June 30th is the international release date for WEREGOAT's debut album “Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication”, to
be released by Iron Bonehead Productions in collaboration
with Parasitic Records on vinyl and tape, Vault Of Dried Bones will handle the CD edition.
Formed in 2009 WEREGOAT released two EPs so far, "Unholy Exaltation of
Fullmoon Perversity" in 2011 and "Slave Bitch to the Black Ram Master" in
2013. The band also were featured on a couple of splits, the last one in
2015´s infamous “Jesus Fucking Wept Vol I”.
Hear the filthy, morbid and violent advance track “Osculum Infame”...
Tracklisting Goatlust Invocation Osculum Infame Molested By Evil Screaming Forth Endless Blasphemies and Emiting Foul SeedUpon the Pitiful Face of Benevolence Forked Tongue Lashes Between the Virgins Thighs A Full Moon She Bleeds Under The Whip Malediction Command As Cold as The Devils Seed Pestilential Rites Of Infernal Fornication
DEATH YELL revealed a new track from the upcoming and promising debut album “Descent Into
Hell”, to be released soon via Hells Headbangers Records.
Regarding the release of the debut album after 30 years, founding member Andrés
“Pollo” Lozano says:
"It took us quite some
time to decide about recording this album. We had to make the decision about
either burying the band definitively or take the risk of resurrecting Death
Yell… Eventually, we just did it and made all in our hands to keep our
original brutality intact. We are quite sure that Death Yell fans
will not be disappointed."
Underground, old school, controversial, evil…that´s
the way black metal must be…unless you´re a wimp! Luckily there are still bands like FILII
NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM, loyal to the roots. Belathauzer (vocals/guitar) and Helregni
(bass/vocals) answered the following questions. Pure Necro Rock n´ Roll…caralho!
If I´m not
wrong the band started in 1989 under the name Bactherion and recorded a demo “The Miracle
of Death…” and a split
ep, what was Bactherion like?
Belathauzer: IT WAS AN AWFUL
SHITFUCK FROM THE INTESTINAL SHIT OF IFERNALS HELL. (this is gonna be cool! –ed) In our rehearsing mayhemic bondage
satanic chastlustful eagerlyawaitingplungedpraisetildeath 5 o’clock teas we
vomitated blasphemic aggressions into the happy peace and love and trashy metal
surrounding us, upheivling us into the absurd of 14 o’clock meetings, 45º Celsius, June,
July, August, September… Lots of
pizza,loads of shit. No fun, only aggression and anunrelenting
unquenchingstopless urge to fill our emptiness cups with holy and virginal anal
nectar of death. They’re all wimps, now!
Helregni: Bactherion only released
the demo before becoming Filii Nigrantium Infernalium. You certainly mean the
‘Blest by Sekmet’ split tape, which actually included the whole of the ‘The
Miracle of Death’ demo. It was released by the people who went on to form Dark
Records, that later released the Filii demo. Bactherion was a Black Doom band
most influenced by Hellhammer and Necro Schizma.
Belathauzer: And early Samael.
Why did you decide
then to change the band´s name and how did you end up choosing Filii Nigrantium
Infernalium for your band's name? By the way, to all who don´t know please tell
us what´s its correct meaning.
Belathauzer: It means Filhos das
Trevas Infernais. It was even worse than other options, like Bactherion,
Excrementia or Necrodisaster. It was even better than Mayhemicca or Megadeth of
Death of Death (fucking). (thanks for not
choosing any of the other options guys! -ed)
Helregni: Children of the Infernal
Darkness is an adequate name for this band. It comes from a time when Black
Metal was truly Black.
Who
designed the wonderful logo and why did you decide to show it written
backwards?
Belathauzer: I designed the logo,
and a very strange travesty of death did the kraftwork. I can´t recall its
name, but I’m sure Helregni does. It was Waldemar. Schoritzca. Dave Lombardo. I
thought that once we turned down crosses and pentagrams, why not inverting the
name of the band and the lyrics?
Helregni: The original idea was
created by Belathauzer. Then Christophe Szpajdel gave it its final form. It was
one of the first logos he did, and in my opinion one of the best. (totally agree – ed)
You were
influenced by cult bands like Samael, Hellhammer Necro Schizma to name a few
and classic heavy metal bands… Which bands do you feel have helped influence Filii
Nigrantium Infernalium´s music most over the years? Did the band´s preferences
changed along time?
Belathauzer: George Michael of
death. But I’m heavily mindfucked and bile hearted, so Helregni, the wise man
in the band may answer properly… A proper guy.
