PUTRID PILE vs. EGEMONY vs. SYPHILIC

I have tortured some unique one – man Brutal Death Metal acts again. This time my victims were Shaun / PUTRID PILE, Allesandro / EGEMONY and Brain / SYPHILIC. Enjoy the shit and remember that solitude leads to despaired deeds!

The 1. reason to play alone is, no one will play with you, because your music is crap!Deny or refute!

Shaun: Yeah its hard to find people to play in a band with when my music is crap! Noone wants to get shit on their shoes! LOL! So I have to do it alone, because it get pretty stinky on the airplane sometimes and its hard to find people to deal with that!

Allesandro: Yes, that’s true, but that I salso why people like my music.

Brain: Its crap, but its also too confusing to find anyone to play with. Other than brian baxter doing studio bass of course. Not to mention I dont have the time to really spend showing anyone, I´ve made it sound real on my own. So if it is ´nt broke, dont fix it. ´

The 2. reason, you are too disgusting and no one will go into the public with you! Deny or refute!

Shaun: For sure! Skid stains in the underwear repells some people.

Allesandro: Every mom will let them daughter on a date with me, I’m gorgeous trust me.

Brain: Its more that most people dont want to pick me up because I cant drive. But I was actually at the mall today, with a friend and her 2 year old daughter.

The 3. one....is probably the real one. Tell my readers why you had decided to play alone!

Shaun: Well the reason why i play alone, is because of the job. I had at the time didnt really allow me to tour very much so I could only play a handfull of shows. I couldnt have someone relocate and change their life just to play a few shows here and there, ya know? Also with everything going on in my life its very hard to have a strict schedule to practice. I dont have a set time to practice and I just do it here and there when I can.

Allesandro: Cause in this fucking shitty place there are no guys to play with; I mean, there are a lot of musicians and metalheads, but I don’t give a fuck to technics, first I want attidute and devotion to the genre, and here no one has’em.

Brain: Its easier, its my project and dont really have to answer to anyone. I plan to keep it that way.

Is your mother worried, because you play alone all your lifetime, you don..t have friends who want play with a freaky little loser.

Shaun: LOL! Ive had members before and been in other bands, so she knows Im not that hard to get along with. She worrys when I play abroad, but any mother would. She would rather I play Classic Motown though instead of Brutal Death Metal! LOL!

Allesandro: True… This made me cry :(… sigh.. sigh… )

Brain: She is more worried about the lyrical content she is found in the past.

Probably you had a bad childhood, you had 9 elder sisters and you had to wear their old clothes? It must be hard!

Shaun: Yeah I was never really good at the whole nail painting thing. I can wear high heels like its nobodys business though! HA!


Allesandro: No, I have only a younger sister, and that is 193238 times worst than having 8 elder sisters.

Brain: Hmm...

You must be insane, when you do all your crap alone? I think you are unemployed, the day is long and boring, and you have too much time with beer , drugs and pornflicks! By the way, who is your favorite pornstar?

Shaun: Yeah you could say that. I used to have a pretty good job, but my stinky band repelled it away and now all I have to do all day is tug on my ballsack and look at free pron on the internet. My favorite pornstar would have to be anyone who does anal. If you do anal you are truely a pillar!

Allesandro: It’s not a simple question …. Well let me think… I think I’m gonna choose Fellucia blows, the best blowjobs on youporn… sensual and…. She swallows haha.

Brain: The day = working on music. Fav pornstar right now is probably Ava Lauren, but that changes every 5 minutes

Seriousely, where do you find the ideas for your songs? I think it..s easyer to write a song if more guys have separate ideas and put it together.

Shaun: I just think up riffs in my head and lay them down. Than i listen and listen again over and over and see what I can do to refine the riff to make it as catchy as I possibly can. Sometime the 1st thing I come up with will work fine, and other times I have to work out the kinks. Than when I listen to it and I can get my head bobbin I know I have it.

Allesandro: I think it..s easyer to write a song if more guys have separate ideas and put it together. Every song borns from different stuff: a movie, a book, a PORN MOVIE, and of corse, listening to other bands can help you in the song writing.

Brain: Its easier when i can just do it myself.

Did you never searched for musicans?

Shaun: Yeah I have, but I gave up the search a long time ago. Its just too hard and too much drama to have other members in the band. Also I wouldnt get to have all the opourtunities that I do if there were 3 or 4 other members in the band. Its hard to get everyone to be able to get off of work and pitch in $ when need be, ya know? Its really hard for bands most of the time.

Allesandro: I’m still doing it… but I’m still alone… maybe cause I eat to much garlic, onion and beans haha.

Brain: Havent gone out of my way for it. Brian Baxter and I talked about doing bass but I didnt think anything would come of it. Hes now almost done recording his 2nd album with me.

Do you play your set live, if yes, how do you do it?, if not, why not?

Shaun: Yes I do play my set live! All the classics! LOL! I have my drum tracks on my ipod and than I just play my guitar and do vocals. Thats it! Nothing fancy, just doin it straight forward and it seems to get the job done for me and the fans.

Allesandro: My drummer is the i pod, I connect it to the mixer, I turn on the microphone and the guitar amp and i start playing my shit. And the magic happens.

Brain: I hate playing live but do sometimes. I do it with my drum tracks on an ipod, run to the mixer with rca cords

What is the biggest, or hardest part in writing/recording music? I think, timing is very important!

Shaun: The hardest part is coming up with tunes that sound different so the 1st song doesnt sound like the last song. The hardest part is being my own worst critic and not havine other members to bounce ideas off of. But Im getting better at keeping an open mind and just to play what Im feeling at that particular moment.

Allesandro: Recording the bass! Damn, I’ m not able to play it!

Brain: Probably the computer problems that occur over time. I recorded erotishock twice full through because of a failed harddrive and almost had that same problem with this full length.

I think you work with a drummer from Japan, LOL. Don..t you miss a real sounding drumming?

Shaun: Well I use real drums anyways on my recordings, so I dont really miss it to much, but you can never really beat a real drummer thats for sure. You just cant top the feel of real drummers for the fills and everything.

Allesandro: I miss it so much, a real drum sound has more power and more groove, and I think groove is one of the most important thing in this music.

Brain: I make fake sounding drums real. Its easier for me with this odd timed shit.

How long will you stay alone with your shit? Don..t you have problems to kick yourself and going forward? Do you afraid to stagnate?

Shaun: I just want to write good brutal death metal songs and dont care really if I seem to get "stagnate". I just have to stay true to myself and the music and never sell out and keep putting out discs for my fans to enjoy and I will be satisfied with that. If it gets old to some people then thats their problem, ya know? At leaste I can rest my head at night knowing if contributed something special to the underground and Im thankful for that.

Allesandro: Untill my legs will keep me up, I’m gonna play and release album!

Brain: Um... what? I am going forward, the point is for me to release music, its my solo project and will stay that way.


Do you understand it as an advantage to stay alone with all problems, sucess or what ever?

Shaun: Its an advantage, but its also hard doing everything yourself, ya know? All the interviews and networking and shows and writting and recording and selling merch and.... WHEW! I get tired just typing that shit out! LOL!

Allesandro: When you sell a cd, all the money goes to you, but if you print t shirts you have to pay it all by yourself.. so there are problems and there are good thing in playing alone. Fifty fifty.

Brain: Problems or success? I dont really care about either of those.

What is the ultimate real live Horror for you? And don`t tell me, the answer is this
interview?!

Shaun: LOL!! No its nice to do an interview with someone with a sense of humor. Its really a breath of fresh air for sure. I just thank you for being so patient with me! LOL! One real live horror was to be stranded in Mexico for a few hours and had to book some other flights home because the dates did not match my itinerary with the tickets they gave me. That was a nightmare, but I came out unharmed so everything worked out for me. That really sucked though!

Allesandro: Dunno.. I live a simple life, in a simple city… probably my last real horrible experience was my disentery when I was ill. damn, I thought I was gonna crap out my soul.

Brain: I dont want to die by being lit on fire, that would suck.

Are you an modern medieval bard ? Do you want to impress your princess? What says your girlfriend to your way wasting time? But you probably don´t have a girlfriend!

Shaun: Well I did have a girlfriend for a long time. Shes the mother of my son, but things didnt work out between us. She tolerated the band, but never really cared for it. It was hard on me to have someone you care about not give 2 shits about something your very passionate about, but that never stopped me from pursueing my deams. Ive worked at this since I was 10 years old and worked too hard kust to throw it away. My sone really loves it and I cant wait to pass the torch to him someday. I hpoe he will get to see the things I have a meet all kinds of great people around the world too as I have.

Allesandro: I got a girlfriend, and he’s hot too! No no , I’m not a bard, that stuff is for gay power metalheads! I’m more like a…. mmmh…. Dunno… but for sure I’m not like a bard!

Brain: I did but not now. Whatever girl is around at the time will have no say in what I do with music.

Make your decision and explain it!

Gore or Porn?

Shaun: Both. Pussy is great, but its even better covered in lacerations!

Allesandro: PORN.

Brain: Porn, its more gratifying.

Paris Hilton or Jenna Jameson?

Shaun: Jenna. Paris is boring in bed. Dont waste your $ on her bunk-ass home movie. Yawn.

Allesandro: JJ all life long

Brain: Jenna, Paris is just a dumb cunt. At least Jenna has some tits to stare at.

Jason or Michael

Shaun: Jason. Much better killer!

Allesandro: Jason!

Brain: Horror movies? Who cares, theyre both fake. If i had to choose one I ´d probably choose Jason because hes retarded... and thats funny.

Brain Dead or Lord Of The Rings

Shaun: Thats a tough one. Probably Lord Of The Rings. I can eat, take a nap, fuck, work on some new material, use the bathroom and play with my son and the movie still would be playing in the DVD player! LOL!

Allesandro: The first you said.

Brain: Dont know what Brain Dead is and I´m not gonna go with that other fairy tale bullshit.

Your homemade noise or true metal music?

Shaun: Def. True metal music. I wouldnt have my music if it wasnt for the ones before me.

Allesandro: My shitty shit.

Brain: My homemade noise. I dont even need an explanation.

That´s enough, last nonsense is yours!

Shaun: Well thank you so much for the interesting interview. Sorry it took so long to get it to ya. I appreciate your support Fatal Grind! Thanks to the fans that have stuck by me though thick and thin and continue to support to the death! Youre the best! HAILS!
http://www.myspace.com/putridpile

Allesandro: Yo tank for the stupid interview, i really enjoyed it! Probably cause I can only say bullshits hahah. Seriously. I just wanna say tank to everyone who listens, supports and lives this music, everyone of you is important for the scene, without you we all will be nothing! By the way without fatalgrind the world will be better ahahahahaha.
www.myspace.com/egemony

Brain: www.myspace.com/syphilic. Thanks for the interview, prick.

