25 Years Of Noise With DAN MCDOUGALL From FRANKENBOK

Interview by Kris Peters
Melbourne metal legends Frankenbok celebrated their 25th
anniversary at The Tote on December 12, 2022 in the most positive
and emphatic way possible by assembling every one of Frankenbok's
many line-ups from over the years to perform songs from their
era.
It was a unique and highly ambitious project that could have gone
off the rails at any juncture, but, to their credit, the Bok boys
smashed it out of the park and the couple of hundred lucky fans who
converged on The Tote that evening were left with a lifetime of
memories.
BUT, if you missed out on that one-off performance, fear not!
After 12 months of painstaking editing and quality control, the
good folk at Fair Dinkum Records have finally put the finishing
touches to not only an audio CD, but also the full video concert,
with both out now for your viewing and listening pleasure.
Current Frankenbok vocalist Dan McDougall sat down with HEAVY to
tell us more.
"It was a killer night," he recalled, "and we got it recorded and
filmed, and we have just finally put it out. We've got it as a live
album and also the full show can be watched on YouTube as
well."
The album is called 25 Years Of Noise In One Form Or Another, which
perfectly sums up what to expect, and we question Dan on who
actually came up with the title.
"I did," he smiled. "I was just trying to think of a name and that
just popped into my head. It's the truth. The band has been through
many different changes over the 25 years, so with each different
line-up it's brought something… it's changed every time, but
there's been a running thread through the whole thing. I was in the
band twice with two of those line-ups, but there's been four
different singers. With every different singer you're going to have
a different sound, but, like I said, there's a thread running
through the whole thing and that's Azza who has been there from the
start. His riffs and his music runs through the whole thing, so
it's quite an eclectic bunch of songs when you put it all
together."
In the full interview we discuss that night, go through what each
line-up contributed, his highlight of the concert, the singles
released in the lead-up and why they were chosen, getting the sound
right on the live release, the new line of merchandise, new music
and more.