Regurgitated Devourer is a one-man-project out of Gothenburg, Sweden. Earlier this month, we saw the release of the 2nd full-length from RD, so I asked a few questions to give a little shine on the project! Enjoy!
Who are we talking with? How are you doing?
Hi! I'm Jens, I've been good, working on a lot of stuff recently
Regurgitated Devourer is just you? is this correct?
Yes, RD is just me, micturator left earlier this year.
How long has the band existed? Can you tell the origin story?
RD originated as Carnage back in 2021, as a goregrind project, before I renamed it because of a band that already existed under that name. In 2022, I changed genres, and created Regurgitated Putridity. And That project quickly disbanded.
About 6 months later, I started another project called Insatiable Perversion, but all of the music I recorded for it got Lost.
And in 2023, I started Swathed in Blood, a deathcore band that quickly switched to Slam, and I renamed it to Regurgitated Devourer.
How would you describe the music you make?
I would call it a Mix between classic slam, and 2000s death metal, with some modern finishes.
Who are some of your biggest influences?
my Biggest influences are Abominable Putridity and Analepsy.
Now the new album has been out for a week or so? are people liking it? are you pleased with it?
The new album is performing well so far, people seem to like it, and I really am happy with how the production sounds, and it's something I worked very hard on!
Who did the art for the new album?
Lordigan a.k.a Pedro sena! I love his works, and his art also featured on our First LP.
How did working with Fetal Chunk come about?
I posted a story on Instagram asking people if they wanted to be a feature on a song for our new album, the vocalist for Fetal Chunk Deformation messaged me and asked if they could hop on the track.
This 3-peice out of Kyiv, Ukraine are pumping out some seriously beautiful and brutal death/grind craziness. They are all amazing at their crafts and it all comes together rather nicely on their recent 4-song EP "Chaotic Demiurge". This slab of brutality is finished of with a Cryptopsy cover just as a little treat. World, meet Sectarian Defacement!
How is it going?!
Everything is going quite smoothly and naturally, we are currently preparing our first full-length release, I can't share all the details yet, so stay tuned!
What are your names and ages and what do you each do in sectarian defacement?
The Frontman name is Nazar, he is 24, Bassist name is Anton, he just turned 18 this summer and our Drummer name is Viktor, he's 19. In addition to playing instruments, we also do the mixing and mastering ourselves, Anton taking on most of the work, meanwhile, Nazar takes over songwriting and most of the management, and Viktor... All he need to do, is only play drums, and this is no less important than anything else! :)
What can you say about Grave Island Records and how did you start working with them?
So, this label runs by talented musician, he also play bass in Relics of Humanity and his name is Pavel Lapkouski. We have a lot of mutual friends from my homeland, but we didn't know each other personally, until we released first EP, and then Pavel texted us first with an offer to release the next album on his label, he also cover a huge part of the recording costs, we are so thankful to him!
What does Sectarian Defacement mean? How did you come up with the name?
Ahahaha, that's crazy, because originally I wanted to name this band just "Sectarian", but unfortunately this name was already used by another band with some their releases, so I just add "Defacement" just because it sounds cool :)
I'm not sure that there is any meaning behind it...
What is the writing process like for the band?
The process is pretty fast, fun and smooth, we write our ideas in Guitar Pro and just share it between us, so I can write a song within couple of days.
What are some of your influences?
Oh man, we were influenced by Brutal/Death metal and Gore/Grind scene, we love bands like: Devourment, Dahmer, Brodequin, Ahumado Granujo, Deeds of Flesh, Carcass, Cryptopsy, Defeated Sanity, Mephitic Corpse and more more others bands.
We fucking LOVE "Chaotic Demiurge" !! When was it officially released?
Thank you for kind words! It was officially released on our mate's label Deepswarming Bloodmagik on may 24 2025
Who did the artwork for the ep and what is the idea of it?
This artwork made by super talented artist, his name is Andrii Strakhov, He makes very extraordinary collages from completely different topics and combines them into unusual concepts, I advise you to check out his other works as well. The image on the cover is a reference to the Mayan culture, which predicted the end of the world, and the name "Chaotic Demiurge" is about how our world is formed, in which there are no such concepts as "Right" and "Wrong", but only complete chaos in which we have to survive...
