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    issue # 11 2001 io ao Fins =H Refofel IN ~“Decayed = Aborted CL ust-bet-totofe} “Agathocles Pandemonium Deeds Of Flesh Skinless ") Barz Lyn Burial Mound Sectarian | Bb ¢- Toni lo}ey A lot of news + about 250 objective reviews Is been quite a while ago since you heard from us. #10 came out i AugustiSeplember 1999 and ifs January 2001 now. And I can ‘easly explain why it took s0 long. After #10 had been released I moved on my own, and I took my time to get setied and to get ‘everything done properly. In early 2000 I started to work on this new issue, doing interviews and reviews on the items Thad got Meanwhile Theo did his share as wel, but since I am responsable for the release ofthis issue his part got delayed too. A few months later in early speing I quit for a while since there were so many other things I had to do or simply wanted to do. T continued in late ‘summer and since then T spent an awful lot of my free time on this issue. Also included are 2 interviews which are made by Ron, one of the editors of Vampire ‘zine. His help for tis issue is highly appreciated. Martin's involvement is limited to @ hand ful of reviews. If I look at this issue now I am satisfied with how it tumed out. And yes, you can complain about certain interviews and reviews being quite old (which they are!) but you must remember that the main reason for doing ths ‘zine is to spread the names of the bands, not the latest details about the bunds (although we try to put as much information in it as we can). Sill I hope you'll enjoy this issue. And if not, you can always use it as tiletpaper, ha! Anyway, included are a lot of great bands which deserve your attention. Support them, support the labels, distributors and other ‘ines too. Together we keep this scene going. Take care!!! (Ewald) * We want to thank the following people, labels, distributors, ‘zines for their great help and support. + First of all to Ron Salden of Vampire ‘zine! Sven & Aborted, Jan & Agathocles, Eisen & Blood/lron distribution, Orch & Burial ‘Mound, José & Decayed, Erik & Deeds Of Flesh, Konstantin & Kaamos, Thomas & Pandemonium, Robbert & Pyaemia, the guys of Sectarian, Nosh & Skinless, Stephan & Thansiog, Nicolas & Bones Brigade Rec /dist., Daan & Damnation Rec.(ist, Jom & Soulseller Rec fist, Tommi & Sagitarius Prod. Slave & Father dist., Dask Realm Rec., Symphoenix dist, Cees & Teutonic Existence Rec /distr., Lszl & Backwoods Prod., Rimmon & So It Is Done Rec., Novum Vox Mortis Rec., Shindy Prod., Revenge “lapse Rec., Noise V. Rec., To The Death Rec., Sombre Rec., Uxicon Rec., Lofty Storm Rec., Dead Sun Rec./ Eddy & Disgorgement Of Squashed Bodies Rec., Bizarre Leprous Prod., Dwell Rec., Jill & Razorback Rec., ‘Shock Wave Rec., Arte de Occulta, Evil Horde Rec., Psychic Scream Rec., Hammerheart Rec/The Plague Rec., Sound Riot Rec., United Guttural Rec., Morbid Rec., Erebros Prod., Headfucker Rec., Copro Rec., Obscene Prod., Icarus Rec., Northem Darkness Rec., Ohne Maulkorb Rec., Lowlife Rec., Resuscitate Rec., Deadcentre distr., Painiac Rec., Criminal Rec., Still Dead Prod., DM Records, Sterminio Prod., Deadly Art Rec., Vanitas Prod. X-treme Rec., American Line Rec., Danza Ipnotica Rec., Southern ‘Spirits Prod., Morbid Orchestra distr., all the bands that sent us their material for a review, all the ‘zines that reviewed our ‘zine or with whom we have traded, everybody who bought our zine, all the people, bands, zines, we are friends with or involved in. Thanks ‘tw all of you for your support, patience, friendship in the past 10 (yes!) years. * Here's a list of the addresses from the recordiabels from which we reviewed something * + Bizarre Leprous Prod. efo Roman Polacek, Palackého 647, 5630 Lanskroun, Czech Republic. E-mail: blepr@lanskrounsk.cz + Bones Brigade Records, BP 31, 62140 Hesdin. E-mail: bonesbrign@ aol.com + Copro Records, p.o.box 4429, Henley On Thames, Oxon, RG9 1GH England. E-mail: CoproProd@AOL.COM + Damnation Records, Hoge Larenseweg 55, 1221 AK Hilversum, Holland. E-mail: damned66@xs4al:l Deed Sun Records/Sonic Wave Records, c/o Rey JF, 10, Rue des Capucines, 22300 Lannion, France. + Disgorgement Of Squashed Bodies Records, Dijkstraat 138, 9240 Zele, Belgium. E-mail: motordyk@planctintemet.be + Dwell Records, p.o.box 39439, Las Angeles, CA 90039, USA. www wellrecords.com + Erebros Records, po.bor C8, 010 01 Zilina, Slovakia. E-mail: belobrad@za.netax.sk + Evil Horde Records, p.o.box 4912, Curiiba-PR, 82530-970 Brazil. E-mail: blacklegion@vrs.com.br + Hammerheart Records/The Plague Records, p.o.box 277, 6300 AG Valkenburg, Holland, E-mai: wilko@hammerheart.com + Headfucker Records, poor 151, 25038 Rovato Brescia, tly. E-mail: info@headfckr.com + Icarus Productions, ce 1593 (1000) Correo Central, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail carus@ba.netgrinderargentine@ba.net + Lofty Storm Records, clo Marco Morigut, Caixa Postal 1550, Florianopolis-SC, 88010-970 Brazil. E-mail: moriguti@yatech.net “# Morbid