As many people know, you share the same name with a
Californian band and a Dutch band, how do you feel about this? Would you ever
change your bands name?
We're never gonna change our name cause we are the real Disgorge
from Mexico, and how do I feel about that? I don’t give a fuck.
Now that we got the past out of the way, what
about the future - what does the future hold for Disgorge? New releases, news,
members?
Well we have something to do for this final part of this year and
also for the next one, actually we are composing more new stuff for forth coming
releases as a 3 way split release with Exhumed, Regurgitate and us this to be
released at the end of this year for Relapse Records, we're gonna include 2 new
songs and a cover song also we have 4 more songs for the next album to be
recorded in December this year.
Also, we are getting possibilities to make some other 7" splits
and the most probable one is with Merzbow (you know what I am talking about man)
and also for the Repulsion Tribute we hope to include one track, also man for
the next year we hope finally to be in the US to make some dates there possibly
a whole American tour and also we are scheduled for the next Fuck the Commerce
fest in Germany next year, so we are kind of busy lately man.
About some other news we hope to release our third album for
another label cause we have some kind of lack of communication with the guys of
Repulse, also we're gonna make some dates here in Mexico for November and
December promoting the Gorelics digipack for Sade Records, and also I have
another things to do with my other band Ravager, and also with Demonized we have
scheduled the release of the first album for the next year through Evil
Vengeance Records. We are working on the songs right now and also I am making
some stuff for the next year with some Cenotaph members this project is called
Blood Reaping and so, we are kind of busy these days.
What is life like in Mexico? Is metal big down
there? What about the scene, how is it down there?
Well man life in Mexico its pretty rough like anywhere you know,
but as you know the economic situation isn’t very good , so you must get a job
and that kind of shit but I guess we try to live in this shit hole and you know
life is not easy for every body but well, metal here is kind of big man we have
every weekend shows of international bands and regional bands; but you know the
scene isn’t huge, there’s a lot of trendy people and fashion bands you know?
There’s only a few bands that deserve the global attention like:
Anarchus, the Zephyr, Lust, Warcrusher, Prohibitory, Rottenness, Sargatanas,
Paracoccidiodomicosis, Blood Reaping, Cenotaph, the Chasm, Tenebrarum and some
others but these ones are some of the best . Man, and about labels, the biggest
labels are Oz Productions, American Line Productions, Sade Records and there’s
some other indie labels that are caring for the Mexican scene such as Vision D
Records. And about zines and stuff, there’s a whole bunch of mags and zines out
there, so I guess the Mexuican scene is still growing..
Do you have a lot of problems with crime and
violence?
Man that shit is everywhere in the world, but yes, crime,
violence, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll, Ha Ha! It fucking rules, we are filled
with that kind of shit man, you know… Everybody I know, knows Mexico for a lot
of violence and that’s true.
How have you live shows been so far? Where have you
been? What's the craziest thing you've seen on tour? What about the funniest?
Man on every gig and every tour we have an strange or funny
experience and even more, when you get out in the city to get drunk or stoned or
get some babes to have fun or shit like that, but you know man I guess the
funniest shit is when you are trying to get horny babes and then you notice that
some of those horny babes are girls of some of the bands that we are playing
with in the show!
Ha, but... well there’s a lot of shit around gigs that I never end
to tell you man, and well about were we had played, we have toured Mexico like 5
times, we have also had 2 tours in Central America and also in this year last
march and April we toured Europe with great success and I hope next year we
could make some tours in the US.
If you had to describe Disgorge's musick, ideology
and purpose in 1 short sentence, what would it be?
DISGORGING!
Ha, ha good choice. How do you feel Disgorge has
"matured" or changed since your earlier material, and what about the transition
on Forensick from Chronic Corpora Infest?
I guess the word mature isn’t the right word, the word that could
fit well I guess is evolve cause you know man when we recorded Chronic Corpora
Infest we felt that that album was pretty much our best work to that date but
when we released Forensick I was fucking amazed about what we created, well you
know we are not totally satisfied with the sound of the record man but you know
the intention on Forensick is pretty nasty and sick, just the way we wanted
it.
That was the main intention on that record, to sound fucking
brutal and relentless, but I guess as we evolve with our ideas we are trying to
get more focused on music patterns but always making sick and nasty music, cause
you know man every person that says that "We are maturing as a band" then that
band releases an album that its much more soft oriented music or you know they
want make music that they can feel as a musicians that’s why I kind of hate that
word, you know its inevitable mature as a person but if you want to make sick
music the main objective always is gonna be to make sick music!
You must hear the new mCD split Goremassacre Perversity to know of
what I am talking about, I guess our new stuff is kind the same way like
Forensick but its pretty much more old death metal oriented, but always oozing
purulentic vomit from it.
