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.

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BLASTFROMTHEPAST - Gortuary - Awakening Pestilent Beings - 2010

 

I love this album! Groovy slams, technically creative riffs, and great guitar solos! Guitarist is none-other-than Andres Guzman of Cephalotripsy and Sobek fame.  The vocals on this record, and the next, are also amazing. With 8 songs, clocking in at about 20 minutes, this leaves you wanting more!

The band's last album, "Divine Indigenous Sacrament," was released over 5 years ago. I think the band is still together, but have seen no action! Gortuary I miss you!

Gortuary is a wonderful brutal death metal band that just needs to get back at it! 

Interview with Italian Death Metal legends; Sickening - Allesandro Materassi

 

"The Death King" marks the 4th full length offering from this Brutal Death Metal merchant out of Florence, Italy.  We were lucky enough get a few questions answered by the band's guitarist Alessandro.

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview!  I have been a massive fan of the band since ignorance supremacy, and I am so happy to get to ask some questions!  Who am I speaking with today?  What is your role in the band?

Hi, Alessandro here, I'm the guitarist of the band, and founding member. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about our music, we really appreciate it and we are really pleased you like our music.

 

 

It has been 20 years since first promo, is that when the band started?  Tell us about how Sickening started!

 

Even if the first demo was released in 2005, the band was founded in 2003 by me along with the previous guitarist Marco and the singer Claudio. We were all crazy about brutal death metal and we decided to start writing music together, so we searched for a drummer a bass player and start the project.

 

 

What first got you into Brutal Death Metal?  it must have been a gradual transition to end up here?  What sort of music influenced you as a teenager?

 

I speak for myself, but “tomb of the mutilated” is probably the album that got me into this type of music, from that moment I started to listen to many brutal death metal bands, mainly from the usa, such as suffocation, deeds of flesh, gorgasm and so on.
Of course I started gradually and before that I was into heavy metal and thrash metal, I grew up as a kid with the classics (iron maiden, metallica, slayer) but I soon realized that I really liked a more extreme sound best, and so I started to listen to classic death metal until I found Cannibal Corpse, as I said before.

 

How has the writing process of "The Death King" been different from previous albums?  Everything gone smoothly?

 

The songwriting of the death king went different for the fact that we don’t have a resident drummer yet, so I wrote all the album by myself ahahah, even the drum parts (except for 2 songs where the drum was written by our old drummer), so it took a little more time to be finished. But I can say I'm really proud of how all the songs came out.

 

Is the band planning any live shows soon?

 

Yeah, for sure, the album was released on 2^nd of February, and now we are searching for gigs to promote it, and maybe a tour, who knows.

But we have various options that we will reveal in the coming months.

 

How to you think the current Death Metal scene is different from 20 years ago?

 

I think nowadays we have more bands but this doesn't mean more quality. 20 years ago every band tried to have its unique sound, while at the present moment it's difficult to find a band with a peculiar sound, and if you think about that you understand why many of the bands who played 20 years ago are still active and well known in the death metal scene today: because of their uniqueness.

I think having a clear style is fundamental in every type of music.

 

How has it been trying to keep the band active and writing all these years?  I'm assuming you all have families?  How is the support from your family and friends?

 

Well, our families always support us in playing music, and beyond that me and Claudio work in the music scene of our city, so is not difficult to keep playing in a band or more and working at the same time. Even Edoardo, our bass player, has a job that allows him to play in various bands. I think we are lucky for this, because otherwise growing up it's always harder to find time to dedicate to writing and playing gigs, with family and work  that can keep you busy all the time.

 

What up and coming Italian bands should we check out?

 

I will disappoint you but there aren't new good bands I can recommend you in Italy, just the old ones that continue to write good music, the scene is a little boring nowadays.

 

How do you guys go about writing lyrics?

 

The last two albums were concept albums so the lyrics are based on the plot of the original two movies. Our second album doesn't have any lyric while the first has generic theme like: death, suicide, hunger, classic death metal cliché ahahah.