What is the scene like around you guys? I have never been to Kyiv, but it is fairly large correct? Are things safe around you? I feel stupid asking, and I hate that the wars are ongoing.
Currently, in my opinion, we have the similar situation as in U.S. I mean the most popular genres are Hardcore and Beatdown, we have had a lot of bands come out in the last couple years. I have nothing against these genres, I can listen to them sometimes, but I don't like it when they start copying and pretending like they playing slam, they call it slam, but in fact they continue to play some beatdown and just hyping on genre they are not...
Now in Kyiv the biggest threat is from ballistics and drones, you never know when it might hit your house... But we hold on and want to fight back against the moscovia aggressors
Will you be playing live shows soon??
Well, since Viktor joined the band, he said that he didn't really like live performances, so we came to a compromise that we would perform a few times a year, so, probably, the next live show will be in 2026... But, maybe we will perform this year too, will see.
Well we are very pumped for more music and will be waiting for more update on the full length!!!! Thank you for answering some questions!!!! Anything else you’d like to say to the fans??
Wow! We are really glad and appreciate that people enjoyed our music, it motivates us to make more and better new songs!
I just want to say thank you and thank to all of our listeners and fans of heavy underground music, please don't stop supporting in any possible ways all of the artists of worldwide underground scene, and stay strong and brutal as hell!
With all respect and love, Nazar, the frontman of Sectarian Defacement.
Here is a breif chat with Eston, vocalist of BDM act Vulnificus. The band's newest single will grow on you, like the bacteria known as vulnificus, and it will soon take over. This is some quality brutal death metal that has original riffs and ideas and we can't wait for the full length!
CEREBRALREVIEWMENT- Who are we talking with? How are you doing?
ESTON - I'm doing well. You are talking with Eston Browne, vocals/founding member of VULNIFICUS
Who are the members of Vulnificus
VULNIFICUS is:
E. Browne (Vocals)
J. Parker (Guitars)
E. Daniele (Guitars)
M. Jones (Bass)
J. McLean (Drums)
How long has the band existed? Can you tell the origin story?
VULNIFICUS has been in existence since October 2021. Halloween to be exact. The band originally started as a two piece and progressively morphed into the band that we are today. After the release of "INVOCATION", we had a member change and I recruited the members that are in the band currently
How would you describe the music you guys are making?
I would describe our music as old school brutal death metal. Brutal death that's a mix of the old Unique Leader era sound mixed with a new modern twist but I'm sure listeners to our new sound might have their own interpretation. We've gotten comparisons to Suffocation and Deprecated to Deeds of Flesh. I'm very honored to be in the same sentence with those bands I love and look up to.
So this October we will see the release of your first full-length, "Inclination". The first single is very promising, with creative songwriting and a guitar solo that dances over the opening riffs in a unique way. Is this a good representation of the album as a whole? Is the "modern twist" you speak of present throughout with more creative and layered songwriting?
I would say that it's a great representation. I don't want to give away too much but there's a lot of emotions involved in the riffs and vocals and in the twists and turns it provides the listener. I'd say the lyrical motivations and production is where the modern twist comes into play, but the listener will have their own perspective as to how that is for them. I don't think the album as a whole is a one size fits all. Even though it's old school brutal death metal, we've seen a lot of different comparisons to a variety of bands and people saying that it doesn't sound like anything else at all. It's all in the eye of the beholder.
What was the writing process like for the album?
It was a very exciting and smooth process seeing the ideas come to life. I'm excited to work on more material! I had several ideas for riffs and tracks based on my lyrics and everything came together very nicely. Jamison wrote about 5 tracks and Evan wrote 4 and I included my own ideas as needed within each song. I didn't impose much at all. I just set the framework based on how VULNIFICUS wrote songs in the past and let the guys do their own thing freely.
Where was it recorded?
