Subjugated - Interview 2026

Hello and thanks for chatting with us!!!  Who is this and what do you do in Subjugated?

Hello guys! This is Xabat! Thank you for reaching out and for supporting us!

Subjugated is a band from Basque Country, founded in 2023 with members from bands such as Carnivorous Voracity, Virulency, Putrid Torso and Necrocake among others. Our current line up is: Igor (vox), Oskar (bass), Edgar (drums), and Turbine and Xabat (guitars).

Three of us played together in Carnivorous Voracity and never really stopped. We started composing new songs in 2023 and finished this album in 2024. We had been recording them and preparing for the upcoming dates (TBA). Our first show was on 1st. November 2025, and it was so sick!  Now we're looking forward to the record label to announce album releasing date, and start playing gigs!

The demo track is full of blasting bdm and some slams, is the full-length much different?  What can you tell us about it?

"Impenitence Discipline" is the most representative song you will hear in the whole album, and we are very proud of it! The full length will include eight devastating songs! And yes, we love the intensity of BDM, frenzied and merciless blasts, with some slamming riffs and also brutal growls. Hope you can give us your feedback soon...

How was it working at Ebola room and ESnSE Studios?

We had a few choices but finally we decided to work with the mentioned two.  

It was very easy to record vocals, bass and guitars in Ebola Room Studios. Our singer is the engineer there, so he helped a lot in this process, of course.

In ESnSE Studios you can find working Lampr3a band members ( check them if you like very technical & instrumental music!)It was a pleasure to record with them the drum lines and master the album. We are delighted with the result because all of them are huge professionals and they easily understood what we are looking for. 

So, we highly recommend ESnSE Studios and Ebola Room Studios, for sure.  The album was recorded on final weeks of 2024, and first ones of 2025.

Who is doing the art for the new record?

The artwork is made by Khaos Diktator . He took our ideas and drawed a piece that should be exposed in a museum as an art itself! The artwork was even better that we ever thought! Hope you can see it soon too!

Now just a few days out from the release of Inherent Belligerence, where can people order cds and merch?

Yeah, they can just order both the CD ( or digital copy ) and T shirts, from bandcamp: https://subjugatedbcdm.bandcamp.com/album/inherent-belligerence

From our Facebook or Instagram or even catching us live!! 

How has it been working with Amputated Vein?

We worked with Masakatsu in the past with Carnivorous Voracity, and we were pleased with how it worked, so it was an easy decision to us. We didn't even look at any other label, to be fair. Masa is a very professional guy to work with, and Amputated Vein Records is a great label with great bands!!!

Who are some of your influences?

We all have a little different influences, but we all like Disavowed, Disgorge, Visceral Disgorge, Cerebral Effusion.

Anything you’d like to say to your fans?

Yes, we would like to thank the ones who supported Brutal Death Metal and Subjugated especially!!  The ones who bought our Merch, attended our shows, or even the ones who are interested in this interview as of course you for the questions itself!!

Hopefully we will see the readers of this interview in our next shows!!!!! We encourage you to come to a show and listen to the brutality we have prepared!!! We would be delighted!!!  Thank you very much for your interview and for the support of the scene!!!  Where brutality reigns, the spirit will never be Subjugated!!!!

Thanks for your time and support again! Hopefully we will meet you and our fans on our upcoming shows TBA.

LINKS

Apple Music

YouTube

Spotify

Instagram

Facebook

Deezer

Bandcamp

Khaos Diktator

Amputated Vein

Protrusion - Interview 2026

Protrusion is pumping out some crazy old school death metal.  Here is a tiny interview, links at the bottom.  Check this band out, you will not be sorry.

How's it goin?!?!  Let's start with who you are and what you do in Protrusion?

I'm doing well. Thanks for asking us to do this interview. My name is Colin. I play guitar and do vocals in Protrusion.

Can you list all the members and their roles for us?

The other members are Kyle Christman on guitar, John Elston on bass, and Kevin Baum on drums.

Can you tell us Protrusion's origin story?

We are all local to the same area. I sought out a few reliable and passionate people to write some old school death. I wanted a real band, not just like a project or one off thing. We hit it off right away writing and jamming all the time. I owe a lot to these guys for answering the call when I came knocking.

From where I am sitting, 2023's Demo has had a very successful reception!  Would you guys agree?

Yes. It was honestly a bit surprising to us that people liked us as much as they did. It felt really good for something we did independently to be given as much praise as it did.

What was the process like for writing and recording that demo?

We wanted that distinct cassette demo sound, so we recorded using really barebones methods. We used a few mics and recorded live right from the living room of Kevin's house. Later we overdubbed guitars and vocals in a similar way so it has a very live feel. Its one of my favorite recordings I've ever been a part of.

Barebones. Hell yeah. Are you guys taking a different approach with the album? In what ways has it been different and/or similar?

