any choice that we do for the band is gonna be — everyone must be in, all 5 of us. If that is not occurring, then it is not gonna occur.

“And quantity two was that we stated that if it is not enjoyable, we should not do it. We have to know that we’re having as a lot enjoyable as we did once we began out, in order that we’re laughing, there’s extra positivity than negativity across the exhibits we’re doing. That was actually essential to us. And that is why we maintain it like this. Persons are, like, ‘Oh, it’s best to come tour.’ Or, ‘In case you might be on the street as a substitute, we may pay rather less for you guys to come back play. After which you possibly can play extra exhibits and all that.’

“Yeah, however that’s the drawback. Then you definately begin compromising by yourself phrases. So we’re by no means gonna do this. We’re by no means gonna tour. If we play greater than two exhibits in a single week, that is gonna be very uncommon, and it must be very particular. In any other case, we maintain it like this. And that makes it enjoyable for us, for the viewers, and we additionally know that there is gonna be good high quality for all of the exhibits that we’re taking part in.”