Records, Postfach 3, 03114 Drebkau. Germany. E-mail: promo@morbidrecords.de # Noise V. Records, Postfach 1169, 29201 Celle, Germany. + Norther Darkness Records, c/o Usseglio Max, p0.box 51, 10052 Bardonecchia (TO). Italy. + Novum Vox Mortis Records, p.o.bor 2115, 45 527 Katowice 35, Poland, E-mail: novumvoxmortis@iname.com ¥ Obscene Prod, c/o Miroslav Urbanec, Dolany 117, 53345 Opatovie Nad Labem, Czech Republic. obscene@pce.czcom.cz ‘Ohne Maulkorb Records, Lengdorf 75, 5722 Niedemsill, Austria, + Pagan Records, p.cbor 12, 86 105 Swiecie 5, Poland, E-mail: paganrecords@postpl + Paychic Scream Records, probox 13604, 50816 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: pscream@pa jaring my Paychic Scream Records, po.box 3050, 59 303 Westervik, Sweden. E-mail: pscreamswe@hotmail.com + Razorback Records, co Jil, p.o.box 173, Kings Park, NY 11754, USA. E-mail: wnocera@aol.com + Relapse Records, p.obox 251, Millersville, PA 17551, USA. E-mail: relapse @relapse.com. ++ Revenge Productions, Postfach 122001, 68071 Mennheim, Germany. E-mail revenge.prod@iname.com + Shindy Productions, c/o M. Brzobohaty, Sedova 17, 67904 Adamov, Czech Republic. E-mail: shindy @telecom.cz + Shock Wave Records, BP 81, 31703 Blagnac Cedex, France, + So It Is Done Records, p.o.box 891, 9400 AW Assen, Holland. ‘+ Sombre Records, clo Marcel Spaller, Wiesenweg 13, 09456 Mildenau, Germany. +# Sound Riot Records, p.0.box 243, 2500 Caldas Da Rianha, Portugal. E-mail: soundiot@mailtelepac.ot + Teutonic Existence Records. p.o.box 2110, 7302 EM Apeldoom, Holland, (Up till #10 we used to review items from Teutonic Existence Rec. which was based inthe Dutch town of Rijen. This guy was a rip-off! This isa different label with the same name!!!) + To The Death Records, c/o Cronberg, Claesgatan 4b, 214 26 Malmé, Sweden. + United Guttural Records, po.box 752, Grayslake, IL 60030, USA. E-mail info@unitedguttral.com 1 Uxicon Records, Vest 36, 3271 Zichem, Belgie. E-mail: brenda b@ekynet.be For further information or anything else you can reach us at one of the following addresses. + + Ewald Provost, Dorpsstraat 9, 4373 AC Biggekerke, Holland. + Theo van Eekelen, Valkseweg 225, 3771 SE Bameveld, Holland. E-mail: houwitser@hotmailcom + Martin Dame, Clauslaan 18, 5251 KC Viijmen, Holland + NEWS FROM THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE WORLDWIDE UNDERGROUND * + The Dutch Disgorge (Mangied side project which is kinda like Mortician) will release a CD through So It Is Done Records. Dutch Enraged is working on a CD for this label too * Greek Atavism recorded 2 new tracks which must come out as a split EP with French Fratulation x America’s Prophecy must have a new CD by now which is entitled "Our domain" * Busy times for Portuguese Sound Riot Records. ‘Albums from Germans Insignium and Ninnghizhidda must have come out now while Burial Mound and Incinerator are next to release their full lenghts through this label * Pyaemia members are also involved in Disavowed. This band will enter the studio soon in order to record an album which must come out on Unique Leader Records * What I didn't mention in the Decayed interview is that the band is no longer a trio. V.J. (guitars) has left so it's just V.S. Jose (guitars) and J.M. (bass/throat) now * Upcoming releases on Lofty Storm Records are: Intestinal Disgorge "Whore splattered walls" CD (February 2001), and a Disgorge (Mex)/Cock & Ball Torture split CD (April 2001) * The second edition of Australian Season Decay ‘zine must come out soon and will contain inties with Lord Kaos, Invocation, Atrox, Encabulos, Urgrund, Myrkskog, Anarazel, among others * Houwitser made a video clip which is meant to be broadcasted on the Dutch music channel TMF * Not much is left of German Mental Aberration. Former members have a new band called Deified Tremor x What you can-expect from Swedish Downfall Records (or has probably been released yet) are a full lenght CD from-Spanish Fatal Portrait and EP's from Italian Handful Of Hate and Swedish Immersed In Blood. Label address is: p.o.box 879, 414 51 Gateborg, Sweden * A very cheap Lymphatic Phlegm mini CD has been released through German Putrid Nausea Productions. This d.i.y. label has a lot more grind items for sale for little money. Address is: Humboldstrasse 12, 90542 Eckental, Germany. Meanwhile Lymphatic Phlegm is working on a couple of split EP's. Their address is: André Luiz, R. Joao Sguario 242, Osvaldo Cruz 1 cic, Curitiba/PR- Brazil 81.170.000 * Dutch Sanguinary has recorded a few new songs for various compilation CD's which must come out through Metal Mafia and Dave of Lividity x Autopsy split-up a long time ago but still there's Avulsion who will remind us of that Califomian band. And Avulsion made a promo tape which is available for $4 (Europe), $5 (else) at: Impaler Of Trendies Prod., c/o Max Varnier, 161 ‘Avenue Alsace Lorraine, 52100 Saint-Dizier, France * An old black metal band which I've always been into is Finnish Black Crucifixion. Their '92 demo is re-released on 10" and must