THE CLEANSING

Brutal, aggressive and catchy are keywords when it comes to Danish death metallers THE CLEANSING. The Copenhagen based quintet combine intense and unique melodies with both old school and modern death metal elements. Inspired by bands such as Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal and Immolation, THE CLEANSING have perfected their own devastating style of death metal. Performed with almost surgical precision and with a clear yet heavy and intense production thanks to Danish metal producer JACOB HANSEN (Aborted, Yyrkoon, Destruction, The Arcane Order etc.) THE CLEANSING have spawned an album that will appeal to both death metal fans and metal heads in general! So come on and check "Poisoned Legacy"


Hi mate, how are you? Is Copenhagen actually something more famous as the unmatched Olsen- gang?

Hi there, Toke speaking. Or writing really. Hmmmm, is Copenhagen more famous for something other than the Olsen-gang? I hope so! The Little Mermaid perhaps?

What about the band name. Are you going to clean the desolate crowded scene, blow away the dust of numberless insignificant bands?

Of course! That’s exactly the point. It might be a bit arrogant, but hey, arrogance never hurt anybody did it? We thought The Cleansing sounded strong, and would fit our style of music perfectly. For me personally though The Cleansing stands for inspiration. The Cleansing fire that burn in us all. The feeling you get when you are feeling inspired to do something different with your life.

Tell me something about the band!

Okay! We started writing “Poisoned Legacy” in early 2007. We had a band called Usipian, but broke it up in order to concentrate on something a little different. With The Cleansing we have been able to work very concentrated and with one single goal: To do the best we can. With The Cleansing we feel we can match our intentions with abilities. Something that we didn’t always had the privilege to. We are now currently finishing writing the harder second album, and might begin recording it in early 2010. Hopefully before April where we will begin our DK tour with Dawn of Demise, which we of course are looking very much forward to. The new album should be a step forward for us, and it sound really good. The songs are shaping up, and will hopefully have a crushing impact on the listener. We’re here to stay, and our next album should cement that statement.

What kind of “poisoned legacy” will you succeed? Has that album-title a critical term anyway?

The title represents our decaying society. Being a parent, I have probably become a bit more aware of my surroundings and what kind of world I am shaping for my daughter. It’s not like I can make much of a different, but at least I can find the time to preach for others to make them feel guilty right? But yea, it does represent something along that road. Our legacy isn’t as pure as it once was, or as we were led to believe. It has been poisoned.


Tell me more about the album!



As I said the album was written, roughly, in 2007 and recorded in 2008. We are still pretty proud of it, and feel there’s some really strong material. It won’t just be a walk in the park to match in on the next album, but we sure as hell will try. The reviews has pretty much all been in our favour, so it seems we must have done something right at least.
Right now we’re just really focused on preparing gigs, because we haven’t had a chance to sell it to the live audience. The material should work well live, and we look forward to give it our best.

The songs are done temporarily, why are they released with delay? Was Deepsend your first choice? What about the conditions from the label, are they ok?

We didn’t really have that much of a choice. We recorded the album without any deal. We were an unknown band with no demo, concerts of any real back story. We did however have a strong product. But you also need a name. Deepsend liked our material and offered us a deal. We knew them from the work they had done with our fellow metalists in Dawn of Demise, which didn’t seem to be too upset about Deepsend. And instead of beating around the bush, we took the offered deal since it sounded reasonable. We were also just eager to get started instead of shopping around for all eternity. Until now we can’t complain at all about Deepsend. They have given us a well needed push.

You sell your CD as a download too. Will that be a full value replacement for CD´s in the future? Do you think CD´s will become a relict like vinyl one day?

Never! There will always be a demand for physical products. I don’t think that will disappear anytime soon. Even vinyl has had a strong comeback. People like to have something in their hands you know? Other than their penis.

I have a fucking problem with your fucking cover! What shall I see there? A rusty alien? A post apocalyptical vacuum cleaner?

Hahahaha, well I’m sorry that you have a problem with it! Maybe it DID turn out a bit too dark? You should see what you feel like. It’s entirely up to you hehe. The vacuum cleaner however probably wasn’t the intention. But it’s good to see you have some degree of imagination. The intention from our side was actually to have a “typical” death metal cover without it being typical. If that even makes sense. We just kind of loved the sculptures that Powel did, and asked him if we could use it since it fitted our title. Luckily we were more than welcome, and we hope to work with him again. What should you see? Something nasty. Something ugly. Something poisoned. Something slightly wrong and twisted.


How important are your old bands for the music of THE CLEANSING? Is it easy to start ingenuous in a new project?

The old bands will always represent our past in one way or another. It will always in some ways be important. On the other hand “now” is where our focus lies, so we try not to think of the old stuff too much. We like to move forward and improve ourselves. To start at zero will always mean to take some steps back. But hopefully it will work itself out in the long run. That’s the idea at least.

Your label says you are a mix of IMMOLATION and DAWN OF DEMISE. Who came up with that comparison? Do you consider yourself just that?

Probably Deepsend. I wouldn’t put that label on us. For one thing, we don’t sound like Dawn of Demise at all. But being Danish and are using the same producer, maybe we have a similar sound... for now. I don’t think we sound too much like Immolation either. Even though I know both Jeppe and Andreas (guitars) are very fond of Immolation I consider The Cleansing to be more catchy and straight forward. I like some of Immolations material, but I wouldn’t even put them on my top 50 Death Metal acts.

Tell me about J. Hansen’s studio. Would you recommend it? Has Jacob checked your music out, has he influenced your sound someway?

We always had a very specific route we wanted to try with Usipian, so this time we tried to do things a little different and left it almost entirely to Mr. Hansen to work his little magic. Obviously our sound screams Jacob Hansen, and since we liked a lot of his productions, that was pretty much what we wanted. I don’t think Jacob really knew about us since we were a new band. I would definitely recommend Jacob Hansen since he is very professional and reliable.

It seems you are not a very active live band. What is the reason for that, maybe you have no desire to play out live? Or are there more secular reasons?

We have had some small problems, like me being imprisoned, which halted our progression a little bit. Also our drummer lives about 200 miles from us, and plays in a million other bands, so playing live with The Cleansing means a well prepared schedule. We do however have a great desire to play live, but it will be over a more concentrated time period, and not spread out like a gig here and there. We will probably be more tour minded. We have only to this date played two live gigs with The Cleansing, and are much exited to play again soon.

What will you do, if THE CLEANSING overtakes the fate of your old bands? Can you ensure that you will stay in the scene for a long time?

As I stated earlier we are very much here to stay! This is our band, not a project, and all of us do this because we care. Not because we don’t have other stuff to do or are bored.

Do you see the band as a newcomer? Or is it just another stage in your journey?

I don’t really think about it actually. I mean, in Denmark people know us, but in the rest of the world they don’t. But we weren’t a bestselling band with Usipian anyway, so I don’t think there’s much difference.

The reviews for “Poisoned Legacy” are very positive. Do you trust the critics? Do you see your own impressions and intentions in the reviews?

Some comments are of course totally retarded and out of context, but it’s the reviewers point of view, and they are entitled you know? Stuff like “eeww why don’t they sound more like Iniquity!?!?” are for instance totally retarded since we don’t have anything to do with them. Criticism is something I’m always aware of. Some things we can use, some things we can’t. Good reviews are not that usable. I mean, if we only believed the good stuff, then we would just make the same record again and again. There will always be room for improvement. But mostly, I think we get recognition for what we intended to do, and that’s always nice.

There are some new bands underway in Denmark. Is it a dawn of a new generation or just recycling of old farts?

People are getting better and better on their instruments. Especially the new generation. Will they make better music? Time will tell I guess, we will just have to wait and see. But there’s not too much recycling of old farts going on here.

The whole international scene is absolutely overcrowded. What do you think qualifies you to get involved?

Well, since there can never be too much of the good stuff, I only see a problem with really lousy bands overcrowding the good ones. People will just have to decide for themselves if they want to listen to good or bad material. Different bands for different tastes. I think we make strong material, and we want to compete with the best out there. In the end it’s up to people really. I think we’re qualified to compete, but I don’t think we will a gold medal just yet hehe.

Last spot is yours, may the ghosts of the Olsen – gang with you!

Thanx for giving us some space! I don’t really understand your Olsen-gang obsession hahaha but I did enjoy the left field questions. Hopefully we can offer more to you than post-apocalyptic vacuum cleaners in the future! Toke, over and out.
http://www.thecleansing.net/

DENIAL - worship the old way

Inspired in the 90’s Death Metal, formed lately at 2006 with the urge to create dark and real Metal of Death by not amateur musicians but from ex and actual formerly band members from some finest Mexican acts, like Oscar Clorio, ex- drummer from the legendary band CENOTAPH (also drummer in SHUB NIGGURATH at the last recording), Marko Guevara bass player and vocals from PULVERIZED (playing guitar in DENIAL) and Ivan “Bloodhunter” ex-vocalist for UMS and DEW OF NOTHING.
At 2007 founding a new guitar player on Roberto Granados, just before know him was making the recording for their first 7” called Immense Carnage Vortex with the collaboration of Luis Ramos on the bass, which was launched through Swedish Death Metal cult label BLOOD HARVEST RECS.
In 2008 the band enter studio again for the recording of their first full lenght "CATACOMBS OF THE GROTESQUE", mastered by the Death Meatl legend Dan Swano, with the colaboration of very first bass player Ricardo Gil creating an oscure and mythic Cd that is spawned though Asphyxiate Recordings early in 2009.

Hi Rob, how are you man? Congratulation to “ Catacombs Of The Grotesque” How is it going with the publicity?

Thanks Jörg!.
Things with the album are going good! We are getting great reviews on fanzines, websites, etc... I'm not sure about how is it selling, our label (Asphyxiate Recordings) is selling it in Australia, its being distributed aswell in the U.K. by Code 7 and by Relapse Records in the U.S.A., but to be honest I don't know how is it selling, but we are getting great response from the people that have listened by far and that's what matters.

DENIAL includes members of different bands. How did you get together?

DENIAL started just as a project to record, no tours, live shows... anything, just to record. It was started by Marko and Oscar, they had the need to play Death Metal the way it was played in the late 80's early 90's, just that. So they invited Ivan to be the singer and they started to rehearse and when they recorded the first Demo, Xtreem Music from Spain got interested in Denial music, so they wanted to sign Denial for the first LP, so they recorded the Demo and Bloodharvest from Sweden contacted the band to release the Demo on a 7"vinyl. After that they considered to put Denial on a full time status band, and since they were only 3, Marko called me to join them, and that's how Denial got into a serious band and not just a project.

Are there any differences about the official album version and the digi wallet?

What changes is the presentation. The jewel case version and the digipack have the same booklet and the same cd, no bonus tracks or video. What makes it different its the digiwallet, its a limited edition that it's only manufactured in Australia and the label printed only 500 copies, so I guess that is what makes it special.

The album-concept is about Lovecraft stories. What is the fascination behind it? Is it only about the Cthullu myth or are you taking account the whole Lovecraft universe?

We are taking Lovecraft literature as a mere inspiration. Our lyrics are not based in an specific story or character. We just wanted to project the feelings that are meticulously represented in Lovecraft stories, like madness, horror, insanity, terror..., and we wanted to do that with the music aswell, not only with the lyrics. So our songs are 50% lyrics and 50% music, there is a story going on in our songs both musically and lyrically.

Are the lyrics your own stories in the tradition of Lovecraft or is it real Lovecraft topics?

