First of all - can you introduce your band to the readers?
We have been playing together since 2004. There is NAIL hammering the bass guitar, DNA smashing those skins and me, J. Bergman, screamer/singer and axeman.

There must be quite an interesting story behind the band name Man.Machine.Industry... please explain!
I started out back in 1999 writing material for a solo project in the style of industrial/electro inspired by bands such as Skinny Puppy, FLA and BILE. Back then I called the project Me, Myself and I and I made the logo you can still see today but when I was about to release the debut CD "Mention" in 2001 I made a last minute change to the name we have today. The name fit the style the first album has very well but also the style of metal we play today I think.

How did things get started?
As I said it started out as my solo project in 1999 and after a few years in the synth/industrial scene I longed back to the metal sound and having a full band. So in 2004 I wrote the second CD (EP) "Be like the dog you are and enter the circle" and I wrote it for a full on metal band with backtracks and this was when NAIL and DNA joined the band.

What are your main influences, and how would you describe your music?
Our main influence for creating music and lyrics are love and hate combined with anti-religion and fiction and real life violence. Sometimes a song takes a more personal point of view and sometimes its fiction with a dash of reality. I also get inspired by listening to other bands or watching movies. I listen a lot to other bands and love metal in all its forms. People believe we are inspired by acts such as Manson and Static-X but fact is that bands we like in our own genre are few. Prong, Killing Joke, Misery Loves Co, PLP and Ministry are probably the bands that inspired us in some subliminal way and are all bands we enjoy listening to.

You've released a free download EP called "The Devil's Blues"... an obvious question, why a free release?
Well, when we wrote the new and upcoming album we wrote 20 songs and the EP contains the songs that did not make the cut. Not because the aren't any good, cause they are, but mainly because they did not fit the mood of the album. Listening to the EP "The Devils Blues" you can hear the songs are some what different from the ones on the album... you´ll see what I mean when the album is out, haha. The reason for releasing it for free on the web is to spread our name before the new album hits the streets and our hard core fans sure as hell deserves it I think. But the EP wont go into print again and may be taken of the website in the future so hold on to it if you got it.

The EP got a good review on our website, but what do you think of the EP yourself?
A few of the songs we will probably keep playing live for quite some time, Set It Free and maybe the title track cause it appears on the Playstation 3 game The Darkness as a video track.

What is in your opinion the best track on the EP and why?
Set It Free we wrote a long time ago but in an other version. And that song is great to play live coz people dig it. It got a nice groove to it and are "zero" complicated, haha. And I really like the title track "The Devils Blues" coz its so different from what anyone else have done in the genre. Me and NAIL actually got the idea of making a flesheating heavy blues song listening to some old ZZ Top driving to the rehearsal one day.

When we look at your MySpace page we find that the release of the new album "White Trash Devil In a Jesus Christ Pope" will be out very soon. What can we expect of it? Will there be songs of the free EP featured on this album too?
Hell yeah dude... the new album is a real heavy fucker I promise you that. No songs from the EP as I said earlier, the EP is leftovers. If you listen to the EP and thinks its a good EP I can promise you that the new album will blow your mind. The songs are so much stronger, the vocals have been taken to a new level, the sound is great, heavy and in your face and I LOVE the artwork on the digipack, haha. This is by far our strongest and best album we have done in all ways. It will be hard toping this one but that's a problem to solve in the future to come.

The music you make fits a powerful live show. What can a stranger expect when he visits an MMI live show?
We are a powerful trio and we give you what you want for sure. You can see many live clips at our You Tube in a good quality. Also the first single "The Hunt" off the new album have some cool clips from some shows we did in 09 with Deathstars and Sweden Rock Festival and Sucken festival. We have so far, knock on wood, never disappointed anyone... not what they have said at least, haha. To play live is our turf for sure. We just love it and hope to do it untill our arms fall off :)-

How is the alternative scene in Sweden, your native country?
Its hard as hell getting gigs over here. For us it has been real hard for years due to that everyone is into the Gothenburg metal sound such as In Flames and/or the Hard Core Superstars rocknroll/sleeze sound. No bands have dared to try anything else. I honestly believe we where the only band in Sweden played this style of music for a long time. Now a days I see more and more bands popping up who dares a challenge. Raubtier, Massmurder Agenda, Diselopf and over seas in Finland we got Scorngrain and Cold Cold Ground coming out with new albums. So it looks as if its more "Ok" now to play this style of music.

What can we expect of MMI in the near future, lets say right after the album release?
Well, we are on a indie label called GMR MUSIC so much of the hard work as PR and getting gigs are up to us and much effort goes into that. Our management KMP are also small and is driven by me and my wife Malin so there are lots to do and focus are on finding some manager and/or booking agency interested in MMI and take us to the next level. The album will be released on April 23:rd in Europe and the US and we hope the media will dig the tunes and maybe help us out a bit because lets face it, we are a small band on a small label and we need all the help we can get to make it out to those listeners diging us but don't know that we exist yet, haha. Much hard work ahead for sure.

The interview ends here, thanks for your time. If you have any final words to share you can do it here.
Thank you Gerardo for spreading our name to the masses out there. I would like to end this interview with a quote I use, it goes like this:
"Music is freedom and freedom is mine to do what I want with"

Interview by: Gerardo, answered by: J. Bergman (April 2010).