come out soon on Soulseller Records. Be sure to get your copy for $13 (Europe), $15 (world) at: Soulseller, Baerbergen 33, 1223 KA Hilversum, Holland * The fourth edition of the awesome "Fuck the commerce" festival will take place on 24-26 May in Neiden/Torgau (east) Germany. Rumours say that Exhumed, Desaster, Houwitser, Groinchumn, Genocide §.S. are among the bands that will perform at this year’s edition. I's gonna be great anyway! Info & news: www.cudgel.de x "Wizards of gore” is the title of the Impetigo ttibute CD which includes bands like Haemorrhage, Impaled, Last Days Of Humanity, Blood, Wadge, Deceased, Blood Duster, Murder Corporation, + 20 more (including some big names). This 70 minutes during disc will come your way for only $10 (USA), $12 (else) so don't hesitate and write to Razorback Records * Probably no news anymore but Asphyx has split-up once again x I just mentioned Murder Corporation. They've made a split CD with Indonesian Grind Buto which has been released through Malaysian Psychic Scream Records * To all those who still like Master's Hammer. -A 7" with 2 previously unreleased songs has been released through Memory Records, but I believe that's a side label ‘of Sombre Records (I'm not 100% sure though), What I do know is that only 100 copies were made * Brazil has its own Hellhammer and this band operates under the name of Apocalyptic Raids (original). Their CD-r contains 4 songs of pure old death metal and is for sale for $10 (registered!) to: Eduardo Mortaza, p.o.box 1377, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, cep 20.001-970 Brazil As some of you might have noticed Welsh Desecration didn't do their 2000 Euro tour, but if all goes well they'll be "on the road" in early 2001 so stay tuned, New "Inhuman" shirts are available for $17 so write to the band's address * The next Nunslaughter 7" in an endless row is the "Trifurcate" 7" which came out through Italian Warlord Records. A Bulldozer tribute EP with Sabbat and Imperial on it as well as a Necrosphere EP have seen daylight through the same label. Contact at: Warlord, V. Le Roma 15, 20095 Cusano Mil (MD, Italy French Drakkar Productions was responsable for the Decayed/Impiety/Abigail Euro tour in autumn 2000. They seem to be working now on a Black Witchery/Conqueror Kuro tour * Blood Red Throne, Nifelheim, Chalice, Enslaved, Anorexia Nervosa, are some of the bands that feature in the fifth issue of the great Oskorei 'zine. Meanwhile editor Lars has started his work for the sixth issue which must come out in spring 2001 * An awful lot of new albums have seen daylight in the past few months. Some of ‘em are: Mortem "Decomposed by possession", Cianide "Divide and conquer", Abscess "Tormanted", Vomitory "Revelation nausea", Profanity "Slaughtering thoughts", Regurgitate "Carnivorous erection’, ‘They are from Portugal, they are responsable for 3 full lenght CD's, 1 mini CD, 2 EPs, and a huge beer consumption. They've been doing their share of black meta! for about 10 years now and its about time that they get the recognitioa they deserve. Ewald did the following interview which is answered by Decayed guitarist Jose Its February the 26th, 11 a.m,, and Tm listening to Brazilian Deadenocracy while having a good cup of coffee. How do you do? ‘Portugal must bein the grip of spring now? Helish greetings Ewald! The 22th of March, 19.39 pan., and T'm listening to the demos of Vader on picture LP. A good release if it was done properly. tm doing ok, not great but ok. Things could be beter about Decayed, but time will tell how everything will be sorted out. Right now we are in the grip of autunn or some shit tke that. It has been raining all day and the God of Thunder has been hammering the earth, Arent we living in some fucked up era? “Your debut CD "The conjuration of the southem circle” (which was released in early '94) shouldve been re-released on Nazzul's Eerie Records including 4 cover songs as & bonus. It looks to me lke it never happened. ‘Youre correct, it never happened. We've been having bad shit coming our way throughout our existence. Luck is a word that can not be associated with Decayed. We are the bastard sons of metal! Nezxuls Eerie was ‘one of the labels that was doomed to vanish, mainly because of the bad quality releases sometimes mistaken as underground. One can be underground and still release quality albums. “Time for a change, lsening to Candlemass now. Where was I? You must be tired of all the delays and cancellations. Your new CD ‘The book of darkness" was delayed for 248 ‘years, Evil Omen Records should release it, bout they got bankrupt. After all Drakkar Records released it. But stil the LP version seems uncertain, Maybe you should change ‘your name into Delayed? ‘Yeah, great idea, Delayed shall be our name. Tt seems that labeis have @ good way to delay ‘our releases since all our label releases got delayed. Not to mention that younger bands already have 4 o¢ 5 albums and we just released the 3rd album. We should be releasing the 7th Decayed