The lyrics are just inspired in Lovecraft stories. We don't make any reference to any specific story or character, we make our own stories based on our musical and literature influences.

What about the songwriting? Are you building the songs around the lyrics?

We work in music first and then the lyrics. We did that with our first album because it's easier for us. At practice you show the guys your new ideas and everyone contributes, and if we are all 100% satisfied with that we start thinking about ideas for the lyrics, of how you will be able to complement that music with lyrics. We just don't put lyrics because there is a space for the singer to growl. If you have listened to our album you can notice that the guitars and the vocals kinda complement each other and if there is not a singin part then the guitars will be doing something as a "second voice" I could say. And we do that because the music tells the story aswell.


Who wrote the intro, it catches the morbid atmosphere about the “ Great Old Ones”with much apropos. Tell me about!

Wow! It's the first time someone notices the intro! haha! A lot of people says that it's long and boring. Actually I came up with the idea for the intro, I brought all those weird sounds to the studio and mixed it, we just added some keyboards and that was it. But what we wanted to achieve with the intro it's that when you listen to it, you can imagine yourself in the same realm as we are (musically). I know that most of the people won't pay attention to it and I don't blame them, it's quite long haha, but if you want to feel the same experience that we feel when we create and play that music, starting with the intro could be a good idea.

How will you bring the idea of DENIAL´s world of horror to your fans who have no clue about it? Or are the lyrical topics just a means to an end?

Hmm... It won't be hard, just listen to the album and read the lyrics. You don't have to be a Lovecraft reader to notice what's going on with our lyrics or music. There is always something behind every song, if you get to notice that, it's like a plus for the listeners, it will make the listening more interesting, or you can just enjoy the music aswell, we did this album as fans of Death Metal music and horror literature, so there is always something enjoyable for the listener.

I recognize a morbid touch of NECROPHAGIA in your music, beside the obvious swedish influences. Or am I wrong? NECROPHAGIA are the masters of transforming Horror into music, arent they?

Now that you mention it, yeah, we have this eerie and dismal atmosphere in our songs just as Necrophagia. I haven't read any Necrophagia lyrics but I can guess that the way we create our music could be similar. Horror shit and Death Metal it's always a nice combo! haha

Oscar plays in SHUG NIGGURATH, this is also a divinity of Lovecrafts universe. Did he bring the basic idea to the band? Did he take some shit from that band?

Oscar used to play un Shub-Niggurath back in the 90's and even recorded an album with them but actually the idea was like a common agreement, we already had 4 songs finished but we didn't had anything clear with the lyrics and the concept of the band, so since most of us are familiar with Lovecraft work we decided to go with that one.

Tell me about the “Immense Carnage Vortex” Ep! Any changes since then?

Absolutely! Denial at that time was only a project like I mentioned before, and musically they had a huge influence from Swedish Death Metal bands like Grave, Crematory, Dismember... you name it. So when I joined we started to work for the full lenght and after 4 songs, that Swedish sound started to change into a more darkened and dismal Death Metal, so we decided to tune our guitars way lower than they did on the EP and we even had to re-structure a couple of songs to fit this sound the band got into. We took more influence from the Finnish Death Metal bands like Demigod, Demilich, Convulse, Anguish...that's heavy shit!

You have probably used some songs from it for the album. Why?

We used one song from that EP, "Remains", and we decided re-record that one because it's the first song that they composed together, and when we played it with the lower tunning it sounded fucking brutal!, so we decided to record it again for the full lenght, and the sound did fit with the finnish style that the band got into.



Dan Swanö has mastered the album finally. Tell me about it! Had he used some of his own ideas for it? Have you give him free hand?

When we finished to record the album we were really tired... the whole process took a long time, almost 2 years working on the songs and almost 2 weeks to record it. So when we got the final mix (which is amazing by the way), we just sent the Master to Dan and gave him free hand, and of course he didn't dissapointed us! The album is a relentless sonic assault! thanks to Dan for that!

Why have you deceided for unblemished Old School Death Metal in that modern times with lots of new possibilitys to celebrate Metal-music? Where are your roots?

Because as a Death Metal fan the stuff that you get to cherish and value the most are your old tapes and cd's from real underground Death Metal bands that are almost impossible to get nowadays, and that's why we decided to play that kind of stuff, like a tribute to those almost forgotten primal Death Metal. And since we are all fans of this music it was clear that we would go for it, that's the way we feel Death Metal!. I don't see the point to play this modern Death Metal because we don't feel it

Do you feel, the early Death Metal scene falls into oblivion and what remains is music for nostalgic metal heads?

Yes, in some way I can agree with you, but I can't say that this music falls into oblivion. Old School Death Metal will always be there because of the fans of true Underground Death Metal. There will be always people looking for that old music, and nowadays there are a lot of bands like us trying to resurrect Death Metal from its true essence. Nostalgic?... Yea I guess so, but it has been alive for some reason, and when you listen or play this music, you do it with the ultimate passion and from the soul, no bullshit here, not trendy crap, just music we feel and we are 100% satisfied about.

What is your opinion about Metalcore, New Metal, or Cybergrind, Goregrind, Brutal Slam...what ever?

Cybergrind??? Are you fucking kidding me??? Does that shit even exist??? hahaha! Well I just see that as a fashion, maybe it's in vogue now but that's the shit that will fall into oblivion man! Goregrind music has been there for quite a long time, but the others... ask me in 10 years where those bands will be.

What are your personal faves, your favorite albums? And what is the most underrated band of the old days?

My favourite Death Metal bands are from Finland! I think that it's a very underrated Death Metal scene, I guess it's because Swedish Death Metal it's always at the spotlight. But my favourite bands are Demigod, Convulse, Demilich, Belial (early), Disgrace (early), Adramelech, Anguish, Carnifex, Vomiturition (early)..., also a few Swedish bands like Utumno, God Macabre, Dissection, Unanimated, Merciless, Necrophobic, Dismember...etc, but I go with the Finnish ones.

What about DENIAL in the future? How long will you stay in that amazing overcrowded scene of today?

Who knows man, we will be making this music as long as we feel it, and as long as we can. Denial started as an underground Death Metal band and we want to stay that way. We started creating this music for us, now its great to realize that people likes our musical concept and it's an extra motivation for all of us, but that doesn't mean that we will start making music for the people to like it, we will stay working just the way this band started. It has been working by far so I don't see a reason to change. And if staying like that keep us active with Denial we will stay in the underground Death Metal scene for a long time. Right now we are about to release a 7" split for Relapse Records and another 7" split with Paganizer for Cyclone Empire, then we will focus on the 2nd LP.

Last spot is yours. Thanks for joining the weird world of FATALGRIND!

Thanks Jörg for taking the time to make this interview for us, and the best wishes to your zine. For people interested in Denial you can check us out at www.myspace.com/denialmex
Dark Regards
Rob.

INFEST

INFEST is born in 2003 in the Basque / Bayonne and is composed by 4 members: Pat/Bass, Bud/Vocals, Flow/Guitar and Sbeu/Drums. The band plays an aggresive music between Grindcore and brutal HxC with big tendency to NASUM. They have just released their 2. album « Moshroom ».Check them out !

Hi Flow, how are you. What is going on in INFEST? Any news?

Hi Jorg. I’m fine thanks you. We’re at this moment working hard on the promotion of the new album “Moshroom” recently release. That’s why I’ll try to answer to your questions today

Tell me something about the band, what made you feel certain that you could play fast grindcore without it would it become a complete waste of time?

You know , INFEST is a big part of our respective lives, we are a grindcore band and we like to play fast and extreme music for a long time. If you expect to become a fucking rock star playing grindcore it becomes a complete waste of time.
For us, playing grindcore is totally the opposite. We play for fun and we enjoy it !!!

How is it going on with your album Moshroom and the support from METAL AGE? Did you get what you expected?

We signed a record deal with Metal Age Productions this year and they release the second full length of INFEST “Moshroom” recently. The collaboration with the label is pretty good and we work together like professional people. They know what they have to make and we know what we have to make. We have to follow this relation because it’s beneficial for both.

Is that album a logical consequence to your debut ?Feel The Rage? or are you looking for new ways?

For this album we have tried to work more on the vocals more brutal and more on the grindcore vein.
We play faster too on this cd and I really think this album is more accomplished than “Feel the rage”. Both are different, your readers should have to make themselves the differences between the two productions.

Peace, love, freedom and flowers?...what the hell... You are on your way to insult the ideals of the Woodstock generation. What are you saying with this?
How important are the lyrics if no one can understand them and the lyrics are not printed in the booklet.

OOO no no .. We insult no one man… Our lyrics are full of humour, sometimes speaking about personal experiences, sometimes denouncing the musical market with some fucking commercial stuff polluting our radios and Medias.

Peace love freedom and flowers is the first track of the album and is here to show that we can play a brutal and aggressive music and being cool, with peaces dreams at the same time. You doesn’t agree with me ?


What shall I say, you are right!”Murphys Law” is pretty cool. Are you having some personal experiences with this principle or are you just a Charles Bronson fans?

“Murphy’s law “speaks about all the negative things which could happen in one day for one man.
Personal experience … but I like Charles Bronson too

The last song “Polype” stands out, it seems more funny. Tell me about!

Yeahhh !! You ‘re in the right way !! “Polype” is the last song of the album the 20th track.. And it was recorded totally with fun. We all of the band members sing on it and the recording studios technicians too. Some lyrics in Japanese too….a non serious track but so brutal to close the album!!

Otherwise your music is pretty serious. Meaning that Grindcore is more than just formless noise?

Yes, sure.. I tell you that we play for fun, we have some funny lyrics…. But we still serious on the composition of the tracks.
Grindcore is much more than just formless noise because you have to prove that your band is powerful, serious and mad at the same time.
All this things you have to make in CD and in gigs too. That’s INFEST try to make since 2003.

Your album is downloadable at countless WebPages. What do you think about that?

I’m sure that a real fan or a person who really respect the grindcore and Underground scene will buy some cd’s. I’m sure that our scene have always some really fans who are ready to buy cd’s.

The “Moshroom is downloadable??
Download it guys !! And if you like it and if you really want to support INFEST buy it !! It’s so easy.


Tell me something about your part on the upcoming NASUM tribute! What song will it be and why?

POWER IT UP records release this awesome tribute this month. We have made the cover of “The everlasting shame” from “Helvete” album. It will be so brutal and we‘re so glad to take part of the cd. We always were big fans of NASUM. We choose this song because we like it and we thought it correspond as well with the INFEST attitude.

Is the proximity and the comparison with Nasum? it can be actually annoying sometimes or does it appeal to you?

Like I told you, we’re very close with NASUM music..A lot of people make the comparison with NASUM but I think we’re really different simply because they are the best grindcore band ever and INFEST is not

Tell me something about the last tour with your buddies from TREPAN DEAD! Correct me if I´m wrong, but you had to cancel some shows correct?

Yes yes, this tour was so fantastic and on the other hand so difficult at the same time due some mechanic problems with the tour bus. We traveled across France and had some gigs in Germany like the GRIND THE NAZI SCUM Festival in Torgau. It was awesome!!! Unfortunately we had to cancel some shows in Poland and Czech Republic. But we promise to be back as soon as possible in this countries.

