Beastiality
from Sweden is a band that caught my attention thanks to the magnificent demo ”Ancient
Bell Chimes”. The band is currently preparing the debut full llength, and I´m
longing for what promises to be a monumental album of obscure and evil old-school
metal. The following interview was
answered by E. Von (bass) and Heinrich (Guitars).
How did everything
evolve since the first days of the band in 2010 until the release of your first demo “Ancient Bell Chimes” in 2013? The sounds is obscure, raw,
and definitely old-school. How much did you work and rehearse to find that
sound? Which bands do you feel have helped
influence Beastiality´s music??
Well first of all
there weren't any rehearsing until the day before the recording of the demo..
Until then we had just jammed at Heinrich place at some occations. So the songs
were rehearsed for the first time together with drums the day before the
recording, this was in summer 2012.
The month after we
both moved up to Stockholm and we then started to form the band and rehearsed
together with our drummer Axxxelerator and later we also started to rehearse
with our 2nd guitarist, Funeral Führer.. Later on we also found (our now ex.
vocalist) M.Molester, who recorded the vocals for the "Ancient Bell Chimes"-
demo and the track "Apocalyptic Storm" that came out on a compilation
LP. We all had quite much of an mutual understanding of what we were aiming
for- Death Metal Extremism, so the sound sort of came out by itself.
Beastiality is a "special" monicker, can you tell us why yoy chose it as a band´s name?
Beastiality stands for
the wratful perverted intiation between the unchained beast and mankind.
We didn't look for
other bands sound or whatever to create that demo, it all went down by default. We
had our morbid vison and sight against the world quite clear, we knew what we
wanted to do. But subconsiously maybe some bands from the scenes as stated
above might slipped in and "guided" our thoughts of what the final
solution/product were going to be like. That and Mary Jane.
I really dig the
covert artwork too, as I love this kind of old school designs please give me
more details about it.
The cover were painted
by the mighty David Herrerias, an insanely talanted artist, and friend of ours.
We had our handfull of ideas and thoughts on what we wanted the cover to
contain then David and his artistic mind of his created something amazing as the
cover of the "Ancient Bell Chimes" demo. We were, and of course still
are, very pleased with the result!
The demo was limited
to 100 numbered copies and was reissued later that year by the band and last
year by Morbid Bastard Records, so you can say that it was received very well,
I would love to see it released on mighty vinyl, any chance for that?
Yes, I would
definitely say that the demo got well recieved! Both duplications of the tape
that we did got almost fully prebooked before we even released it..
The main reason why we
just did 200 cassettes and not more were actually because M.Molester did all
the duplications of the cassettes at his place- it even got to the point that
the tape recorder got broken after all the copying.. If there were any interesting
label who showed interest in us then it might have been another press of it.
But a vinyl release of the demo I wouldn't count on if I were you..
Would you place
an equal importance on both music and lyrics? Are there any non-musical influences, like literature, paintings…?
Yes, both musical and
lyrical content are of importance. But with that said it doesn't necessary mean
that it has to be intellectual, or "pretentious", lyrics to be good.
The ambition to write forcefuckin' lyrics, and music, is the way of Beastiality
and so it will continue untill the day we decide to put the band to the grave!
Well there's all kind
of "non-musical influences" in our everyday decadens (of so called)
life..
Ph: Cintia Mars
Unfortunately I didn´t
had the chance to listen to your “Live in Stocholm” album, because I would like
to listen to your live sound and because you recorded the cover versions of
Merciless [Souls Of The Dead] and Sarcófago [Black Vomit] ,two amazing songs. For those who have yet to experience Beastiality live, how would you describe your live sound and performance?
Raw, fast and filthy.
How did you came with
the idea to record and release a live album? Though it was only released on
tape, you are among the few bands that recorded and released a live album before
a studio album, like Vulcano or Atomic Aggressor…
This "Live in
Stockholm" cassette you're talking about is a "official unofficial
bootleg", so to say..
The cassette were made
by E.von and got printed in just a handful of copies..so it's
"official" in that way, but not official for the masses. We never
declared that we've made this one. It was printed in something like 20 copies
and they got spread within the closest circle around the band. Someone else
reported about this tapes existence..