album in 2000, not the 4th, Atleast we want to release it this year. ‘As for the LP version, I dont think that there will be any. Although we would love to see cour music on LP format. there isnt anyone doing it It's already too hard to find a label for our CD's. ‘Do you feel confident now that its finally ‘out or do you maybe feel kinds dissatisfied Since it took so ong, and thatthe allure isout- dated already? Tm not sure of what feel towards this "new" album, Ithas been ready since October ‘97 s0 to me itisnt & new album. Its just a Decayed album which shows how we were in'97, not 1s we are now. We thought about re-tecording the album, but then we thought tha this alburn is a part of our history and thus it should be released. I don' think tat is outdated ‘cause it stil sounds like no one else. It doesnt sound like something you've heard before, right? ‘Ok, some days have passed, its March the 2nd now, 2 o'clock inthe aftersood, and I just {got back from the past office. Some years ago ‘you had the chance to sign with Adipocere or Osmose Records. Instead of that you did your "Seven seals” EP for Dack Records. Did you regret it that you didnt sign with any of ‘em now that you've had so much obsticals? Maybe Decayed wouldve been 2 lot bigger if ‘you were on Osmase? But perhaps thal 's not What you want either? ‘The 24th of March. You got that wrong, we never had the chance to sign for any of these labels you mentioned. They were never interested in Decayed! Sorry for that. 1 got this info out of a Portugal scene report from about 5-6 years ago. Tm sure that we would be bigger if we had signed with Osmose and believe me that we would like to be bigger and sell more copies of our albums. I'm sure that it ‘must feel great to sell 10.000 copies of each release, to have promotion for your albums and to see them available everywhere. Its very frustrating to put a lot of my time into this band and then get no recognition and no help from the labels. In your exrly days you had a real drummer. But for quize 4 long time you depend on a drumcomputer. It looks to ite that it was fist used on the "Resurrectionem mortuorurn” CD. Finding a good drummer hes always been difficult for you. Will you go on as a tinity, with a drimcomputer instead of & real ceumplayer? Yeah, we had several drummers from 1990- 1998, but then I decided that I wanted to push this band forward and bought « drummachine ‘The best thing I ever didt We would prefer to have a real druminer, we like to improvise & Jot on stage, and with @ drumcomputer that just isnt possible. But we could only accept a drummer who could play our material as we want it, There are too many bands that are fucked up due to incompetent drummers, and we dont want to be ane more. How many times have you heard a great riff ruined by a stupid drum beet? We need a real drummer, ‘ot Someane who claims to play. Before I start the next question TM put some music on. The new Nethermancy demo, surprise hey? Your “In tustull mayher” min CD was like a black page in your existence. You dida' like the album and after listening to it T understand why. Have you ever felt the need to re-record the songs from that album (except forthe song “Thy summoning’, which features on the "Resurrectionem..." CD)? Are ‘you satistied with the other things you did so far, for example the "Thus revealed” demo which dates back to 1992? Tm not that surprised that you lsten to the Nethermancy demo ‘cause I sent you a copy to be reviewed in the might M.O.B. Have you done the review by now? Yes, I did it a preny Jong time ago, among the other releases of other bands which youre involved in Cool shit if you ask me, very cold! It's obvious that we would like to re-record all the songs that feature on the mini CD ‘cause the only thing that we dont lke isthe fucked up sound. The songs are great and thats why we re-recorded "Thy summoning” on our 2nd album, and the 2 covers on our Sed. We also re-recorded the title song for a cassette EP but the label didnt ‘manage to put it out. Tm not sure of what will hhappen with that material. Maybe well look for another label, anyone interested? We are song to re-record the 2 keyboard tracks on ur 4th album. As you can see we are siowly re-recording the whole mini CD. As you know from other interviews you did, no band is ever satisfied with the final result in any release. Its always "now we see that some things could be improved", and the same happens to Decayed. The demo is another example, but it was the first time that we were ina studio, and we had no idea of how to get # metal sound with all those machines, and the engineer it help. It shouldve been a very different demo, more VENOMish ‘Does it happen that you won't use songs and drop them, whatever the reasoa may be? I ask this ‘cause I read in an old interview that ‘you had new songs like "Shall ascend” and "immortal’s entreaty”, but T've never seen or seat hese songs. Fetaps on your debut CD? we never dropped a song but can throw evihigesy i. tat OF