Have you ever had problems with the band name? Hell? there are so many bands with the name INFEST out there, it?s like sand in the desert! A very common name. Aren?t you concerned about getting mixed up with the other INFEST bands?

Ohh !! We heard after the release of “Feel the rage” in 2007 that a famous band INFEST has already exist in the 80’s in the USA. It was a shock for us but we decided to keep this name and we assume this choice. Some people tell us that we are some RIP off because we use a “Big” name of the scene.
It’s wrong !! we are INFEST from the Basque country and we play grindcore. No less, no more !!! But I can understand the big fans of this US band. I have to admit the question of the name seems to be important because I have to explain it in a lot of interview.

Flow, is your band EXCISE still active? It seems with that project you never dedicated yourself full time to it!

I played in EXCISE with Sbeu and Pat until 2002. This project is totally dead.
We’re now 100% concentred with INFEST.





Last spot is yours, thanks for your time!

Thanks a lot Jorg for this interview and for the support to INFEST. Hope to come back soon in Germany.
If you want more information about the band or the new cd contact us via our myspace www.myspace.com/infestbaiona

INTRACRANIAL BUTCHERY

I have talked with Jaymes and Chris from INTRACRANIAL BUTCHERY, 2 kids with a thing for brutal music, pomposity, liability to nonsense and unchecked juvenile boast. Check them out, but if you like serious music – SCAT....just kidding!


Hi Jaymes d Chris, put your stachel in the corner, it is time for some serious work. I hope it is all fine Missouri and you don..t have too much homework!

CD: I live in Missouri but I'll be moving out to Denver Colorado with Jaymes in November.

Tell me something about your so called band! Who came up with that lunatic idead you are abel playing real music?

JoJ: Well, Chris writes most of the music and I just look cool by acting like Im in a band because I can make gurgling sounds with my voice.

CD: Sometimes i pretend to know how to make music and go flap a lap lap SLAM duh duh duh on my gee tard.

Bandname is stolen from CEPHALOTRIPSY! Lack of inspiration or what? Are you have not a bad conscience?

CD: Pretty much the summer before I started the band, all I listened to was Cephalotripsys first 'Uterovaginal Insertion of Extripated Anamolies' and Devourments 'Butcher the Weak'. I was super into Cephalotripsy and just thought it was the most brutal stuff I have heard from Death Metal in awhile. Just straight foreward no bullcrap brutality. So I just named my band off of one of their songs BUT I did ask the band permission before I did it and they gave their consent. Really...at the time I didnt think it would be anything more then the millions of other music projects and bands I have been in that didn't really do much and ended after a few months.

JoJ: Yeah it definately wasnt stolen...but honestly our name is like that just from laziness. We never thought this project would get as far as it has and it this point we could care less about changing a name.

To give my readers a general idea about INTRACARANIAL BUTCHERY, where do you rob your music besides CEPHALOTRIPSY? And is your noise worthy to get attention?

CD: I dont really think we sound anything like Cephalotripsy now a days, but if we do thats awesome, cause they kick ass! Ide say mostly its Terry Jacks, 2 Pac Shakur and The B-52's...with some Patsey Cline thrown in there.

JoJ: My one and only influence is Robert Smith from The Cure...our song "heaps of rotting flesh" is just “boys dont cry” played backwards at a different tempo.


Have you ever looked for a real drummer? The machine sounds gruesome contrived!

CD:After trying to get a bunch of bands off the ground and search for drummers I figured I should just take things into my own hands instead of having to relay on someone else and broke out my old drum machine.

JoJ: A drum machine makes things so much easier...no drum setup at a show so getting extremely wasted is possible, and having one less human to deal with is nice.

If I..m right, you are the studio singer only. For shows you use another dummy. You are in a blue funk or what?

JoJ: We have been doing this project over the internet for awhile, I actually flew out for a couple shows with ANAL BLAST earlier this year...Chris is also moving to Colorado this month so I will be the full time vocalist then.


Are you satisfied with your petty lyrics, or don..t you have anything to say? Or is sex and gore and nonsense the “message”?

JoJ: Honestly my only message is to watch Degrassi:the next generation....its great


Who actually allowed you rugrats to make music in the cellar. I..m sure you have to chare the room with your mommys S&M studio!

JoJ: Its a rough schedule, wouldnt want to interfere with mommys nappy time.


What about your split with PLEROSIS. Hope people swipe it diligently from the www!

CD: Yeah PLEROSIS, awesome one man gurgle grind!

JoJ: I sure fucking hope people download our shit...fill their harddrives with stupid shit.

How is it going forward with your first album? Maybe you gave up, because you have realized nobody wants your crap?

JoJ: Our only hope is to finally get recognized by Insane Clown Posse and get signed to Psycopathic Records...only dumb juggalos could like this hahaha.


You were on tour anytime last summer. Tell me something about it, hope you could draw the local idiots from the woodwork at least! I..m sure you have sacrificed your whole school vacations for it!

CD: Going on tour with Cemetery Rapist and EFRO was so much fun! Cant wait to do it again sometime! Yeah it take a little of saving up, I had to break my piggy bank in order to go!

Is it not silly to to stay on stage with only a half band? Who shall take you seriously?

CD: I can only imagine what people think who have never listened to Mortician or any other two man death metal band and then to see it live. I dont know I think it would be a trip.

JoJ: If people dont like it they are probably normal people, and should just go listen to Job For A Cowboy .

Is there anything that connects you with classic Death Meatl..Or is it not your cup of tea?

CD: I love classic Death Metal....if what you mean is more old school stuff like Carcass, Pathologist, Eternal Suffering, Cannibal Corpse....I love Morbid Angel, prolly one of my favorite death metal bands.

JoJ: I fucking love Skinless, Suffocation, Mortician, Morbid Angel and a lot others...when it comes to older shit im much more of a gore and grind kind of guy though.


What about that fucking x-box crap on your myspace profiles? Or does it mean you have learned your instruments with “Guitar Hero”?

JoJ: I like to drink by myself a lot and xbox live gives me the illusion of actual friends.

CD: Yeah what he said .


What will you do, when you come of age?

CD: Procreate with a nice girl!

JoJ: Join Suicide Silence

Enough for today, I m sick of you fuckers1 Last nonsense shall be yours!

JoJ: BUY ALL OUR SHIT! GIVE US MONEY! DRIVE SUVS! SHOOT H! EAT PHARMYS!KILL COPS!

CD: Yeah what he said

http://www.myspace.com/intracranialbutchery

ETERNAL BLEEDING

Beforehand of the following interview I have to say this is a smalltalk with Slovakian brutal death Metal band ETERNAL BLEEDING – not that likepoles german nazi stupids- fuck them! So enjoy what Lukas (guit/vox)has to say about the Rock´n Roll business!
That band is worthy to get your attention!

Ahoj comrades, hope it..s all fine in Slovakia. All groovy with your gypsys, prostitutes and stolen car dealers?

Whats up man? Yes, everything is fine here, but I guess you mislead Slovakia and some wild east, haha! Of course, each of us pimps several bitches and has Bentleys from coca biz, use to shoot people on streets because they owe us money, but except this we are normal people, haha!

Hows is going in ETERNAL BLEEDING. Any important news? Give me an update!

Most important news is we were signed by japan death metal label AMPUTATED VEIN Records. We all are proud of this contract and looking forward for great cooperation. Also we had a personal change in our line-up. Our past bassplayer left the band and new member shown up. Its Dan from CRANIOTOMY. We knew each other for years and he deicided to join our band as regular member. Its quite wicked because we travel around 150km for rehearsal, but hes really skilled so everything work out smoothly.

Tell me something about the band, members and all that boring shit!

Here we go, we ETERNAL BLEEDING is brutal death metal band from Slovakia, which was found during autumn 2002. In Summer 2003 our second guitarist deicided to left, so we were force to go on in line-up with three member till present. During spring 2004 we recorded first demo and we were signed by czech label GRODHAISN prods. In february 2005 we recorded our first oficial studio stuff which was released in summer 2006 as split w/EMETH. During our existence on UG scene we played many shows & festivals in Europe with bands like Suffocation(Usa), Dying Fetus(Usa), Gorgasm(Usa), Immolation(Usa), Waco Jesus(Usa), Mucopus(Usa), Catether(Usa), G.U.T(Ger), Defeated Sanity(Ger), Sinister(Hol), Decapitated(Pol), Dead Infection(Pol), Ingrowing(Cze), Godless Truth(Cze), Isacaarum(Cze) and so on. We played at festivals like Obscene Extreme Festival (Cze), Mountains Of Death VII.(Swi), Fuck The Commerce(Ger) or Sziget Fest´07(Hun).Also we were on "Tour´ture Codex Minitour 2006" w/Sickbag(Fra) & Deformed(Pol) and "Collapsing The Europe Tour 2007" with brothers from Goryptic(Fra). As I said we are three members: me /guitars & vocals, Bazo / drums & vocals and our new member Dan / bass.

What happend in the last 3 years after your split album with EMETH?

Many live shows, festivals and tour happened, but honestly at the end we slept a bit, it went worse because of old lineup. I was finishing my studies on University, started my own biz and hadnt no time for anything. For little while we were without label too and were looking for new members. Some fuckers ripped us off, you know – promises, promises, promises. Some guys were cool, but no able to play with us. But at the end we finally discovered a man who fits perfectly as a friend, party-mate and also musician, haha! Anyway we are alive and with full-force looking forward for new gigs, fests and new realease.


What was your inspiration to have your own band. Hell, there are a million crapy musicans out there. What..s the difference between ETERNAL BLEEDING and all that garbage?

Hmm, I really dont know.. Guys from Sepultura? Haha! I guess it was Sepultura I was listen to when I started to dream about my own band. But your second part of your question is really hard. Its fact that today its most difficult to come up with something original. We just play music we like and dont care about other things. I really dont know if we sound as 1000 other bands or have some unique part to be easy for recognize.

There are so many bands in the UG, sometimes I think there are more than there are fans. Can you guarantee that ETERNAL BLEEDING will still be playing together in 5 or 10 years? What's your opinion on all the new bands coming out nowadays?

Unfortunately I agree with you. Sometimes I can see how scene goes worse especialy with gig audience support and many times we joked about this that at the end only band members will come to support shows. But its hard, scene is overloaded with tons of bands, I accept it. We play for 6 years now and I belive we will be here in next 5 years. To have a serious attitude to the band is something like to be married, haha! If you know what I mean. And last part of your question – if you ask about tons of new brutal death metal stuff I have to say I dont focus on this stuff. Sometimes I find really great new BDM bands, but Im more into mathcore these days. Its insane how many young guys plays like gods and crush everything in profi way. Absolutely amazing! From this point of view Im glad many news stuff is comming up more and more.

E.B. play as an 3-piece. Is that enough to bring killing action and pressure on the stage? Never thought about increaseing the band with a 2. guitar?

Yes we play in three-member lineup. Its quite hard to play a good show, you know. You have to focus on your play, on vocals, breathing and have almost no time to get out of microphone stand. I would be more happy with some brutal singer and second guitar, but here are no faggets who would like our could play with us. As I said we tried many many many people, but noone was so reliable, skilled or has enough free time to take a part in EB, unfortunately.