We did things similarly to the demo, just with Tony Tipton from the band Regurgitation as our mix engineer. The sound quality is much better than the demo, yet we were still able to aquire a raw and energetic quality to the new album. The main differences in improved sound quality can be attributed to Tony's expertise in producing sick death metal records.

Can you talk a little about the art, on the demo cover, your logo, the merch, it is all amazing!

Jon Zig designed the cover art for our upcoming album. He totally nailed what we were looking for. 

Gruesome Graphx designed the cover art for the 23 demo, but our logo was designed by our bass player, John Elston. John is great artist whether the medium be pen and paper or his career in the tattoo industry. He owns his own studio here in Lafayette, and also handles a lot of our flier designs for our shows.

Who or what influences Protrusion?

Our influences are pretty much countless. Gorguts - 'Considered Dead' is a totally under appreciated master piece and its probably what inspired us to form this band. Early Cannibal Corpse is another big inspiration. Maybe we don't sound like them on a musical level, but the aura of sickness that they had back then is unmatched. We strive to achieve something similar.

How is the scene around you?

There are quite a few solid venues within easy driving distance where some great shows occur frequently. I do wish for Protrusion to play in new areas outside of just Indiana. If any promoters read this then hit us up.

What is something about the band that may surprise people?

I think playing live is where we turn the most heads. Our sound isn't something people come across frequently at shows. When you see us play live you won't forget that. 

Colin, thanks so much again! We can't wait to hear the album!! Any last words??

Thank you again for having me.

Be sure to check out our debut album, 'The Last Suppuration' coming in March 2026. Cheers!

Protrusion Bandcamp

Protrusion Facebook

Protrusion Instagram

Protrusion Youtube

Despondency - Konstantin Interview 2026

Hello!  Who are we speaking with?  How are you doing?

Hi, what's up?

I'm Konstantin Lühring, vocalist for Despondency.  I'm doing well, I hope you are too.

Can you tell us the story of the beginning of Despondency?

The full, long version can be found online... but I'll summarize it briefly.

In the mid-nineties, Steffen Ilm (guitar) and Dirk Janssen (drums) started jamming together, playing brutal stuff in the style of bands like Suffocation, Incantation, Monstrosity, etc....and since they were looking for a vocalist, and knew my work with my band Gallery of Darkness, and because I was looking for a band that plays really brutal stuff, we rehearsed together a few Times and the rest is history .After several lineup changes, I am now the only founding member in the band.

Is the band currently working on new music?

We're gathering ideas and such, but we're not actively working on a new album at the moment. However, Keiran, Eduardo, and I have recorded an album with Flo's other band, "Mastication of Brutality Uncontrolled," which will be released soon. It's incredibly brutal!!!

Which album would you tell a brand new Despondency fan to listen to?

Since the band has existed for almost 30 years and we've released relatively few albums during that time, each one stands on its own. My favorites are "Womb of Shit Promo 2002," 

 "Excruciating Metamorphosis EP 2019," 

and our current album "Matriphagy"... 

our most well-known album is probably "God on Acid" from 2003.

Who are some of your biggest influences and favorite bands?

We were obviously influenced by bands from the early nineties, such as Suffocation, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Immolation, Sinister, etc. Later, of course, also by bands like Internal Bleeding, Deeds of Flesh, Embalmer, etc.

I could talk for hours about my favorite death metal bands, but that would take days. There's so much great music from Death, Autopsy, Sadistic Intent to Suffocation, Monstrosity, Immolation to Disgorge, Malignancy, Gorgasm, etc.

I also listen to at least as much other music as traditional metal, hardcore (from the eighties/nineties), jazz, prog rock, and much more. However, this has no influence on Despondency's music.

Is Despondency still on New Standard Elite?  How has that relationship been?

So, since we didn't have any big plans with Despondency, we signed the deal for just one album... But I could imagine releasing another record on NSE. Working with Ryan went great.

What record label will the new MoBU album be on?

The Mastication of Brutality Uncontrolled album will be released by Show no Mercy Records and is called "The Epoch of Anthropogenic Deities".

How old are you guys?  Do your families support you making such brutal music?

I'm 46 years old, Flo is a few years younger but also over 40, Remo must be 37, Eduardo is 28, and Keiran should be about the same age as Eduardo.

Yes, absolutely. At least my family has always supported me. When we started Despondency in 2015 after the hiatus, the condition was that we would only play shows if it worked for everyone. As you may know, I was the vocalist in Defeated Sanity, and DS is a band that tours constantly, which unfortunately no longer fit into my life plans... even though I love the guys and the band, and Lille will always be one of my best friends...Anyway, I wanted to continue playing death metal, but I now have a child, a wife, and a house, and that wouldn't have been possible with Defeated, so I continued with Despondency, but under the aforementioned conditions. So it was my own decision...no argument, no musical differences, and no pressure from my wife; she always supported me and even encouraged me to continue with Despondency.

