Formed in 2000 as one of the first extreme metal bands to emerge from Dubai, U.A.E., “Nervecell” are playing a mature and solid death/thrash metal with some middle eastern sounding atmospheres. They independently released their first E.P. entitled "Human Chaos" in 2004. Their debut album "Preaching Venom" was released in 2009 under German label “Lifeforce Records” (Europe) and “Spellbind Records” (Middle East). In May 2011, “Nervecell” released their new album entitled "Psychogenocide". With the success surrounding "Psychogenocide", the band had opportunity to be on tour consistently. By playing at nearly every major music festival imaginable, “Nervecell” have steadily built a devoted following of metalheads worldwide. The interview available below features “Nervecell” guitarist Barney Ribeiro. Can you name the lineup? How solid has it beenthrough the years? “Nervecell” consists of James (bassist/vocalist), Rami (guitars) and myself (guitars), unfortunately we don’t really have a permanent drummer simply because there isn’t any drummer based in the Middle East who is either committed or capable to work to the extent we do. Its just something we’ve constantly faced as a limitation based here among many other factors too of course. I only ended up meeting James and Rami at one of the earlier “Nervecell” gigs during that initial stag. We had instantly become friends and changed numbers, about a year later they eventually ended up joining the band too. It was kind of inevitable as they shared the same interest musically and passion for
music that I had myself, ever since then (2003) onwards the 3 of us have been the key members in "Nervecell". You guys are from Dubai, what about coming from that part of the world affects your approach to metal the most both as players and as fans? Dubai has only been around for 42 years and we’ve been a band based here for the last 12 years, so you can imagine there is still a lot more to learn here with regards to the music industry. Just like everything in Dubai it’s all completely westernized and completely trendy. So the music scene that exists here has always been dominated by the same chart topping hits you’ll hear all around the world on radio stations, of course there is also the Arabic