Any memories about your split- album ? Is it still available? The drums are amazing! Who had deceided for EMETH as partner?

Period of our split was really great time full of enthuziasm and so. I think some copies are still available at GRODHAISN Prods. E-shop. We sold out everything weve got. I made deal with Matty /EMETH. It was really nice, because it was time when I made few inties for some zines here and did one with Matty. After this, we were in contact and I asked him for some suggestion for split, because american DROGHEDA canceled deal for this split and we had to find some other band. And Matty asked me „and what about Emeth“. I was really surprised, because EMETH is great band. They were before recording of their “Reticulated“ CD and wanted to use this split as little teaser, but unfortunately some delay appeared and .. anyway I think this split helped us out to spred our name in scene a bit.

You had a demo before. Tell me about! Don..t you think that..s helped you to promote your new band? Are you guys working on a new full-length? How is coming along? Will it link to the last release?

Demo was recorded on our rehearsal room. It contained almost same tracklist as our stuff on split CD. We didnt distribute it and used it as pre-production for our studio record. I think I have one crapy copy somewhere at home, haha! Yes, we work on new stuff. I think it will be a bit diffrent. You know time passed, we started to listen to wide spectrum of music and also has new member who influences our writing process too. I think it will be still brutal death metal but more with various elements. We want to write more simple stuff to make it more understandable for fans, but also still full of brutality. Also we included some core parts and breakdowns. We just play what we like so I really cant tell you how all stuff will be like at the end, haha!

Who is responsible for the songwriting? How is it possible to put so many brutality in the songs without letting it sound patched together?

Everything its up to me as always, haha! But we work together of course, but all basic structures and riffs are made by me. Its really hard to keep dynamics and brutality in songs. As I said we are experimenting with more various elements like metalcore passages and groovy mid-tempo now, so we will see. Anyway we want to make new stuff more easy for listening. We tried to do this with clean sound on last record. This way we will follow, but would like to make new stuff clean also, but less complicated and chopped regarding structures. But be sure it will be still EB!

What about GRODHAISN. Are you satisfied with their work that time? Will it be your label in future too? What about AMPUTATED VEIN Records?

We quit cooperation with GRODHAISN Prods. It was good point to start from, but nothing more unfortunately. Its one-man-label, so.. But I have to say eveytime we needed help and it was possible Pigi /GP boss helped us out. Anyway we are happy and fucking proud that after half year of being without label AMPUTATED VEIN Records hunted us down, haha! We delay official annoucement beacuse we are still waiting for new logo, pics and other promo stuff to start new episode of EB! AVR is great label who released & releases many my favorite bands and we are proud to be in one roster with bands like CEPHALOTRIPSY. Great!

Do you like it to play with the stereotypes (lyrics) of brutal metal or are you real Gorelunatics? Or what are your songs about? Does brutal music need songs about rape, dismemberment etc? . How serious do you take them? Why are jokes with sex and violence in the focus of many bands? Don..t get me wrong, I like it and I..m old enough to see humor if I find him.

No no no, definitely Im not gurelunatics. I know our lyrics are quite gore, but every song has own meaning, you know. It was 4 years back I wrote it and I was also influenced by band & lyrics like Cannibal Corpse and so. We wanted to be brutal as fuck, but day by day we realized we dont want to be only megahyperultra brutal noise, you know. I definitely think gore and violent lyrics are such neccesary. It could be cool BDM album with lyrics about flowers if it would have meaning and connection to album concept. Nowday I like more lyrics „about something“ like ION DISSONANCE or sci-fi concept of WORMED, you know. As I said our lyrics on split could seems gory and stupid too, but its 4 years back.. so what?! Now its funny for me to see on every fucking artwork mutilated genitals and zombiebirths or rapes of childs. Fuck that, haha! You know, in next year I will have a baby maybe and I dont want to sing how I put my cock in mouth of some child or mutilate womens genitals. Why?! I like women genitals muchly. Hahaha!


Your album is available for free on the net like thousands of other releases. Does it bother you too see that? Promotion or rip-off?

Really?!? As long as I know it wasnt upload anywhere for long time. It dosnt bother me as long as fans support us and buy original CD. Honestly Im not fucking saint man, I download music too, so what?! Band should play for people not for Money, and if its good enough I still can buy original CD. I wont waste my money for every crap with brutal cover artwork, you know. Haha! So people, feel free to download our stuff! But keep in mind, buying CDs of your favorites support your favorite band!

You played some shows in Germany in October, tell me about!. Is that self organized ot are you getting some help. How does E.B.. preparing for that? What are your experiences with Germoney so far?

Yes we played in Hamburg with our bros CRANIOTOMY this october. We were supposed to play in Aalen too, but owner of venue fucked it all up and cancel this show 1 days before. All our gigs are self-managed or invitations. But few months ago we made deal with austrian booking agency CATAPULT PROMOTIONS (check out http://www.myspace.com/catapultpromotions) its young but really promising agency. They have in their roster bands like LIVIDITY, INHUME, BENIGHTED, CLITEATER and many more. How we prepare for shows? As every band, we practice, haha! We have a good experience with Germoney, haha! But honestly bands were less chevalier and fans colder sometimes, but it doesnt mater we have to play in Germany more and more as in all other counties to spread disease , haha! So if you like our shit feel free to contact us! Sometimes we didnt get any feedback from german promoters, I hope it wasnt because of some same-called naziheads there, haha!

Slovakia seems to be a good place for brutal bands, actually you have a lot
there. Whats about bands and fans? How is your collaborations to the fellows in Chzech Republic?

You are right, slovakian scene is really good place for brutal bands. Check out bands like CRANIOTOMY, DIFTERY, MORTALLY INFECTED, ATTACK OF RAGE and so on. The same in Czech Republic, but there is better place for grind core bands. Collaboration with CZ guys is great, you know they are something like our brothers . We were one country 16 years backward and our languages are really similar. CZ/SK scene is pretty close I think even we are two independent countries now.

Make your decision and explain it

- Gore, Porn or politic?

No doubt, porn!!! Do you need some explanation?!

- Paris Hilton or Olinka Orphea?

WTF is Olinka?!? Paris Hilton is stupid bitch, somebody smash her in face to wake her up to reality, haha!

- Jason V., Michael M. or Ivan G.?

Ivan G. is fucking communist, fuck him off! And WTF is Michael M. and Jason V.?!? Haha!

- Brain Dead or Lord of the Rings?

Both of them! BrainDead is funny classic and LoTR is masterpiece (book) and great movie (movie industry & graphic design).

Oh I forgot to mention my biz: Dont be scared, it will take a second, haha! I work as graphic designer and even my IDS profile isnt finished yet, check out my last MySpace projects: http://www.myspace.com/lividity , http://www.myspace.com/catapultpromotion , http://www.myspace.com/macabre and get in touch if you want to get some. I also do all print & web designs. As I said, second.

Ok, enough. Say hello to the occupants of world wide metal asylum!

Ok bro, we are at the end. Let me say – thanx a lot for your support and space to perform EB here. Also I would like to greet all visitor who passed here too, I hope you wasnt such bored, haha! Ok, dont forget to visit our myspace: http://www.myspace.com/eternalbleedingofficial and spread word about EB if you like our stuff.

INFECTED BRAIN

INFECTED BRAIN are one of Germanys most interesting Death Metal bands. There music maintains everything from slow groovy parts to high speed blast beats. The blast and up-tempo parts make up most of the tunes, but they always try to keep it interesting and most important: mosh-able.
“Blood-Soaked Retrobution” is their last release. What makes this EP special is the fact that it can be downloaded completely free of charge. The download includes a multicoloured cover plus inlay card so that everybody can print out the artwork and manufacture their own CD at home.

Hi Hannes, how are you? Be honest: isn’t it a bit complicated to drive from Halle to Borne on a regular basis just to rehearse 3 chords? Or isn’t that necessary for you anymore?

Hannes: Hi Jupp! Hope you’re doing fine. What do you mean by “3 chords”? We play highly complex, technical music. HaHaHa! No, the driving is no problem. I just need the rehearsals with the band, and enjoy really turning up the amp now and then. Playing alone at home just isn’t the same. Apart from that it’s always nice to spend an evening with the other guys, because we’re not just a band but good friends. The rehearsals are also a kind of time out from work and the rest of “normal life”. That’s why I don’t mind the driving. And even total professionals like us (lol) need to rehearse now and then.

Tell me about living and dying with INFECTED BRAIN! Does Death Metal still rule, or are you getting sick of hanging around with a bunch of alcoholics in a dingy basement pretending to make music?

Hannes: Definitely YES! Metal has been a part of my life for almost 20 years now, same with the others. I don’t think that’s going to change in the foreseeable future, or ever. Sure, my attitude has changed a bit. I don’t have to buy every new CD or t-shirt anymore, and my haircut and the clothes might have changed, but not my approach to music.Luckily we don’t have alcohol or drug problems in the band (or do we???), and we don’t have to play in a basement anymore. We have nice red (!!!) carpets in our rehearsal room, a bar, 2 couches, a clothes rack, heating and even a ventilation system. That’s just the little touches of luxury you’re grateful for when you’ve reached a certain age. HeHe.

What are you up to at the moment, I mean apart from giving porn to school kids?

Hannes: What do you mean? We don’t do anything else anyway… Actually, we’ve just released our “Blood-Soaked Retrobution” EP. It can be downloaded along with the artwork and some info material. But we’ll come to that in the next question, I think. Right now we’re trying to write new material and we hope to release another album in 2011. Sounds a bit far off, but 2009 is almost over, and if we finish the song writing in the middle of 2010, we still have to record the stuff. Apart from our jobs, families etc. we only have a few hours per week for doing all that, so 2011 seems to be realistic. There’s also a label that would interested in releasing the next CD, so we’ll see how things go.


Let’s talk about the new EP. Was it really necessary to record it, because there’s almost nothing new on it? And as to the individual tracks, why did you choose exactly the ones you did and what made them worth being re-recorded?

Hannes: Well, the EP is absolutely free, so what more do you want?
We had several reasons for making the EP. First of all we wanted to present a new song as a preview for the next album. It’s also intended as life sign so to speak, because it’s been more than a year already since our last release.
Most of us play or have played in other bands apart from INFECTED BRAIN, and we just wanted to give a little overview of those activities.
Then there’s “Leichenschmaus”, the first INFECTED BRAIN song ever written and previously unreleased. We still play that song live, and we finally wanted to see it released in one way or other. The EP also shows our musical development, because more than 10 years passed between writing “Leichenschmaus” and “Blood-Soaked Retribution”.
And of course the EP is an advertisement for ourselves. You just have to get noticed now and then, especially in the underground, so people don’t forget about you.

The polka edition of “I Will Kill You” – ROFL! What kind of pills did you pop when you had that idea?