Konstantin, I love love love your vocals!!!  Your vocals in Resection were some of the first vocals I really got inspired from!  Can you speak a little about your journey with extreme vocals, when you started, and who are your favorite vocalists?

Thank you so much, I'm honored and really appreciate it. The Resection album isn't exactly one of my favorites; at the time, I didn't even want reverb on the vocals so they would sound as natural as possible. That's why I find them sound a bit dry (the same goes for Revelation IV).But I'm glad you like them. Around '93, I started my first death metal band with a few friends... (that band evolved into the black metal band Funeral Procession in 1995).Of course, I wanted to sound as brutal, deep, and sick as Chris Barnes, Frank Mullen, etc., and let's just say... that didn't quite work out, at least not at the beginning.I have been influenced, in one way or another, by: Chris Barnes, Frank Mullen, Mike van Mastrigt, Ross Dolan, Craig Pillard, Rick Fleming, George Corpsegrinder Fischer (Monstrosity), Joe Ptacek, Martin Schirenc...Some of my favorite vocalists are Danny Nelson, Fernando Avila, Matti Way, Erik Lindmark, Rich Lipscomb, Johnny Paoline, and many others.

Alright, I guess that is the end!  Thanks for taking the time!  Any last words???

Thank you so much for your support and the interview. Keep supporting the death metal underground!!!

Cheers. Konni

LINKS

Despondency

Mastication of Brutality Uncontrolled

New Standard Elite

Show No Mercy

Diphenylchloroarsine - Mats/Benny Interview 2026

Yo Mats, thanks for sitting down to answer some questions!! 

 How have you been? 

Hey man, I've been doing good, you know.. Busy with life and playing slams all over the world , haha. 

It's been almost 5 years since we heard from Diphenylchloroarsine, but we know it's members have other shit going on. Can you tell us about other musical projects you guys have been working on? 

Well I'm super busy with Kraanium as usual and we are working hard on booking shows for next year as well as writing a new album so we are busy as hell . As for other projects I have one named Cadaveric Necropsy in the work where we written and released a promo track so far and have an album planned for release through Rotten music some time next year. Going through some line up changes now so it's moving a bit slow. 

And a new project in the making and it's very exciting and will be very heavy and a lot inspired by the earlier russian slamming style. Benny is doing vocals on this one. Have written and recorded about half the album, including a couple of juicy covers as well. Still searching for a label with that one. 

Now can you get into the new album? How long have you guys been working on it, what stage is it in currently? 

We have been working on it since autumn. So far all music has been laid down, still polishing the final product. Also about half the vocals are done ,then we are also working on finalizing the concept and finding the right artist to capture our ideas for the cover art. Been a very fun and creative process with lots of slamming and late night drinking. 

Congrats on signing with Amputated Vein! How did that come about?

Well I was on vacation in Japan in April of 2025 and then off course I hooked up with my good bro Masa from Amputated Vein recs, He took me to a killer gig there and after that we hung out at my hotel , drinking and talk about shit and he said that he wanted to sign any of my bands or projects for a future release and off course i took him up on it. 

Have there been any line-up changes that we need to know about? 

No line up changes, still me ,Benny and Paul as always . Keeping it OG hehe.

So we know the theme of the album is decided, is there already artwork? Can we see?! 

Haha sneaky sneaky, no artwork yet as it's a work in progress to decide 100 percent what artist we will work with this time. But we will go for a cold and snowy theme with lots of colder colours this time around.

Any differences in the writing or recording process this time around?

Well this time we did all the recording and hanging out and writing process in my waifu inspired man cave rather than Benny's dark n gritty dungeon at Snuff chamber studios cos it was not possible at this time.

Other than that the process of writing the new material has been pretty much the same as always: We get together, have some drinks and just let the creative juices flow. 

When can fans expect to hear a single off of the album?  

That will not be possible this time around due to content I cannot disclose at this time, but we will tease with some snippets here and there before the album releases. 

Can you name 3 newer bands that people should be listening to?

-Deprecation 

-Krocophile

-Gyakuki

Thanks a lot Mats, anything else you'd like to say? 

Thanx for the interview and interest bro n also thanx to my bro Benny who also helped out with the answering. ! Hope everyone will enjoy our new release once it is out and stay underground! 

LINKS

Diphenylchloroarsine

Amputated Vein Reords

Kraanium

Deprecation

Krocophile

Gyakuki

Divulsive - Interview 2026

Divulsive is still a young band, and only has 4 songs in recorded existence, but their promo from last year was still in my top 3 releases.  It is relentless blasty gurgly goodness. Please read the interview and support this band!

Yo!  Thanks for being willing to answer some questions!  We have been jamming your 3-track promo pretty much every single day for the past 6 months or so.  It is one of the best of 2025!!

Who are we talking to?  Who is all in Divulsive and what do they do?

Hey whats up l'm Nate I play drums.

We have Beckett on Vocals, Manny and Thomas on Guitar, Gabe on Bass and me on drums.