vony aang ear sounds lite @ good Decayed song. When we start working on a song the only thing that matters is if it sounds hike Decayed. Some parts may be changed but others remain and thus the songs are never thrown away. The songs you mentioned are included on our debut album and if you don't know that one I have t9 send itto you on tape. You'l be blown, away. Monday, March the 6th, and Tm just back from doing some shopping. Hi, Im back, whats up mate? You've done several cover songs too, songs from Sodom, Slayer, Venom. Your fave band is Bathory, ever done a cover from them or maybe have plans to do one? ‘Sunday, April the Sth. Good to see that you're back! Actually nothing's up, just rehearsing and composing the final songs for our 4th album. Sony to disappoint you Ewald but my fave band is not Venom. I guess that everyone knew by now that Tm totally devoted to the legions of Venom. But yes, we have done a cover of Bathory (" the split CD with Alastor and 2 more on the new album ("Call from the grave” and “The retum of darkness end evil"). Besides these vee aso played "Woman of dark desires” and anthorn” live i the past. Decayed also did « split CD with Alastor which I bought from you, but you also sold demas ftom Thhgnor, HOTH, Nethermancy. ‘might be wrong but are you. or any of the other Decayed members involved in any of these bands? Youre right, I play in all these bands, and some more actually. Music is my life and I love to play all sorts of metal music. If Thad ‘more time and mare money 1 would play in more bands. Since I dont lke to mix different styles Thave to put all my ideas into different projects. Flow many Sagres (which is Portuguese beer) did you drink before you came up with such an awiu! suprise bonus song at the ead Of the split CD? ages is the best fucking beer in the ‘universe. Awful surprise bonus? Why do you ‘say that its awful? I think that its very beautiful, so lovely! I would have liked to see ‘Your face when you wrote this man! And we didn't drink any beer when we recorded that piece of art. We were just having fun with some friends, fucking around. If's me on guitars, VJ on bass, Destructor on drums and Jorge (Cunnilingus vocalist) on vocals. Avfier 10 years, 5 CD releases and 2 EP's Decayed is still a rather smail and unknown band. Ofcourse we can blame the trendy black metal kids for it. After all youre not from Norway. But don't you tink that the whole Portuguese scene fas been boycotted for many years? ‘The Poriuguese scene has been ignored over the years due to 2 factors, 1 think. 1) Most Portuguese bands dont bother to spread their ‘name and music outside our national borders. Most bands are happy by just being known by their friends and act like rockstars. 2) Portugal is in the far end of Europe and people arent interested in what happens in unknown countries. They're just interested in what goes around in the “in’ countries. Its all about trends and lazyness to search for something different and unknown. “Would it make a differeace if Portugal was a central or west European country andlor Portugal had. lets say 20 black metal bands? Would it make a difference if there were ‘more Portuguese ‘zines and labels operating & lot outside Portugal? Mast of what you say would make a difference, Tm sure of that. I we were in the centre of Europe we would have more atention from the scene and we would have more chances to have bands playing and go play in other countries. We do have more than 20 black metal bands but they all follow trends and therefore achieve nothing. As for labels. and ‘Zines, its all again due to the fact that were in the end of Europe, very far away from everything. except for Spain, and this fucking country is of no use ‘cause they're only interested in Spanish products. We are a smalt ‘country that can only count with itself. “AL good source of information’ for this interview were some old ‘zines. Strange thieg was that they were all from Europe. How's Decayed's popularity today? {think that we are known everywhere, from America to Singapore. but its obvious tha the biggest part comes from Europe. At least we get mail from everywhere. Its @ fact that we arent very popular, but our name is known ‘everywhere, I like to think that ifs due to our ‘own sound, our brand of black metal. But 1 hhave to admit that we have a very loyal group of ftiends/suppocters which spread our name everywhere. It feels great when I contact a bband and they go “I just finished listening to ‘your album, and its cool stuff". We know that ‘we are worid spread. The problem is that its ‘ot cool to say that one listens to our musi New CD, other recordlabel. Maybe this will pen doors for you. It fooks tome that you have played in your bome country only, or ‘pethaps in Spain. Is Drakkar able to arrange ‘some gigs for you in Europe. Do you fee! the need to do gigs elsewhere in Europe, or maybe only to taste some beers besides Sagres? ‘Yeeh, new album, new label, it seems that wwe never release 2 albus on the same label although