Interview with Andrew Ferris of Analdicktion - 2011

I was lucky enough to have a very quick interview with Andrew Ferris, guitarist and vocalist in Analdicktion.

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Cerebral Reviewment- First of all, thank you for taking the time to answer some questions!
Can you explain a little about your writing process?

Andrew Ferris- Thanks a lot for having us! Well, I write the songs and send the guitar tracks to everyone online. And then see how they go when we try to play them in the studio. If they don’t turn out so well, then we just throw the song away and move on to the next one. We must have written about 26 songs before the album and only chose 14. We’re very fucking picky. There’s at least 2 songs on the album we would have rather of not been on there and never play live haha!

CR-  Your new album, “SLUTS” is really great!  Any future touring plans?  Any U.S. visits coming up?  Can you guys say anything about the ep you are working on?

AF-  Thanks a lot man! As for touring, we will be hitting up Indonesia for 3 days, and then a date in Malaysia a week after.  We will also be playing Bangcock Deathfest in Thailand in December.  As for a U.S. tour, it’s highly unlikely anytime soon because most of us are still trying to stabilize our lives.  I’m currently in school in Thailand and next year Ash will have to join National Service Army (mandatory in Singapore) for 2 years, so it would be difficult to travel so far for too long.  But it is too early to say whether or not we will.  We’ll just see how it goes, but we will definitely be going to the U.S. (and everywhere else) in the future.  I especially would love to play CIM since I was born in Illinois and it was the first Brutal Death Metal/Grind show I ever saw (back in 2006).
The EP we are working on…it’s gonna be a split 7” with Indonesian Grindcore band Proletar.  We’re gonna be doing 4 songs for it.  The songs will showcase more of our Deathgrind/Goregrind side than anything else and we’re straying away from anything that comes off as too misogynistic or generic gore.  It’s more gonna be like an assault on scene bullshit that pisses us off or that we just find plain humorous.  We also recorded a Disrupt song (Human Garbage) for a Disrupt tribute album. It should be out in December from Power It Up Records.





CR-  How did your relationship with Scrotum Jus develop? How about Rotworks? Rotworks truly has some amazing artwork!

AF-  We were about to self-release an E.P. of 5 songs or use them for a split.  I guess word got out that we were looking to release with a label.  Aziz from the label contacted us.  When we met up, he told us we should record a full-length album at a different studio instead.  We agreed and started writing new songs for the album, entered the studio in December 2010 and recorded the album.  He got the album out as a split release with Sevared Records.  We owe a lot to Aziz.  If not for him we wouldn’t have made this much progress in such a short time…we’d be stuck with some self-released 5 song CD-R wondering where to go next hahaha!  We’ve been good friends with him since, he’s a blast to drink and talk shit with! :D
As for Rotworks, Rotworks is Arif from Wormrot, whom we are very close to.  He also did our logo too.  It was a no brainer to get a shirt design from him.  His shit is always sick!

CR-  A lot of different influences can be heard on the new album. Can you give us a few of your favorite bands, of any genre?

AF-  The different influences…that has mostly to do with our indecisiveness of what kind of band we want to be.  The earlier songs we wrote were more Slam orientated and the newer ones more Deathgrind/Goregrind/Powerviolence so everything really got mixed up for the album.

For Brutal Death/Slam: Short Bus Pile Up, Pus Vomit, Down From The Wound, Aversion To Life, Gorevent…for Grind/Powerviolence: Pulmonary Fibrosis, Captain Cleanoff, Circle Of Dead Children, Wormrot, Spazz, Jig-Ai, BruceXCampbell, Jesus Crost, Looking For An Answer, Wormrot, Squash Bowels, Cock and Ball Torture…ah and so much more!  Sludge band Black Sheep Wall had some impact on us like their low-tuning and over-lapping chords with single string notes for extra heaviness. Sonic Youth and various Punk Rock/Noise shit for noise and pick-scratches/feedback!
As for our personal favourite bands, we honestly don’t listen to much stuff related to the genres we are playing.  Personally, I’ve been listening to Tyler, The Creator, Mac Miller, Wu-Tang Clan, The Beatles, Lagwagon, The Wonder Years, Pianos Become The Teeth, Electric Light Orchestra, The Postal Service, and Westbound Train.  I try not to listen to too much stuff that’s related to the music we play, because it will make me think too much of what we should be doing.  Like I can’t just chill and listen to Brutal Death/Grind because I’d be thinking ‘Oh fuck, that part is sick, I need to write something like that’…kinda frustrates me at times haha!



ANALDICKTION

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