"After years of alcohol abuse, I was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver," McCarthy said in a statement via Instagram last Friday, March 22nd.Mar 25, 2024 . Sending my preyers , best wishes , recovery and love .

What an awesome chat with a couple of great guys. Nitzer Ebb was such an influential band in my teens. Still love to listen to their music to this day. Much love and respect.

THAT TOTAL AGE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

Essex. Home of Nitzer Ebb and the best band in history, Depeche Mode..

been a fan for 35 years, I hope there is nothing seriously wrong with Douglas

I've always said N.E. was my "RAP" music & loved playing warsaw ghetto for the brothers. THANX EB Fun to be had !

As an old German Electro-goth, i would have loved to see that black community at NitzerEbb concerts back then. Our scene back home was whiter than white and it would have been so interesting to learn how that other sub-culture was celebrating this music.

Literally one of the best music interviews I have ever seen. Love the passion for their music that comes through in your questions. Thanks so much for getting these legends on the couch!

Thanks for asking about the hardware, so often the Synthesizers are ignored yet play a large role in the sound.

What a wonderful interview. Well done. Very well done.

I first heard their music at tye alternative clubs in Vancouver. Oh man .. Murderous hits so hard on the floor! I bought all their albums and 12" singles . Did not get a chance to watch them live . Though . Thanks for this great interview!

These were great questions! Congratulations of getting Nitzer Ebb on your show!! I love these guys and their music was wonderful and such a huge part of my coming of age in the 90's (I also love Siouxsi and the Banshees and Bauhaus, as they mentioned). These kinds of artistic business musical partnerships are truly a gift to all involved and it's so fascinating to hear them discuss their music and career. I'm always in such admiration of these kinds of band relationships. Thank you for much for this interview!

I loved and still love the old analogue synths, I had a Roland SH09 and a Korg Poly 800 back in the day. I have two Behringer Pro 1s, a Korg ARP Odyssey and a Roland Alpha Juno 2 these days ..as well as a few others and soft synths in Ableton ...love the huge power and variety of the sounds.

Great interview! Funny I never made the connection with EBM and Detroit, but makes total sense after this!

I hope Douglas is doing well. Wish nothing but the best of the best🙏🏼

My first introduction to Nitzer Ebb was two of my rebellious 80's church friends(teens) were able to get the church DJ to play "Alarm" from That Total Age for almost 1/2 of the song. Of course, the song ended early, but, I will always have fond memories of that disruption. Not only did that open my eyes to different music styles, it also makes me laugh every time I think about that event.

Good questions and chat. I really like your style. It's relaxed, interested and loose, more like a conversation than an interview. 🙂

Oh boy, I'm really worried about Doug health. Guys I need a Nitzer Ebb vs Front 242 concert in Barcelona.... please 😨

Let Your Body Learn, Hearts & Minds, Murderous, Join in the Chant.Their music really is one of a kind.

Please get Healthy Douglas . I’ll pray for u 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I can confirm... the album ''That Total Age'' is pure gold; I still listen to it regularly as well as the 2 following albums... but ''Total Age'' is my favorite album of all time. Thx N-Ebb

In 1994 Dallas Club Eden 2000 I gave BON and his lady friend I ride to Café Brazil in deep ellum. We all piled in my friends car.

Great!!

Please come to Japan🇯🇵 again😉 There are many people in Japan who love you 😘

Very enjoyable interview, they sound like a couple of really nice guys.

BELIEF and SHOWTIME one of the Best...

Oh noooo...I can't watch this to the end!!! Best wishes to Doug'.....!!!! He just looks somewhat alive...

Please get well Douglas!!

I wish you a good recovery amigo, long life to Doug, Bon, David.. and Nitzer Ebb

Long time fan, appreciate the interview. Praying for Douglas, he looks shockingly ill.

Saw them in Orlando where I am from, love industrial music! Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, and Skinny Puppy! JOIN IN THE CHANT!!! Clan of Xymox! Pop Will Eat Itself!

Love this Guys. Part of the Soundtrack of my Life. THX

Just been blasting my head (*after a terrible day) with all my fave 80s and 90s NE classics as loud as flippin possible. I just sought out any live footage of the band and here we are bizarrely. Amazing honest interview. WONDERFUL! ! ! !

Great interview!!❤ . Nitzer Ebb has my vote to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I will always love their music. ❤❤

Great, thanks for this great, interesting Interview !👍❤

Funny I didn't even know they were English They talk like where I grew up overseas lmao

Amazing, love Nitzer Ebb, thank you

Great interview...very natural and relaxed 😊..still a fan of nitzer and have seen them live two times!!❤🤘

Thanks Mel. That was a great interview and very good questions. 👍 Keep the scene going, gentlemen. Thank You for your fantastic music.

What a great interview! 🙂

Absolutely adore them!

saw them at the 930 club in DC when i was 17......they came and destroyed DC!

I remember seeing them a couple of times around the time of Join In The Chant. Murderous was the first single I'd bought. Honestly that pent up energy - you'd spend the time wondering when the world would explode around you. It was so powerful like nothing else. Fanastic to see them in '23/'24. I wish them well.

