Scasm - Interview 2025

Who are we speaking with and what is your role in the band?

Hi I’m Adrien I play drums in Scasm 

How did Scasm get started?

Scasm got started spring of 2023 by me, Kadin who plays guitar in Scasm currently, and past members Jimmy Duffy and Tyler Kuhn. We used to be in a band in highschool, nothing serious, but after like a year or two of not playing together we got talking again about wanting to jam and what we’ve been listing to. We got together in this little shitty practice space and have been playing since then

How did you guys come up with the name?

 I came up with the name Scasm by thinking I made the word up. Me and Kadin were on the phone trying to come up with something and I just said Scasm because I thought it sounded cool and I looked it up on urban dictionary and it actually was a word and it had a kinda gross meaning so we were like sick let’s roll with that.

* Our research team at Cerebral Reviewment looked into this and were pleasantly surprised:

SCASM - When your colon spontaneously explodes OR The orgasmic feeling you get when you pick scabs.

Is there a different line up between Bludgeoned and the new demo?  That full length was so well received and hard hitting!  The demo has a slightly different sound but still fucking great!  How would you say Scasm’s sound has evolved?

Thank you so much and yea right after tour we had two members leave. Then we got Anthony to join so yea different line up and pretty much after he learned our new material we recorded the demos. Which yea the demos compared to the album are definitely pretty different. I’d say our sound has evolved a lot more from being very cavemanish slam to straight bdm with some flavor.

Congrats on signing with NSE!!  How did this happen?

Thank you, we’re stoked about it and don’t think we ever won’t be. How it happened is we went on the spring break bludgeoning tour with Roots of Deception and Desecation for 2 weeks, shout out to them, and right before we went on tour me and Kadin talked about going in a different direction of more brutal death metal than slam. 

So, we wrote three new songs that were more in that direction but the other members in the band didn’t have time to learn them before we left for tour but at this point we were kinda sick of playing the songs from our album Bludgeoned Beyond Repair. So, we go on tour and actually kinda meet Ryan from NSE at our Ohio date but I knew just based on our current style that he probably wouldn’t have considered us for the label. So, we continue with tour and become really good friends with Desecation so I asked Marc to send out our new demos to Ryan and he was like yeah obviously knowing that we wanted to go in more of a bdm direction (thank you Marc). After tour we come back and Kadin and I really work on these new songs and how we wanted to sound being even more inspired from tour, working towards that bdm sound we have always wanted. We wrote 5 new songs - we also reworked the 3 from right before tour - having 8 brutal songs to pick from to send to Ryan. In the process of that we parted ways with two members and had our bro Anthony from Hosticide join officially and help us record the new demos. After Marc heard the demos he was surprised at how much our sound changed and he then sent them to Ryan who also fucked with it and was also very surprised coming from seeing us on tour. Now, we have the demo out with New Standard Elite & we are officially on the label & we got an album in the process.

So there is another full-length on the way?

There is another full length on the way but little delayed because I broke my ankle in August on a dirtbike. So no drums till it heals which is soon and as soon as that happens it’s right back to the kit and getting ready to record.

Oh man I hope you heal up quickly!  By the way who is your favorite drummer?!

Thank you I’ve been itching to play but my favorite drummers or top 3 cause I really don’t just have one and could sit here all day naming them haha. But it has to be Brad Fincher from devourment Lille Gruber from defeated sanity and Rickey Myers’s from disgorge. But Brad started it all for me to play somewhat how I play he’s definitely the first one I looked up to for drumming before I found all the other bdm bands I listen to now. 

Who are some of your biggest influences for Scasm?

Some of my biggest influences are definitely Devourment, Defeated Sanity, Brodequin, Bound and Gagged, Disgorge, Prophecy, Deeds of Flesh, Pyaemia, Cerebral Effusion, Cannibal Corpse, Cinerary and Infertile Surrogacy. 

Thank for taking the time to talk with us, we are rocking the demo daily!  Can’t wait for more from you guys!  Any last words? 

Thank you for asking and that’s sick always enjoyed reading these interviews stoked to be on one. All I got to say is we have the album coming and a pretty big announcement next year so be on the lookout for that.

LINKS

Scasm

New Standard Elite

Full Length

New Demo