"INCLINATION" was recorded at Backroom Studios in Rockaway, New Jersey by Scot Moriarty. Drums were tracked there by Evan, and the instruments and vocals were all done at our own home studios individually. Scot, the engineer, then mixed and mastered the rest.
The artwork is looking awesome, who is the artist?
Ricky Pile - Pileworm Guttural Art. He's done all the artwork for our releases thus far, besides our INEXPLICABLE compilation.
When did you start working with Comatose and how did that come about?
Things weren't going the way we wanted to with our previous label and we weren't really seeing eye to eye. I've always been an observer and supporter of Comatose over the years and they've put out some of my favorite releases like Imperial Execration, Dysentery, Dehumanized, etc. I just think it was a natural fit for us and once the album was finished I sent it over, it was received very well by Comatose and that's how the relationship came to be. I'm very satisfied thus far seeing my vision coming to life with the help of Comatose. It feels like all of the hard work and sacrifice that we put in to make this album is going in our favor. I can see this partnership being a great opportunity and long term success for us both.
What were some awesome things about recording Inclination? What were some difficulties?
How quickly the songs were put together and executed was one of the awesome things about recording INCLINATION. It feels great to be in a band where everyone shares the same mindset. These songs were written at the beginning of our new lineup being put together back in late 2022-early 2023 and it was very fun, very smooth and no egos were present. The real difficulty was the distance, since we don't live in the same state everything had to be very accurate and precise. One of the songs weren't exactly accurate so it had to be reworked and tweaked a bit.
Are there plans for some live shows to support the album?
I'd love for us to put some live shows together and possibly tour for this album, especially after the reception we had at Arkansas Deathfest. We have a show lined up for the end of August with Cordyceps, Prophecy of Suffering (Jamison's other band) and Epileptic Avulsions in Colorado. It will be our 11th show. We all have busy schedules and lives to live but I hope we could play a few fests or a few tours per year to stay active. With the rising costs of living and everything surrounding life it just makes it very difficult to execute a successful tour if it isn't with an established underground act.
Who are some of you favorite vocalists?
Ross Dolan (Immolation), Danny Nelson (Malignancy), Joe Ptacek (Broken Hope), Corpsegrinder (Cannibal Corpse), Jacoby/Erik (Deeds), Frank Mullen (Suffocation). Just to name a few. If you listen closely you'll find those influences in my vocals, for sure.
Well we are loving the single and following the rollout of this album closely! October 10th is on our calendar and it can’t come soon enough!!!! Thanks for taking the time and answering questions!!!! Any last words to the readers and your fans?
Thank you so much for having me and I truly appreciate the kind words and support. I hope our album will be one that will remain in the minds of brutal death metal fans for many years to come. Please stay tuned for more news regarding our upcoming record. If you want to buy merchandise from us you can visit our website or visit Comatose Music to purchase the new music.
Maybe you've steered clear because of their name, maybe you thought the band was just a joke? Either way, you are doing yourself a disservice by not checking out TruckStop DickPill, Knoxville, TN's self-proclaimed Appalachian Boner Slam band. Yes, they are having a lot of fun, and yes, they are writing some killer music! Catch up below!
Hello and thank you for being willing to talk to me! Who do we have here? What do you do in TruckStop DickPill?
What’s good, man?! Thank you for having me. I know we’ve talked about doing this for a while so I’m stoked to make you wanna gouge your eyes out with these long ass redundant answers you’re about to read to your questions haha. My name is Corey aka Crack Burton and I am the gurgle goblin of Truckstop Dickpill. Vocalist in layman’s terms.
Can you tell the story of how you guys met, how the band started, and how you came up with the name?
So Dickpill started with my friends Chris (guitar), Kyle (guitar), Brandon (guitar), and Ryan (drums) who I’ve known for a long time. Ryan, Brandon, and I have been in projects on and off for years and have always wanted to get a full time band going and none of us would have guessed this would be the one that stuck haha. The band basically started as a side project by Chris and Ryan who were both in other bands and I was the last to join cause they needed a vocalist and the rest is pisstory.