These two are just consummate professionals and so absolutely real in person. I was on my last US Navy deployment and found out Fixmer McCarthy were playing at The Bunker in L.A. and I got tickets for 2 and went with my highschool buddy who had been living and working in Anaheim for years. By the time Fixmer McCarthy hit the stage we were so straight up obliterated on Heineken it was almost comical. As soon as the show was over I basically just dragged my friend right over the stage and past any sort of security and spoke with Terrance Fixmer and went backstage and ended up meeting and 😅surprising Douglas and Bon was there also. These two gentlemen were just so unbelievably cool and beyond gracious and even offered us each a beer from their cooler backstage. I first had seen NE on the Depeche Mode Violator tour at the Salt Palace in SLC and it has had such an amazing influence in my life. Just walking into that space with insulated doors limiting the sound outside the actual space and feeling Lightning Man just pounding into your chest... Just to then open the doors to get into the actual venue and just be absolutely blown away by their own stage presence. Absolutely life-changing for me. I caught the Ebbhead tour at the Horticulture Center at the Utah State Fairgrounds and was again completely blown away by the opening act Ethyl Meatplow and I actually brushed elbows with one of the drummers for NE on that tour without even knowing it and he was so cool. Then to have seen the same guy on stage blasting percussion for one of my favorite bands it was something else. Eventually I saw NE live one more time in SLC in a venue I thought was far too small for them on their Industrial Complex tour and my brother's highschool buddies ' band Tragic Black was originally to open for them but they had to leave so Nitzer Ebb played first and I know for a fact that was a boost to those guys as they felt they were then the "headlining act." I began doing concert promotions in SLC shortly afterwards and just about had a DJMREX show lined up at Club X and the owner declined😢. Maybe again someday I will meet up with these awesome gents!

Great interview with two awesome guys. Love all the info about the old synths used in their 80s stuff 🎹

I love this so much. I've subscribed and shared.

Best nitzer interview I've ever seen 🙂💪🔥 great work. Thanks🙂

Thank you..

Great interview! Thank you for sharing. 🙏

Phantastic Interview

Love This Interview

Awesome interview.

Okay, that was impressive. I enjoyed seeing Nizzer Ebb again but, you are a top shelf interviewer. I pray that you don't lose your special sauce.

Really great interview.

Excellent interview.

Great interview. Great interviewer. Really brought a great lot of detail out of the boys. Kudos.

They wrecked the music scene. Saw them live the first time, when they were start up for Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Tour. I love Dpeche Mode (since 1983) but I think we were half a number or more into Depeche set before we woke up from the TOTAL chok of Nitzer Ebb. FAN since.... Sincere Regards to these "boys"...;-)

Amazing interview and such important advice at the end of this video for creative types who at times feel like giving up. Love from Vancouver Island

Yeah!!!, we URGENTLY need more songs from these MASTERS of electronic music that fill us with renewed ENERGY, MOTIVATION and INNOVATION to keep coping with our lives. Maybe what I just wrote sounds stupid but I have come to this world to listen to NITZER EBB and that's it. THANK YOU VERY MUCH Douglas, Bon and MelaninMonarchy

I totally forgot about this band!

I'm going to see front 242 and nitzer ebb in November in houston on back to back nights. I saw douglass on another interview and he looks much better now he looked fairly ill here anyway can't wait for November

they wanted to sound like DAF but they grew from that to a different direction and expand the sound. congrats to them and us

used to love these guys back in the day, saw them in London 1991

Hi … so awesome to see Nitzer Ebb .. thanks for the interview.. what’s the intro music to this interview ? Sounds amazing !! Thanks

Pionners of EBM

I like the Join in the Chant song

Saw the Ebb in 92 with Ethyl Meatplow

Sorry Douglas...I always thought you were a working class kid in your clothes....Nitzer Ebb took me by ambush a great band!

Wow, Doug doesn't look good bless him...

Love this interview and love your interview style. I had no idea they had an African American following. I love hearing that. Also is Doug ok? Anyway I’m subscribed now and look forward to more content.

Jesus, Doug is so skeletal looking. I hope he recovers from this.

Melanin is very attractive Gal 😍😍

I've always loved industrial but my white friends really took to a sublime ownership of this music. i think they wanted to be Eurotrash pretty badly.

Godhead!

Been into this band since 1990. Are they touring?

tackhead the game political mix

I hope Douglas is doing well

que enfermedad tiene douglas? esta muy flaco... ojala este bien por favor!

Love NEP! These mofo’s need to release a remaster of their earlier material (especially That Total Age). Their current digital older material is almost unlistenable due to the poor sound quality.

I don’t know Nitzer Ebb’s music at all, but I think Doug McCarthy’s best time was working with Alan Wilder on the Recoil project in 1997, on the Unsound Methods album. He looked fantastic then and was by far the best vocalist that Alan used on that album. He also sang absolutely spell-bindingly on the Recoil cover of Faith Healer. I could tell from the modern era photos of him that he had aged, probably due to alcohol. Such a sad thing for such a great singer. You breathed fire, Douglas, on Faith Healer, Incubus and Stalker, an incredible singer. Alan should have got him to be the lead singer of Recoil, they were the perfect combination together, great musician and great singer. Such a shame his health has declined. I read he left the music industry - again, such a shame for such a gifted singer. Get back with Alan and do some more Recoil, Douglas, - your talents in your own band not withstanding, although as I say, I don’t know Nitzer Ebb’s music at all, but Douglas’s talent is absolutely evident.

Nothing similar in the early 80ies What was Front 242 doing then: bagpiping??

😧 What happened to Doug? Looks really gaunt.

What's the matter with Douglas? He's looking rather poorly, I hope he's alright?

Even though Melanin was just playing around, I thought the "too young and stupid" comment went too far. Let Bon and Doug make the self-deprecating comments about themselves, don't make comments like that to them.

Douglas....😒

In the time it took for you to deliver your disclaimer on why you are choosing to mispronounce the band's name, you could have simply pronounced their name correctly. Is this a melanin thing?

There are the covid shots, Douglas.

What an uncomfortable interview.