Käptör is a fast and uncompromising old-school speed-thrash metal band from Tartu. I saw them live in under the name Degeneratör and their set blew me away. Venom-loving, fast riffs and evil falsetto. I’ve been trying to book them for months and I fucking glad it finally happened!Don’t miss out on the rock’n’roll.
Here’s the interview with Estonian racers Käptör.
1. Hey! Thanks for finding time to chat with me! You are self-titled as the fastest band in Tartu. What’s the story behind this title and the beginning of the band overall?
Steelförger: The story for both is quite simple. I had the idea for an old-school sounding band in the summer of 2020. I was chilling with the guys from Sküllfükk Sätänik Slüts and they said that I should start a speed metal band to rival them and then we can call ourselves the ,,Speed metal wave’’ of Tartu. So some time later I thought fükk it and talked with K. Pöwerlörd and H. Ännihilätör. Me and Pöwerlörd were already playing together so I knew he’s the perfect guy to play guitar. As for the drummer, I first heard Ännihilätör playing with his other band a year prior and from that gig I knew I had to do a band with him at some point. Fast forward into early 2021 and we had our first rehearsals as Degeneratör with songs I’ve written for myself. Those eventually became the songs for “Street Räcers öv the Nächt”.The ,,Fastest band in Tartu’’ thing also started with Sküllfükk Sätänik Slüts. They were the first ,,self-proclaimed fastest band in Tartu’’ and when I was writing a description for Degeneratör I knew that we actually played faster so we became the ,,Faster than the self-proclaimed fastest band in Tartu”.
2.Your debut EP “Street Räcers öv the Nächt” came out in 2021 under the name of Degeneratör and now you are recording a new album. Why did you choose to change a name? Is the new album gonna be in a different style? And when is it gonna be out?
Steelförger: As I said before, the whole idea behind Degeneratör was to fool around with our friends in Sküllfükk Sätänik Slüts. After some time their frontman had decided to move to Denmark in the near future and so the band would be put on hold. I didn’t feel like continuing playing goofy music as I feel that all jokes stop being funny at some point and we had reached that point in my opinion. I wanted to write more serious music with darker themes and more complex songwriting and felt that ,,Degeneratör’’ wasn’t the best name for the style I had in mind hence the change to Käptör, taken from the song ,,Captor of Sin’’ by Slayer. That song and the whole ,,Haunting The Chapel’’ EP pretty much sums up what I had in my mind for the new style. Our old material was pretty simple and straightforward fast metal with dumb stereotypical lyrics about being fast and drinking beer etc. Our current material is way more complex and technical albeit still sounding like speed/thrash straight from the 80s with lyrics being inspired by the bands associated with the Satanic Panic of that period.
We actually recorded an EP last spring but life got in the way of fully completing it and also we weren’t 100% satisfied with it so we scrapped it. We have enough material for a LP and hopefully we can record it over the summer. In the meantime we have something else planned and hopefully we have it out before the gig in April.
3.What are band members doing outside of the rehearsal room? What music do you listen to and what do you do in your free time?
Steelförger: I don’t really have any other hobbies except music to be honest. I’m either playing it or listening to it. Lately I have been exploring older Polish rock music from the late 80s and also Polish Eurodance from the 90s. Other notable music I have been spinning lately is 80s pop and Italo disco, Latin jazz/salsa and also Japanese jazz/fusion from the 80s.
Ännihilätör: Outside of the rehearsal room, im still immersed in music at home, producing it from the computer or listening it form my headphones. Sometimes I like to do drugs. For the music I listen to, it can jump from one genre to another with no warning, whether its classical music or jazz hip-hop to some
kind of a metal genre to ambient techno, music knows no boundaries for me, and Im happy to explore its corners and wonders.
4. What can Filthy Hangout attendees expect from Käptör show? Cheers, see you in April!
Quoting Sergeant Salsten:
NEVER FUCKING RELAX
GET EVIL ALL THE TIME
LIVE FOR VIOLENCE
DIE FOR METAL
FUCK OFF IN HELL!!!