Interview du groupe Ass to Mouth

How did the band get formed ? How did you meet yourself ?
Well, there is no big story following it, I met Jarek in our previous, so called “side project”, and we decided that we want to do some grindcore together. We asked our firend Pablo to join us, he brought our first vocalist Sandro with him and that’s it. First rehearsals in December 2004, first shows in May 2005. The rest is history J

Your band name is very ordinary for a grindcore band, is not it ?

Frankly, I never thought about it. It sometimes make some “controversy” at punk rock scene, we are not able to play on every show, on some squats, and so on. I can understand it and I don’t feel offended, although we are not, and never were porn grind, or even gore grind band.

 

Don’t you think your band name complicates research about your band on the internet ?

When I write our name in google the first record is our myspace page, so I don’t think so. If someone is looking for excuses to watch some porn, he will always find it haha J

 

How do you compose your sounds?

We meet on rehearsals, bring our ideas together, and that’s the whole process

 

What do you talk about in your songs ?

Alcohol. We are disgustingly monothematic.

Your band seems to be more influenced by crust/punk than other grindcore bands, is not it ?

I don’t think so, good grind must be punk, and there are dozens of great grindcore bands that are absolutely punk influenced – from Napalm Death to Magrudergrind.

What are your main influences?

Old gxc, punk, hardcore, power violence, thrash, and probably some good groovy goregrind bands, there are few of them only, like for example Regurgitate, but for sure they inspire our groovy part of music.

Could you give me a list of your current favorites tracks ?

If it’s about grindcore I listen mainly to new Phobia’s “Unrelenting” EP, it’s absolutely perfect. Raw,  furious & punk – grindcore the way it suppose to be.

How do you prepare your gigs ?

We do rehearsals and that’s all! We don’t have any figures that we must practice in front of the mirror J

What can we expect of you in the near future?

We are recording new full length now, it should be finished at the beginning of 2011, but I don’t know yet where and when is it going to be released. Before that we should finally release our split 7” with our friends form czech’s Jig-Ai, this winter at Bizarre Leprous Prod.

What do you think of polish grindcore scene ?

It’s quite good and there are many great bands here – Parricide, Suffering Mind, Neuropathia, Dead Infection, Squash Bowels and so on. You should probably know most of them, if not, try to make up for it as soon as possible.

Having played in many different venues, you must have some crazy or embarrassing stories to go with it?

Most of embarrassing stories are connected with alcohol, and being drunk on stage. You know, it’s always fun, but only for band members, so now we try to avoid these situations as much as we can.

If you have some final words to add, please do it here.

Thanks for the interview and hi there to all vehementis readers. Don’t drink too much, otherwise you will soon all be dead!

Interview du groupe Fukpig

Is your band name “Fukpig” an insult to some men who wear blue suit?

Nah its an insult that was thrown at me in my last job, from my boss.





Your music is described as a mix of grindcore, crust and black metal, but your last album is not very « grindy », isn’t it ?

I would have said it was grind.





The video of “Sadism in the name of god” and “The horror is here” are very strange and old-school, where they come from ? Do these videos have special meanings ?

They come from an old 1920s film, i think they have the same feel as we try to create with Fukpig.





How did you meet your label “FETO Records” ?

 Feto is run by my brother Mick Kenney.





How do you compose your music? Is it true that Misery write all the stuff ? What do Migg and Drunk do?

Misery writes it and records it at his Devizes studio, then we take it to Necrodeath and record the vocals and miggs lead guitars, then Migg masters it and then its done. We work quite quickly.



How do you prepare your gigs?

We practise for a few weeks before we play, we have only played 3 gigs so far.



How did the audience reply on your music?

 They seem to really like it.





What do you think of crust scene ?

I think its brilliant, especially the old Extreme noise terror and Disgust.





Have you ever listen bands that play a mix of punk and black metal like yours ?

 I havent heard any yet, i would love to though.



Having played in many different venues, you must have some crazy or embarrassing stories to go with it?