Helregni: No, the band’s
references haven’t changed at all… There are many bands that can be named as
influences, to our music and to our very lives. True Black Metal bands like
Venom, Sodom, Master’s Hammer, Sarcófago… Thrash bands like Kreator, Slayer,
Infernäl Mäjesty, Voïvod … and Heavy Metal bands like Judas Priest, W.A.S.P.,
Accept or Motörhead. That’s it.
Correct me if
I´m wrong, I remember reading an old interview were you showed you negative
reactions to the trendy black metal scene back then and mainly your disgust
towards the Norwegian black metal scene…what were your thoughts and vies about
it back then?
Belathauzer: They have an anal
cunt syndrome problem. Too much assholness and a little bit of lack of simply
BLACK METAL IRONY. But, quoting the metal god Quorthon (intelligent until he
began playng the childish flag game): «you don’t move me, I don’t give a fuck».
Being racist and playing any form of rock and roll is as intelligent as
believing in any fucking bloody god, Ala, Yaweh, Kali, Oden, any of them. It’s
all the same master and sheep matter. So these bands began to play the
Oh-dad-I-wanna-dance-with-Himmler song. Assholes. And in a certain way, they
could have killed black metal. Fortunately, Black metal, TRUE Black metal,
wasn’t them. It was, still, Venom/VENOM INC, Celtic Frost and Bathory (before
the flag shit game).
Helregni: In the very early
nineties we liked Mayhem and a couple of other Underground releases coming from
Norway. After all the publicity, though, they gave birth to a scene that was
the mental equivalent of a kindergarten for the retarded. All the Nazi shit
(that had never had any place at all inside Metal), the supposed and laughable
“elite”, the misanthropy gimmick, and everything really, was painful to see. I
wouldn’t give a fuck, but they were posing as Metal and contaminating an
already battered scene, and that was rather infuriating.
Belathauzer: Helregni is the voice
of reason, hell yeah!
What
memories do you have from the early days, in your scene with bands like Decayed
and Moonspell, and what do you think about Moonspell´s change of style after
the magnificent Under the Moonspell…
Belathauzer: I love it: but in the
whole lotta opposite to it. But yes, I also prefer their older stuff. Which is
ironic, since they always said they liked (OLD) Venom, (OLD) Possessed, (OLD)
Celtic Frost… Quite a geriatricwise tonus, isn’t it? The first Black Metal band
inhere was Thormenthor, their Self
Immolation is such a blast. And a quite serious influence on our early
sound.
Helregni: Those days are now long
gone. At around 1993 those three bands were the whole of the Black scene in
Portugal. Decayed had a long journey with highs and lows but they managed to
survive and are still around playing their own thing. Moonspell quickly
vanished and went on to other musical landscapes far away.
What are
your fave Portuguese metal albums/EPs/demos?
Belathauzer: Àgata: Obras
completas; Venom: Portuguese Assault; Abstract divinity of death; Square Beast:
We care a lot of death. Idiotic answers, pardon: now, speaking as seriously as
I may: besides the bands that Helregni – wisdomwisely – shall inhereafter
mention, I should recall Moonspell’s Anno
Satanae demo, Woolfheart, Grog,
Braindead’s demos, The Firstborn albums, Shrine and Alkateya’s demos. But the
very best are Vizir’s Ultramar sexual.
Lately there’s a very nice band, quite doomy and blacksabbatish, Lâmina.
Helregni: There have been a number
of quality releases throughout all these years, so many I am bound to forget
something essential, so I’ll name just a few. I guess my favourite Portuguese
band is Martelo Negro, and their latest album is a true Metal gem. Another name
that cannot be left out is Thormenthor and their demos and 7”EP. Other than
that… let’s mention Midnight Priest’s debut mini CD.
What
philosophies, or ideologies, have contributed most significantly to the
thematic content of your work?
Helregni: We don’t care about
Satanic Bibles or stuff like that. I guess our main literary sources are the
oldschool Metal albums themselves! What untold and unsuspected horrors and
mysteries can be fathomed from the hermetic and overwhelming passages of
ancient texts like the lyrics to ‘Burst Command till War’?! Other than that, we
are very much against any form of authority.
Belathauzer: Now that Helregni is
on answering seriously, I want to march in the flow, so I would say it’s quite
a libertarian attitude, also aristocratic in the nietzschean sense of art as a
superior way of being human, above religion, politics or science. I like the
Bible and religious texts such as the Curan or De Sade’s filosophical books.
