The Black Queen is coming to Russia for the first time, but have you personally been here before? Do you know some Russian words? Well yes but I don’t know how to spell them. My grandparents, on my father’s side, one of them was from a town in what is now Belarus, called Slutsk. Before they died they spoke a lot of Russian, when I was young. So I picked up some words and phrases…very basic things. But I can’t write them. Then a few years ago a dated a girl who came to the United States from Russia in 1989, and her and her family spoke Russian, so I learned more. When did you meet each other? How did you get to making a group together? I knew Steve for a long time, since 2007, when he started working with The Dillinger Escape Plan. We began writing music together in 2010, because we shared some similar melodic influences and ideas, and were becoming really good friends. Josh I met in 2011, while on tour with Dillinger, and he was in Puscifer. We got along really well, and started hanging out back home in LA, and soon we all found […]