Hannes: You better ask our drummer Carsten about that, I think that was his idea.
Carsten: Well, when we originally recorded the song for the „Infected Brain“ album in 2006, there was some background noise on some of the guitar takes. I had to go through all the takes and manually cut out the noise. I had to listen to the guitar tracks of “I Will Kill You” for about a thousand times, and at some point this ridiculous drum beat just popped into my head. I made a demo version with the new drums, and the others just pissed their pants when they heard it. We thought it would be a shame to keep this nonsense to ourselves, so we re-recorded it and put it on the EP. We just love bands like ROMPEPROP, JIG-AI or PUNGENT STENCH who do songs of that kind sometimes, so that’s a little tribute in that direction.

Looking back, was it clever to release the EP as a free download only? Or was that kind of fighting fire with fire, because it’s only a matter of time before someone rips the EP and uploads it?

Hannes: I think we did the right thing. For us as an underground band, it would have been next to impossible to sell the EP to anyone. People just don’t buy that many CD’s anymore, no matter how cheap you make them. The market is just too overcrowded. And of course you can download anything illegally a few days after it was released. That doesn’t make things easier, especially for underground bands. And there’s one thing I just don’t understand: Less than a week after the release, the EP was available on 20 or more illegal download sites. It was FREE in the first place! Well, we’ve decided to take that as a compliment. But then there are sites who actually charge money for downloading our free EP. That’s where I draw the line. Anyway, in terms of advertising, the EP was a full success. Just enter the EP title in a search engine and see how many hits you get.

What do you think about “internet piracy”? Who does it hurt more, the small underground bands or the big labels? Maybe the web will soon replace CD’s entirely, like CD’s replaced vinyl.

Hannes: Well, I think it hurts everyone. But most of all the bands, underground or professional. Simply put, it’s just not fair. People should once in a while try to see our side of the deal: we put a lot of effort, creativity and money (for equipment etc.) into our music and then get nothing back for our hard work. Nobody would like to be treated like that. We pay for the recordings, the equipment, having the CD’s manufactured, the artwork, advertising and so on. So we depend on making some of that money back by selling CD’s. And those idiots who just have to upload anything and everything make it so much harder for us. I’m really curious how the situation will develop. I personally don’t download any music. I use MySpace and other platforms like that to check out new albums, and if I like something, I buy the CD. I don’t listen to music on my computer anyway, I still have my good old CD player, and I just love to hold the actual album in my hands, with the artwork and everything. I don’t use vinyl anymore, it’s just no longer practical. But of course the albums look great, I still have some very limited editions from back in the days…


Back to the EP. Who designed the cover? It’s got the character of a slasher flick, really cool. Hey, Jason or Michael, who’s got the bigger balls?

Hannes: The cover was designed by Patrick Barcz of Catch Him Design. He made the DVD covers for the German editions of Hellraiser III, Mortal Combat, Shark, Helloween H20 and many more. So, you were right, the cover was meant to look like a movie poster, and he was just the man for the job. We all like the cover very much! There had been some criticism concerning the artworks of our other releases, so we decided to have a professional do the artwork and booklet for our next releases.

The press seems to love you, according to the reviews you get. Do you at least benefit from that or are those only words that don’t reach the audience?

Hannes: Well, to be honest, good reviews are nice, but for us nothing much ever came of them. Now and then we get some feedback (at gigs or via MySpace), but that’s really the exception. Same with the EP. It’s been downloaded hundreds of times from our website (and probably much more often from other sites), but so far we have received almost no feedback at all. That’s not very satisfying to say the least. We’d really like to get some reactions, no matter if positive or negative. But, well, do I give feedback for other bands? Not really, only with bands I know personally…

Today it’s kind of hard to be noticed. Are there too many similar bands blocking the scene? Do we need another wave of band break-ups like in the nineties?

Hannes: The scene is definitely overcrowded and it’s impossible to keep track of all the bands. Some people might call me arrogant, but I blame people who can play about three chords and think they have to release their stuff. There are so many crappy, godawful bands, it’s just annoying. That’s why no one goes to small clubs and concerts anymore, because nobody wants to listen to the crap some people fabricate. I’m not saying we’re a great fabulous band and better than the rest. But it’s like American Idol in a way. Some people just can not sing, but they do it anyway, annoying everybody and making fools of themselves. It’s the same in the metal scene, and the good bands that definitely exist, just drown in that flood.

You don’t seem to play many live shows. Don’t you have enough time for that? Could you manage being on the road more often anyway?

Hannes: We don’t play many live shows, but that’s not because we don’t have the time, but we just don’t get the opportunity. Last year we applied for about 40 concerts or festivals, and we did not get a single gig in the process! Most of the organizers didn’t even send a refusal. That’s frustrating. Or maybe we just suck. LOL! But the reviews say otherwise. The main problem is, we don’t have the necessary connections and we can’t offer to trade gigs because here in the Magdeburg region there’s not much of a metal scene. I think a label would be a big help in that regard. Unfortunately we just don’t have the time to look for gigs constantly. That would mean a full time job for one of us. But we all have jobs of our own, some of us a family too, and that’s that.

By playing just a handful of shows per year, you’ll never become rock stars! Do you want to live at your parents’ until you’re 50, collecting social welfare? But honestly, wouldn’t it be great to play support for a big tour in Germany for a few days (of course that’s a bit expensive nowadays)?

Hannes: No, none of us dreams about being a rock star anymore, we’re just too old for that. And we’ve all moved out of our parents’ houses years ago. LOL! Of course it would be great to tour with a famous band in Germany or wherever. But we all have jobs and some of us a family to support, so you can’t just go on vacation for a few weeks whenever you like. Then of course, you have to set your priorities, and those are money for food, rent, car, guitars, equipment etc. In the question you already hinted at the fact that as an unknown band you have to pay in order to get on a decent billing or tour. We don’t do that on principle. We do not pay for playing anywhere with anyone, period. That’s just a way to get credulous bands to finance a tour. No thanks! We’ve already had such offers, and we declined. We are really cooperative when it comes to fees for live shows, but paying for a tour – that’s out of the question. Well, seems like even the metal scene is just about money anymore.

This year you played at the Bornstokk festival. What can you tell us about that? It was quite a motley mix of bands, how did that work out? Or did you just play in front of drunk youths from the auxiliary fire brigade?

Hannes: Bornstokk was a real success, and not only for the organizers. The festival was completely new, organized by members of the youth club in Borne, and there were 1600 visitors! Not bad for a premiere, I’d say. It also shows that it was a good idea to have that mix of musical styles there. Once again we got a lot of positive feedback after our show and sold a bunch of shirts and CD’s. The festival will be continued next year, and we’re really looking forward to that!

You managed to get a slot on BRUTALISM net radio, how did that happen? Do you expect a bunch of major labels from the US to zero in on you like flies on a pile of dog shit?

Hannes: Actually, there isn’t much to tell. Twan of BRUTALISM just likes our stuff, and so he included us in his play list. But honestly we don’t expect much to come of it, that’s just been our experience over the years. Maybe we can reach some more people because of that, but a major label – I don’t think so. LOL!

Your musical tastes seem to be very similar. Do you see the danger of musical incest, so to speak, just repeating the same stuff over and over?

Hannes: O, I think you might be wrong there. Our tastes do differ a lot in some respects. We listen to everything from Tool, Prodigy, Depeche Mode, 80’s pop music to Korn, Cypress Hill, 80’s metal, Iron Maiden, Overkill, Metallica, Thrash, Death Metal, Grindcore, US Death Metal and so on. Of course we’re mainly interested in stuff with distorted guitars, but there’s a great variety in that as well.
I don’t think we have a problem of repeating stuff in our songs. We try to make every song unique and recognizable. A certain variety in our songs is very important to us, and luckily that was acknowledged in a lot of reviews so far.

What are your plans for the future? What would be realistic nowadays? And is music as a hobby still affordable if all the money is spent on alcohol and drugs?

Hannes: There’s no real plan or goal for INFECTED BRAIN. We make music mostly just for the fun of it. Of course it would be great to have the support of a label, to play gigs at big festivals, to become a little more famous. But it’s not the end of the world if that doesn’t work out. The album “II” and now the EP have gone down really well with fans and critics, and of course we’re really happy about that. Maybe one day we’ll convince a label and get a deal for our next album, which is already in the making, by the way. If not, we’ll produce the album by ourselves again. As long as we’re having fun and can afford making music, there will be more releases. With or without a label.
At the moment INFECTED BRAIN finances itself. With CD and shirt sales and the money we make with live gigs, we just break even. As long as that works, it’s OK for us. If we don’t break even anymore, we’ll certainly have to think about how much money we would be willing to spend to keep the band going.

What became of TOMB anyway (the band you played before)? Do you still have some copies of “Mask Of Disgrace” left? That wasn’t too bad, I think.

Hannes: I’ve already played some guitar in TOMB because I wrote the songs. INFECTED BRAIN were looking for a second guitarist, and during the FUCK THE COMMERCE festival they asked me to join them. TOMB’s guitarist then decided to quit because he didn’t a see any progress in his playing. He would have quit sooner, but he knew that music was very important for me. So he waited until I had found another band because he didn’t want to leave me stranded. We’re still good friends by the way. After TOMB I stopped playing the drums altogether. To be honest, I don’t think I was such a great drummer. But the MCD we recorded with Andreas Hilbert of GOLEM was actually quite cool.

Time for the swan song, your last words please!

Hannes:Thanks a lot for the interview, it’s nice to be interesting enough to be interviewed. I hope I answered all the questions to your satisfaction. We’d also like to thank all the fans, zines, critics, interviewers, bands and friends for all their support in the past! And Jupp, thanks again for the interview and the great review! We wish you all the best with FatalGrind! If anyone would like to contact us, you can do so via http://www.infectedbrain.de or http://www.myspace.com/infectedbrain. Or send an email to hannes@infectedbrain.de or info@infectedbrain.de.

Grind on!
Hannes & INFECTED BRAIN

ONE-MAN-CROSSOVER-ATTACK

This is an „cross over” interview with some remarkable one man Death Metal acts. It inludes some funny shit with Wang (GOREPOT-Taiwan), Matt (VOMIT ABORTION-US) and the unbeliveable, amazing, lunatic drumbeast Jordan Varela (with his new project SYMPHONY IN ACRIMONY). Have fun with it, enjoy it, take you hands off from your mothers pussy, what ever. I will do more of that soon, because I fucking love to read “nonsense” like that!


The 1. reason to play alone is, no one will play with you, because your music is crap!Deny or refute!

Matt: I don't know what refute means, my music is crap!!!!

Jordan: Lol, yeah, my music is a bit gay and can't get anyone to wear a fucking pink skirt on stage.I guess I'm fucked huh? ON A SERIOUS NOTE: Actually I solely made my choice to play my solo stuff by myself without any special guests, etc...Dan Swano was always one of my biggest influences(hell listen to Crimson part 1 & 2, fucking genius)so I always knew I wanted to do the same, just much faster and aggressive with a different concept.

The 2. reason, you are too disgusting and no one will go into the public with you! Deny or refute!

Matt: Haha, well plenty of people go out in public with me, but we all get a lot of dirty stares from people.

Jordan: Actually it is the total opposite.I am like the Brad Pitt of fucking metal bro...just plain and simple HOT!

The 3. one....is probably the real one. Tell my readers why you had deceided to play alone!

