| Interview with the obscure German Old School Death/Grind band DEPRESSION |
Interview with Don Decker of the Brutal Death/Pornogrind band ANAL BLAST |
"I really like the name Depression, because I am fascinated by all those sad emotions like sorrow, agony, grief and depression. Those feelings can get the strongest ones onto their knees."
"We play the music we like and if someone likes it too, perfect! If not, it's ok, too, because you can't be everybody's darling."
"We just like to be a little different and don't want to use that common gore-death-blood-pus-vomit-bowels-shit-eating-stuff."
- Conducted by Kunal N. Choksi
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"I've shit on stage and threw it at people, public masturbation, I still chew bloody tampons.... "
"We have moved about 10,000 copies of Vaginal Vempire."
"I have said goodbye to planet CUNT BLOOD, and now as I await death"
- Conducted by Kunal N. Choksi
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| Interview with Gabor of the Hungarian Black Metal band MARBLEBOG |
Interview with Dany of the legendary German Pornogrind/Goregrind band DEAD |
"I want to work on the 4th full-length which will be quite different from everything which was released under the name Marblebog before."
"In music I like to listen to stuff which has very deep atmosphere. So, even if my current temperament is happy, I can write dark and bizarre lines."
"Most ’cold misanthropic forest souls’ would die in Nature in a few days if they are alone – especially in Winter."
"Images are better than words. Sounds are better than images."
- Conducted by Travis
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"We were just “young, free and shameless” – no bad guys identifying with mass murderers, Satanism, etc. but we had to write “something” in any case for new songs!"
"When we “came back” to the scene we recognized that many many porngrind bands are now existing. Everybody wants to be more disgusting, sexistic, extreme, badass or whatever than every band before – but is there any serious music, or even lyrics?"
"...if you are going to see DEAD, just expect 3 more or less ugly old bags who want to "rock“ and play their shit! We neither did a special “show” nor did we show porno flicks while playing our songs & never will!!..We're just into our music & that's what counts."
- Conducted by Baz
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| Interview with Joe of the Raw Apocalyptic Doom Metal band RIGOR SARDONICUS
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Interview with Shatraug of the Finnish Black Metal band HORNA |
"We seek to create a horrific atmosphere and not one of lonely crying in a corner."
"Long songs solely for the sake of being long is a distraction. Just because a cd is able to retain longer amounts of information does not mean that every cd should fill itself up simply because it can."
"This world provides enough inspiration precisely because it has degenerated so much. We find much of our motivation due to the fact that so few bands in this world sound akin to what we do."
- Conducted by Kunal N. Choksi
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"I have noticed I’m constantly picking up ideas, even the slightest detail in some song that could trigger a whole new writing process in me. It’s a never-ending cycle really.."
"There will always be people who want the real thing in their hands while to others it’s the same if they got stuff on mp3 online. I doubt the leeches appreciate their digital collections too much…"
"Even if we had all the money in the world to do it, that’s not motive enough. Horna was never about becoming a well paid rockstar so we are doing this only as long as it feels the right thing to do."
- Conducted by Travis
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| Interview with the Technical Death/Black/Grind band from Lebanon - Oath To Vanquish |
Interview with all the members of the UK technical Grindcore/Brutal Death Metal band Reth |
"Having lived through several wars and endured the associated hardship, I feel that we have a more realistic association with the subject matter of our compositions, and in a sense we find ourselves recalling rather than imagining or inventing situations and emotions"
"I've been a Lebanese citizen for 33 years now, and I have yet to experience this forward thinking. Forward thinking is forbidden. It is murdered along with its proponents. It seems to me that the Lebanese are determined to solidify their country's position as an eternal battle ground for regional and global conflicts rather than making an effort to settle their differences "
"Alas we can only sell in our home country by hand, and we had to smuggle those records in."
- Conducted by Mike Reeves
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"We don't so much write the songs as sculpt fragments of tonal dissonance and euphonious auricular abrasions from the blackened voids of our collective souls then situate them within the deific temporal context of artistic struggle."
"I
think that people can do what they like, but they can't expect me to be happy about it."
"I think Bob Dylan is one of the worst examples of a musician. He can't sing, he can't play guitar, mouth organs sound terrible anyway, and everyone who covers his songs do it better than he does!"
"Pooing is one of life's great pleasures and should not be underrated."
