David Vincent

North Carolina · born or raisedBorn 1965

American bassist and vocalist

Born in Charlotte

musician, singer, guitarist, bassist

Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

We do various things to prepare to go into battle, and it involves some meditation and other practices that we feel like expressing from time to time. We've always been a very spiritual band, and we remain that way.

It wasn’t about having gimmicks or being part of a scene. [...] We believed in ourselves and our craft. We pulled Altars of Madness out of thin air. That’s the result of us living on an island all by ourselves. We came up with something for ourselves that we wanted to do. It was about writing good songs, not about playing fast. Yeah, we like playing fast, and we happened to have a drummer who is capable of very high-speed coordination, so why not take advantage of it?