Are you guys signed to Comatose?  How did that come about?

Yeah we are signed to Comatose and are super grateful for Steve helping us out being super supportive.

What is the story of how the band started?

We started as a online band mostly just an idea nothing serious especially since I had been a year hiatus from music. Isaiah and I had talked about making some music in the past but we never did anything until Isaiah flew out from Texas to meet up with Manny and I to hangout then wrote those 2 songs in a weekend. Jams fueled by colombian bam, spawn, tony hawks underground and halo. Since then we weren't sure what we would do with the band due to the fact we all lived far and life happens. Thats when Gabe, Beckett and Thomas joined the band we wrote the promo and are now working on finishing up the album.

How would you describe Divulsive's sound?

As far as Divulsives sound goes im not sure how to describe it, we just take inspiration from everything we like. The direction we've been going for is mostly colombian bdm, but everyone has there approach to it so its whatever we feel at the moment of writing as long as its fun to play.

Who are some of your influences?

Some of our influences are Internal Suffering, Blaze Inside, Infertile Surrogacy, Carnal, Amputated Genitals and Digested Flesh. There's a ton more but those are few just too many to list haha.

Who did the artwork for the promo?

The artwork is a mash up of video game art blended to look as one we did on photoshop.

Is a full-length on the way?!?  Please tell us everything you can!

The full length is on the way and we've been working on it when we can just these holidays slowed everything down. The songs we wrote on the album have more of the sound we've been going for and are excited to drop it just needs polishing. Not just that but we have a split coming at the end of year too with some homie bands so be on the look out for that.

Can you name some movies/books/art, anything NOT music, that you guys take influence from?

 A few movies would be like Predator, Terminator, Alien, The Thing.. just some of the classics even shows like Spawn and Transformers (G1) we really are into Bio-Mechanical Cybernetic Organism type of things, Things that are not of this world that can reap chaos. When we all get together to jam we play a ton of video games like Doom2, 3 and Quake 2. There's definitely a lot that influences us but these are a few memorable mentions.

If you could tour with 3 other bands, active or not, who would they be?

 Man I think we'd tour with Goretrade, Internal Suffering and Infertile Surrogacy. Thats a tough one but definitely would love to tour with our good friends bands because its all about making fun memories with your friends doing what you love.

How did you decide on the name Divulsive?

We saw there's no other band named Divulsive so we decided to go with that since it's something that fits the sound but was inspired by the band Divulsive Impalement. It means to pull apart by force.

Sweet!!  thanks for doing this, I cannot wait for that split and the album!!!!  Any last words?

Thank you for having us and taking your time to interview us! We hope to bring the brutal jams to you all this year and maybe catch y'all at some of our upcoming shows! Stay Brutal m/

LINKS

Divulsive

Comatose

Hemorragia - Interview 2026

Yo!  Thanks for sitting down to answer a few questions!  How is it going?  What is your name?

Hi, my name is Marco Díaz, I just turned 18 on December 18th and i'm from Chile, specifically from Castro, the largest city in the Chiloé archipelago.

What is the story of Hemorragia?

I've played instruments and had a strong interest in music since i was a kid, so i've always had this desire to compose my own music. Hemorragia, as a solo project, was born out of the fact that where I live there aren't really any people my age who share the same musical interests and play instruments decently enough for a bdm band, considering it's a somewhat complicated genre.

During school, for at least two years, i used to draw ideas for logos and covers for "hemorragia", which at that time hadn't even started yet, so i'd say that i've had this project in mind for a long time.

What does Hemorragia mean?

Hemorragia literally means “hemorrhage” in spanish. I’ve always thought it was a cool word for this style of music, although i realized later that there was already a spanish band from the ’90s called hemorragia. By that point, however, i was already decided and wasn’t going to change the name.

What are the biggest challenges and advantages of working completely alone?

I feel the biggest disadvantage is that my virtual drums can sometimes sound very artificial, and I'm not fully convinced by them. I wish i had a real drum sound. Another disadvantage is that I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to play live shows. I know there are talented people like Shawn Whitaker who play live without any problems, but i haven't really considered that possibility for my project.

The biggest advantage is not having to depend on anyone else to work. This means I can record and play whenever i feel like it. However, that also has a downside, since I probably could have released this demo much sooner. I’m a bit disorganized and tend to work at a rather slow pace.

How would you describe your sound?

I think I'm still polishing my sound, but I always try to keep it kind of old school, not too blasty, and with some grooves here and there.

Who are some bands that influence you?

On one hand, the technicality of defeated sanity and disgorge (US) inspires me to create more difficult and unexpected riffs. On the groovier side, i see splattered cadaver, reincarnation, and suffocation as great examples of how to create good, meaty, and juicy slams. If I had to choose just two from all the bands i mentioned, suffocation and defeated sanity are the ones that I think best balance classic bdm technicality with slams.