Sadomasochistic and psicopath ideologies. But I’m also quite fond on reasonable
scientific essays, such as Richard Dawkins. Blasphemy
against any totem or dogmas. Ni Dios ni
banderas y a tomar por culo.
Seven years
passed between A era do Abutre and the release of A Queda, and usually there is
a period of time between your releases, some may take this as a negative things
but I think that you guys try to write material without any rush or without
compromising the quality. How would you describe your songwriting process and
your creative work?
Belathauzer: Those who think that
a band should be constantly releasing stuff are supositorium-minded. You get it
as it is, and the truth ends up to be as follows: que les den. About our latest upcoming album: Most words are the
result of concentrating blasphemous images and strange semantic combinations,
and the nice story is that I assembled most of them in several churches in the
major house of God: Rome. I wrote them in a small book which I previously
spurged with holy water. Which, by the way, is as unhealthy as it may: billion
of bacteria swim and fornicate in basptismal floods. But again, that which does
not infect you, does only make you healthier.
Helregni: There is no rush at all,
and we also had a long hiatus at some point… The way things happened, I feel
each Filii release is a reflection of its own era, its own line-up and what we
ourselves were living at any given time. The album we have now just recorded
was done in a very unusual manner for us… very fast, spontaneous and direct… it
was quickly composed, a large part of it in the rehearsal studio, mainly by
Belathauzer, with the assistance of Maalm. Then Belathauzer came up with his
necroliturgical lyrics, fraught with jocosity and piety, and ecce opus
tenebrarum.
Your lyrics
are in Portuguese, except for Merge to Abscond, from the Rëtrofornicatör EP,
why did you write that lyric in English? Will you try more lyrics in English in
future releases?
Helregni: Not likely, but it might
happen. It just came out that way. No particular reason. We might give it a try
with other languages as well, it’s an idea Belathauzer has considered for a
while. Also, now that you mention it, there may be a little something in
English in the forthcoming album, that we have just recorded. Or not. We still
have to decide.
Belathauzer: Why the hell should
we use English, or any specific language? I thought METAL was beyond the sheep
laws. But when you see most Manowar fans, for instance, you realize this is
only a mere supposition. Ahora contesto en español, medio para
joder, ou em português. Epa, quero lá saber se os
monolingues apenas percebem inglês. Bestas quadradas do caralho of deatH! El
próximo tendrá una letra en checo, en homenaje a los Masters Hammer y a los
Root (antes de que entraran en el concurso de “vamos a MTV, hay que cantar en
inglés, la lengua del imperio”). ¡Bah! Realmente, grandes Ángeles del Infierno
ou Muro ou Santa: para que cantarmos todos na mesma língua, que ainda por cima
desconhecemos? (I think it is impossible to get a better answer Belathauzer! Cojones!!! –ed)
Please
explain us the concept behind the very cool title Rëtrofornicatör…
Belathauzer: Impossible to grasp.
It is, in fact, and according to a high level of Kantian conceptuality (of
putting oneself in a corner), of someone (human person A) to receive from
someone (human person B) in the plumbing. Aristotle dedicates some lines in
Greek to this in his Logic [Translated
from Bad portuguese to perfect english by SIR HELREGNI OF DEATH].
Helregni: It is connected to a
number of things. It is a bit of a tribute to the band Sodom, and also a
reference to the "Retro" trend that was going on back then, and how
trends ought to be fornicated.
I think
Pornokrates: Deo Gratias is your more mature work to date, so to speak, as it
is a perfect expression of all your musical influences and roots, and the sound
is awesome. What were you aiming for production wise? `Cause all the
instruments sounds clear yet very heavy and powerful…
Belathauzer: Yes, we were (and
takk bra for your enthusiastic comment...). Paulo Vieira did a wonderful job,
considering what we were looking for. The mix we have of javard Black and Heavy
and clean Thrash needs that middle ground in which what matters is the power of
the riffs to be very clear. Given this, the result is very good.
What´s the
concept behind Pornokrates: Deo Gratias?
Belathauzer: The concept is always
the same, since A Era do Abutre:
Metal, Metal without boundaries of labels or subgenres. Only Metal is real.
Always looking for the riff, the distinctive beat. The subject is in the ironic
title: Pornokrates is a monicker for the medieval period in which the
ecclesiastic autorities, specially in the italic peninsula, lived devotelly for
sin and carnal excitations. We thank God for that. Thanks, Father of all
castrati, for this beautiful and hilarious ecclesial culture which Thou hath
offered to us, humble, pitiful, scourgeful arses and bitches who wander - lost
- amidst the wonders of the world and the miracles of life… Blasphemy is an
imperative duty, a moral obligation. Against any god, but specially the
monotontheistic ones.
