Saturday, April 5, 2008

Interview with Pigsty


1.Hi!! can you please introduce yourself and everybody else in the band, and what each one does ?
Hi everybody there, here is Pigsty – grind core band from Czech republic. I’m Bormann and I play guitar and have some vocals. Next members of Pigsty are drummer Otyn, singer Topi and bassist Ubina, who sings sometimes like me. In this line up we play about two years.Music doesn’t sustain us like in other grind core bands, so Otyn is tradesman, Topi is storekeeper, Ubina is trainman and I’m IT specialist 

2.Recetly Pigsty release "Pigs are back",i only heard the mp3 on the site and i gotta say its amazing , the album also got positive reviews, any comments to that ? how does that make you feel getting such respose from the 2nd full length album ?
We have very good feeling of this. We used new technologies and made our music more coloured. We have there three our friends on vocals: Puty (Contrastic, F.S.F.I.), Killy (Melancholy Pessimism) and 10 (Dark Gamballe). Some people was disapointed by Quadamage part and blamed us, that we use nu-metal riffs and told some shits about it, but we foreseed it. People on our gigs are making hell under stage on new songs and there we have our first videoclip for 2nd song – T.U.P.+M=T.E.O.E. and people can download it from our website or see on our music TV in metal oriented programme Madhouse.

3.How often does pigsty jam ? does it often conflict and cause problems with your daily life ?
Oh…It is our big problem, cause Ubina live in other peace of our republic and his way to us is about 6 hours. It is lucky, that he works on railway, so he has free tickets. Our another problem is that we all (except Otyn) are working on shifts – changing early, late and night. So, we have a jam with all members onetime per month. We are on jam mostly only two – Otyn and me. We have more gigs than jams recently.

4.Czech Rep. has been known to host the great fest "Obscene Extreme" , could you tell us more about grindcore shows and bands in from your country.
I think, that we have one of the best grindcore scene. There are many very original bands with characteric style. Our bands are opened to experiment too…more than bands in other countries I think. If I can recommend you, check Ingrowing, Cerebral Turbulency, Aliention Mental or Four Seats For Invalides. Obscene Extreme is great fest with magic atmosphere. There are more festivals in our republic like Brutal Assault, but there are more kinds of metal and many small actions with orientation on extreme metal. But the best are summer outdoor actions.

5.Can you guys tell me what you find fascinating about pigs?
Our music is not about normal pigs, but about Universe pigs. But for more I reccomend you read our lyrics to understand it more well.

6.What would you say relates humans to pigs ?
Listen our music and read our lyrics and you will find all answers .To tell the truth, I’m not sure, what you think by this question….

7.Alot of people say that you cover for RATM's "Bulls on Parade" was a parody to make fun of the band and not serious, what would you say about that ?
Ohhhh…that’s first time, that I hear it. It was normal cover, but in our way. I have to say, that we like RATM very much and Tom Morello was one of my guitar hero. It was not parody never.

8.Can you tell me about your equipment and guitar tunings ?
I use Washburn guitar, guitar multieffect BOSS ME 10, home upgraded amplifer QSA 400 without corrections. All these things was used to record „Pigs are back“. With studio arangement of course. We are tunned down to B. Ubina uses Ibanez bass.

9.Any funny incident ever happened to you guys when playing live ?
I don’t know if was funny, but in one gig in one small pub, where was perfect mood, we jumped on stage so much, that Ubina beated Topi by his bass and Topi has injured head. There was some blood on stage, but everything was OK.Onetime some drunken guy climbed on stage and started striptease.

10.Where do you see Pigsty 10 years from now ?
In our government

11.Thanx alot for the interview , any last words/comments to all the grindheads in the arab world?
Grind’em all with smile :-D

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Interview with Vulgar Pigeons


1.Hi, can you please introduce yourself and what you and the others do inthe band?
Paul: Paul Ponitkoff. Bass Jeff : Jeff Lenormand, and I play guitar.John: John Gotelli, DrumsDave: Hellion, Vocals

2.Can you please describe VP sound to me ? would you call it goregrind or grindcore or something else?
Paul: A soup broth of thrash, grind, metal, hardcore, and a sprinkle oflove.Jeff : I would say it's a mixture of grindcore and power-violence

3.VP have released a couple of albums through the years. why is it that onevery release you are on a different Label ?have you guys had problems with labels?
Jeff : Every label we've had up to this point has folded up and closed theirdoors. Both Howling Bull (in America) and Necropolis went out of businessfor whatever reason.
John: Yeah, it is not a problem between the label and the band but justsome pattern that we have unknowingly walked into. Willowtip and Deepsendare looking strong so, I think we’ll have a home for some time to come.

4.Where did you come up with a name like Vulgar Pigeons?
Paul: Inspired by the author Jack Kerouac. He’s not my favorite Author byany means, just happened to be reading “on the road”, and stumbled upon“vulgar pigeons”.