Matt: Well, it's mainly because I have complete creative control. I always hated playing with other musicians who would try to boss me around and try to get me to play some trendy music. Nobody wanted to play what I wanted to play, so I do it all myself.


Jordan: As I mentioned on #1, I really just always enjoyed solo musicians.Look at Shawn Whitaker from Insidious Descrepancy, or the infamous Putrid Pile, how about Dan Swano, guy is a fucking genious.I just wanted to show the world that I have an imagination outside of any project I have done.When I did the guitars, bass, and drums on Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement, I was like man, I can absolutely show my Black metal roots, add atmosphere do the vocals as well as some keys stuff..I wanted to try to show the metal scene that I am
being ambitious for them as well as myself! If you don't push yourself in metal, you will fucking suck, no one will remember you.I never want anyone to forget me, yet have my music impact people.

Wang: Well everyone is so busy and stoned that they don't have time or are too busy to do this. Plus I don't fight with myself.

Is your mother worried, because you play alone all your lifetime, you don..t have friends who want play with a freaky little loser.

Matt: Hahaha, she isn't too worried, considering I put her head in a blender and made a shake out of her brain!!! Nah, she dosen't care, but she makes fun of me a lot haha.

Jordan: Yeah, She used to beat me with a base ball bat even when I started to just day dream about a solo project, then she would put arsenic in my cereal. I guess that is why I am so fucking ugly today!


Wang: My mom is not worried because I never told her, if she knows about this then I get a good spanking.

Probably you had a bad childhood, you had 9 elder sisters and you had to wear their old clothes? It must be hard!

Matt: It was actually 10 elder brothers, but most of them are transexuals. I'm going to be a transexual one day, so I don't mind wearing dresses once in a while haha.

Jordan: Yes, remember up top about the pink skirt...where the fuck do you think I got the idea from?

Wang: Yeah., they make me use stuff that's used, my brother had toothbrush, panties, and things that I have to use because they are too poor to throw them away.

You must be insane, when you do all your crap alone? I think you are unemployed, the day is long and boring, and you have too much time with beer , drugs and pornflicks! By the way, who is your favorite pornstar?

Matt: What can I say? I love beer... and whiskey. Hmm, that's a hard one (no pun intended) but probably Jenna Haze, I don't think I need much of an explanation for that one. (nope-Jörg)

Jordan: Fucking A bro, you have me figured out.You must hiding in my closet watching me take showers you weird bastard! lol., Pornstar, honestly the best ones are the no names, the amateur internet girls are the best, they are just so slutty, get paid very little for being a skank, and love to be blasted in the face like mace!

Wang: Holy shit the biggest porn star for me is the gore covers of death metal bands!

Seriousely, where do you find the ideas for your songs? I think it..s easyer to write a song if more guys have separate ideas and put it together.

Matt: Well, I don't actually write songs, I just program blast beats really fast, then make noise with a guitar or bass, and puke some rancid sputum for vocals. As for song names, they kind of just come to me. I usually think of all the violent things I'd love to do to people, and make it into a song name. Or for the longer song names, I just open up a medical dictionary and throw prefixes and suffixes together haha.


Jordan: I honestly have a method, and it is just go with your fingers in essence, I mean I just sit down with my guitar and start jamming. I start to hear stuff I like, and I build. I have to make sure everything translates into a good song structure, so I have a very photographic memory, and I actually hum out the riffs in my head while I play on my drums(people are like how the fuck do you do that).I just have a knack for it, sometimes I might say “Hmmm, I need to reroute this riff over hear”, than I jam it all over. I then start to think about synth parts,where I should put some clean vox, overdubbing of death/scream growls in syncronation to build on the ambience of the brutality, it is absolutely so much fucking fun. Shit, you think my stuff is hard, fuck, listen to Dan Swano's stuff, dude that guy has more keyboard shit than Bach, lol.

Wang: Yeah it;s true that there will be a better dynamic if there are more people involved, but it's easy to fall apart as well. I go out and look at people, and whatever I wanna say that's bad to them, its the song title.


Did you never searched for musicans?

Matt: I have searched for other musicians, but I can't really find anyone else who wants to play what I want to play. I've met a lot of assholes along the way who don't get what it's about, and fuck up my plans.

Jordan: No sir, I take total pride in me doing everything.

Wang: Yes, a lot, even now.

Do you play your set live, if yes, how do you do it?, if not, why not?

Matt: I do play live. I play a burned CD of the drum tracks and then play guitar and do the vocals. I try to be amusing to watch, but there's only so much you can do when you're the only person on stage.

Jordan: I would love to play my drums over the recording playing through the P.A. but unfortunatly this might start to bore an audience after 15 minutes(since my songs are 30+ minutes long)

Wang: Not yet, I want to play live alone, it takes balls, I dont have balls yet...oops no I am in another band so that took a bunch of time.

What is the biggest, or hardest part in writing/recording music? I think, timing is very important!

Matt: Haha, I couldn't care any less about timing, or music for that matter. The hardest part is probably programming drums. I get so bored sitting on a computer programming drums, then the drum tracks end up becoming very boring and unoriginal, so it's a pain in the ass!!!


Jordan: I think the hardest part is speed picking to my drums, it can be very intense at times, my speed picking must match up to my bassdrums There is no half time shit....fuck that, also singing clean parts, this can be a trying task when you are not a trained singer and you are trying to not sound like a total queerbait. You want your audience to say, "ok, not too bad..I dig that".

Wang: The biggest part is mixing I think. Mixing and mastering, yes song writing but that's easily fixed because you listen to them so many times and you can rewrite them easily. Mixing and mastring is something that you need a lot of experiences with.


I think you work with a drummer from Japan, LOL. Don..t you miss a real sounding drumming?

Matt: Well, for Vomit Abortion, I prefer the drum machine because I can program obnoxiously fast blast beats haha. Sometimes I do record with live drums though, I'm just usually too lazy to set up the microphones haha. But in my more "musical" exploits I prefer the sound of a real drummer.

Jordan: Bro, my entire kit is acoustic.I only trigger my bassdrums, nothing else(I use a very good kit of Drum Acoustic drums, Dominion series)only Zildjian Cymbals and Evans drum heads, DB drum shoes(best drum shoes ever!). The only album I played an electronic kit was DOMINATION THROUGH IMPURITY´s first album. The new album coming is the same kit I used for SYMPHONY IN ACRIMONY In solo project, just triggered the bass drums.
(that was a blasphemous question for you, I know...Jörg)

Wang: Yes, I am sure that can be done with better programming, I am getting there hhahahha!!

How long will you stay alone with your shit? Don..t you have problems to kick yourself and going forward? Do you afraid to stagnate?

Matt: With Vomit Abortion, I will never let anyone join officially to play with me, but I do let people do some studio work with me just to mess around. I get into the occasional rut where I'm too lazy to record or write anything. Lately I've been very uninspired and haven't recorded too much.

Jordan: I plan on doing it for a while. I have to me in a mind set to do my albums. If I am not in the right mood, I won't write nor practice.

Wang: No I get horny with my stuff so I push myself.

Do you understand it as an advantage to stay alone with all problems, sucess or what ever?

Matt: Well, I want to play alone because I have creative control over the music. To be completely honest, I never thought this project was ever going to leave my basement, but apparently there are some people out there that like it, so I'm pretty excited about that.

Jordan: I answer to myself only, so I can only be my only failure if choose to be a failure, which will never ever fucking happen. I am too tenacious and driven to be one of the best, just ask any band mates, they will tell you I am a fucking work horse, always have been, and it wont change.

Wang: It is in a way, it is also hard in a way. Like I said you don't fight with yourself, but it sucks because you are dry of ideas easily. but there are always problems you have to face in dealing with people. Just different things.


What is the ultimate real live Horror for you? And don`t tell me, the answer is ?this
interview?!

Matt: Hahaha, this interview is pretty horrifying!!! To be completely honest with you, I have an overwhelming phobia for spiders and milk. I think they are both absolutely disgusting, and if I come into contact with them, I scream like a little girl!!!! Hahahaha.

Jordan: Honestly, ever putting out music that people absolutely just fucking hated, you can't make everyone happy, but I never want to put out mediocre stuff!

Wang: Live horror..I think it's when nothing goes right, there are always times when nothing goes right and everything falls apart. I am afraid of that. Also this interview. HAHHA

Are you an modern medieval bard ? Do you want to impress your princess? What says your girlfriend to your way wasting time? But you probably don´t have a girlfriend!

Matt: Haha, she respects it as music, but she doesn't particularly like it. She's into more mellow experimental stuff. But when we're alone together, she loves the sound of me puking all over myself.

Jordan: You tell me since you are my girlfriend, you weird bastard, LOL, seriously, she is very supportive of my music and knows it is a huge part of my life.

Wang: I have a GF she actually understands why I am doing this. She's been through it. I might make her do her own band!

Make your decision and explain it!


Gore or Porn?

Matt: Gah!!! This is a difficult one. I would say neither, but for the sake of the question, I'd have to say gore. It gives me this awesome light headed feeling, and I laugh uncontrollably.

Jordan: Porn, so much fun seeing a chick take it hard and getting a big fat load blown on her head.

Wang: Gore

Paris Hilton or Jenna Jameson?

Matt: Jenna Jameson: She has bigger boobies.

Jordan: Jenna Jameson, they both don't really appeal as much as other brunettes, but Jenna has some serious experience and could milk your cock in under 30 seconds probably.

Wang: Jenna


Jason or Michael

Matt: Neither: Angela Baker from Sleepaway Camp, because she's one bad ass hermaphrodite.

Jordan: Michael is a fucking beast, he would destroy Jason, Michael is a personified experience of pure horror and fear.

Wang: Michael

Brain Dead or Lord Of The Rings

Matt: Is this a serious question? Braindead of course!!!! GORE GORE GORE!!!!

Jordan: Lord of the Rings has a much cooler vibe and story line.

Wang: Brain Dead

Your homemade noise or true metal music?

Matt: Haha, homemade noise!!!!!!!! I'm not really into that much metal, at least these days. I like older metal when it was fucking brutal and raw!!! There are too many trendy bands around that are carbon copies of the next band. Fuck technicality, I want brutality!!!!!

Jordan: My homemade noise, I love my music!

Wang: homemade noise

That´s enough, last nonsense is yours!

Matt: Thanks a lot for interviewing me, I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did answering your questions! Grind for passion and not for fashion!!!!! A big fuck off ripoffs and flakes, you're destroying the underground!!!!! http://www.myspace.com/vomitabortion


Jordan: Jorg, thanks so much for the interview...it was interesting you weird bastard...lol. Honestly, everyone please check out my myspace http://www.myspace.com/symphonyinacrimony also www.myspace.com/jordanvareladrummer and drop me a line, thanks again, JV '09


Wang: Thanks bro for this opportunity to do this interview!! This is perverted and awesome at the same time. I hope I can provide some contributions to the death metal scene, one man or no one man we will see, but I wil make people jump into this death metal pool of death!!!!!
http://www.myspace.com/gorepot

SKINLESS

Long time without a real proof of life from SKINLESS. So it´s time for an update.
Noah Carpenter about things that are gone and his way beside SKINLESS.

