GorillaBomb Interview 2025

This young 3-peice out of Taft, CA only have 2 songs recorded so far.  In our current climate of about 5 trillion new slam bands every week, GorillaBomb's new EP stuck out to me.  It is obvious that they are not trying to emulate anyone else, they are just having fun and being themselves.  Their brutal, disgusting selves.  I love it.

CR - Yo!  Who are we talking to and what is your role in the band?

Yo wassup you’re talking to Hunter, I’m the guitarist of the band.

Can you list the members and ages and roles in the band?

Our lineup is Hunter Clift (19) on Guitar, Ethan Kendrick (19) On Vocals, And Cody Dale (20) On Drums.

How did GorillaBomb start?

To understand how Gorillabomb started I gotta get into some old school lore here. 

I’ve been dating Cody for comin up on 3 Years now, and me and Ethan went to high school together but didn’t really ever talk. We come from a real small town called Taft and we’re some of the only metalheads out here. So me and Cody had just left the thrash band we were playing in called Hysteria, and we were sitting in bed together and I kinda just shot the idea out like “Yk, I like being in a band maybe we should play in another band together.” She said “who would do vocals” and I mentioned I went to school with a kid who was nasty at vocals. So within the hour we had come up with the name and written up our first logo and sent them his way. He said “Fuck it I’m down” and that’s kinda how we started out.

How did you pick the name Gorilla Bomb?

The Name GorillaBomb started out on a random piece of paper we have somewhere. We just scribbled a bunch of names together and hoped one of them would have a ring to it.

 We wanted something that would express the fact we’re making heavy ass music and we plan on having fun doing it. Once we wrote down GorillaBomb it was instantaneously our favorite option.

I am in love with your EP that came out a couple of weeks ago!!!!  Can you tell us how reception has been since you released "Jungle Slut Desecration" ?

Thank you Man, those kind words mean a lot to us. I think reception has gone pretty good for us, It’s hard to say sometimes because like I said we’re from a very small area. Our closest scene to us is Bakersfield and they seem to be enjoying it. In the overall death metal scene though, I’d say reception is pretty good. We’ve gained a lot of followers and lots of kind words.

It was a very huge step for us to get this demo out. We recorded with Bill Sayre at FastTrax in Fresno Ca. Who if you don’t know is the guy who recorded Gouging Out Eyes Of Mutilated Infants and the Mangled Atrocity split By Artery Eruption.
We Hope things keep going good and we plan on recording another single in the near months.

Well we are very excited to hear what comes next for you all!  Let us know when you are ready to release more tunes and we will catch up again!  Any last words?

Thank you everyone who has supported us so far and thank you Cerebral Reviewment For reaching out to us. I’d also like to say thank you to the boys in Impalement as well as Molar/Artery Eruption. These Groups both inspire us heavily and helped us build the fanbase we have, and one big thank you to the team at the 415 in Bakersfield who always give us somewhere special to play.

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GorillaBomb

FastTraxx

Album artwork and more artwork by Cody open for commissions

Photography by Ah Media

Vile Deformity - Forced Conviction - 2025

 

"Forced Conviction" is the debut EP from Vile Deformity.  I really don't know a lot about this project besides this is a fun, quality release.  Under 10 minutes, to the point, quick samples, brutal and catchy riffs.  Majority of these vocals sound like inhales, good ones, and we have killer features, two amazing vocalists who we here at Cerebral Reviewment have interviewed before, Taylor from Gnawing and Tomb Dweller and Sony from Cardiomyotomy.   

Instruments are tight and production is fire.  Mixed and mastered by The Razor Crypt.

This was release June 13th 2025, and is not one to sleep on!

Check out the links below and support the band!

VILE DEFORMITY

CARDIOMYOTOMY

GNAWING

TOMB DWELLER

THE RAZOR CRYPT

LISTEN TO EP HERE

GNAWING INTERVIEW

CARDIOMYOTOMY INTERVIEW

Equalizer interview 2025

Equalizer, a 5-piece slam outfit from Florida, seemed to come out of nowhere with this EP.  

"Respect Da Slams" is 12 minutes of just that; SLAMS.  You can't help but love this shit.  Also came with an absolutely ridiculous music video.  Check it out: 

Check out a quick interview below:

1. Who are the members of Equalizer and where are you from?

Hey! Thank you for the opportunity! Equalizer is basically just me (santi), I write all the songs, run the page, do the merch, etc. But when we perform live we have some of the best players in heavy music in general, all the members are:

-Caleb Tello from yet still we pray, deepslate, allbutone, etc (drums)

-John Manesis from Yet still we pray (bass)

-Christopher Alva from yet still we pray (guitar)

-Wes

-Santiago Amoretti (me) (vox)

I’m seriously grateful for what these guys do and the time they take to make sure we sound fuckin banging on stage, check out their other projects! Also we’re in Broward County, FL

2. When was the band formed?  How did it all start?

Back in 2023 I was in a Deathcore band with the previously mentioned Caleb and John called Birthoftragedy, and after our first EP phenomenology of possession, we found ourselves arguing over creative differences we had within the band. But we decided that our friendship and brotherhood was more important, so I decided to start my own thing (equalizer) and they started their own thing (yet still we pray) and it’s so cool because so much cooler music has come out of it and we still get to play music together which is what it’s all about 

3. Respect Da Slams is crazy!  Can you tell us everything about it?!  

The way that the EP was made was I just locked myself in my room for a week and got stupid high for that week and thats what came out, I had been recently unemployed and had a ton of savings and weed so I just got high and made slam all day, one of the best times of my life quite frankly

4. Are you guys having fun?

Absolutely man, the support has actually been unreal, it’s only been one week and this project’s numbers have been already surpassing everything I’ve ever done in the past musically, so it’s an amazing feeling

5. Tell us all about the slam?

I feel like heavy music in general does something that us humans we can’t quite fully comprehend but it just tickles that one part of our brain that gives you a rush and brings out the most primal energy out of us, hence why we have moshing and the term “caveman riffs” and I feel like slam is just that, but on crack. Let’s be honest, we all have things we like about the subgenre of metal that we like the most, but there’s  nothing like being 13 and hearing your first breakdown, the simplicity of just chugs and gutturals has always been the part of the song everyone goes the craziest to, and a slam song is basically 1-3 minutes of breakdowns with the occasional blast beat, I compare it to rappers like Playboi Carti, Yeat, Ken Carson and others like them, they don’t make music to make you think, they want you to jump up and down at rolling loud, so it doesn’t matter what they say on the song, as long as the RHYTHM is good, and slam works the same exact way, on all of these songs I don’t go above the 5th fret and the lyrics are just blabber about shooting your opps, but rhythmically it sounds good so people like it, and I LOVE rhythm and messing with it in different ways and I can play all the instruments in a slam band so it was a match made in heaven

6. Any last words?

Slam is love, slam is life

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Equalizer

Birthoftragedy

Yet Still We Pray