Can you
tell us more about Rebanho de Lobos? about the lyrics, concept and the samplers
used on the song?
Belathauzer: Hahaha! Great
question. It is a song about the idiocy behind the "great" leaders,
the need that the dictators of vast masses of herds have of considering
themselves masters, wolves. It is the case of totalitarian ideologies, whether
the reactionary fascism of the Nazis of the North (Hitler, etc.) or the South
(Salazar, Franco, Mussolini), or those of Soviet fascism (Stalin, Ceaucescu
...). Whoever needs so much of a leader, führer, chief, shepherd, is a sheep.
Even if he/she likes to lynch. Then it
will be a wolf sheep. The Nazis are nothing more than that: lambs with
predatory weapons. In fact, the extreme national patriotic right has this
characteristic, which shares with the beasts of the burkoyihad. I will not shut
up, they tried to kill me on one occasion and they could not. They are
de-mentally retarded. One side and the other. And they're going to screw
everybody up. It's all right. Infernos repeat themselves. Let's go to that,
let's go to War (and above all to desertion). In Metal we have had to deal with
these beasts that infested Black Metal and convinced many idiots that bands like
Motörhead or Venom were "nazis". Is this possible??? It is, and
proves that the neurological receptivity to the most complete imbecility is
common to the religious mind, the canine mind, the sheep, and the pure and
true. Ah, the recordings utilized ... 1) The thousand-year-old führer
(HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) in Nuremberg, in the film of that most talented
imbecile Lehni Rieffenstal, The triumph
of the will, the voice of the great and admired entrepreneur Jesus Hitler,
and then we have another brute of prime category, a Spanish cardinal, Monseñor
Reig Pla, who is a pedophile, homophobic and neo-fascist. Good people I love
inviting to collaborate with Filii. All good people, that true patriots love,
venerate and vote for. Fuck, what a moronic animal species this is! If only I
were a ... bah, all species are, at least in potency. And a fly I would not
want to be. That would be just like being religious, always smelling the shit.
Fellatrix
Discordia Pantokrator was your first full-length and was released ten years
after your debut recording, what does the album means for the band and how do
you see it compared to Pornokrates? What is the significance of the album
title?
Belathauzer: Pornokrates is a
million times better. The drums are quite better, and you can extend this to
every part of it. The title is clear: Discord, that great cock-sucker, rules
over all. And the next one will go ahead and above.
One of my
fave tracks from the album is Morte Geometrica, and it is a pretty interesting
song title, what’s it about?
Belathauzer: It is about the
destruction of the planet by the flocks of God, of all the gods.
Another
track I really dig is Caes De Guerra, it has great melodies and a classic heavy
metal spirit…
Belathauzer: Yes, but the problem
with this theme is that it works like an advertisement for Cash Converters.
There are no more guitars to sell, at least mine. Classic metal has always been
with us. Soon we’ll re-record it in a more direct, fucked up crusty version.
A Era do
Abutre Was reissued in 2015 on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, including
rare material as bonus tracks, one is the track from early 90s “Guerreiros Do
Trovao”, please tell us more about this track, when was it written and why
didn´t you released it before?
Helregni: After the release of 'A
Era do Abutre', we played a couple of gigs. New songs were being written and we
played a couple of them live. Then there were some line-up changes, a few gigs
more, and the band entered a period of inactivity that lasted several years.
After eventually rising from its coffin, those tracks were left behind or had
riffs cannibalized into other songs... 'Guerreiros do Trovão' became 'Calypso'.
Much later, when the vinyl edition of 'A Era do Abutre' was released, we
decided to throw in some bonus material, including two songs that had been
played live in 1995/1996 but had never been actually recorded. We recorded them
as they used to be back then and that was it.
Looking
back on it, how do you see “A Era Do Abutre” nowadays?
Belathauzer: A fucking great
record, then and now. That's it.
Helregni: Those were very
different times... we were young, inexperienced, and had very little time in
the studio. Back then recordings were made on reels (you can actually see the
real reel on one of the central labels of the vinyl version of 'A Era do
Abutre') and we had two days to record everything and half a day to mix it...
It was a step towards something, as everything is.
Your latest
release so far was the Split 10” with the mighty Sabbat, I guess you felt glad
sharing a Split with the crazy Japanese guys, absolute cult!
Helregni: We love Sabbat, of
course… above all we are very happy with the high quality of the release, in
every aspect. The artwork and overall presentation are really excellent. It was
worth the wait.
Belathauzer: I agree and strongly
recommend it. Great artistic object, released by Down With The Most High label.
