FUNEST

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

We are D. the drummer and M. the lead guitarist and vocalist.

When/where was your band formed?

We founded Funest in winter 2012 in Milan,but only D. is from there,the other members are from Sicily (M.),Ecuador (E.) and Piedmont (H.S.).

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

We worship it…we’re fucking addicted,we grew up listening to Possessed,Grave,Autopsy,Death,Entombed,Incantation and other cult bands.

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

M- In the beginning I was the main composer,I used to write the whole songs of Desecrating Obscurity at home just by myself with all my influences,but now the new songs are arranged with the influences of everyone in the band.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

D- Mostly of the lyrics were written by me,except for Obsession for Desecration and Catacomb Torture. The inspiration mainly comes from themes like death,sorrow,pain,gore and of course,anti christianity and religion positions generally,which I’ve always joined, but others important themes for me are falsity and selfishness of the whole human race,and how people are slaves of money and fame,how they become puppets in front of reality and destroys themselves or how they betray or just lie to each other. Personally I find inspirations not just listening other bands or reading other lyrics,but just living in this corrupted world, that is getting rotten more and more, day by day, physically and morally…and I think is a very good way to gain inspiration.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

M-I don’t believe in ideologies or stuff like that. We have alcoholic and blasphemous attitude in our life (and in the rehearsal room!). The only ideology that runs in my mind are the same that you can find in our lyrics about ANTICHRISTIAN IDEOLOGY.We complete despise all the circles of the church and christianity in each single ways.

Fuck all the politics and all religions in this sick world.

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

D-Well, although I think that the “golden years” of Death Metal are gone,there are many good bands in playing around in Italy and other countries. I saw a good return to the “roots”,a rebirth of the old school scene during the last years,with many bands playing in the vein of early Death,Grave,Incantation,Immolation…and especially the Swedish sound has been recently rediscovered, and this helped to deepen the genre by people who maybe in the past didn’t listen it often and revalue it.

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

M- We are practicing and composing new songs. We’d like to split with other killer bands but nothing concrete at the moment. The new songs are more killer – obscure – death than the past ones.

Name another Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

We prefer not to answer to this question.

Free word

Thanks for this interview and all the finnish maniacs who support us,especially Kari Kankaanpää from Solothus who is supporting us a lot…kippis bro!

Here are some links where you can listen our stuff and find some merch:

Bandcamp: http://funest.bandcamp.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Funestdeathmetal

Memento Mori: http://memento-mori.es/

Keep on rotting.

666

SEWERCIDE

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

My name is Tobi and I play bass in the band.

When/where was your band formed? 

 Sewercide started as very loose idea with my high school friend in late 2010 in Melbourne but didn't get properly off the ground until mid 2011 when we recruited a full lineup.

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

We started with a more distinct thrash element in the begging but since then through various member changes and developing more musical maturity we started leaning much more towards the death metal side of things which is where I think the EP is at and the new stuff will be too.  

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

 Usually we compose everything in the rehearsal room, someone might already have some ideas that he brings from home and then everyone messes around with them and we put together a song that way, it helps that our singer is also a ripper guitarist aswell! 

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

 Writing and influences wise I think that everyone brings their own range of influences to the table we are all avid listeners of grind, hardcore, punk, crust, and just about anything else...in regards to the lyrics side of things they have matured in concept since the demo with a heavier focus on more current and "real" issues in the world at the moment, with the themes that we covered on the EP including: the unjust incarceration of refugees that our corrupt government propagates, horrifying slavelike working conditions of third world sweatshops, mental health and the pollution of the earth through human stupidity.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

  I don't think there is an particular ideology that we are pushing within our music but I guess if you boil it down it would be, to borrow a line from the immortal bill and ted movies,  "be excellent to each other". We are here as a band to push our selves musically and tour as much as we can and make as many friends around the world as we can and hopefully do this for the rest of our lives we don't have time for and are not interested in making any one feel excluded or discriminated against... Fuck racism, fuck homo/trans/whatever else phobia, fuck sexism and any other small minded judgmental bigotry just bang your head and crank some death metal!

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

  Death metal here and around the world is currently alive and well with so many great bands releasing killer material. From our country we have Black Jesus, contaminated, faceless burial, destruktor, dungeons of blood, altars, maniaxe, tombsealer and probably more that I am forgetting. Around the world there have been killer releases dropping every month pretty much with gorelust's new record being a total ripper, bands like sabbatory, Rude, cemetery filth, mangled, coffin dust , sepolcro, presumed dead, pure, anatomia, undergang, wormridden and considered dead recording and releasing new stuff soon I think death metal is in safe hands. 

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

  We look up to bands like cannibal corpse and the black dahlia murder who's documentaries are a huge inspiration to us in terms of how hard we want to work and where we want to go in terms of a professional touring band that are constantly pushing themselves to be better musicians better performers and always incredibly humble and down to earth. We don't enjoy doing or are particularly good at much else so we just work hard to make our dream possible of doing exactly this for the rest of our lives.

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

 LISTEN TO THE CONTAMINATED PROMO TAPE YOU FOOLS ITS CRUSHING! 