5.You guys are going to be playing a show at the Los Angeles MurderFest, theset list for the show is impressive, what do you guys think of the otherbands? How is your gig touring schedule go? Do you guys tour a lot or do alot of gigs?
Jeff : We're concentrating mostly on finishing a new album.
John: The MurderFest has shaped up to be an amazing fest, a ton of goodbands and hours of just straight metal. It is going to be a great show. Wetry to hit a show here and there as all of our schedules permit, it is hardto tour when everyone is trying to survive off of their jobs but we do whatwe can do and that is about all anyone can ask

6.What bands have you enjoyed listening to lately? Any good movies you'vealso watched?
Paul: John and I liked Brokeback Mountain. It has brought the band closerto one another.
John: Yes, Brokeback was fantabulos and I just downloaded ‘The Very Best ofLisa Loeb’
Jeff: I just got Sirius radio, and I listen to the "Hard Attack" station alot and I listen to new bands through there. One band I'm really impressedwith is ‘Demon Hunter’. I got their first album and didn't quite like it,but hearing their new song "Not I," I have to say that my opinion changed.‘As I Lay Dying’ is really great too. Then there are some bands here inAmerica that I'm digging such as ‘Frost Like Ashes’, ‘Grave Defier’, and‘The Horsemen of the Apocalypse’.

7.VP has just released Burning Episode, which has taken good reviews onmetal sites, can you tell me a little about that album?
Paul: We had fun writing these songs. We experimented with some duelingsolos, and riff acrobats. We like to incorporate styles that we haven’t doneas a band.
John: The artwork and overall package of the CD is amazing as well. PatThompson did the artwork and it is spectacular. The CD is a clear CD and Iwas so excited when I saw it. You will not be disappointed.

8.Have you guys ever thought of doing music videos?
Jeff: Of course that would be cool, but we're too poor to do a proper one.Dave is working on something with his cousins who also made the independentmovie, " YOUTHANASIA " (available now on Comcast In-demand digital cable) sowe'll see how that comes out.
John: It would be great to have a video just for the fact that there are somany new outputs and avenues opening up to get them played on. You cancheck out more about ‘Youthanasia’ at www.myspace.com/YOUTHANASIATHEMOVIE

9.Thanx a lot for the interview, any last words comments to the grinders inthe Arab world?
Paul: Free Palestine
John: Thank you for the interview and thank you for keeping the bands andthe scene visible. It is pretty amazing when thinking about how widespreadthis is and we would just like to thank everyone.. Oh and check outhttp://www.vulgarpigeons.com/ for all the latest in the flock of VP

INTERVIEW WITH REGURGITATE!!!


1. Hi Urban!! Can you please introduce yourself and the other members and what do
you do in the band?
- Hi... well we are:Rikard Jansson - vocals Urban skytt - guitar Jocke Pettersson - drums Glenn Sykes - bass

2.Recently you guys said that you won't be doing any live shows so that you canconcentrate on writing new material, what can we expect from the new Regurgitate?
- We are trying to play really simple, standard grindcore... with a death/gore twistto it. The same stuff we have always been doing, so we're hoping it is no big changein direction for the new stuff. Maybe a step backwards to even more simple stuff.


3.You're working on a split with Bile (which i will be interviewing them too), howsthe split going till now? any release date?
- We recorded our songs long ago... and are now waiting for Bile to record somestuff too. I haven't heard any release date... probably because I don't think Bilehas anything to release yet... but I could be wrong.


4.There's a Regurgitate Tribute album "Comeback of Goregods", what did you think ofit ?
- That's just weird. I try not to think about it... but, really, it is an honor ofcourse. There are so many bands out there doing RGTE covers... something that stillsurprise me a lot. We never payed too much attention to what people in the scenethought about us, so we we were really surprised by the big interest in RGTE.


5.Out of all the Fests that you guys played , which one would you say was the onethat you enjoyed the most? What country would you say has the largest Grindcorescene?
- I really, really like Obscene Extreme in the Czech Republic... well organized,good bands, nice people etc. I have no idea what country has the biggest grindcorescene... i think extreme music is pretty big in the eastern european countries...but also in... no I don't know. Not Sweden - that much I know! Holland perhaps?


6.Regurgitate being on the Carcass tribute album I would like to ask you thisquestion, seeing that Bill Steer is going around saying that grindcore and metal isfor kids and that he hates it when people ask him about carcass, what can you sayabout that ?
- People (wimps and posers!) are allowed to change... he used to play some reallybrilliant music and if he can't appreciate that - that's his problem. Carcass playeda big role in developing the music RGTE and many other bands play, so whatever hesays or thinks doesn't matter - I still think he did some genious stuff.


7.What song does the crowd enjoy moshing to when you guys playing in live shows ?
- All of them... or none of them. No one can hear any difference between the songswhen we play live anyway...


8.Can you tell me what you think of these bands: Machetazo, Gut, Torsofuck,Haemorrhage, Inhume.
- Machetazo - haven't heard any new stuff, but I like their old stuff.- Gut - Classic... but nothing I listen to.- Torsofuck... never heard- Haemorrhage... really good, and nice people as well- Inhume... excellent stuff and Ben and Loek play in Bile, so we have met them abunch of times.


9.Where do you see Regurgitate in 10 years? Will be be still giving it 100% or willit go upto 200% !!!- We will be giving 17% just as we have done throughout our career!!! Haahahaha! Wereally just do this because we like the music and we like playing the music. We arenot struggling to become famous... obviously - wrong type of music for that I guess.


10.Thanx alot for the interview, you have any last words to all the grindcore headsin the arab world?
- Keep an open mind... and grind on.

Friday, February 1, 2008

Welcome to Xtreme Metal

Hi everybody,I’d like to welcome you all to Xtreme Metal, the first website in the middle-east to review and talk about the most forms extreme metal and grind in the world, here you would find reviews and interviews and much more with the worlds most extreme forms of music, soon we shall launch an online community so everybody can share their thoughts and ideas! Welcome again and keep grinding!!! MCR