Furthermore, effigy of the forgotten, merciless butchery, and all of defeated sanity’s albums have a production style that fascinates me, and I consider them strong examples to follow.

How did you get into this kind of music?

I started liking rock and heavy metal several years ago. I first got into more popular bands like pantera, SOAD, RATM, but over time my taste evolved toward death metal and later brutal death metal. I have to admit that at first death metal scared me a bit because of its twisted themes and disgusting album covers, but that fear faded as i grew older. I'd say sepultura was the band that got me hooked on metal in general, and deicide finally introduced me to death metal.

You are in Chile, how is the scene there?

There aren’t many bdm bands in the country. Chile is actually a country with a strong thrash, black, and death metal scene. There are usually very few bdm shows, although there is a festival in Santiago called Vomitous Brutal Fest that has brought well known bands like cephalotripsy and defeated sanity. However, I haven’t been able to attend any edition of VBF because Chiloé is over a thousand kilometers away from Santiago.

Some chilean bdm bands that come to my mind are NIHILANTH, HAIL CALIGULA, VISCERAL, DECREPIT CADAVER, DEFACING, DISMORLECH, WOUNDS OF CHRIST, PUTRESCENT, and REPULSIVE HUMANITY. It’s important to note that there are no bdm bands based in Chiloé lol

Do you handle recording and production yourself?

Yep, I'm self-taught in all of that. I must say that I still don't consider my production to be the best, but it's been a big step forward compared to how bad my first works sounded

What gear or tools are you using?

I use an ibanez RG350DXZ guitar, a  colt bass (i don't remember the exact model), and a marshall code 100. The virtual drums on the last demo were made using EZdrummer 3. So far, i’ve recorded the vocals with my phone, although for the next release i’ll be using my new Fduce SL40 microphone. I use audacity as my DAW, yes, i know it’s very limited and basic, but i’ve found it hard to learn more professional programs.

Well Marco, thanks a lot!  We really dig what you are doing and will be watching for more!!  Any last words? 

I just want to say that I'm very grateful to have been invited to this space. I truly appreciate the work you do for the bdm community, since we don’t usually get to know much about the bands we like. So keep up the great work, and thanks again, cerebral reviewment!

CHECKOUT HEMORRIAGIA HERE

Clotting - Interview 2026

The last half of 2025 seemed to be proof of the BDM/Slam scene being handed down to the new generation, as bands full of teenagers have surfaced in beautifully large numbers.  Thing is, these kids are actually pumping out some really, really good stuff.  Enter New Jersey's Clotting, a very young band blending old school sounds with some slams and raw production and awesome vocals.

Read up below:

Who are you and what do you do in Clotting?

My name’s Josh and I am the Vocalist/Lyricist for Clotting

I’m Adam, and I play bass in Clotting.

I’m Bennett I play guitar 

Hey, I'm Piotr and recently joined Clotting on the drums. 

How did the band first come together?

Josh - I met our old drummer at a show my hardcore band was performing at, we got to talking and he invited me to do vocals with a brutal death metal band he had. 

Adam - Ben and I were always into brutal death metal. We had been jamming together for a while, and we even tried to start a hardcore band out of a storage unit before they cut the power off and we couldn’t practice there anymore haha. Then we switched to working on some BDM and Ben was coming up with most of the riffs, we’d sit there in his apartment while practicing the songs and brainstorming. Eventually we found a drummer, who we actually recorded the demo with, and through him we found our vocalist Josh. Shortly after, we had to find a different drummer due to some issues that happened. Following a short hiatus we met Piotr through Angel the vocalist for Scasm and we were back into the swing of things. SHOUTOUT TO SCASM!!

Bennett - I met Adam off craigslist a few years prior and we were jamming together but I suck at drums so I switched to guitar and then met the previous drummer off Facebook and then met Josh through him. 

How did you guys decide on the name Clotting?

Adam - I came up with it. It just sounded sick and had a nice ring to it. It was in between that and Clotted, but Clotting was the one we stuck with.

Who are some of your influences?  

Josh - I take a lot of influence lyrically and vocally to deathcore and hardcore. they’re the two subgenres that got me into metal so they’ve always stuck with me the most. I’d say the bands Acrania and Dying Fetus hold the biggest influence in my lyrics, whereas vocally i draw more inspiration from old chelsea grin/thy art is murder, as well as internal bleeding and devourment. 

Adam - Too many bands to list. Regurgitation, Suffo, Disgorge, Cryptopsy, Entorturement, Dying Fetus, Defeated Sanity as well as some heavy hardcore thrown in there like One Second Thought and Swear to God.

Bennett - Anything 90s NYC bdm/hardcore and dying fetus 

Piotr - Some of my personal influences include Lille Gruber, Mike Heller, John Merryman, Tony Laureano, Dave Lombardo, and many more. 

What is the bands song-writing process like? Who brings the initial ideas; lyrics, riffs, drum structures?

