Heaven's Metal Ultimatum Interview
Currently in the studio recording with a DVD planned in the months ahead, Ultimatum shows no signs of slowing down. Mike Larson had a chance to ask Robert Gutierrez founding member and guitarist a couple questions recently, and we thought we would share.
Heavens Metal: I know Ultimatum is working on some new material, can you tell us some particulars about this?
Robert: Yes we are working on a new project it is now an EP. It has 4 songs. It was originally intended for pursuing a record contract. We have some contacts at Metal Blade and they expressed some interest and wanted us to come up with some new tunes and submit those. Now it seems that many of our fans want to get their hands on our new material so we will most likely put it out as either an EP or add some live tracks to it even if we don’t get a contract per say. The music however is definitely Ultimatum. The tracks are Death Wish, One for all, Heart of Metal, and Blind Faith. The recording has gone great; Sid Garcia from Site 16 Studios here in Albuq, NM did a fantastic job capturing our sound better than our previous work. Were really excited about it.
When and where will this demo be available?
The Demo will be available hopefully around the first week of August. Anyone should be able to order it from our website.
Ultimatum has been around for quite awhile, 3 albums and multiple compilations later… how do you do it?
Yes we’ve been around for over 14 years. We started in our early 20's and now were all 30 something... and we’ve never relied on getting on a record label although we were on Rowe Productions distributed by Diamante during the Puppet CD stage in 1997 but we just wanted to write Heavy Metal Songs about our faith and our view of subjects and issues. Were all anchored here with family and full time jobs so it would be difficult to leave a steady paycheck for Touring but we'll see what God has planned. As far as shows we do local gigs here at least once a month and we do a weekend shows out of town on occasion. I guess that’s the way God had it planned for us up until now. I would like to see Ultimatum do more big Festivals like the "Beyond the Mountain Fest" coming up in August we are Excited to be apart of that one and were going to set our goal for Cornerstone next year.
How has Scott joining Once Dead affected Ultimatum? What are some of the pros and cons?
Well in all honesty I didn’t really know what to think about Scott and Once Dead It basically started when some members of Vengeance Rising heard us play one their songs "Burn" at the Extreme Mardi Gras in CA 2002. They liked our version of it and especially liked the way Scott sang it. When they decided to do a reunion Roger Martinez did want to have any part of it so they asked Scott to fill in the slot. Scott asked us how we felt of course we gave him our blessing but at first I was jealous and a little envious of him. I mean here we are busting our butts to make a dent in this scene and try to do more shows and here one of our own gets to do it with Once Dead. So it was an ego bruise for me. I can't speak for the other band mates but I think I had the hardest time dealing with it. Now I’m ok with it I grew up and now I think it’s great. So a con would be if Scott decided to join Once Dead permanently that would hurt. I don’t know what would happen to Ultimatum. I think we'll cross that bridge if we get there. As a Pro It has also helped boost Ultimatums popularity. So God had to show me patience through this.
I read on your website that you are working on a new DVD, can you give me some information about that?
The DVD will be a compilation of two shows the "Summer Madness" show that we did last year in CA and this years "Beyond the Mountain". We will also add 2 concept videos that we will submit to MTV's Head bangers ball and Fuse Music TV Peak Productions is who will be developing and shooting all the new footage. There will be some behind the scenes stuff an well as some crazy footage from some past shows from our first gig in 1993 to now sort of like a discography. It will be fun.
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