Interview for Darkland Zine issue 21 1. So, you have done 5 tracks for the split with Frightmare and recorded one track that is a cover of the nunslaughter song sacrificial zombie for a tribute cd. You are now writing 2 cds at the same time for next year. What bands have you done covers of besides Nunslaughter? Any plans for an Impetigo cover? That is correct we finished up those recordings a while ago, now we are working on Creaturegore our first real full album. I think we have about written 50% of that album songwise. On the side we are working on and off on another cd, we were supposed to d a split with Engorged but that got cancelled but we already wrote 5 songs so if we do a few more we can release it as a mcd or full cd. Nunslaughter cover is the only cover we did sofar, we only like to do covers of bands we know and like and where we can do something special with the song to make it ours and this was for a tribute so we figured we could do that and we all dig Nunslaughter. But don’t expect us to do many covers. Especially on a full cd we won’t do them really because i rather write a new song, i have too many ideas to write about, i need all the space i can get. Live however is a different story we will probably do a few covers live just for fun once we start live gigs. I am dying to do a bolt thrower song, maybe cenotaph or world eater. Old Misfits or Samhain maybe. And impetigo i have a fascination for the song Mortado so that might be a cover we will do in the future. But on a whole covers we do for fun, recording them? who knows we have tons of our own material to record first. 2. I read that you love 80's culture. I do also and one of my favorite items is the Garbage Pail Kids, being so obnoxious and sick. Are you a fan of that franchise? Yes definately i used to be a rabid collector when i was a kid i would keep running to the candystore in school breaks and buy a ton of them. I always loved the artwork on them with art by john pound the best he is the GPK master. He did a lot of the classic ones i am nuts about. I still try and get my hands on ones i don't have but mainly i now try and buy em as a whole set, and just buy complete series. I have quite a stack but eventually i wanna have em all. I do however have every card ever manufactured on cdr somewhere as jpgs or close to all there used to be an online archive with every card known on it i don't know if that still exists. But its never as cool as the real thing so i am still hunting.. Did you ever see the GPK movie by any chance? What a pile of shit hahaha i dug the GPK characters in it but man was the movie bad haha the human cast should be shot as should be the scriptwriter. They also recently released the obscure almost forgotten cartoon series on dvd but i haven't been able to grab that one yet, i heard it was also a stinkfest but that probably won’t keep me from getting it haha. 3. I understand that the band worships Impetigo. I had a brief penpal thing going on with Stevo, lead singer. Have you ever met the guys? Well i guess respect would be the more correct term, i respect how they ran their band, always kept in touch with fans and how they worked. Stayed down to earth and just did what they wanted. They had a good band ethic going on and it inspires us for sure, and i do think they are an important part of metal and the creation of the style we like. I personally never met them face to face but i talk to Stevo and Mark occasionally. I also helped putting together the re-releases on Razorback so we had contact about that too, they are definately cool guys. It was an honour working on that project. Ive always been a fan from the start so it’s fun to have actually contributed on something for them now. 4. What clubs have you played and what was the response like? We haven’t played much live really, an older line-up once did a gig at a local joint and people seemed to enjoy it but we fired the drummer pretty soon afterwards, but we are much much better now with the new line-up. We are still haunted by the fact that we haven’t got a live drummer (and we didn’t like playing with a drumpc on stage actually i refuse to do that) but we now have a real session drummer for the albums, the split is real drums and we are hoping to finally find a tourdrummer so we can do some proper gigs and demolish some stages again!! But we are still looking. 5. How has local publicity been? Does anyone shy away from reviews based on the name? Local publicity wise we do alright but as always a band is usually more known outside their country than inside their own country haha but we do have a good base of friends and supporters here, so we do have a sizeable dutch couchpotato legion. I am sure people shy away i guess that always will happen, we have had some people who were insulted and disgusted, and we had problems getting releases out because of people who objected to the band and the art. But then these days thats more normal than the exception. I like the name always have its simple and funny and easy to remember what more do you need right haha. But yeah there have been some issues but i don’t care i do what i want to do and if people have a problem with it then they can shove it up their ass. I really can’t be bothered about what other people think. If you don’t like it then fuck off. 6. It seems horror films inspire many goregrind bands. Name your top 5. Well we are inspired by a lot of different things, but since i am a total horror nut as are others in the band it kinda just evolved naturally to be our major inspiration. We didn’t sit down and chose a genre we just played our music and wrote about what we know and that just ended up being horror movie related stuff because thats the most infused with out lives. We like horror and play music that plays tribute to it it's that simple, i like my songs to be structured like little stories like a movie and tell a tale from start to end, and tend to drop little funfacts in lyrics that only gorehounds will recognize. As for a top 5 people always ask me about my favorits but thats like nearly impossible to do every genre i have favorits and i like a lot of genres, there is no way i can compile a top five list i have favorite top five lists for almost every genre imaginable. IMPOSSIBLE. I can give some random favorites but a list.......i wouldn’t know where to start hahaha. Some i really like in no particular order are: Critters, Ghoulies, Romero Night/dawn/day of the living dead, ROTLD, (Japanese) Godzilla flicks, Re-animator, The Thing, Toxic avenger, Nightmare on elmstreet, Friday the 13th, Predator, Braindead, Bad Taste, Zombie, Evil Dead, Munchies, Halloween, Streettrash, Phantasm, the Deadly Spawn, Frankenhooker, Basketcase, Zombie, Swampthing, The Stuff. I dunno man so much good shit out there. I have to dissapoint and keep it at this before i type out my whole collection. Questions like this is like asking whose your favorite child i just can’t answer this question haha sorry about that many interviewers tried getting lists from me but i just never am able to narrow movies down to a top 5 or 10 list lol, i am a fanatic i love it all. 7. What would you like to see more/less of in metal? I would like to see more originality, more people thinking for themselves and doing their own thing and maybe a return to the older values and ways of the underground where everybody was more friendly and a big family. I would like to see less clones, less people jumping on bandwagons, less bands writing about shit their clueless about and do it just to be cool. Less backstabbing egoism and jealousy cuz thats fucking useless. And a true petpeeve is the genrewars, everybody sticking to their own little niche, the niches were invented to sell records by companies, people know this right? because there used to be a time when metal bands just played together and even though there were differences metal was metal grind played amongst deathmetal with noise, doom, folk, black. If its good extreme and metal who cares what name it has just enjoy it. I hate to break it to people but by sticking to a dresscode and rules, you have become that which you claim not to be. Your one of many and not the “individual” you pretend to be. Your not shocking your not cool your a damn stereotype. Metal should have no boundaries just needs to be ugly and loud and extreme (well maybe one boundary, no faggotry and no sissie shit, poser crap is by default not metal and not loud brutal or extreme, things like emo aren’t metal at all thats just babies crying about not getting enough allowance from mommy and daddy or how their gf doesnt want to suck their cock anymore.) Cheers for the interview man it’s appreciated the couchpotato legion salutes you! Anybody thats interested drop by our webpage at http://www.fondlecorpse.nl or dig up our myspace.