Free word

 Thanks for interviewing us dude, we appreciate the support! All hail the underground! 

SAATTOVÄKI

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

Jussi: I’m Jussi but you can call me Horst. I use my throat.

Jukkis, Ville: We both play guitar.

When/where was your band formed?

Jukkis: On new year’s eve 2010 in Tampere, we were drunk. Founding members were Pekko, our first singer Roba and I.

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

Jussi: When I heard Death(band) for the first time

Jukkis: Because of guys like Schuldiner, Glenn Benton, Trey Azagthoth and Dimebag Darrel.

Ville: Death metal gave me something that other music genres couldn’t give me..

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

Jukkis: Pekko and I write riffs, Juho helps with the song structures. Jussi writes the lyrics with occasional help from Pekko.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

Jussi: The lyrics are pretty much written tongue-in-cheek. Heaps of gore, horror and macabre humor.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

Jussi: Nope, but we're not that keen on religion.

Ville: Evil darkness.

Jukkis: Not really, I just drink beer.

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

Ville: It has been divided on two sides, in commercially inclined and underground style.

Jussi:  To be honest I'm not an active follower of the scene. Once in a while I hear some bands I enjoy, but mostly I stick to my Blessed are the sick and Ten commandments.

Jukkis: Better than ever globally thinking. There are more and more good new bands. The old death metal bands just keep on going and good new bands pop up, many of them tour in Europe too. People seem to have respect for the old Finnish death metal bands.

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

Jukkis: To make good songs.

Jussi: To get laid more and earn a million bucks. To write better death metal songs.

Ville: World domination.

Jussi: ...that too!

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

Jussi: Well. For those of you who enjoy US-style Death metal in the vein of Suffocation, Nile ect. check out Crippler! Also (Psychoparalysis).

Ville: Swallowed

Jukkis: Ofghost.

Free word.

Jukkis: Playing guitar is awesome, (smoking weed is) a great hobby.

Ville: -

Jussi: When I grow up, I want to be like Ville.

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Contact:

saattovakiband@gmail.com

KOROIDIA

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

My name is Ralf Varela and I am lead vocals and guitar for Koroidia

When/where was your band formed? 

Late 2013 in Hialeah Florida

Why did you choose to play Death Metal? 

During my middle school and high school years I grew up on bands like Obituary, Deicide, Morbid Angel, and Incantation and that was what influenced me personally.

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

Primarily it's has been Yasser and myself that write the riffs and everyone is involved in the arrangements pretty much.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

The lyrics are mostly about religion, Greek mythology, and just dark subject matter. I'm inspired by all kinds of things, and life experiences.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

Koroidia means mockery in the Greek language and I'd say the ideology is mockery of organized religion.

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

I think Death Metal is definitely strengthening again many classic bands are re surging it's great to see. 

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

The goal is to continue to put out good music and have a good time in the process.

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

I would have to say our brothers Brutality. Great band, amazing musicians, and they had enough faith in us to add us to their label Ceremonial Records and fund our release.

Free Word

Thanks for the interview and thanks for the support! Check out Koroidia and Ceremonial Records!

AMPUTORY

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

We are Amputory consisting of 5 members, which are: Jarno-Vocals, Saku-Lead guitar, Antti-Rhythm guitar, Pekka-Bass, Jaakko-Drums

When/where was your band formed? 

The band was formed 2009 in Kerava, Finland by Saku and Pekka, former members of Pestigore. Other members joined in soon after, and after that the line-up has been more or less consistent.

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

We choose to play Death Metal because there is enough cross-over (black/death,death/doom etc.) metal going on at the moment. We just stick to Death Metal, and leave all other influences out. We are not re-inventing the wheel here, just delivering the goods.

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

The songs are usually formed as a group during band rehearsals, but the bulk of the riffs are from Saku´s fingers.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

The very darkest side of humanity. Clive Barker etc. have inspired the lyrics but mostly it's about real life horror such as famine, war, serial killers and genocide.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

Our ideology is just to spread the putrid stench of death all around the metal community. Only death is real.

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

.Death Metal has really risen up it´s ugly head again after years of mediocre bullshit. There´s a lot of great, new, inspiring Death Metal bands all around the world in 2015, also here in Finland. Just getting stronger by the day....

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

We don't have any grand, long term plans as such...we just want to deliver crushing Death Metal as much, and as long as we can.

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

.Well...theres too many to mention really, but if someone reading this hasn´t heard Hooded Menace, Swallowed or Corpsessed, yet , check them out!

Free word

Keep the scene alive, Kill all posers! Fuck it, VENOM!  Ostakaa meidän levyjä!!!!

NASHORN

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

Hello! I'm Toni and I play drums & do backing vocals. I also write some of  our lyrics

When/where was your band formed? 

Nashorn was formed in 2010 in Loimaa, Finland by me, Pekka (guitarist) and Samu (Bass). In 2012 band got more serious as Marko (vocals) and Eero (guitar) joined.

