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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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 !!
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