Obviously the lineup has changed since the beginning. Our friend Toby later joined on bass, but tragically passed away back in March before playing his first show, and our boy Mikey (ex-Disarmer) joined once we found out that Kyle was leaving. Chris’s main focus is his other band, Quiescent Mantis, so that lead to him leaving as well. We are all still homies and support each other and that’s the way it should be.
Names were already being thrown around when I joined and the concept was always centered around dickpills so we kinda all piggybacked off each other’s suggestions until we landed on Truckstop Dickpill. I always search band names when spitballing ideas cause I wanna make sure it’s not taken and there were a couple of variations that were similar, but Truckstop Dickpill just sounded right. A lot of people will mention Gas Station Boner Pills to us, which is a party punk band from Atlanta, GA and they were one of the first to follow us once we got the Instagram page up and running and we immediately clicked and eventually played a house show together in Knoxville. So that was really sick. Homies 4 lyfe. We consider ourselves part of the “Dickverse” so any bands that have wiener jokes in their name we wanna do some shit with you haha.
So very sorry to hear about Toby! If you don't mind speaking a little about how he came into the band, were you guys longtime friends? It must be like losing a real brother! I'm sure he'd be pumped to see what the ol' dickpill was up to now and happy to see the 'dickverse' thick, veiny, and strong!
Thank you. Toby was the heart of the band for sure and always will be. He was actually a huge fan of the band and picked up a bass just to join and learned the songs super quick. He was so passionate and dedicated. We decided not to replace him and Mikey took it upon himself to get a bass rig so he can transmit a bass sound while simultaneously playing guitar. It’s really sick and we sound heavy as balls. I know he would be proud of us, but I also know he would want to be apart of it because that was what he wanted more than anything. We always have a donation box at our shows that goes to his family so, for those that have contributed thus far, thank you.
Let's talk influences. First off, for readers that may not know, what kind of music do you make? Then, what did you guys grow up listening to, and what bands have influenced the band?
We make Slam or Slamming Death Metal. We have called ourselves “Boner Slam” and have been referred to as “Party Slam,” so a big fat Slam sandwich either way you slice it. Slam is a sub-genre of Death Metal, but with a heavier focus on the curbstomp breakdowns that bands like Internal Bleeding and Suffocation pioneered. It’s essentially just ignorant ass music meant to channel people’s inner cave dweller and we are huge movie nerds so throwing in samples that make us laugh is always a plus. Nothing more satisfying than seeing people playfully beat the shit out of each other with a smile on their face cause they heard a Whitest Kids You Know sample that leads into a dummy riff.
As far as what I grew up listening to, I’m a Jew from Long Island, NY so obviously KISS is my favorite band of all time haha. Love the theme, the theatrics, and the lore. I’ve always greatly admired their impeccable marketing abilities and how they were able to make the band itself larger than life. They were like superheroes to me growing up, ya know? Like the epitome of who rockstars should be. I grew up in a musical family so I absorbed everything I heard, but KISS was the first band I listened to on my own. Middle school is when I got into the heavy stuff cause my brother is a few years older than me and his friends were all metalheads and knew I was into Horror movies and shit so we would trade CDs and that’s how I first heard bands like Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse, Hatebreed, and Morbid Angel.
We are all old so we grew up in the magazine/tape trading days before the internet was the go-to for music sharing. There were these mail order catalogues I used to get called “BMG Music” and “Columbia House” and you bought one CD and got twelve free or some shit, which was not as good as it sounded cause I remember my mom would pay an ass ton for those fucking CDs haha. You checked off the CDs you wanted and mail the list back with a check. I remember Metal Maniacs having an order form in the back for CDs also. I was a simp for magazines like Hit Parader, Circus, and Kerrang so I had an idea of what bands I wanted to listen to that I didn’t see on TV. I was an MTV kid growing up so I would stay up late to watch the Metal blocks when they played shit like Fear Factory and Exodus. They brought back Headbanger’s Ball with Jamey Jasta and that was sick. Then Fuse had the show Uranium that featured a lot of interviews with Metal bands at festivals so that’s when I really wanted to be in a band. Labels like Relapse, Metal Blade, Century Media, and Victory had compilation CDs with all their artists on it so that was another way I got into the more extreme shit like Skinless, Dying Fetus, Nile, and Exhumed. Once my brother got into heavy music too it created this bond that we still have today where we find the most crude and absurd song titles and send them to each other and laugh.