Not really, we have only played 3 gigs as Fukpig so far.




What can we expect of you in the near future? 

A third album, already half written. the vinyl editions of the first 2 albums coming out soon, in fact Belief is the death of intelligence is being posted out this weekend. and a split single or 2.



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Interview du groupe The Anomalys

Could you please introduce yourself one by one ?

Bone - Guitar, vocals and mouth harp

Memme - Drums, eardrums and maracas

Potlood - Guitar, cigarettes, stylophone

Where did the band name come from ? Has it a special meaning ?

An anomaly is something strange, unusual or unique. That kind of describes our appearance, characters and our music.

How did the band get formed ? How did you meet yourself ?

We all met in De Diepte, which was a local rock 'n roll / punk / garage bar in the centre of Amsterdam. It was a meeting and drinking place for misfits who loved a certain type of music. Bone and Memme met there first and started The Anomalys as a duo after a year or so i joined the band as a second guitarist.

How do you compose your sounds?

Totally spontaneously, in the practice room. It can start with a guitar riff that sticks in someone's head or a certain drum beat or lyric that someone in the band comes up with, then we just start to jam and see if we can make a song out of it together.

What do you talk about in your songs?

Love and hate

What are your main influences?

Surf, rockabilly, r&b and 60's garage bands with a dark edge, like for example The Sonics mixed with a 70's punk vibe.

A list of current favorite tracks?

If you mean tracks by other bands, i just found out about an American band called Slab City, the name of the track is Milwaukee's Beast.

If you mean tracks from our own new album? Then i'd have to say See Me Bleed, Sorry State, Kiss 'n Run or Rock 'n Roll World. 'They're all good actually ;)

How do you prepare for gigs?

Well stretching some muscles is always smart, cuz we have some acrobatic stage moves. Our drummer always goes jogging around the block just before the gig to get his muscles loosened up.

How do audiences reply to your music?

Most of the time they get really into it They get wild and crazy, like good rock 'n roll should do to a person! We have a lot of up-tempo, fast songs, so sometimes people find it hard to dance to it. But it's always a swinging beat, so I try and show them by dancing while playing guitar on stage.

How did you meet your label?

Memme knew Pete Slovenly from a long time ago and are old friends. In 2006 he released a 45rpm single of The Anomalys and kept bugging us about bringing out a full length album. So after 4 years we finally did it!

What can we expect in the near future?

We're going on USA west coast tour for 3 weeks in august. Alot of shows, alot of cities and a couple of cool festivals. Check our myspace and facebook for the dates.

After that we plan to release another single on Slovenly.

What do you think of the Dutch punk, garage, rock 'n’ roll scene?

It's very small, but there's a couple of really good bands like Sixtyniners, The Works, Local Spastics, T-99, Green Hornet, Low Point Drains and more. I just wish there was more cool places to play.

Crazy story?

Man there's millions... let me tell you one. One time we went all the way to some weird festival in the Czech Republic to play. After a hellish 12 hour drive with constant rain we finally made it. There was heavy drinking in the audience and by the time we had to play, most of the audience members where lying on the floor, completely shitfaced. The festival terrain was literally covered with sleeping, drunk Czechs. After the show Bone decided he wanted to party all night and he brought some herbal speed pills to stay awake on the road. He thought instead of swallowing a pill, that snorting the stuff inside the pill would work faster. So he opened the pill and brown powder came out. He didn't read the ingredients and it had cayenne pepper in it! So right after he took a snort, he started sneezing his head off, jumping from place to place. Before we knew it Memme also took a hit and did the same thing. So there were red-faced, sneezing, jumping Dutch guys on a festival covered with drunk, sleeping Czechs. The Czechs who were still awake, didn't know what they saw!

Last words:

You can buy our new album on http://www.slovenly.com available on LP, CD or digital download. Check out songs, merchandise, photos and tourdates on:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Anomalys/1378073

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or

http://www.myspace.com/theanomalys

Thanks!

Gilian