Anyway our singer Claudio wrote all of them.

 

The Seventh Day-

We lose our life with joy This is a chain-letter And it is a message And it is the final word To end a very long struggle When you get this letter We are dead And we want you After you have sent As much copies As possible To the “not-yet-dead” To take your own life Without hesitation According to our realization: I die, therefore I am! Life is an illusion And become ridiculous Meaningless once we face it The one security Life has to offer is death We aim towards him We are promised to him And before there’s just Agony and absurdity Man comes alone And remains alone His life is an endless fight Put upon him A struggle against this Ancient desire The sweetest urge That holds all of us In its hands: Thanatos The longing for death All we demand of you Is to follow this longing It’s about time Life is an anachronism In six days God created heaven and earth On the seventh day He killed himself Let us die The gospel according to The Brotherhood of The Seventh Day

Are you all pleased with how "The Death King" turned out?

 

Yeah, definitely. We are stoked both by the artwork Armaada Art did and with the sound: we recorded the drums at MK2 Studio of Davide Billia (ex-drummer of Putridity, Hour of penance, Beheaded) and the drums were played by Marco Coghe (Devangelic, Posthuman Abomination) who did a really great work.

We recorded guitar, bass and vocals at our studio), while the mix was done by Jonathan Mazzeo at The Grid Studio and the master was done by Chris Donaldson of Cryptopsy.

The album sounds massive and powerful, is our darkest and fastest album for sure.

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this!  Anything else you'd like to say to your fans?

 

Thanks again for the opportunity, i hope you will enjoy our new album. You can listen to it on our youtube channel and bandcamp page, where you will find all the merch also. We also have a facebook page and instagram where you can follow us for all the latest new and updates.

Stay brutal

 Thanks again Alessandro for taking the time to do this!  Check out Sickening with the below links!

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Postcoital Ulceration - Continuation of Defective Existence After Multiple Ruinous Collapses - 2014 - Ghastly Music/Amputated Vein

I am so happy to re-visit this album, because it now looks like the band will have another full length out this year!!  Postcoital Ulceration in the Serbian-slamming-brutal-techdeath brain-child of Andrey Alogrin.  I have tried to reach out to him and find any more info, and I cannot!   A post on the band's facebook page from October of 2023 reads:

"We have been reborn with a new lineup and are filled with new strength. Therefore, we would like to introduce you to our new logo."

With the history of little-to-no movement from the band online, no updates, and no replies this news leaves me excited but honestly not that hopeful.  At any rate, I am pleased that the news reminded me of their full-length album!

This is an album that gets better and better over the years.  I hear new details and new things I like with each listen; the intricacies in the drum patterns, the variation in vocals, the unrelenting heaviness!

Even after re-familiarizing myself with it and then waiting about a week, I turned it on and it felt heavier yet again.  From researching the very limited info online about this project, I believe Andrey wrote and played all instrumental parts, and vocals were done by Vitaly Chumakov (Disfigurement of Flesh).

They really went all out with the artwork (Remy Cooper - Headsplit Design), Production (TsunTsun), and song titles and lyrics.

Check out their track "Parasitic Defilement" below, here are the lyrics.

Devastated megalopolis
Keeps few survivors inside
They bodies are wounded
Their minds are enslaved
The parasitic effect
Has modified the nerve system
Cannibalism and copulation are the new religion

Flesh of the flesh

Crawling spawns
The new stage of human's evolution
Hyper-active instincts
Helps them to adapt
The new environment

Famine and depravity
Rule the mindless human flock

If anyone reading this know how to reach Postcoital Ulceration, have them shoot me an email!  cerebralreviewment@gmail.com