Our influences vary pretty heavily cause we all come from different musical backgrounds, but for me I would say my main influences are Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Terror, and Deicide. They’ve all influenced me creatively on and off the stage in so many ways. We all love the 80s Hair bands and Heavy Metal icons like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Dokken, which a lot of people would refer to as “Dad Metal,” but there’s nothing wrong with that. You can’t sit here and tell me that “Metal Health” by Quiet Riot and “Balls to the Wall” by Accept doesn’t go hard. Those are THE Heavy Metal anthems and always will be. Straight hard ass meaty in your face and up your ass riffs. Nuff said.
Your discography seems extensive for such a young band! You guys seem to stay hella busy, are there plans to slow down? Or the release of a full length?
Yeah so other than the “Hard as Fuck EP” and “Buc-eeverse Beatdown” I wrote those other EPs and shit myself. I’m not much of a guitar player, but once we had momentum, I got inspired and didn’t want to stop. I had so many ideas and just ran with it so that lead to doing the split with Fupa Goddess, the single with Buttholectomy, and the holiday EPs. I’m definitely not a producer either so they don’t sound the best, but Death Metal doesn’t have to sound super clean and professional to get the point across, necessarily. I just wanted to stay consistent and really establish what Dickpill was all about while maintaining the hype we were getting. So releasing over 20 songs in a year without dropping a full-length is nothing new, I still think it’s rad and it kept us busy.
As far as what’s next, we recently wrapped up our first tour through the Midwest and it was fucking awesome. We built the tour around our appearance at Slam Dakota Fest in Sioux Falls and man those are some amazing people running that fest. It’s truly like a family and we hope to be back next year. If you know Les and Sam, give them a fat fucking hug for us when you see ‘em. All the bands and promoters we worked with on tour were super chill and made our tour experience enjoyable. The podcasts we did were super sick too and we are grateful for the opportunity to be goofy as fuck when they press record haha. To the crazy Mothertruckers that came out to our shows and threw down and partied with us, we couldn’t have asked for better fans. Thank you.
With that being said, we took a short break after tour to sort out our home lives and everything, but we got a couple of shows coming up in August and have big things planned for our show at Smiley’s in Raphine, VA on the 23rd, which is an actual truck stop. So be on the lookout for that. Once we’ve concluded these shows we will be writing our next couple of EPs before we focus on a full length. I’m currently working on our tour video that will be released very soon exclusively on Patreon or something like that. All the footage was recorded on cellphones so that’s the best way to watch it cause it’s all at a vertical angle. I think it provides a unique viewing experience cause most people watch shit on their phones anyways and this way you don’t have to flip your phone landscape mode to watch it.
Reflecting on our tour, we definitely want to get on a label and possibly a management company so everything goes much smoother from here on out. We put everything we had and beyond into that tour and we made it work without a hitch, but now that we’ve accomplished our first successful DIY 2 week run, we want the next one to be bigger and better without any additional stress and uncertainty. That’s the main goal for us. So we aren’t slowing down by any means. We are just getting started.
Can we hear a crazy story of something that happened while on tour?
Oh man, the whole tour was crazy! Haha. A crazy story though was our last show at Joybomb in Indiana. We were driving through the piss pouring rain and we got word that the power went out at the venue and the show might be cancelled. Luckily we had our sound engineer homie Morgan with us cause he’s a licensed electrician so I was like, “if anyone can make something happen…he’s that dude.” So his idea was to use the generator from our RV to power the necessary equipment and salvage the show. Once Morgan and their sound guy Ben combined noggins, they made the shit happen. Everyone who came out stuck around and threw down and the bands all killed. Gotta give a huge shoutout to Adversary Enfleshed cause they worked their asses off to get that show booked and we didn’t wanna let them down. The power company showed up and worked on the lines and the lights came on right before our set. Everyone went nuts in excitement and it was a sick moment. It was crazy to see a scene like that work together and really deliver. The result was something special and a hell of a last show before we headed back to Knoxville.
