Review Fix Exclusive: Fusion Bomb’s Michel Nippel Talks B.O.D. And More

Review Fix chats with Fusion Bomb’s Michel Nippel, who discusses the band’s origin, goals, creative process and standout track, B.O.D and more.

Review Fix: How did you guys get together?

Michel Nippel: We’ve been friends since childhood and somehow me, Scott, the drummer, got in touch with metal music. Mostly Heavy, Thrash and Power Metal at the time and so I influenced the rest of the members only Miguel listened to metal before and him I met in class.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Nippel: We come up with a concept, then write down possible song subjects that match with the concept. Afterward we start either with the lyrics but more often with riffs and add then drums and the rest. Very seldom we start with drum beats. After that first creative process a song takes some months to ripen in our rehearsal room and then it’s ready to be published.

Review Fix: What do you think makes this band special?

Nippel: To be honest? Not much I think, maybe our subjects or the way we’re dealing with them, our music, instrumentally, is pretty basic I think.

Review Fix: How would you describe your style?

Nippel: We play old school Thrash, but since we all listen to much Death Metal and I for my part have recently returned to classical Heavy and Speed Metal, it’s not just stereotypical thrash. And we hate pizza-beer-thrash.

Review Fix: What are your goals for this album?

Nippel: We want to become a “known” underground band in the German scene, France would be nice too, but there we have less good connections.

Review Fix: What’s the standout song? Is there a story behind it?

Nippel: I think it’s B.O.D., which is the abbreviation for Beertroopers of Death. It is about  us, being those Beertroopers, as we are fucking up a bar. The lyrics are pretty rude, so I won’t speak them out here, you can check them out yourself if you are interested.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Nippel: Promoting our debut PRAVDA and then maybe a little touring.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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