we hope that Drakkar will be our last label. Tm very tired of looking for honest and serious labels. Maybe the fact that Drakkar is, from France will help us to spread our name and music. Tf’s true, we only played in Portugal. ‘Drakkar was working with Metalysee for a European tour, but it all felt through and it seems that Metalysee is no longer « honest institution so Drakkar is trying WE ARE THE BASTARD SONS OF METAL! —Decayed to pula tour together by their own, We want to play everywhere ‘cause we love to play live, it just feels great and it would be very interesting to see the reactions of other crowds to Decayed, see if they would go crazy, see if they would bang those foreign hheads ill they break their necks. Not to mention that we have a drummachine and ‘some people have problems with that. No longer here in Portugal. As for tasting other beers that may be a problem ‘cause Sagres is so fucking great that it is very hard for a Sagres maniac to taste other inferior beers. Stark Bock from Sweden is great! ‘Evvery time I see a picture of Decayed, I see some headbangers who seemingly have 4 good time and enjoy the things they are doing. Totaly different from the “evillooking- corpsepaintedwocshippersofdarkness" that normally feature on an EP/demofCD cover. What does Decayed mean to you, and metal ‘music in general? Do you see it as a bobby or ‘has it become your way of lie? ‘Oh man, shit! What does Decayed and hours? This isthe sor of tak that I only have with friends and if possible over a few beers. ‘This band and metal music are my biggest passions in life, they make me get out of bed Jn the morning. They are the only 2 things for which. is worth being alive, although fowadays metal doesnt’ any longer offer anything great, but I still have my oid tapes, LPs and CD's. Hs a way of fe. Metal aught re t have respect for myself and no one else, except a very few groups of persons that deserve my respect. But hat group is beco ‘ming smilie and smaller. People are really disgusting and weak and false! 1 actually dot know what to tell you ‘cause its a bit Strange to talk sbou! something, so important through paper. And 1 dont want to start talking the trendy bullshits that I read in every ‘tine, how important metal i, how important ‘metal was in the ‘80's, and then if you happen to know those people you know that in real life they are not like that, they go to disco's and they listen to dance music. So, I am what Tam, Pknow in what I believe and if people want to know me, listen to my music and read my lyrics, come over to Portugal and letshave some beers. ‘Ok. Tm out of inspiration so beter quit Sime final words from your side would Be & 00d end ofthis conversation ‘Well Ewald, thank you very mach for the ‘oppertunity to be part of M.O.B., its an honour for me tobe Featured in your ‘zine. To all the readers feel free t wrhe, whatever you want to say, T always by to answer all tnail” although money is sometimes 2 problem, and time! But do try t listen to out new album. You can buy i rom us, or from Drakkar, of from some distros. Maybe it's ‘time to spread your musical tastes to some original old styled black metal. Maybe you'll te surprised. Long lve metal DECAYED cho VS. Jose RL. Camoes, At Arcos, Penedo 2715-235 Parede a etons NI 2 When Robbert of Pyaemia mailed this intie to Theo he apologised for the fact that it took some time to answer it, and he hoped that it wasn't too late to be featured in this issue. An awful lot of time has passed since then and meanwhile certain things that were said in this intie had changedso we had to change the intie a bit. Still I hope you like the conversation between Robbert and ‘Theo. “Leil us something about the very beginning of Pyaemia. When did i all start, and who was it to make his mind up to start Pyremia? What has influenced you? Pyaemia stared as an idea by Frank (bass) ‘and Anton who were on the same highschool tas me (Robbert, drums). On our highschool we fad an anual event at which students perform in front of 400 students and parents, We decided it was time somebody kicked some major ass over there, 80 together with Joe! (vocals, now also guitars), who 1 know since principal school, and another guy from ‘our class we did 2 death metal songs over there. It was a big success, after the first song only 20 people were left, plus 15 of our friends moshing all over the stage. After this success we were ofcourse thirsty for more. ‘Joel took over the guitars from our classmate and we continued playing covers from bands like Suffocation. Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy, Cryptopsy, and others. These are also some of our biggest influences. ‘When did you record the "Cranial blowout” mini CD? Tell us more about the recording. Its self released, isnt? We recorded this mini CD in October'98 at f studio called "Het Pand” in the city of Vinardingen. It took 2 days for recording and one day for the mix, Indeed its self released. We're not 100% satisfied about the sound. It should be re-released on Repulse Records but that didn't happen. low many songs are on that disc and how many copies did you sell? Is it stil available? How do you analyse the Iyrics? Did you guys ever release 2 demo before the mini CD? ‘There are 5 (what we like to believe) ultra brutal songs on "Cranial blowout". T have absolutely no idea how many copies have been sold. At least by far not as many as we could have because when we signed with Repulse we promised them that we wouldat distribute the mini CD on a large scale. We used a lot of them for promotion and sold the rest at shows or we sold them to dedicated sickos. The lyrics are written by Joel and Frank. They are about torture and death, you know, the usual stuff. I can't tell you much about how they analyse them, I dont know. But Joel always puts them in songs the way I can really appreciate. One year before "Cranial blowout” we recorded 2 songs that are also on the mini CD, but other than that ‘We havent recorded anything. ‘After the release of "Cranial blowout" Pyaemia signed with Repulse Records. Were there any other labels interested? ‘We got a prety good contract with Repulse with a nice budget, but after all noting hhappened and we leit them. We're now on Unique Leader Records. Before Repulse we were negotiating with Displeased Records and with Mike van Mastrigt (former Sinister] Houwitser vocalist), but at that ime Repulse just had the best deal ‘So, youte doing « new album. Can you tell sme more about it and when will it be out? ‘The new album is recorded in the "Excess" studio in Rotterdam. Besides the 5 songs from the "Cranial blowout" mini CD itll contain 4 or 5 new ones. We played some of these new cones at our shows and got some really good reactions. I think theyll definitely blow you away. Other than that I cant tell you much about it except that it must be out in fell 2000. Axe there any musical differences Between the mini CD and the new allum. What are your expectations towards the new album? ‘There arent any big differences, just details that make a couple of the songs more brutal than the older ones. They stil blast, tha’s for sure, About our expeciations, we want better sound. With the recording of "Cranial blowout" we didnt take much time to get the perfect guitarsound before we started recording. We thought we would just do that when we were mixing. That didnt really work out, the 2 guitars have a very different sound and its « bit of a sloppy sound. ‘This time we've spent much more time in adjusting our amps. Also we got more time for recording and also for mixing, I's the ‘most important thing for us, to deliver a brutal, tight and well produced CD. Then lets hope itl sell “What can you tell our readers about Nocturnal Silence, the other band youre involved in? Releases? Members? What led toe vein o is be? NNoctumal Silence is another brutal death ‘metal band Joel and I play in. Dont led the name mislead you, it started out some 7 years ago as a very melodic death metal band, but since I replaced their od drummer and Joe! ‘took over from the leaving lead guitar player 3 years ago their music has become more ‘ual and brutal In their old line-up (which ‘was: Robbert Kok - vocals, Gerben vid Bij - sites, Dorus Neiboer - lead guitars, Nils ‘Berdsen - bass, Maarten Winnips - drums) they alteady recorded 2 demos (the last one with Joel as second guitaris). With the new line-up we recorded # 7-song CD “Plateau* in June 98, but we never really released it due to weird circumstances. Now we have just recorded a new 3-song promo "Point of few" that just needs ‘some mixing. Its really a ‘bul piece of work. Check some samples cut on our homepage. “Tell us more about the Pyaemia gigs. Have you done many shows? Which bands ‘id you play with and what was the most interesting band t play with? would like to advise everyone out there to check out our gigs. Theyre brutal as fuck! We have been playing shows since the begiming of Pyacmia in auturan 1995, s0 thats a while. But we haven't dane thet many shows yet, maybe 25, 30 or something. Lately itis going better, we are hooking up ih other bands and fans that spread the ‘word about Pyaemia, and manage shows for ‘us (ig thanks to you all, especially the guy in Severe Torture!). So we are playing more lay. Check out our homepage frequently for upcoming shows! I think the most interesting band we have played with lately vas Severe Tormre, because theyre into the same music as we are and play the same kind of style. We havenit played with “big” foreign bands yet. ‘im seriously impressed by the talented death metal (and some black metal) bands in Holland. We have Cennian, Severe Torture, Inhume, Occul, to mention a few. Whats ‘your opinion about the Dutch scene? And ‘What's your opinion concering the worldwide scene? How gay is black metal for you? Tm pretty impressed too! Back is my early eath metal days I only knew Sinister as a brutal Dutch death metal band. Nowadeys brutal Dutch death metal bands just keep popping up, playing the American