Who are some of your favorite vocalists?
I have a lot haha. Frank Mullen of Suffocation is definitely my biggest influence, both vocally and performatively. He’s truly the GOAT of Death Metal. Obviously Corpsegrinder cause he not only has the best stage presence, but he’s a genuine ass dude. Glen Benton of Deicide. I call him “Death Metal Elvis” haha. He has the meanest sounding vocals straight from fucking Hell. Nergal of Behemoth. Love his range and lyrical abilities. He has such a way of enunciating words and emotion and is a great story teller. Very theatrical. Ross Dolan of Immolation for sure cause off stage he’s actually shorter than he looks haha. Cause on stage, he’s like 7ft tall the way he performs and not many can do that.
Who are the other 'weiner' bands in the dickverse with you?
Well I wouldn’t wanna say the dickverse is official haha, it’s more of a joke if we play shows with bands that have a dick reference in their name. Weiner reference sounds better haha. We played a house show here in Knoxville with Gas Station Boner Pills and Donkey Dick, who are also members of Pissrot and On My Life, so to us, they are members of the dickverse. We played a show with Putrid Smegma in Kansas City while on tour so they are definitely in, no question haha.
Alright, tour is done. what is next? new music? pump out a promo to the labels? or just sit back and take dickpills?
I feel like we’ve been sitting back and taking dickpills cause we’ve been taking a break since we got back from tour, but we are ready to get back at it. We wrote a new track before tour and are fine-tuning it now so be on the lookout for that. The new track will be apart of our next EP, which we will be taking the time to write that as well as another EP to follow it.
We have been shopping labels, but that’s a bit harder nowadays, because of streaming apps and digital music, a lot of labels don’t even have ways to submit music. Basically, if they are interested, they will contact you directly versus wanting us to send them an EPK and a demo and all of that. Hasn’t stopped us from sending shit out anyways, but the market is just different now so you just have to put yourselves out there and make yourselves known. It certainly helps to have well produced music, a decent social media following, touring experience, and some hype around you so, sources like what you do with Cerebral Reviewment really helps us out and we greatly appreciate that.
I’ve been a fan of your shit for a while now, so it’s awesome to get the opportunity to blab about Dickpill. I can’t thank you enough for having me and we are super stoked for everyone to hear what we got swimming in our balls. We are super grateful for all the crazy Mothertruckers that have supported us and all the bands that fuck with us. We will see yall soon. Toby Hurt forever. Thank you for your time, dude!
Toby Hurt forever indeed. Thank you crack for your time and honesty and thoughtfulness with these answers. Really cool to read about the a vibrant community and scene that is still thriving, despite the world of the internet seeming like haters rule the world. You guys are awesome, and I can't wait for more!
Holy shit. I love it when I stumble upon something like this. "Toiling Through Worthless Masses" is the debut EP from Infertile Crescent. This project is the evil little brain-child of Chip Smith, a multi-instrumentalist in his mid 20s, who we are LUCKY to have putting all of his energy into Infertile Crescent. I mean, this thing is under 15 minutes, but still somehow feels like a complete story; a bleak and disgustingly tangible walk down a shit-slime drenched sewer. Parts of it remind me of a raw black metal atmosphere, parts of it are reminiscent of Bell Witch, and most of it churns, chugs, and slams you to death.
Right away I noticed the tones of the guitar. The perfect, fuzzy fit for how this project feels. The heavy parts feature chugs that have to be palm muted by god, (satan?) himself. To compliment it all are these wonderful drums. They provide a perfect warmth to the mix and a luxuriously tight feeling snare but still with a full sound. Then I learned that it was Joey Pelletier behind mixing and mastering this, and thought 'ok he may know a thing or two about how to make a drum kit sound pretty perfect' and everything else does too!!
Chips vocals, creative writing, and awesome artwork (both by Chip, and the cover art, by Vlad Mashynskyi) all help to wrap this up nicely and make it one of my favorites of the year!!
