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.

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