Josh - Ben does most of the work musically, but while at practices we all pitch in ideas for small adjustments to keep everyone involved. i usually just show up and come up with lyrics as we go. 

Adam - Ben is behind most of the riffs for the songs, which sets the basis for every single one of them. I’ve helped with some of the riffs that he makes, or added some to songs, but for the most part, Ben is the riff powerhouse. Piotr jams along to Ben’s riffs, and he’s able to come up with a good beat pretty fast. Josh comes up with the lyrics and various cadences for the songs, when to use different kinds of gutturals or screams etc. As a band, we’ll all communicate while we’re together and writing to provide input that’ll help us create some brutal shit.

Bennett - I usually come up with most of the riffs and I try to structure that as best I can before bringing it in but things usually change. unless I have an idea for something in my head drum wise I let the drummer do his thing. Josh comes up with most of the lyrics. 

We absolutely LOVE Destruction of Thought!!  What is your favorite song to play?

Josh - "Brutality in a Theocracy" is my favorite to do vocals on, mainly for the breakdown at the end. but the groovier slam part towards the end is a lot of fun to play around with vocally 

Adam - Thanks! My favorite song to play on the demo is "Destruction of Thought". It’s the first one that was ever written by us in Clotting.

Bennett - "There is No Mercy" is probably my favorite, the 2nd verse in that one is a fun groove. 

How has the demo been received so far, are you guys on a label?

Adam - So far we’ve had nothing but positivity since the demo was released! We are not on a label currently, though.

Bennett - I’ve gotten a few compliments on it which I appreciate a lot, no label right now

Who did the bands logo and the demo cover art?

Adam - We have a new logo now, but our older logo as seen on the demo was done by Ronaldo Black. Also know as xDiary Designsx. Our new logo was done by groteskxlogos. And as for the cover art, Ben did all of that.

Bennett - Ronaldo black ig (xxroxldoxx) did the logo on the demo. I made the cover. 

Piotr - The new logo was done by the homie @groteskxlogos, who does killer work. 

Who are some artists, metal or not, that you are listening to right now?

Josh - I've been getting more into black metal, specifically the bands Old Man’s Child and Forgotten Tomb, but the consistent hits on my playlist would be Waking the Cadaver, Mindforce, and Infant Annihilator. 

Adam - I can’t go a day without listening to Crowbar. I’m actually listening to them as we speak. I also love Godflesh as well. Death Metal is a given, I’ll usually be listening to Dehumanized, Scattered Remnants, or Broken Hope all that good stuff. I’m a fan of rap as well, especially horrorcore. Three six Mafia, DJKillaC, MF Doom, Chase Shakur. I like everything.

Bennett - Steely Dan, Defeated Sanity, Suffocation 

Piotr - A couple newer bands I'm loving are Sanguinary Consummation, Gibbeting, and Necrotic Defilement. 

Are there any non-musical passions in your life that you also consider to be an influence for Clotting?

Josh - I've always been a big into story writing and acting, so both the performative aspects of playing as well as the lyrics are very much influenced by that. 

Adam - I just want to be able to be apart of something that’s sick. New experiences and all that.

Bennett - Yeah I’m into electronics, making guitar amps and glitchy video gear 

What is up next?  Are you guys working on new music?

Adam - Yes. We’re currently jamming and writing some new songs for our full length.

Bennett - We’re in the process of writing a few more songs and then we will tie everything into a full length

Have you guys played live?  Planning more live shows?

Adam - Nope, we haven’t played live yet, but we plan to soon! We’re hoping to get the songs we have as tight as possible before we go out and start playing.

Bennett - Dying to play our first show, hopefully soon though

What is your favorite movie?

Josh-It's hard to pick just one to put above others, but my main 3 will always be Revenge of the sith, Return of the king, and hereditary 

Adam - The Thing 1982.

Bennett - Surfs Up

What is your favorite snack?

Adam - Beef jerky.

Bennett - Those tortillas chips they sell at chipotle.

Do you have any pets?

Josh - I've got four cats and one dog

Adam-I have two dogs! A dachshund/chihuahua mix named Nemo, and a Golden Retriever/Lab mix her name is Daisy.

Bennett - Got two little pups but they stay with my parents 

What is your favorite drink?

Josh - Absolutely nothing comes above Barq’s Root Beer

Adam - Monster Energy Zero Ultra.

Bennett - Water or white monster haha 

LINKS

Clotting

Grotesk Logos

Ronaldo Black

Disfigurement - Interview 2025

Who are you and what is your role in Disfigurement?

I’m Maynard and I play guitar in Disfigurement 

Who are the other members?  Do you all live in Columbus?

It’s me, Davis (drums), Anthony (vox), and Oji (bass). We’re all in Columbus except for Oji who’s up in Toledo.

Can you tell us the origin of the band?

It started with me and Davis, we’ve known each other for a long time and we both wanted to start a death metal band so we made 4 songs and got Anthony and Oji on board in July and that’s basically it.