Click HERE to let it play while you read the interview below!
Can you tell us who you are and a little about yourself? What exactly do you do in this project?
I’m Chip. I’ve been playing music for about 10 years but have been passionate about music my whole life. I’ve been in several bands since then, but Infertile Crescent is my one man passion project so I do all writing, instruments and vocals in the band.
How long have you been playing music, what got you started?
I’ve been playing music for about 10 years now, or since I was 15. I originally started playing drums after listening to a bunch of Calculating Infinity by Dillinger Escape Plan. My family and the people I grew up around are very music oriented so I grew up with a lot of musical influence. My brother introduced me to metal when i was a preteen and I kind of just went down the rabbit hole from there.
The EP "Toiling Through Worthless Masses" is insanely heavy, groovy, brutal, doomy, sludgy, dissonant and everything else. It really does have so much going on, and thanks to the wonderful production, we can sit back and really enjoy this without any confusion or straining to hear certain things. Can you speak on this? How did we get here?!
Honestly, the type of music I write just comes naturally to me. There’s less thought behind the writing with Infertile Crescent. I just open my DAW and let it happen. Writing Infertile Crescent is kind of my comfort place. I feel like I’m truly me when I’m working on this project. Thankfully, as far as production goes, I have some wonderful people around me who are talented and help me make things sound brutal. Joey Pelletier mixed and mastered “Toiling Through Worthless Masses” and completely understood the direction I was looking to take it. This project is purely me, and writing the music is kind of like writing an autobiography to me, as corny as that is
I love the art and the font choice, even the movement of light when I let the youtube video play.
Vlad 'Darkness' Mashynskyi
I’m very inspired by lost/cursed and generally off putting media. The samples, imagery of the band, and how I present it is just as important to me as the music itself. Just like the music, the imagery is a piece of me and comes fairly naturally. I feel like the music wouldn’t be the same without all the other things that come along with it. If you haven’t gone down the rabbit hole of disturbing media, and you’re a horror fan, I would strongly suggest giving it a go.
What or who are some of your influences?
For this project, I pull a lot of my inspiration from experimental death metal, black metal and similar genres. Bands like Portal, Blut Aus Nord, Xasthur and the likes have probably been the bigger influences. I’m sure there has been a month or two span of time where I nearly only listened to those three bands. Apart from those, there is a slam/brutal death element to the music that is inspired more by slam as a whole and not any particular bands. However, Wormed, Infertile Surrogacy and Grieve are some bands that did provide inspiration to my sound. Honorable mentions would be mathgrind and anything generally f***ed up. I’ll listen to harsh noise if it hits the spot.
Will there be physical copies for sale? merch? any plans for more music from this amazing project?
As far as physical copies and merch go, it really just depends on the demand for them. I would be more than willing to release merch and physical copies if people are interested in buying them. I’m planning to release more music, and already have a new release in the works. I think I’ll always work on this project in one way or another.
This 5-piece up-and-coming band, now resides in California. They are young, hungry, and going full-steam ahead with blasty grinding slammy BDM. The band's most recent 3-track demo is out now on NSE. Listen to it by clicking HERE, and enjoy the interview!
Who are the members of Intestinal Sodomy and what are their ages?
Daniel our vocalist is 19
James our guitarist is 19
Beckett our drummer is 19
Emrys our bassist is 19
Sam our second guitarist is 20
What is the origin story of Intestinal Sodomy?
It’s a long story, when I first moved to Houston from Cali in 2022-23 (I can’t remember the year) my girlfriend in Houston had a friend who was in a band looking for a guitarist. I’d always wanted to play live and shit so I hit them up and joined what was called ‘Cholera’ at the time. It was a shitty grindcore band but it was all I had at the time and eventually we got other members and played shows, while we sucked we had a lot of fun. Then I got tired of having members that couldn’t play their instruments (for lack of better terms) and the band went stale towards the end of 2023. I wrote a demo for what was gonna be a solo project and the vocalist of intestinal at the time (Rudy) hit me up to restart the band with a better drummer. I knew this guy named Beckett from another grind band in Houston called ‘ScxmFxck’ and decided to hit him up. He was down to record the demo that I had written, and that was our first demo.
