Terminal Punishment Interview 2025

Terminal Punishment are a lesser known, young band from The Basque Country in northern Spain.  I am impressed by their naturally occurring brutality and old school sound.  Enjoy a breif interview below:

 

Who are we speaking with and what is your role in Terminal Punishment?

I’m Gael and I do the vocals and help with songwriting.

How did Terminal Punishment start and who is all in the band?

Well terminal punishment is formed by Gael - Vocals , songwriting and Aitor - Guitars, Bass , Drum programming and some backing vocals, we’ve been friends for a while and we both have a very similar musical taste and we wanted to try something out so we started writing stuff in early 2024 , I had been practicing vocals for a while and Aitor is just a master in his craft with the guitar and bass so we connected really quickly..

 I first found "Pacify Through Retaliation" and fell in love with the production and sound of it.  Then "Shrine of Obliteration" came very soon after!  Was the material for the full length already written for some time?

Yeah the production in our demo is very raw we wanted it to sound old school and I think we did a good job , actually Pacify Through Retaliation was released back in the summer of 2024 on soundcloud with different artwork and we also had a different name we went as pacify, but later decided to make the change to terminal punishment , we didn't promote the demo or have an instagram account, we just kept it for ourselves and friends , then in late 2024 we began writing again and decided we wanted to go big with the album and release it on major platforms , so yeah by the time PTR was released on spotify our album was finished completely we just wanted to share the demo too and people seem to have actually enjoyed it we never thought people would dig our shit so for now its been amazing the reception we’ve had!!

Did the band name come from an obvious love of Dehumanized?  What other bands have influenced you guys?

Yes of course our name comes from my favorite Dehumanized song terminal punishment which is hell of a banger 

but I’d say Dehumanized ain’t as big of an influence as other bands , I could do an entire list of 50+ bands we’ve taken inspiration from but definitely our main ones are Dying Fetus, Soils of Fate and Cryptopsy and overall the old school nydm sound.

I do not hear of many bands from Basque Country, (Spain)

What is the local scene like there?  A lot of other bands?

There is no scene over here, literally no scene at all, we are the only band playing this style, there are some other bands but more on the grindcore side, not much on extreme metal in general.

With the great reception you guys are getting, what is next?!  Any plans for the future?

We are planning on writing more music soon maybe some singles and shit, right now we are just chilling working things out for our physicals and shit.

Thanks again for doing this little interview, anything you'd like to say to your fans?

Thanks to y'all for being interested in the first place man, thanks to all the people that enjoy our stuff and that have bought our shit and thanks to the bands that have shown nothing but support and respect, specially Anhedonia for helping us out with our new release! 

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