Interviews written by: twansibon

Interviews

Gomorrha provoking the Christian church

Gomorrha is a band from Germany and plays death metal. Gomorrha was founded in 1995. In Febuary 1997 the first demo ’Die Nacht Des Todes’ was recorded with 13 tracks. The reaction on that tape were good and it led to the first gigs. The second demo ’Ready To Kill’ was recorded and sold in November 1997. Again it gave good responses...

04/11/2001

The Embodiment is razor sharp

At the end of 1994, actually in November, Martijn, Erik-Jan and Peter decided (after an annoying long periode of Erik-Jan begging) to go into a rehearsal room, to try to play together with a drummer. After a few months of stupid clean songs, Sebastiaan den Oudsten joined as bass-player... Embodiment (which wasn't called Embodiment at first, but a strange name about something...

02/11/2001

Disconsolate writes about the dark sides of life

Disconsolate started back in1998, consisting of Klaas (drums), Alex (guitar), Johan (vocals) and Andre (guitar), all former members of Embrace the Darkness. In the beginning of 1999 they were joined by Marcel on bassguitar and soon after they played on the Trompe Stampe festival. A few months later Andre left the band. In the summer of 1999 they found a second guitar...

18/10/2001

Ethereal Spawn a different kind of satisfaction

Hailing from The Hague, Holland, Ethereal Spawn was formed in May 1998 by guitarists Christiaan Waalberg and Peter Reedijk, who had already played in a couple of bands together (Nidhug and Charybdis), but they never really found what they were looking for. Until Ethereal Spawn took form at the end of 1999 with Dave Ploeg on bass, Laurens Ludolph on drums and...

18/10/2001

Crimson Fall interview

It all began in late 1999, in the southern part of Johore (Skudai), when Deadzid was getting tired of playing cover songs in several line-ups until he met a drummer ñ Necrodin. And so they decided to form a serious band in the veins of metal. After a while, Deadzid started to wrote several songs and asked one of his jamming buddies...

16/10/2001

Authority

AUTHORITY was formed in Jakarta, Indonesia on Febuary 19th 1997, with the fisrt formation: Budy (Vocal), Sandy (Guitar), Oelynk (Bass), Deddy (Drums). After run for a month Deddy (Drums) was gone out from the band and replaced by Ary (Drums) and we added another musician Teguh as 2nd Vocal. At that time we played Trash like, SEPULTURA, HYPOCRISY, etc! In the middle...

30/09/2001

Gurthang also inspired by Tolkien

Gurthang is a Belgian (Antwerp) technical yet melodic black death metal-band, formerly known as 'Ecliptica'. Due to numerous reasons we decided to change our bandname into Gurthang on the vernal equinox (March 21st) of the unholy year 2001. Most bandmembers played in Ecliptica for at least two years and recorded the cdemo 'Eclectica' back in 1999. At this very moment the band...

25/09/2001

Maggots for healthy dose of sperm

Maggots was formed at the end of 1998. It was started by: Luc(vocals),Alex(guitar),Mike(guitar),Laup(drums). We first played a couple of covers. That didn't work out for us so we started to write our own songs. After a half year of practicing we found laury(bass). The style we play now is brutal death/grind with lots of variety like grove, fast blast beats and deep...

18/09/2001

Xenomorph stands for spirituality, nihilism and total darkness

Trans-mutating through the burdens of space and time; it’s the way of the natural born misanthrope, it’s the way of Xenomorph. Inspired by the extreme death-, black- and thrash-metal cult of the eighties and early nineties, X-Morph took off somewhere in the mid/late nineties to wander the worlds of obscure sounds and magic. Hard-hitting music combined with dark enigmatic lyrics is the...

14/09/2001

The dirty words of Drakma

This Murciana band was formed in May 2000, beginning with only two components David (guitar) and Ruben (drums), making versions of mythical bans. After three months, Jose (voice) and Andrea (bass) joined the band, and it was in that moment when they began to compose their own songs. Four months later Haydeé joined to the group as the female lead voice, but...

11/09/2001

Jungle Rot quickly punches you in the face

In 1995, JUNGLE ROT released their first full length effort ’Skin The Living’. Thanks to memorable songs and some high profile opening slots for Anthrax, Cannibal Corpse and the Misfits, sales of ’Skin The Living’ began to grow. Out of town shows and an east coast tour followed then before they knew it, ’Skin The Living’ had sold an extreme amount. News...

11/09/2001

VLE doesn't believe in evolution nor creation

... works created through strict use of experimentation and improvisational techniques... the most important element is the depiction of atmosphere where all instruments/sounds fuse together. Noise, chaos, infinity, beauty, darkness, light, pain, harmony, melancholy, rhythm, power, melody, repetition, dissonance and duality are all concepts expressed herein... ~the VLE~ VLE, a project started by one creature (~the VLE~) in July 2001, inspired by...

04/09/2001