- Conducted by Baz
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| Interview with the Classic Heavy Metal band CIRITH UNGOL |
Interview with the legendary Hategrind/Noise band DISMEMBERED FETUS
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"We let the music speak for itself, and it spoke volumes. We played loud, we practiced loud and we recorded as loud as the studios would let us! "
"I still feel the failure of the band can be spread around pretty evenly but it must be said that the record companies which knew much more of the intricacies of the business could have done something, anything to help promote the band."
"I still think of Ratt, Poison, Motley Crue and Metallica as pretty sad acts personally and kind of surprised they ever made it. It just goes to show what I was told early on, “The music business is about business, and not about music”, which we found out sadly to be totally true."
- Conducted by Nin Chan
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"WE NEVER REALLY CARED IF WE GOT BANNED OR NOT AND IT ONLY MADE US DO MORE OFFENSIVE SHIT KNOWING THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY FUCK UP SOMEONES DAY.."
"WE ARE REALLY THAT VIOLENT...JUST ASK ANYONE WHO CAME TO OUR SHOWS."
"ME AND ACE WOULD SCREAM UNTIL IT MADE US PUKE, AND THEN WE WOULD BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER WHILE THE MICS WERE RECORDING."
- Conducted by Kunal N. Choksi
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| Interview with Mikko of the Finnish Black Metal band CLANDESTINE BLAZE |
Interview with Gunnar Hansen of the Norwegian Black/Doom Metal band FAUSTCOVEN |
"I have no problem with narrow-mindedness of pure "metalheads". It is not my loss. However, a lot of people try to justify this as being somehow more "committed" than others, while at the same time when avoiding to touch anything else than black metal, whole thing becomes merely retarded single minded collector behaviour"
"People should also understand that to say that first wave of black metal was highly theatrical, is only scratch on the surface. At the same time most of the bands presented charisma and personality. Their "image" was not separate "pasted on"-type of quality, but integral part of the art and presentation."
"At the uprise of NSBM movement, I was slightly disturbed when people were calling Clandestine Blaze as NSBM. Because it has never represented such idea in any of the lyrics or artwork. " - Mikko
- Conducted by Travis
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"To be an outcast you have to have been a part of something which subsequently rejected you. This has not been the case for me, so I don't feel like a pariah at all. I have never been attacked or shut out from where I wanted to be because of this approach to black metal.."
"It's of course sad that what we feel is a misrepresentation of the genre has become the popular image of it, and maybe some of the mystery has gone out of it. But things change, for better or for worse, and this newfound popularity, brief as it may be doesn't lesser the quality of the classics."
"From childhood, I can remember being fascinated by the concept of ghosts and otherworldly phenomena, and I remember the joy of listening to the old radio shows which contained macabre stories." - Gunnar Hansen
- Conducted by Nin Chan |
| Interview with Luisma and Ana of the Spanish Goregrind band HAEMORRHAGE |
Interview with the Doom/Heavy Metal band VALKYRIE |
Luisma: "Our first idea was writting lyrics about cannibalism as a protest against meat consumption and our drummer came up with that name “Devourment”. But I wasn't a vegetarian and i saw that idea quite limited so I decided to write pathological lyrics and change the band name to Haemorrhage."
Ana: "In the beginning Luisma didn't want me in the band, he treated me bad. But I started to give him some guitar lessons so he must accept my superiority."
Luisma: "The Carcass inspired sub-genre is not restrictive cause Carcass have 5 albums and every one of them is in a different style, but the Haemorrhage style is more restrictive."
Ana: "Yes, the new songs we made to date sounds like 'Grume'!"
- Conducted by Kunal N. Choksi |
"You have nothing if you don't have your integrity and I am not worried about pleasing anyone in the industry. Screw the "industry" of music. Music is about life, and experience, and feeling, and that's the kind of people I want to reach, and hang out with, and bang my head with."
"There are no desperate attempts to sound "different", yet there is no question in my mind that Valkyrie is a distinct entity in its own right. "
"Pete's verse really brings it home, because he actually was a scout in a reconnaissance platoon in the US army, and participated in the original invasion and occupation of Iraq. He was traumatically injured in the war, and lost the vision in his right eye. He is no longer in the army obviously, but he verse reflects on his feelings "
- Conducted by Nin Chan |
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