Later on we however
agreed on having it reprinted on a Indonesian label on the agreement that it
only will be distributed within the region of this muslim country..so we agreed
to this label to do a very small repress. But those are the only ones that will
be made!!
You played with Blasphemy, Watain, Archgoat, Interment and other great bands, what´s the best thing about playing live and sharing stage with those bands, what would you name as the band´s best moments so far?
Playing live is when
we unveil the madness and manifest what Beastiality is, so in a way you can say
that those are the essential moments. We haven't had that many shows yet so
sharing stage with both Blasphemy, Archgoat and Nifelheim at the same day at
the festival was of course cool, and as well our best gig..so far..
Before the live album,
you released the song “Apocaliptyc Storm” featured on Evil Spells Vol l
compilation. I recently interview Occult
Burial, that were also featured with one song, and we commented about the lack of more
compilations like that nowadays, compared to the 80s and early 90s compilation
LPs. One of the conclusions was that they have
fallen out of fashion, maybe due to the internet, what do you think about it?
Do you have other point of view?
Not really, the
concept of a compilation albums is pretty neat. The thing is as you say- bands
these days use all kind of websites to promote themselves already, so in the
end they won't make that much sense. It doesn't really fulfill any purpose. But
honestly there's not much of a strong opinoin about this, can't really care
that much about it.
In terms of production
of Apocalyptic Storm sounds “better” than the sound of the demo, and when I say
better I mean stronger yet raw and evil, do you think is important to evolve
and “improve” the sound but reaching certain limits?
No, not really.
Recently your released
a demo tape “Demons from Niflhel” with two songs, as advance from the upcoming debut lp ” Worshippers of Unearthly
Perversions” Can you unveil more details about the album, the album concept?
Has the release date been fixed yet? Which record
label will handle the release?
The song “Stanken Av
Uråldrig Död [A Stench Of Ancient Death] is absolutely dark and eerie, the
intro and the morbid chorus is brilliant, truly dark and sinister. How did you work on that song? Can you tell what the song is about and
what did inspire it?
We were granted this
morbid lyric in Swedish by C.Conjurer, once written for Morbid Insulter in 2011
but never got used..Both us and C. found it suitable for the band so we then
asked P.Penetrator from Morbid Insulter/The Third Eye Rapists to (s)lay the
vocals for this one (as well as the other track on the cassette
"Shadowside Path"). The lyrical content and meaning of the lyric one
has to read by himself to understand..
Which albums, demos
and eps released this year are among your faves? which ones would you recommend?
Nothing has really
caught our interest this year.. We're not into that many new bands and the ones
that are good haven't really released anything this year. At least what we can
remeber right now...But one album that could, and should be mentioned is the
"Temple Below - The Dark Godess", it's fuckin' good! [I agree 666% - Chris]
Heinrich [guitars]
played in the now defunct Morbid Insulter, the latest ep “Antichrist
Blasphemies” was really great and as far as I know the band´s releases received
good feedback. Why did the band break up?
Yes, killer
band! E. Expulser left this world in 2011.
Nope. None of those
bands exists these days.
Are there any bands
from the current scene which you have a musical or aesthetic connection? What
do you think about bands like Eurynomos, Occult Burial, Vampire…
Nah, wouldn't really
say that we do. There's a few good bands out there that might have the same
preferences as us, but much more then that in common I wouldn't really say we
have. None of these bands that you're mention have caught our interest.
What´s the strangest
place and the most shocking one that you´ve been?
...try hard drugs.
Beastiality appeared
many times linked to the slogan “never stop the madness”, which is supposed
that Euronymous started using and then many people in the black metal scene.
What does that slogan means for the band?
It means what it
says- Never stop the madness!
What are your current
plans besides the release of the full-length, are you also planning some live activities to promote the new album?
Some of our current
plans for the future would be to find a steady vocalist, continue working on
our new material for our next release and to spread the word of hate and
aggression.
Yes there might be
some live manifestations ahead..it all depends on bookers and gig-arrangers out
there.
Thank you for your
time! End this interview as you want...
To get in contact with
the band mail beastialityswe@gmail.com
Fukk off posers and
fukk all these new trendy metal people. Faggots!!
-"Take your guns
to kill the black metal trend".
beastiality.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/Beastiality-Sweden
Thanks for share, they're killer!
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