Riverside

Uncaring about anyone, I'd lock myself up in the basement and play. After a year I already had a band and after two I founded a group that has transformed into today's Hate. While playing in Hate, Domain and many other metal bands, I've always had a secret leader and a favourite group. It was Marillion. I didn't brag about it because nobody was interested and I liked it that way. I went to all their concerts they performed in Poland (even to that pathetic one in Sopot where they played from playback). Several years of playing death metal made me feel a bit tired and I was looking for people with whom I could play the kind of music Marillion did. I've finally found them.

IMPORTANT IN LIFE
I guess that for me the most important things in life are my family and health. From the moment I learned that I suffer from diabetes, I have slowed down my social life. No more loud parties with lots of alcohol. I've been through enough, it's time to stop. Besides, I have a wonderful son, Adrian, and I want to raise him to be a good man. Priorities change with time, still I don't think I'll ever be a typical daddy who comes back from work, sits in his armchair with slippers on and watches TV. It's just not like me. I've always been active and I don't think that will ever change.

FREE TIME
I don't have too much of it. I work pretty long hours plus I have my own phonographic company, Apocalypse Production, which is also a time consuming enterprise. It really leaves not much free time for me. When I have a moment off, I spend it with my family at home.

FAVOURITE ALBUMS
There are a lot of them, but there is not a single one that I would place above the other, except for Marillion's "Brave" which is unrivalled. I like listening to old American thrash metal (Slayer, Nuclear Assault, Exodus, Dark Angel), I like Venom, Celtic Frost and Bathory, I love listening to things like Delerium or progmetal bands like Dream Theater, Pain Of Salvation or Porcupine Tree, and to quite different sounds of Tears For Fears, Seal or Pink Floyd. It would be hard to choose just 5 or 10 records. I can find something interesting in almost every kind of music, and this is my problem with favourite albums. There are too many of them. I will name just a few that first come to my mind.

• Marillion - Fugazi
• Coroner - Grin
• Porcupine Tree - Signify
• Tears For Fears - Elemental
• Venom - Black Metal
• Delerium - Karma
• Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
• Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
• Black Sabbath - Tyr
• Morbid Angel - Covenant

RECENTLY LISTENED TO
Recently I have been listening to several albums over and over again. The following are some of them:

• Marillion - Brave
• Blindead - Autoscopia / Murder In Phazes
• Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
• Heaven And Hell - The Devil you Know
• Alter Bridge - Blackbird
• Antigama - Warning
• Marillion - Early Stages
• Pendragon - Pure
• Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
• Azarath - Praise The Beast

As you see, a lot of different music. That's the way I am. I'm not listening to only one kind of music. That would kill me. I guess ;-)

RIVERSIDE
That's an endless topic. I could write hundreds of pages about it but you wouldn't read it anyway. This is the first group, in which I know that I'm alive. It has everything that I'd missed in the previous bands. Nice music, atmosphere, people, and not-only-my involvement. I finally play in a BAND, not a project. After the first car conversation with Grudzień, I already knew that it would be the only band I'd play for with total commitment. And it really is so. For nearly 8 years, Riverside has been almost everything for me and I guess it will stay this way. It is THE GROUP, not a group I'd played for in the past. This is my musical future, something I have always wanted to have.
RIVERSIDE RULES!!!!!!