Parasitic Ejaculation - Echoes of Depravity - Amputated Vein Records - 2014

Artwork: TONY KOEHL

Echoes of Depravity is the second full-length from Californian outfit Parasitic Ejaculation.
The band has also released a considerable amount of material on splits or demos.
It seems as though every member of Parasitic Ejaculation has mastered their individual craft and, over time, have coalesced into a rather original brutal death/slam band, in a world that has been over-saturated with copies and copies of whatever people think sounds the most brutal.  Well, Echoes of Depravity not only provides soundscapes far beyond 'brutal', but it is a much-welcome retreat from the boredom that has become Brutal Death Metal.
I could sit here and write about how the subtle nuances of the guitar playfully frolic with the blasts and how I wished the bass was a little further forward in the mix.  In fact, I have written many a review in that ilk.  They are fun to write and you can easily get away with sounding like you are smart.  Truth is, I am as smart as the next genius, and I'll just say it like I hear it; Echoes of Depravity is the best and grossest splat of (infected) jizz from Parasitic Ejaculation thus far, and possibly of the year.
Jonathan Neel commands full attention and displays the most improvement from previous efforts.  The range of his vocals throughout this album is wide enough to have you wondering if it's all him even when it is.  There are a couple guest vocalists though.  Bill Foster (Short Bus Pile Up), and Jeremy Scott (Logistic Slaughter) both appear on the album, i just won't tell you where.

Michael Mostachetti's riffing on the guitar is simply the catchiest shit of 2014.  Parts of this album have some very, very experimental guitar work.  As always, one of my favorite aspects of this group, is the shaky, powerful bass tone coming from bassist Josh Schwartz.  It is also perfectly mixed in to let each stroke, pluck, or slap be heard with ease.  The dude has chops.  Donovan Dettle, drums, stays simple at times and then gets very creative at others, something becoming harder to find.  Nothing is out of place and songs flow very well together.
Production has taken an obvious step forward, which may lead some fans astray.  I mean, after-all, if you appreciate a band's production sound past their first release, you aren't raw.  You're fully-cooked.  What?
The clarity of the production here only aids the listener in hearing all the details in the music.
Also amazing are the lyrics!!  The lyrics are incredibly well thought-out, evil, disgusting, and just fun to read!  When you read along while listening, you really get to see how good this vocalist is.
That being said, I will take this time to tell the band to please rename "Parasitic Spinal Mutation" to "P.R.E.A.M."

Parts of Echoes are very technical, slams are prevalent, and the songwriting is creative and fun.
The passion is there.  Buy this album.

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Extermination Dismemberment - Serial Urbicide - 2013 Amputated Vein Records

Urbicide: The killing of an urbanized society.

Extermination Dismemberment is a 4 piece Brutal Slamming Death Metal outfit from Belarus, Minsk.  I would describe them as Abominable Putridity worship, with one main difference.  Production.  In some places, too much.   Especially those bass drops.  If you don’t know what I mean, they sometimes occur in really bad techno music, or old deathcore.   Some people refer to them as nuclear bombs or nuclear bass drops or something.   However, I have never heard them used to quite the extent they are used on Serial Urbicide.  Thankfully, After many listens, I am glad to say that these bassy bottom-outs add to the album, further punctuating and exaggerating the humongous slams. 

Extermination Dismemberment got lucky though.  I hope this doesn’t start a trend, because this album already took it as far as it should go.  I mean take the title track, “Serial Urbicide” for example, where these things actually overpower the rest of the production for several seconds after they occur.  I realize that is probably the whole point, but it verges on cheesy.

Serial Urbicide, being basically a slam only album, is way too long. It starts to wear on you. You are in store for slow build ups to even slower and crazier slams, not much filler to be heard. “Survival” however, is a song slightly different from the rest in that it features a different vocal style and a different vibe altogether. A sort of pumping, marching riff style.

Besides a few production complaints and the album being too long, this album is really quite good.... for slam lovers.  Do not expect brutal death metal riffs or blasts.   Expect creative ways of getting your head slammed in.  Creative guitar and drums collide with decent gutturals to create a non stop, groove oriented, slam only record.

The creative song structures and drum fills make this “slam only” album a fun, brutal, groovy head bobber.

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