Rob: First off, who is in the band and how did it come together?
Torben: Well, we�re a fourpiece partially from Denmark and from Norway - Frode Bjerkely our drummer is norwegian and the rest of us Klaus: guitars, Torben Ravn: Bass guitars and myself; vocals and guitars are form Denmark.. Live - and on some of the tracks on our debut album �The Last Sun� - one of our friends Magnus is jammin out on his harmonica - he�s not officially part of the band but he�s allways around for the fun stuff.
We started out playin together in the summer of 1999, me and Klaus had been playin in various other metal/ rock bands and decided to create some music in the styles that we love so much: cruisin leaned back heavy grooves. We jammed up some tunes and after a couple of month we contacted Frode, he came down, played some tunes with us, got a few brews and we all loved it. In april 2000 we then went to the studio and recorded our selftitled demo - we still had no bass player so one of our friends joined temporarily for the basslines.
Finally in the summer of 2000 as we played a gig with Nebula and Roadsaw our bassplayer Torben Ravn joined, he saw the gig and was emediately hooked - him and Frode knew eacother from previous acts� that�s abouth it, after that we just wrote a shit load of tunes, and in the summer of 2001 we recorded our first full-length and around new year teamed up with DareDevil Records for the release - out march this year.
Rob: How was your gig last month with Bottom and Beaver?
Frode: Great Bottom no Beaver - unfortunately beaver didn�t show but the Bottom girls where super cool - and their merchandise-chick uuhh man she was nice.
Klaus: Instead of Beaver some dudes from Austria called CanItrashcan had joined Bottom for some shows, they we�re nice dudes - I think actually that they split after those shows�R.I.P
Rob: What are some of the other �stoner rock� bands that you guys are into?
Torben: Well this scene is getting huge in the sheer number of bands and there are a lot of cool ones out there. Bands like Sheavy, Lowrider, GasGiant, Dozer, PawnShop - in general I think that most of the Scandinavian scene has really high quality and of course the groove masters Kyuss have to be mentioned, as they inspired me a lot.
Rob: How often do you guys practice, and how does the song writing happen?
Torben: We usually practice a couple of times a week - when we�re playin shows we tend to cut down a little and when we�re doin new tunes we try to practice as much as possible. Our song writing is based on a jammin process - I come up with some riffs and the basic idea for the tune and then we all add our different flavors cookin up the Magnified Brew. As we have grown as a band the jammin part of our song writing has become more and more important - and if we do somethin live that we like we incorperate it in the tunes, so some of our songs keep evolving, I like that aspect.
Rob: What are some of the main common musical influences between all the members?
Klaus: Black Sabbath is a great influence to us all, and Kyuss come from the same solar system filled with planets of thick fuzzy grrooves. But all in all we�re pretty much inspired by the whole Metal/ Rock scene and any music with a nerve powered by Guitars, Bass and Drums!
Rob: What kind of rock scene is happening in your home town?
Torben: We have some really cool venues here like VoxHall and Musik Cafeen where we usually play. These places have all sorts of cool concerts, they�re not really concentrating on a specific scene and that gives a great diversity in our live scene here.
Frode: And then we have some great underground clubs for the not so known bands, with lots of punkers, heavy rockers and so - really great for the upcommin bands - everybody goes there for the cheap beer and a mean guitar.
Rob: How do you think Magnified Eye� fits into the whole picture?
Torben: I could say that we�re tryin not to fit in - creating our own style - but then again that would be somewhat of a lie as we kind of fit the profile of a scandinavian stoner outfit. The main reason that we play music is to give the live audience a super groovin and heavy experience - so I see us fittin into the picture because we�re out there to give people a good feelin.
And as we as band evolve so does our music, I think that we�re getting better song writers all the time - understanding where our musical forces and boundaries are.
Rob: What are your upcomming tour plans - U.S.?
How often do you guys gig around? And what are some of your favorite venues?
Anything you want to say to the stonerrock.com community?
Torben: Well we have no immediate plans for touring the U.S. but could be nice going there at some point - though we heard that it�s more of a shitty job playing gigs over there than here in Europe - so� For the moment we stick to the AutoBahn heheh
Actually we�re flyin to Greenland this August to play a show and that�s gonna be really cool.
The gigin` varies a lot some months we have jobs every weekend - and some we have none. It�s pretty hard beeing a Rock band in Denmark only so many venues to play - but we�re doin some shows in Germany and the scene down there is really cool - nice live mentality.
In Aalborg here in Denmark we have a really cool venue called 1000fryd we played there with PawnShop and Bottom and they had bands like High on Fire, Lowrider, Dozer, 7zuma7, GasGiant - so that�s a great venue. The venues I mentioned earlier here in our hometown are really cool to.
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