Columbus has a reputation for hardcore and death metal crossover, (says the internet) do you agree and how did your local scene help shape your sound?

For the most part yeah I’d agree. I feel like it’s mostly hardcore here so when death metal bands play it just happens to be with hardcore bands and to a hardcore audience. I think it’s cool since I’m also into hardcore and being able to bridge multiple genres is cool.

Who are some big influences for Disfigurement?

In no particular order: Disconformity, Digested Flesh, Pustulated, Dehumanized, Devourment, Eternal Suffering, Disgorge, Defeated Sanity, Pustulated, Prophecy, GoreTrade, and more. We also take influence from hardcore bands like Swear to God, Six Ft Ditch, Shattered Realm, Hatebreed, etc.

Is Disfigurement signed to a label?

Yes, at the moment Truth in Action, the homies here in Columbus.

How do you describe your sound?

Slammy

What separates your music from other brutal death metal bands right now?

I think a lot of new bands are taking influence from the NY death metal and hardcore sound from the 90s which is super sick but a lot of these bands kind of shy away from blast beats and more “brutal” stuff like that. As much as we like hardcore, we try to keep our sound rooted in death metal with hardcore influence rather than the other way around.

Are there any non-metal influences that creep into the writing process? 

For sure, primarily hardcore like mentioned before. We also listen to plenty of other music although I don’t think that really makes an impression on our sound.

What are your songs about?  Who writes the lyrics?

Honestly nothing, Conquering Through Defiance is lyricless, but the new single has written lyrics. What it’s about is a secret..

I saw your music being described on youtube as "FUCKING BRUTAL".  Would you agree?

I hope so.

Have you guys been enjoying playing the songs live?

For sure. It’s one thing to see positive reception online but seeing people mosh and talking to people in real life means a lot.

How has reception been for "Conquering Through Defiance" ?

Way better than I expected. I just thought it would be a small project we started for fun but it’s gotten more attention than I thought it would for sure.

Can you tell us about the artwork switch?

It was too similar to Asphyxiated’s artwork which we only really noticed after putting it out, so we changed it to avoid any beef or whatever. Plus the first cover was kind of eh. I make the artwork for the band and I’m lowkey just dicking around in photoshop.

How do you see the current brutal death metal scene in Ohio, or the Midwest as a whole?

Small but growing for sure.

How do you guys go about writing a song?  Who records them?

Drums first then guitar then everything else. It usually just starts with me and Davis jamming together and recording whatever clicks. I record and mix the music.

Are there any tones or production choices you’re obsessed with getting “just right”?

For Conquering Through Defiance I wanted it to sound like Devourment with the roomy guitar tone and popcorn type of snare. The new single I didn’t have any sound in mind when going in really. For guitar on the EP I used an SNK VH300 line out into an IR I made of my Marshall 1960a with t75s. The new single I used a Crate GT1200H with my 1960a mic'd up with an SM58

What is next for Disfigurement?

Hopefully more shows, music, and merch!

Well we love what Disfigurement is doing and are very excited for what comes next!

Thanks again, Maynard, for answering some questions!!!  Any last words or shout-outs?

Thanks so much for hitting us up, all of us are in other bands too: Push Your Luck, Our Love Lies Buried, Southover, Blunt Impact, etc. Shoutout TIA for putting us out. Support local music!

LINKS

Disfigurement

Truth In Action

Push Your Luck

Our Love Lies Buried

Southover

Blunt Impact

Decarnate - Interview 2025

Who is this?

This is Max

How are you doing?

Doin good

Who makes up Decarnate?

Decarnate is: Max on guitar, vocals and Paul on the drums

How did the band come into existence?

I go to Appalachian State and met Paul through a mutual friend down in Boone, NC. The first stuff we were writing was short, goregrind songs but after a couple months of practice and developing the "technique" we agreed to write longer, slower, and groovier songs. I learned to do proper gutturals and we eventually put out this demo. It took like 2 months to make the demo. The process was tedious but we agreed that everything we release has to be the absolute best shit we can do at that time, no fluff or filler.

Your "Engorged In Putrescence" demo is OOOOOZING with old school death metal vibes and tones.  What are some influences that lead you here?

Our biggest influences for this demo were Repudilation, Digested Flesh, and Devourment. We are hoping to take the project in a more technical direction with songs pushing 5-6 minutes on average, taking lots of inspiration from early Mortal Decay, early Internal Bleeding, Brodequin, and Cerebral Hemorrhage. Our upcoming album will have all these elements in addition to a wider range of vocals and cleaner production quality, so stay tuned.

I just ordered the Cassette from Embalmed Records!  How did you end up working with them and what is that relationship like?

 I run Embalmed Records and we make cassettes of our friends' music in addition to our own. For our upcoming release we also plan to make CD's.

When you say you learned to do "proper"gutturals, what do you mean?  Can you elaborate a little for people on what goes into learning and practicing these extreme vocal techniques?