It includes a Japanese translation of our lyric «Matéria Negra», a quite
curious and interesting fact for us.
With which
bands have you felt comfortable sharing the stage? Have you ever crossed with
some band with a rock star attitude? What were the best and worst gigs /
memories?
Helregni: Sometimes it’s the
smaller bands that have rockstar attitudes… I guess we can’t complain much
about our past experiences. We are friends with several cool local bands, there
are still a few playing music the way it’s supposed to be played. Sometimes we
even invited some of those to play with us, like Martelo Negro, Vizir,
Alchemist or Nightshift. Other friends we were honoured to share the stage with
were, for example, Midnight Priest, Göatfukk, Festering, Disthrone, Grog,
Decayed, and several others. And of course, we’ve also had the great personal
pleasure of meeting and playing with bands like Venom, Venom Inc., Destruction,
Nifelheim, Bolt Thrower, Vader and several others… and our friends from
Omission. Unfortunately we never played with Bathory, but at least we got to
meet Quorthon too. As to good and bad memories, nothing too extremely bad I
guess… just not having the right feeling on stage. Good memories are plenty!
Perhaps having a girl friend of ours come on stage and stick a crucifix up her
cunt in a gig we played. That was fucking awesome.
What´s the
strangest place and the most shocking place you have been?
Belathauzer: The Algarve, a
terrible gig in an awful place named Satori. Bomb it, now. Never again. Throw
the Mother of Bombs on it.
Helregni: A swinger club when
everyone was fucking.
Are you
working on new material? If so can you unveil some details? Do you have a
release date scheduled?
Helregni: As I said previously, we
have just quickly composed and recorded a new full-length album. It’s fucking
heavy, and I would say it is our Blackest album yet… keeping in mind Black
Metal for us is music from the EIGHTIES… not many details can be disclosed at
the moment, and certainly no release date… hopefully still this year, but we
just started looking for a label so it’s impossible to know.
BTHZR: Fuck the Eighties, the
seventies, the nineties, fuck all ages.
Thank you
for the dedicated time! End this interview as you want...
Helregni: Thank you for your
support and your effort. Hail to all those who keep the Metal flame burning in
these times of shitty poser pseudo Metal. If you are a false don’t entry, if
you’re a Nazi, fuck off and die (this rhymes in Sarcófago English). Cheers and
see you around.
Belathauzer: we
are SOMBRAS EN LA OSCURIDAD, blackness beyond the dark. SMRT til the death!
Chaos! This is really obscure, odd and extreme stuff, JYOTISAVEDANGA demo "Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejections" released on CD through Cyclopean Eye Productions. It was originally released on October 2016 on cassette.
YOTISAVEDANGA (the band name comes from the Vedanga Jyotisa, or Jyotisavedanga which is
one of earliest known Indian texts on astronomy and astrology)isan esoteric Indo-Russian ensemble with a morbid inclination to collapsing galaxies,
inter-stellar chaos and hostile extraterrestrial expropriation. Influenced one part by harsh
entities like Nyogthaeblisz, Axis of Advance and Konflict, the other side
reflects the ominous dark sounds of Darkspace, Mz 412 and Lustmord.
"Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejections" is the band´s debut release, listen to the
third track “Black Bane Metaverse” right below, I am curious about what the band can deliver
in the next releases...
Finland´s BONEHUNTER will release the second full-length on August 4th
through Hells Headbangers Records.
The album entitled “Sexual Panic Human Machine” promises an intense dose of
old-school metalpunk, something that you can check yourself by listening to the
advance track “Enter The Satan´s Dimension”, but also by reading the band´s own
words...
"Sexual Panic Human Machine" is a nasty, violent slab of cyberdelic metalpunk anthems, and we are proud to be working alongside Hells Headbangers again to get this record in the hands of people who appreciate our noisy devil gospels!"
There are more words about the album on the press releas that unveil more clues about BONEHUNTER´s new offering…
"Right from the start, even with the album title itself, Sexual
Panic Human Machine is a different Bonehunter and one
not merely replicating past glories. For one, the trio abandon the
"tribute" aspect of the debut and drive deeper into what made that
ancient metalpunk sound work: hooks, heaviness, and hellish drive."
So enough reading from now, listen to "Enter The Satan´s Dimension" and check
out full tracklist…
Tracklisting Intro (Awaken the
Machine...) Enter the Satan's Dimension Digital Evil Electric Nightmare Doom Desire Devil Science Spectre of Sex Vengeance Substance Creator Sexual Panic Human Machine