Hi Noah, how are you man. Have read Saratogas crime rate is far below the US average. Sounds not very inspiring for a Death Metal band, haha.

Well it keeps me alive long enough to write some metal tunes.

Whats new in SKINLESS, How's going forward with a new album?

Skinless hasn't had much going on in 2009, we've had some drummer difficulties as always and the overall enthusiasm level in the band has dwindled a bit. Everyone seems to be bust with other projects right now. I don't really know what will happen but SKINLESS doesn't have anything planned. We did play HELLFEST in France over the summer which was kick ass.

SKINLESS operate seemingly a little calmer currently. Are you more relaxed now, maybe lack of time or what?

It seems like every time we go one step forward it's 2 backwards with line-up changes etc.....,I guess i took the time off from SKINLESS to concentrate on my other band AMOR COLUMN.

The band has a impressive musically development passed. Was it clear from the beginning that you will “macerate” the borders of Brutal Death Metal or was it just a natural progress?

Haha, nothing was clear from the beginning, it's a one-step-at-a-time thing. It's definitely a natural progression. The initial goal of the band was to be brutal death metal, and to try to be the heaviest band around.

Some years ago Sherwood left the band. I suppose it was hard to let go that charismatic entertainer, is n..t it?

I spent a decade in Skinless with Sherwood, we build Skinless together. But at the time he left he wasn't totally into it anymore and wanted to take a different path in his life, and I totally understood that. We didn't have to look far for a killer vocalist.

Have you ever disbelieved that he can be replaced?

I had confidence that Jason could step up and take the mic and kick ass, and he did. We knew his abilities from his time in DETRIMENT and he's the brother of our bassist Joe.

What about the feeling to conquer the world then? You had fun in Japan (cool DVD) and played some great shows in Germoney. I will never forget you show at FUCK THE COMMERCE as the band begins to play and Sherwood waits on the bar for beer. Any remakable memories on that time?

My biggest memory of that show (Fuck The Commerce) was breaking a string towards the end of our show and not having a backup guitar. We ended up borrowing a guitar from DESTROYER 666 and they were tuned to standard E, and we tune down to B. So we played the rest of our set in E and it sounded pretty stupid, haha.

Is Joe still into wrestling? Or are his intervertebral discs crying “Hello you nutcase, it..s enough!”?

Yeah he's still into it, but i think he's more fucked up from skateboarding than wrestling.

About your “From Sacrifice...” album. That time I felt it overproduced and musically sometimes bold. Nowdays I like it more (I don..t know why). Whats your view on that album today?

I consider it our "Experimental" album. A lot of factors came into play that caused a different sound on that one. We didn't really intentionally plan it that way but that's how it turned out. I don't feel like that album best represents what Skinless is all about.

Who had the idea to “Regression...” album? Is it a RELAPSE thing? Or was the demand so big?

We wanted to put out our old demos in cd format because they were previously only available on cassette and extremely limited. So we decided to use them as bonus material on the "Progression Towards Evil" cd re-release, now titled "Regression Towards Evil".

How important is entertaining at your live-shows? SKINLES are famous for amusing and agile stageacting. Is that something that comes spontaneous?


I'd say most of it is spontaneous and sometimes depends on the layout of the club, but sometimes we plan a few things out beforehand. The whole point is that we're not one of those death metal band that tries to be more blasphemous than thou. We just have fun with it. We're not about politics, or Satan etc...just about having fun playing metal and drinking beer.

Would you say, SKINLESS is a stable band? At least you had some line up changes in the past.

Skinless made the most impact between 1998-2001 when the line-up didn't change, but since then it's been a struggle....mostly with drummers.

How much SKINLESS from the early days is left, if you think about feeling, enthusiasm, attitude and things like that?

I still have tons of enthusiasm for metal but not as much specifically for death metal that i had over the years. It's hard to match the enthusiasm i had 17 years ago, that's for sure.

If you look back, would you say the career of SKINLESS is successful? Have you ever regretted anything?

I have no regrets, it's amazing when i sit back and really think about it. It all started as an idea back in high school. We started jamming in my friends basement when we were 17 and now i'm 35 and still doing it. I started playing with a few friends and ended up playing all over the world, had a record deal, endorsements etc.....so yeah, i see it all as a success

You sent me a “Progression...” shirt almost 10 years ago with some chinese, japanese ot whatever ideographs on it. And untill now I have no idead what it means. So please clarify me finally!

I think it means Skinless in Japanese, or maybe "Progression Towards Evil", it's been a long time and i don't even have that shirt.

You play also in ARMOR COLUMN. Tell me something about!

Yeah, it's a thrash/powermetal band i started a few years ago. It's mostly for fun but we are getting more serious about things this year. www.myspace.com/ArmorColumnNY

The music follows an completely different musically way. Is that someting you wanted to do all long?

Yeah, but it was hard to find other guys to complete the band. The style requires a killer vocalist(that can sing) and a shredding lead guitarist. Finally i was able to piece it all together.

Ok, thats enough I think. Last spot is yours!

Thanks for the interview man.
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EMBRACE DAMNATION

EMBRACE DAMNATION is a new band with some „old farts“ (among others, Dave Kibler) behind their instruments. Just kidding guys. The 4 comrades just working for their first album “Glory Of A New Darkness” that will be a massive Death Metal grenade for sure! But lets see what Joe, the man behind all the shit, has to say about.



Hi Joe, how are you man. Still busy sabotaging gods feeble plan, haha?

Joe: Hehehehe. Always at war with god. When "Glory of a New Darkness" comes out it will be the end of that puny fucker forever!!!!!

How it is going forward with your debut Cd? Studio session is over I think. Hope it was not to stressful and worked well.

Joe: Everything went great. We are still in the process of mixing and mastering. Hopefully it will be released by Halloween. We were hoping it would be out already, but as most of you know Dave and Garrett are busy tearing shit up with Lividity this summer! They are so busy that it has taken a little longer to be able to proof the songs and such. But the recording sessions themselves were grueling. Twelve hour sessions for about three weekends total. We had a lot to record with little time to do it. The opening song is a crusher and it all had to be perfect. But in the end everybody pulled through like total professionals.


Give me some details about your album! Songs, artwork, things like that!

Joe: The idea to record this album was based on some demos that Dave and I had recorded on a small Boss 8 track recorder at his house and mine. We recorded about seven tracks over the course of about a year and set up a myspace and just went with it. We laid out the guitar tracks and then Dave came in with completed lyrics. After that we shopped it around and Ron at Rotting Corpse Records picked it up. The album has nine songs total is full of blast beats, multiple guitar harmonies and satanic lyrics! Ozan Yildirim did the design for our logo and helped with the cover. So far everyone involved has done a great job!

Lets talk about the band. Any connections with HOUWITSER? Samenamed song title and your band name? Or does it just fit to your music?

Joe: Dave and I were kicking around some band names one night over the phone but were unable to come up with any good ones. We both love satanic inspired death metal and we wanted a name that fit just perfectly to what we were doing. The next morning I get up and check my email and Dave had sent me about twenty different ideas. Embrace Damnation was one of them and when I saw it I said "that's it!". It just fit. We were specifically trying to think of a name that wasn't cliche and would be recognizable to anyone who heard it. It's definitely a tip of the hat to Houwitser and they emailed us and thought it was great too!

You have played with Dave in SECTION 8. Tell me about! Musically it was a quite different then Embrace Damnation?

Joe: Dave and I played in Section 8 around 1995-96. We were mostly a local band but we did do a couple of really cool shows with Internal Bleeding and Fleshgrind. We released a four song demo on cassette but musically its nothing like what we are doing now. Section 8 was more or less a thrash band with some death metal elements. We didn't stay together long and Dave had just started working on Lividity at that point. We went through the motions and then called it quits.

What was the reason to work again with Dave? What had you induced to form EMBRACE DAMNATION?

Joe: Dave and I had loosely stayed in contact with each other over the years. I would sometimes run into him at shows and we would always have a few drinks. Then about a couple of years ago we ran in to each other again and I told him I had a few ideas for songs and asked him if he wanted to help me finish them. After that we started getting together about once a month to jam and things took off from there.

Is EMBRACE DAMNATION a full time band for Dave and Garret or just a side project beside LIVIDITY?

Joe: Embrace Damnation is currently a studio band only. Perhaps in the future we will be a gigging or touring band but right now Lividity is just way too busy. We are hoping to do some fests or gigs next year but we will just have to wait and see.

LIVIDITY is very active. Are you afraid that could constrain your own career?

Joe: Hahaha.... yeah they are busy.

What about Sean? What is his background?

Joe: Sean is a friend of mine. He has a studio project called Resurgence and is a guitar teacher as well. I first met Sean about the time Dave and I started Embrace. I took some lessons from him and when I walked into his studio the walls were covered with album covers and picture discs of Merciful Fate and Morbid Angel. I said "holy shit dude, you like metal?" and after that we just hit it off. We spent more time going over my song ideas then actually having the lessons! hahah So eventually I got tired of paying him and just asked him to write some solos for my band! Sean is a fucking great guitar player and is very easy to work with. Everyone will be floored when they hear what he has done on the Embrace album!

Who has the main part with songwriting? To mix up brutality with melodyseems to be very important. This is something that I miss by the mostUG bands today. What do you think?

Joe: I wrote all the music and came up with the basic drum ideas. Sean wrote all his own leads and Dave of course wrote all the lyrics. Garrett basically took the drum ideas I had and made it his own. I basically just let everybody create on their own without to much interference from me. Harmony and melody are very important to me. Don't get me wrong, I love throw down, brutal fucking metal but when I write music harmony guitars is what comes out. Writing with harmony and melody takes more time then just throwing down and especially for Embrace because we wanted everything to be perfect.

When will ROTTING CORPSE release “Glory of a New Darkness”? Do you feel you are in good hands by that label?

Joe: Hopefully it will be out by Halloween. Lividity has a Canadian tour in October and I know they want to take some Embrace merch with them. Everyone at Rotting Corpse has been great and very helpful!

Such an “old school” guy like you never left his way I think. Whatmakes you immune
towards all the new brutal trends in the scene?

Joe: I just don't listen to much new metal. Dave listens to everything. I can play the same Cannibal Corpse album in my car for a month and never think to take it out! hahah

How long are you into the UG? Has it changed in the years? What do you prefer, the old times or the scene of today?

Joe : I have been listening to death metal for most of my life. I am 35 now and I started listening to Slayer, Possessed and Venom when I was about 13. I fucking love all metal but my favorite is old school death metal. The scene has changed but the intensity and brutality is still there, the fans are still dedicated as fuck and there's no messing around. I just went to the Central Illinois Metal Fest last weekend and when I was there I went upstairs and got high by myself and was remembering when we first brought had the fest 15 years ago. A lot has changed but people don't forget who made it happen. Vital Remains, Master and Immolation headlined and everyone went fucking crazy. It shows that style of music is still very relevant and those guys are our inspiration!

I wish you all the best mate. Last spot is yours!

Fuck yeah brother, thanks for the interview and best of luck to Fatalgrind Hope you like the album! Keep it fucking sick my friend!!!

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