Yo! I'm listening to Nifelheim – "Devil´s Force". (what an excellent choice ! – ed)
Could you explain us what is the status of the band right now
? Is it still active or not ? And if you split could you give us the reason
as "Epitomes Of Darkness" is an excellent release ?
We are dead (!) fukk you ! (fukk you too and
bang that fukking head ! –ed) and split up because we didn't
have anything more to offer the French people.
I guess the early days of REPUGNANT were under Revokation ? How
does it happen that Mary played in Revokation, recorded only 2 demo tapes
that were fucking killer, they conveyed such dark and ugly feeling, but
they never recorded any full length, nor were signed to any labels ?
I don't think that Mary has played in Revokation
but I know that he has written some halfassed lyrics for the Revokation-song
“The Old One's Abbey” and the reason why they didn't get signed
was because they sucked. (“Nuclear Winter Records” has released
a 7” version of “Reincarnated Souls Of Hell”).
It's obvious that early REPUGNANT's influences were Nihilist,
Carnage, Merciless from Sweden and early Entombed both in the feeling
of the way you play and in the sound. Were you in the Death Metal scene
in the end of the 80's in Sweden and what can you remember from this primitive
Swedish Death Metal scene ? Were you in touch with Morbid's guys and Dead
? Do you have memories from him ?
Oh really ? No, I was not a part of the scene in
the late 80´s..I was walking around in my diarrhoea-stained diapers
back then…so yeah, I knew Dead ?
If I'm not wrong a member of REPUGNANT did all the lay out and drawing
in "Hecatomb" lay out, didn't he ? I think he was the same who
did the Revokation demo cover ? Is it his full time job ?
Yes, Mary Goore did the artwork for “Reincarnated
Souls Of Hell”, he has done all of the artwork for REPUGNANT as
well but the early stuff were assembled by Ketolahelvete and “Epitome
Of Darkness” was assembled by E. of Watain…and no, Mary is
unemployed.
You shared a 7ep with Pentacle who covered
"The Beasts Of Apocalypse" while you were offering a personal
tune "Mortal Remains", who came up with this idea and what is
your view on this EP as I found it awesome ?
No, no and NO ! (ho fuck I'll try stop drinking
while creating questions –ed ) "Mortal Remains”
is written by a band called Obscurity…and I guess it was Cronis
(maybe that's Cronos in french?) idea (the guy who runs “To the
Death Records”)…regarding our contribution, something got
fucked-up…it's way to fast and the vocals sounds like it has been
done by a weasel on speed.
"Hecatomb"
MLP ends with an excellent Celtic Frost cover "The Usurper",
how did you come to cover this tune as many bands cover the Swiss band
and this song especially ? Why didn't you choose a less well known band
to cover ?
Basically just because it's a great song and we do it much better than
any other band…don't you think ? (indeed-ed)
You covered a Nihilist
tune "Carnal Leftover" on "Premature Burial" , as
I don't have this release I'd like to you tell us a bit more about this
material ? Why did you cover this song especially ?
You can buy it, Soulseller Records have one copy left. It's a rough mix
of the song “Premature Burial” and “Carnal Leftovers”
is an old version from the “Hecatomb”-sessions
and it's a great song so why not make a cover-version of it. And the b-side
consists of shitty live versions of “Morbid Ways” and “Mutilated
Remains” from a sold out show in Sundsvall, Sweden.
"Epitome Of Darkness" is a fucking
obscure and macabre Death Metal album, not many bands can record such
kind of quality D.M and the dark side of your album reminds me a lot early
Entombed melted with Morbid Angel, so are you satisfied with this record
and how long was to writing process ?
Thank you, I agree…it took like 5 years to write the album since
a few songs is from the beginning of REPUGNANT and “Hungry are the
Damned” was written about a month before we entered the studio.
We are really satisfied with the album.
I
was wondering if you developed a concept all along REPUGNANT's albums
either through lyrics or covers lay out ? If so would you explain us this
concept ?
Cant you tell ? It's Total Death
Metal !
The early days of
Death Metal were pretty dark and untamed with bands playing a very satanic
music, dressed in leather and spikes. Bands such as Possessed, Incubus/Morbid
Angel, Death, Deicide and many others had a strong satanic imagery which
nearly totally disappear today, do you agree with me ? And what do you
think of the military look that is now in Death Metal scene and or even
the lack of look of many bands ?
Yes, I agree with you…what can I say, most bands suck !…all
bands should look like Sarcofago.
Could you describe the gear you used in
REPUGNANT, what kind of amps, effects and guitars had you to get the typical
Swedish sound on records ?
We used Marshall amps, B.C Rich guitars and Boss-distortion pedals and
if you don’t get it to sound right...don't ever form a band.
By the way, many old school Swedish D.M
releases have the same kind of sound that feature in early Entombed, Dismember's
album. I think it's the very trademark of this scene, but can you remember
who came with this typical guitar gain and how was it created ?
Tune down and turn it up!
You guys have always
released each of your materials on vinyl, which I think is a mark of quality
and integrity when it comes to Death Metal. I was wondering if you were
collecting vinyls yourself and how important is your collection ? What
are the jewel pieces you could kill for ?
”Draped in Cerecloth” is not released on vinyl…yet.
All of us in REPUGNANT collect records so it's very important for us and
there's way too many records to mention that we want…it never ends.
Are you into the orthodox Black Metal scene
and bands such as Malign, Funeral Mist, Ofermod and so on ? What do you
think about their view on religion and their behaviour acting like religious
people ?
Don't forget Watain…yeah, I like some Orthodox Black Metal bands
but I don't give a shit about what people believe in.
Have you been raised under a Christian
family ? I mean what led you to play an anti Christian Metal and why are
you fighting against Christianity ?
No, I was not raised in a Christian-family…I started to play “anti-christian”-Metal
because darkness and evil appeals to me…but I do believe that religion
sucks.
Many people in mankind history agree to
state that a strong Christianity during Medieval Times helped Europe to
develop in many different ways like architecture, literature, sailing
and in cohesion between people through wars and civilisation organisation.
Obviously we shouldn't forget that the dark side of religion prevented
from new theories through Inquisitions for instance. But as a general
view the religious times in Europe created a real union within same community,
have you even noticed that and do you think that we are now suffering
from a lack of cohesion in Europe since there's a great bunch of other
religions in the continent ?
As I said earlier…religion sucks!
What was your reaction when it
comes to Jon Nödtveidt's death from Dissection, I feel like his death
has some mystic meaning behind : his death is very closed to Dead's death
: shooting his head, mentioning his was going to Transylvanian and so
on…?
I didn't know him but I thought it was a “joke” when I heard
it. My reflections were the same as yours…Dissection rules !
Thanks a lot for this interview, what are
the upcoming plans when it comes to REPUGNANT or other Metal activities
?
No problemo (I'm not Spanish man ahahah-ed), well …the
plans regarding REPUGNANT is to release “Epitome Of Darkness”
on vinyl…Sid E. Burns is in General Surgery and myself and Tom Bones
have a Death Metal project…so we will be busy writing songs.