Yes, one thing I would also agree with is that
every release you have done the brutality and extremity has only increased
exponentially. Speaking of sound, do you or have you ever used vocal effects in
Disgorge? Your voice and vocals are great, but to me it doesn't sound like you
do use effects.
I had never used any kind of vocal effects, only once for the
Regurgitate cover version for the tribute I had used the low pitch on it like
those guys used but I have never used the pitch or any kind of effect to make my
voice lower, and also I don’t put in the CD’s like other band do the shitty
sentence "No vocal effects used" or shit like that cause I don’t like it, what
you hear on the albums is that, my sole voice you know there’s some delays and
flangers if you could say that that is an effect for the voice but only that as
the guys of Flesh Feast would say FUCKIN HATE IS PURE!!
What, in simplistic terms, are you lyrics
about? Could you give us brief translations of some lyrics? How do you come up
with them?
All the concepts about the lyrics are Psycopathological gore much
like Carcass did in the past but you know man we always want to put emotion into
the lyrics, but man its hard that people don’t understand the meaning of the
lyrics cause almost all of the lyrics are related with medical terms so its kind
of hard but the newest songs we are composing are more… you know,
understandable, some titles like Goremassacre Perversity, Sodomic Baptism,
Excremential Lust, some stuff like that, and the meaning in all sense the lyrics
treats only about fucking gore insanity to the top! Without boundaries or any
moral shit! Sometimes incoherent but sick, you will read the new lyrics and you
will know of what I am talking about.
I know a lot of your lyrics deal with morbid,
gory topics... Do you think, if given the oppurtinity to get away with it, that
you would kill someone?
I couldn’t kill someone cause if I did, I would get put in prison
my entire life and I dont want to get prison, I want to make sick music, you
know all the concept about Disgorge deals about that shit but its our most
perverse feelings that we are showing within, but kiilling people its another
thing, you know man I would fucking die pretty happy if I could kill at least
all my entire neighborhood!
Fuck yeah, I hate them all but for fucking sure I will get in
jail, cause I am so fucking recognizable, so man that would be stupid, the end
of my life, you know what I am making here and its also my job its to make
fuckin sick and heavy music but I will be fucking happy if I could kill people,
you know man, that kind of shit is of the things that we always are dealing and
think and think it over again and again so man we have to live with it so man
its kind of preaching without practicing like testament you should say but we
have to live in this shit society that the act to kill some one is punishable,
you know its kind of frustrating but its always great when you create the
feelings within the music or any kind of expression you like.
Have you ever faced any problems with
censorship in Mexico?
In Mexico, never....
Mexico culture has a unique affair with death and
the morbid, I have read books before and things that illustrate how it almost
has an "obsession" with it, and there are even mainstream magazines about death
and gore. Could you elaborate and explain this a bit for us?
About the cult to death in Mexico, that is very true, you know? We
have some traditions here in Mexico that worships death and all that has to do
with this, but these kind of traditions are getting lost by the pass of the
years and decades cause the young people here in Mexico are like sheep man, you
know? Straight to the slaughterhouse! Ha! Following trends without any kind of
taste without their own sense, only following what the TV or radio gets in tune
but you know there’s always the people that care about our past and roots and
our history and we feel like the way we respect death because it’s the most real
sense of logic in this world, born to die, that’s what it’s all about, and of
course evil without boundaries!
And yes man here in Mexico, there’s a lot of magazines that deals
about all kind of crimes here in Mexico like: rapes, assaults, killings,
cannibalism cases and all kind of morbid facts that happen all around Mexico,
you know man people want to see that, blood, terror, fear and also like the lot
of peoples like me that enjoys to read and get these kinds of filth
magazines.
What bands/movies/things have influence on Disgorge?
Where do you get your inspiration?
Man, I had made a conclusion with these kind of questions, I could
not name some of my favorite bands cause there are too much! I love all kinds of
metal man: heavy, thrash, death, black, some subgenres of metal like grindcore,
some hardcore bands and those bands are a lot but you know what always has got
some really serious influence in Disgorge is always gonna be the mighty and
filthy CARCASS and all kind of rancid death fuckin metal, and you know any
visual kind of gory inspiration always rides on within our tastes like CNN
special crime documentaries, snuff videos, porno (fucking rulz!), any kind of
gory movie and shit like that but you know always the main influence is
metal!
Thanks a lot for your time, Antimo. I will
leave you the gore drenched floor. Keep the blood flowing!
Thanx for the interest and the interview, Don, and your patience
for getting this one. Thanx a lot and I hope we could make the stuff of the
split, that would be fuckin great! Thanks to all people that write and support
us and also the ones who are reading this! Keep
infesting!!!