We played more shows, did a tour with Impalement and throughout that wrote Erotic Exsanguination in early-mid 2024. We had Deago temporarily filling in on vocals in late 2024 and he recorded vocals on Erotic. We met Sam on the tour with Impalement and he was super supportive and fucked with the band, and later we met Emrys and Daniel from Virologist. Eventually all these guys joined and I moved from Texas back to Cali last year as well. As it stands now we’re all working on our first full length which we’re all very stoked to release.
How did you land on such a wonderful band name?
Haha, when we were still ‘Cholera’ I suggested a name change because there’s like 300 bands called cholera, and malignancy is one of my favorite bands ever, the name is from one of their songs off intrauterine. Wish it was a cooler story haha.
Ok wait so everyone is in Cali now? Anyone in school? What do you guys do for work?
James- Yeah basically everyone is in cali now. Beckett is gonna be moving out here in a couple weeks too.
Daniel-I’m not in school, and I just moved out from San Diego to Riverside within the week, so I’m still looking for work, but I have a pretty promised place at this warehouse pretty close to where I’m living right now.
Most (or all) of you guys are in 2 or more bands I believe. How do you juggle all of it? Does it just kind of all blend together like you are living in one big slammy grindy gurgly party?
Daniel-The two bands I’m currently in are Intestinal Sodomy and Virologist, as the vocalist it’s pretty easy juggling between the two bands, but most of my band mates are in multiple different projects, like Necrotic Infibulation, Regurgitated Entrails, Submerged like mentioned Virologist, Scxm Fxck, it’s definitely a big circle of people and bands, but it’s great considering we’re all pretty good friends.
VIROLOGIST
NECROTIC INFIBULATION
REGURGITATED ENTRAILS
Can you talk about the differences between the two demos? (LINE-UPs, GEOGRAPHIC CHANGES) What were the pros and cons of writing and recording each demo?
James- Yeah so the first demo was all written by me when I was like 17, Beckett learned the material I had written for it and Rudy was just on board with doing vocals. We weren’t technical or fast really but it marks where we started as an actual band. We recorded it at this jam room in Houston that was shared with like 7 bands.
Erotic Exsanguination was kind of the same story, Beckett and I wrote the material this time and we had Deago step up on vocals, we knew him through our good friends Necrogilistic Anomaly. we recorded in their jam spot and knocked it out in a few hours. Originally we were gonna have brutal mind do the release but then we got on nse!
NECROGILISTIC ANOMALY
When and how did you join the NSE roster?
Sam had been putting in word for us for a while and eventually Ryan gave us a chance and checked out the new material and apparently really liked it.
Well, I think everyone liked it! I cannot stop listening to Erotic!! Who did the artwork for the demo?
Cristian Castro did the artwork, he did a phenomenal job. Expect even sicker art for the full length.
Will you guys be playing NSE Fest in November?
Beckett- Yessir we’re going to drive down to Texas we also plan to play at least 3-4 new album songs,
What is next for Intestinal Sodomy? Anything you can tell us about things you may have planned?
Beckett - James and I have been planning to move in together for a couple months now. It’s been quite the process but we should be moved in together by the end of the month and we plan to get to work as soon as we move in together. The goal with the album is continue to push our sound adding more speed and keeping the slams disgusting, so far we have 1 full song for the album and it’s my personal favorite intestinal song. This was the first time me and James had other members contributing with the song writing process. I'm extremely grateful to have Sam, Emrys and Daniel’s input with writing music . I’ve been playing drums for 3 years now and every time me and James have sat down to write I’ve had something new in the arsenal to play for each release, I'm extremely excited for the album and I hope we don’t disappoint!
Thanks again for doin the interview guys! Any last words, now's the time.
Beckett - Just wanted to express my gratitude for giving us this opportunity for the interview. I’ve been telling James for months that I’ve always dreamed of doing an interview so we can tell the story’s of how we wrote the music and how the band came to be, THANK YOU!!
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