When we were playing goregrind, I started off with lazy, croaking inhales that we pitched down -12 and it sounded awful. I since taught myself how to properly perform exhaled growls and then, by pushing that sound back down into my throat, I get the gross, "draining sink" sound. Don't cut corners, don't cup the mic, stand with good posture and growl loud.

Who is responsible for the artwork on "Engorged"?

We had a gallery of legit, forensic and morgue photos of decaying bodies and I selected one that fit the j-card format the best

What sorts of different vocals are you looking to add for the full-length?

We're going to have more articulated vocal lines as John Paoline does in Mortal Decay, more complicated lyrics and themes, as well as nasally, high-pitched screams as backing vocals. Paul is also going to contribute backing vocals.

More technical, more diversity in the vocals, slightly cleaner production?  I cannot fucking wait to here what is coming!!!  Thanks for answering some questions!  Any last words?

One, we must be brutal. Two, if you ain't ready to get brutal, then get out

LINKS

Decarnate

Embalmed Records

DEMO

Volvulus - Interview 2025

Who will be answering the questions?  What is your name and what do you do in the band?

Hey this is Caleb from Volvulus. I do vocals for the band.

How did Volvulus start?

We formed Volvulus back in 2023. Brandon (our guitarist and other founding member) and I had been friends since middle school but had re connected thru Instagram that year. He had this band called Lambs to the Cosmic Slaughter a view years prior and I absolutely loved their shit. 

One of us hit the other up because we both kind of felt stuck musically. We got together and made a few shitty demo songs just to kind of screw around and experiment for the first year or so to seeing what worked. Come 2025, we finally started taking things seriously. We dropped like 2 songs and then finally decided to expand and bring on our close friend John as a second guitarist/bass player/back up vocalist, and we been going hard ever since.

How would you describe your music?

Relentless guttural slamming. Alien tech slam. Heavy as all hell but fun at the same time I guess. We wanted to make brutal music that people can have a good time to. Fuck shit up to. That kinda stuff. We also pride ourselves on keeping things fresh and unique especially in a genre like slam which seems to follow the same formula over and over again at times.

How did you guys come up with the name?

We knew straight from the get go it had to be something related to assholes. We had too much of a “butty” sound not to. So Brandon texted me the name “Volvulus” and I was like “what the fuck is that?” Long story short it’s when the tubes in your butt get tangled up and you can’t shit and then you fucking die. Pretty brutal.

What has been some pros and some cons of writing and recording the album?

As far as the pros I’d say we all definitely put in tremendous amounts of time and effort into this project and it’s honestly made all 3 of us better musicians as a result. Each one of us spent countless hours at night up late as fuck trying to perfect this shit. It’s honestly been a huge pleasure to not only release something this heavy but to do it with such good friends.  For the cons, we definitely ended up getting into it a few times and hit lots of roadblocks on the way. But hey, these things happen I guess.

How do you feel that the album has been received?

I think it’s been received pretty well so far. We have a couple thousand streams at this point and it’s growing steady everyday. We hope to be making some CDs very soon too so I’m sure that will help.

You guys recently played your first show!  Congrats!  How did booking that go for you, and how did the show go!

Thank you man we appreciate that. It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. I just DM’d the guys from this other local band called Smog Breath. I really liked their music and I knew they had just recently opened their own venue like an hour away from our city. So needless to say , I made my move on that.  The show went really well and we actually got asked to jump on a couple more!

Who did the album artwork?

Brandon had to go digging to find a good artist with decent prices. He finally found this guy on insta: @naufalalwy__ .  He goes by Sadgrind Art but his name is Zahid and his art work is killer!

Who are some of Volvulus' biggest influences?

We pull from a wide range of sources as far as our inspiration goes. I know for me vocally I’m heavily inspired by Hugo Ojeda of Esophagus as well as Don Campan of Waking the Cadaver, Matti Way, Clay Lamanske of Cemetery Rapist, and of course my good friend Azerate from Ungraceful. He is a great guy and has taught me a lot about doing vocals over the past year or two. As far as our instrumentals go, we listen to a lot of Dying Fetus, Kraanium, cattle decap, peelingflesh, Wormhole, and Snuffed on Sight, so we take a lot of inspiration from those bands musically, but we also like to add techniques from other music genres and incorporate them into our songs however we can.

Anything new in the works yet?

Yeah we got some stuff we are working on. Concepts for now but we will start recording again very soon. Volvulus ain’t going no where. We love doing this shit and we are very committed to our craft.

Thanks a lot again!  Any last words? 

Of course! We appreciate this opportunity from you. As far as last words, I don’t really have much, but stay tuned for new music and hopefully merch soon. We aren’t signed to a label so we gotta do all this shit by ourselves. Everything we have done we built from the ground up so we greatly appreciate all our listeners and supporters. Thank you to everyone who’s helped us get this far. Peace !!