style of brutal deatb metal. Lets hope it will continue. ‘Also in the global scene I'm discovering new cool bands frequently. It's probably because Tm getting sucked into it deeper than ever. 1 ‘can only appreciate black metal when its extreme but sill tight as hell, something lke Dark Funeral. Other than that black metal cant, really intrest me. All the painting and flame spiting, that's just sad. Do you have any other interests or ‘Passions apart from pleying death metal? ‘Who doesn't (smoke blunts and sip beer)? But death metal is my biggest passion right ‘now, and it will probably continue to be 30 for awhile. im sure that all will go great with Pyaemia and we will help to spread your name for sure, Any last words? ‘Theo, hanks for the interview and for your support. All you sick fuckers out there, just beck us out. Til then. Robbert recently told me that their album on Unique Records can come out any moment and is entitled "Cerebral cereal". Write him for info. Robbert Vrijenhoek, Uilenstede 32, 1183 AH Amstelveen, Holland www-pyaemia.com E-mail: pyaemiacfficial@hormail.com Nocturnal Silence E-mail address is: http://w w w_listen.to/nocturnalsilence TOYNINININININ aaa LISS LISI Sectarian ‘The following interview is made by Ron, i ns rn ae have appeared in their ‘zine but they changed ‘it into a Web ‘zine and so they didn't have ‘enough place for it while we have enough place left, And so we have Dutch Sectarian fe edhe St iS Ri igs hve 7 ine oe mera ae ‘here and start to read what Ron and the guys of Sectarian had to discuss. I know its fuckin’ bore but please, give us ‘your biography. Were the band members jn other bands before Sectarian and were there any line-up changes? The previous band name was Kickshaw, why did you rename the band and why Sectarian? Yes, there were some line-up changes before the line-up we form now. First, we started out in the summer of 95 with Kevin firing Bart Alders (guitar), Ramon Bochman (drums) and Jeroen Gelissen (bass). We tried ‘some vocalists behind the mike but that didnt ‘work out. After a while Ramon moved to America for a year so we've had Bjom Prevaas (drums) to help us out fora gig. But he didet have the time and interest to keep playing with us. Thats when Rick Bouwman (drums) joined the band. And we started to make our own songs and did less covers. ‘We've played a few gigs without vocals but that didat work out that well. The response was ok but something was missing, Late ‘98 ‘we started to look again for vocal support and Pascal Beastings joined Kickshaw and the line-up was completed. Until a year ago we did some gigs under the name of Kickshaw tunil we changed it into Sectarian. There Were two reasons why w= changed it in’ ‘Sectarian. The first on : !< harass bap. an fone. There were alreaiy Zu 3 te inns with the name Kickshaw. The second reason, also imports is that we felt that the nan Kickshaw didnt cz ot sandy t wwe make. Kickshaw gives you its hardcore and not metal. At least we feel that way. Soe \v=nted « peme het fe more with ow sys of wie ant Ds or ‘members. Sectarian means fanatic and it is the name for a fanatic member of a sect. We te make, Aid 3 2 change 955 We ote fan ‘members of the raetal scene. Is the "When darkness dra’ near” CD yor fir re ease a (10 wa ele se * ie or ~ mewing else prio 10 tive aia? hove did you record it, who produced it, and are you sti: satisied with the songs, the Drdictio ans te utvok: How a: de reactions so tar? "When darkness draws near” is our fist release ever. Reason for this is that Sectarian, YAYAIAYATVATANAYATAYANATAY, NIT ANS YI SIINIIN ISIS in this line-up exists for only 2% years, and. ‘we needed the time to add vocals tothe songs that were already writen and to write new songs. This album was recorded at the Easy ‘Touch Studio in the Dutch city of Maastricht, ‘and was recorded by John Bartels and by us. Were satisfied with the songs and the sound of the album. We still hed some small thin ‘we wanted to change before it came out. think that you can never be completely satie- fied with your own product. And there are always things you wanted to change. If you take "The call fo witcheraftprophecy's of the dead" and "The last of humanity”, and mix them, youll have an idea of how the next Sectarian album will sound like, more ‘aggressive and melodic. The reactions on our album are good so far. We still ry to reach ‘out more to larger public and see how they respond to our music. Ks Easy Music Productions a label or more of & sponsorimdio wo helped you out with the album? Werent any labels interested ia signing Sectaran, or did you release it by ‘yourself on purpose, io Keep things under ‘Your control? Easy Music is more or less a label, but we lke 10 see it as sponsorship because it’s not 4 label that is into metal. So We lke to keep it ‘much as possible in our own hands, tke merchandise and distibution. We would lke to negotiate wih Hammerheart. They are more or less interested in_ helping us

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