Interview with Brent from Atrocious Abnormality (from www.decayed-metal.com)

I hooked up with Brent via E-mail to talk about a little bit of whatever, like the nice guy he is he took his time to answer my Q:s

Q: first off hows life treating you right now? with an album like Echoes of the rotting ?

Brent - Life is treatng us pretty good I suppose, gas prices are killing everyone, and its making it harder to go play shows. But the shows we are playing have been really good, and the crowds have been crazy. Looking forward to CIM and New England Deathfest coming up! Also the first pressing of our CD "Echoes of the Rotting" has almost sold out and is now at the factory getting re-pressed. So things are good!

Q: i read on your myspace page that you guys are about to go on tour in a couple of days in the states how does that feel? and do you have any plans for a european tour?

Brent - Yeah we did a tour in April through the southern part of the US, and it felt great to get out there on the road. We hit the road for 11 shows in a row with our bro Peter who is the band Bloodsoaked, and it went really well. We sold out of our t-shirts with 3 shows to go. It went so well that we are currently planning another tour for later this year and possibly going to Europe for some shows next year! I hope we can do it! I would love to tour there!

Q: whats it like backstage at an atrocious abnormality show?

Brent - Well, most of the time we ust try and sit back and relax before we get on stage. Steve is usually busy working the Comatose table, and I will work the Atrocious merch table while walking around and hanging out with fans/friends. We love to enjoy ourselves as much as possible! There is nothing like being around all death metal freaks and tons of booze! hahah

Q: how do you feel that your debut (echoes of the rotting) album has been recieved so far?

Brent - I feel like it has been recieved quite well. Like I said earlier the first pressing of the CD is almost sold out, only 10-15 CD's left after 8 months or so, so I guess thats pretty good for a debut release from a new band. We hope to sell the next 1000 quicker!

Q: after the tour, what are your plans (i know atleast one more of our crew is looking forward to a follow-up to "Echoes")?

Brent - Thanks, we plan on using the latter half of the year to write new material for our second release. We have some really sick riffs already, and I cant wait to get started on some new songs! We are hoping to have a demo out before the end of the year.

Q: and finally, any last words to the readers?

Brent - A huge thank you for taking the time to read this and support the brutal metal scene! And thank you Dennis for the sick interview! Hails and horns up! lml

MP5K interview (done for www.decayed-metal.com, replicated here)

I got a pleasurable talk with Andy from Stockholms masters of brutality MP5K.

Q: hows it going with the new material? Any idea of a date when we will get our filthy hands on it?

A: its on its way, we recently got signed to Imbecil entertainment Records from the Ukraine so two entirely new songs will be recorded in addition to the previous four planned for the recording.
A date is hard to give as it feels like disaster always strikes us, but we are hoping for a release before the end of the year.



Q: its a shame what happened to the material you already had committed to tape, can you describe how it felt and what really happened?


A: we had recorded the four songs for the demo and everything was in the process of mixing/mastering when a waterleak destroyed the harddrives where all the material was stored. Of course it felt extremely annoying and irritating! We were very stoked on hearing the results and then something like this happens. But there has come some good things from the situation aswell, we now have the possibility to record it all again and add two songs to it.


Q: will there be any more live gigs for MP5K in a foreseeable future?


A: the way things are right now we will pour most of our time into writing the two new songs and recording our next release but we are always hyped and ready for gigs aswell.


Q: what do you do when you dont record firstclass brutality?


A: hmm well, when we arent playing with MP5K some of us have other bands and projects, outside of music its either jobs or school depending on who youre asking.


Q: what is your view on downloading music? Does it bother you in any way or is it just great that more people get a hold of your stuff?


A: we see it as a positive thing that people download our music and that it is available out on the web. We want as many as possible to be able to listen to our material, so there isnt any problems whatsoever with people downloading our music for free. Its a lot more fun when people buy merchandise.


Q: any bizarre band memories?


A: there is a couple of them, but the most bizarre had to be on our first gig wich was a freefestival in Värmland. There was the most insane raining , we were the last band to play and the audience consisted of about ten people there to see us in the downpour. It felt a little weird to go crazy in front of such a small crowd, but we had a great time.


Q: in short what is a MP5K gig?


A: a massive dose of groove, slam and violence from the first to the last song

Thank you Andy and good luck to you and the band with the new recording. The demo Deranged Stockholm syndrome is reviewed over at www.decayed-metal.com, and is also available through the band at: http://www.myspace.com/mp5ksthlm

Awaiting the autopsy-Could’nt tell the bodies apart

Looking at the cover I have to say that I am quite impressed, I stuff the disc in my cd-player and what follows is what I have anticipated since I reviewed their demo (Eight girls instead of nine) for www.decayed-metal.com. This is pure slam brutality with female vox and some really groovy bits thrown into the mix like kidneys into a milkshake. One of the funniest moments in death metal this year has to be the MC Hammer sample used in the song Feet first woodchopper suicide. This album was well worth the wait I had to endure. Germans don’t only create insane scat-porn and other weird genres of erotic pleasure but now also audio orgasmic music for me and all of you to buttfuck whatever we sleep with. These guys have huge potential to get huge within the genre aswell and should be supported as fucking much as you possibly can. Get this album and fucking bang your head till your brains fall out of your nose and onto your floor for forensics to pick the fuck up.

Visceranalspermatorgiasticpus-Diva futura grind

Theres an annoying drummachine here that i will never be able to get out of my head again thank you fucks. The album is low frequency all the way through and the guitars are extremely fucking distorted.there is that presence of malice and doom hanging over the recording and the atmosphere created is that of an annoying timer ready to set of an explosive fucking force of music, to bad that explosion never really comes since the production has put all the instruments on the same wavelength creating an unhearable sludge of semen and analsewage for your ears to wade through. There really isn’t that much in the sense of variation going on here and the songs are only distinguishable from each other because of the samples.

Torsofuck-Erotic diarrhea fantasy

Porn is a great subject when looking for samples and inspiration when writing and composing great music. No studio is complete without some movies of people getting assfucked and shat upon in true German dubbing. Torsofuck embody the true vile face of humanity, everyone wants to be free of their sexual constraints and for a moment these guys deliver some highspeed sickness and erotica. If you like your buttfucking with some female intestinal sludge hugging your phallus then this is for you. Its all about the stuff we want to do and might never be able to, the music itself lets us experience the mutilation of a female for sexual purposes and some really great fuckscenes are displayed in audio format. I thoroughly enjoyed this album from start to finish.

The dark prison massacre-my cock is the truth promo

This two song promo filled with some slamming brutal chop-ups is actually good, some of the stuff is generic but by now most shit that’s good has already been done right? No, it hasn’t but you might not need to re-invent the genre with every album either. This record has a production that lets all the instruments shine through in their own right. High and low pitched guttural vocals that don’t sound like mongoloid shit dripping off the wall. It surely has some deathcore vibes aswell but see beyond that and you’ll find some serious brutal shit with groove.

Sexual assault-Demo 2008

These guys got some great production for being a demo, but the guitars sound a bit monotone anyways. The vocalist isn’t really hitting off in a great manner either, the voice is way to high pitched overall and I think the album would have a better sound if they kept it in a lower pitch. The samples range from screaming females (probably having some fun) to spanking and everything inbetween. For the next release I fucking hope they leave that retarded synthshit out though its just fucking annoying and pretty much makes me want to turn the album off right away. Retarded shit aside it’s a pretty good demo, but they need to iron out some issues in my mind.