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

When we started to create music with Nashorn we did'n choose to play Death Metal. We just wanted to play heavy and crushing music with epic atmosphere. For me personally Death Metal is the most inspirational metal with raw and powerful sound and the genre isn't so narrow as many other metal styles. It gives me more free hands to experiment with the music.

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

We have kind of two ways to create our songs. First is that Pekka compose some riffs and melodies at home and then we finish them at our rehearsal place. Or me and Pekka go just jam and songs come out that way. Of course in both ways songs gets finished in to the final form by whole band.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

Most lyrics are written about war. Imo its a good subject for Death Metal. Its about brutality and madness of human race. Our lyrics are mostly fiction and not based on some actual events in history.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

We don't have any special ideologies in the band. We just create and play music that gives us something that we cant get anywhere else.

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

In nowadays i rarely find new interesting band that blows my mind and  keeps me listening to it again and again. But it does not mean that there is not great Death Metal being made, I just have to look harder to find it.

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

Our intention is to keep on making new songs, play live and possibly record a full-lenght album at some point.

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear

Solothus, Sepulchral Curse, Early Amorphis, Sotajumala, Mörbid vomit and Decaying just to name a few.

Free word

Our new Ep ”Echoes of War” will be released in summer this year.

Opening track is on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltOMQLyq_5Q

Check it out! And like us on facebook

 Photo by Juha Kurri

VIRCOLAC

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

Its N.H here, I am the drummer for Vircolac.

When/where was your band formed? 

We formed in the dying embers of 2013 in Dublin Ireland, 

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

JG had been working on some music on his own initially and he mentioned it to Laoghaire and began discussing this and the idea was born. They had been in contact for many years stretching back to the old 90s tape trading days. They then asked myself and K to come on board. We all had connections through previous musical projects over the years also and a common bond and relationship to the music we strive to create. We began rehearsing and it became very apparent early on that there was a good connection between each member and a growing energy in what we were looking to achieve and create. Death metal was something that had been a part of our lives for many many years and it felt right for us to choose to play this style and to craft our own take one it. Personally I felt that a lot of the dark atmosphere of this type of music from the late 80’s/early 90s had become almost a lost art and we felt it was time to try and create that feeling again through our music and for Us Old Dogs to teach some new tricks so to speak.

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

JG is the main writer/composer in the band, He writes most of the riffs and then we work together to structure them and create songs. K and myself contribute to this aspect with structure, Timings and idea’s for extra instrumentation etc to create the atmosphere we are looking for and we will work through different pieces and ideas until we have finished songs. Laoghaire writes the lyrics and arranges the vocal patterns.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

Lyrics are generally from a different place than the music despite the flow and feel of the music having an all round effect on how they are pieced together and connect with the feel and atmosphere of the song. There are many different influences for the lyrics be they history, life, existential horror, fear, terror and the arcane, There is no one thing that influences how the lyrics are written. 

Inspiration is found in many forms for us. Be it music, Written Word, Art, Movies, Historical places and people, Landscapes of importance to us and our surrounding environment on this Dark, Dank beautiful Island.

Musically we are influenced by many styles of music certainly not limited to death metal. We all like quite different types of music but have found much common ground usually rooted in the classics and many types of Dark and atmospheric music, from Swans to Autopsy, Samhain to Morbid Angel, Misfits to Tiamat, Discharge to Masters Hammer or Twin Peaks meets Nocturnus or Voivod. The List is endless. If we had existed in 92 a label like Peaceville/Deaf for instance would probably have been a perfect fit for us.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

The band name is Romanian for werewolf and was found by guitarist JG in a book called The White Devil: the Werewolf in European History. Given our penchant for gothic horror, the arcane as well as the symbolic concept of transformation through the channel of music, figuratively speaking Vircolac was perfect. The ability for music to transform Man into Beast so to speak and the primal connection that lays dormant in us all waiting to be awoken and the music acting as a Host for this.

The title for the demo Codex Perfida is a Latin title meaning Book of the Faithless which is a concept we all as individuals and collectively can relate to.

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

I think Death Metal is going through a resurgence again over the past few years which is great to see, There are a lot of killer newer bands all over Europe and further afield working on some very interesting takes on this style and putting their own mark on it and bringing back the feeling and atmosphere again rather than continuing down the stagnant path of technicality and speed of so called brutal death metal and the same is happening here also, 

Death to Digital Death Metal…..

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

The cd version of Codex will be released in the coming months by Dark Descent Records and we have some shows lined up at home and abroad including our first festival appearance at this year’s Chaos Descends Festival in Germany. We hope to have a vinyl version of Codex released also in the future. We have begun working on some new tracks and hope to record again possibly later in the year and see where we can take this next.

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

Of the current crop I would advise you to check out Malthusian and Zom. Both completely different and excellent takes on Irish Death Metal. There are rumblings of some other interesting new projects on the horizon so keep your eyes peeled. Ireland is producing some incredible music in the realms of Doom and Black Metal also amongst other forms at the moment. Search them out.

Free word

Thanks for the Interview and Support, Please feel free to check out our bandcamp page for info on releases and merch. Keep an eye out for the CD release of Codex Perfida in Mid Summer of 2015 and more to come. As wolves we have wandered…………..