Interview with Sidney Allen Johnson of Babylon Mystery Orchestra

Why do you have your own label?

It really is a matter of necessity. I wasn’t going to allow someone else to decide whether or not this material would be released. Perhaps BMO will be signed with a label someday but I have not been actively seeking such an arrangement. I have made fewer contacts with labels with each release…and I never contacted more than six on any given release to begin with. I just don’t devote any time to pursuing that. If you look at most labels who advertise their releases in the metal magazines you can pick the name of any band on their labels and find next to nothing about them on the internet. Why is that? I have done a better job of promoting BMO than almost all of those bands are getting from their labels. Who needs them if they can’t do any better than that? If I were to sign to a label it would have to be to one that was going to actually do some promotion. Sorry to shatter the myth (actually I’m not), but touring doesn’t sell records. That is constantly being proven.

Where can individuals get your Cd’s?

From the main website www.babylonmysteryorchestra.com, CDbaby.com and amazon.com. Those are the sites that I directly supply. It is also available for order through many retail outlets as well as Divine Metal Distribution. There are others as well…a few I am not even necessarily aware of. It is also available at all the major digital distribution sites too…although personally I love to actually have something to hold. That’s why I work on getting the packaging to be an important element to experiencing BMO.

Do you support any causes?

The eradication of all so called “progressive” political philosophy. It is ruinous. It operates under many names: socialism, communism, liberalism, social democrats etc. All of them are oppressive to individual freedom. It is a parasite’s dream…until it consumes its host and brings everyone and everything down with it. Man does not evolve and neither does “mankind.” We are not improved over our ancestors. If we were,why does our president blame “greed” for our recent recession. Is greed something new? Technology may progress but man does not. Don’t listen to me:

Ecclesiastes 1: 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

That is why the Bible is, and always will be relevant. Man does not evolve. He has made no progress. Don’t confuse technology and progress. They are not the same. By the way, there just so happens to be a song on the upcoming CD about exactly this subject.

Is there anything else you would like to add?

The new CD will probably be released in February of next year unless something happens. I am really looking forward to it as it deals with a wide variety of subjects…Hate Crimes, abortion, conspiracy theories, ufo’s, political philosophies and maybe a well known historical figure or two. I don’t have a title for it yet…at least I am not decided on it. Don’t miss it.