Vaginality - Interview 2026

Hey guys what up how's it going?!?!?

We're doing great, we've got an upcoming full length this month and maybe some more material coming soon.

Can you list all the members of Vaginality and what they do in the band?

David is the guitarist who writes songs along with our drummer Vibor, Marin is the vocalist who also writes the lyrics and Teo plays bass.

How did you guys land on the name Vaginality?

 We had an idea of making a band more extreme than any young local band here in Zagreb but we lacked inspiration. At the beginning of 2025. Putrid Pile, Disgorge and Defeated Sanity performed in Zagreb and that's when we decided we wanted to do what those guys were doing. The name Vaginality was decided by Marin and David inspired by juvenile Gorgasm song titles.

Your demo earlier this year grabbed my attention. I love the nasty title and song titles and layout on the cover!  

Now you have a full-length album coming out in a few days, will "Suffocating in Gastric Filth" follow a similar format with disgusting song titles?  How long is the album?  What is on the cover?  Is that a beautiful river of gastric filth I see?  Please tell us everything you can!!

Our demo came out shortly after our debut gig in Zagreb when our buddy Fran gave us the opportunity to record at his home studio. That tremendously helped us get some recognition which we otherwise wouldn't get since people here barely know what brutal death metal is. Even though we're not happy with how sloppy some of the songs on the demo were played, it opened some big doors for us, for example our signing to Reality Fade Records under which we did our upcoming album.

Our demo was more groove based but we decided we wanted to do something more technical and play some of the demo songs the way we imagined them on the album. The cover was done by Reality Fade and it came out very old school looking which fits our old school influence. It pictures thorns coming out from the ground puncturing diced up human remains with a river of viscera flowing in-between them. The album is on the shorter side only being 20 minutes long with more technical material than on the demo and even sicker slams.

How did your relationship with Reality Fade begin and how is it going?

Reality Fade was our main merch store because they're one of the best ones here in Europe so all of us kept up with their announcements on social media. One day they announced that they were signing young bands on Instagram and with our recently recorded demo we took the chance to present our material and maybe get a signing opportunity. They said they'd gladly help us out and that they liked the material we sent. They helped us record our album, mix it and soon publish it.

Who made the Vaginality logo?

All the versions of our logo were made by our vocalist Marin with the current one being the one we stuck with. It was inspired by the Matti Way and Diego Sanchez side project Obscured Secretions logo.

Who are some of your favorite bands and inspirations?

As I said, we're heavily inspired by Disorge and Defeated Sanity. The lyrics are mostly similar in style to the lyrics from MTD by Devourment and the vocals (at least on the album) are inspired by Angel from Cephalotripsy and Wayne from Devourment. Some other bands we look up to and enjoy are Putridity, Orchidectomy, Heinous Killings, Digested Flesh and even some of the newer bands like Virologist and Submerged.

Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions!!!!!  We cannot wait for September 12th!!!!!

Anything else you’d like to say???

Thank you for this interview and thanks to all the people who helped us up to this point, especially Fran from Gutswamp, the Reality Fade team, our friends from Eeyore and, of course, all the people who've been listening to the music we put out. We're also very stoked about the album and truly hope people will enjoy it! Thanks again for the interview and listening to Vaginality!

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Pestilectomy Interview 2024

I am honored and excited to bring you some Q and A with the one-and-only Pestilectomy.

They had one of 2022's best slam records with "From Vulnerable To Funeral" and just dropped a brand new insane EP on RealityFade.  If you don't know this band, you are fucking up.  Enjoy the interview below!

Thank you so much for taking to time to do this! Can we just start with who we are speaking

to and your role in the band? And of course anything about you!

Dustin: I’m Dustin and do guitars/bass and

songwriting

Len: I'm Len, I perform the vocalizations

Felix: I play drums

As soon as I was able to listen to "Soundtrack To An Embalming Room" the entire way

through, I knew I had to talk to you guys. The EP is bursting at its disgusting seams with

unique riffs and slams and song structures that take us on a ride.  I love it!

I am admittedly a newer fan, and I wasn't familiar with any of the band's back catalogue. I

have since familiarized myself and, I'm sure, my neighbors. For our readers who may be

discovering you now, could you talk a little about where it all started and how we ended up

here? Was the name always Pestilectomy? What does that mean? How did you all meet?

How would you try and sum up the last 7 or so years? Tell us anything!

Len: Name was originally Pestilent, but like some crazy shit happened with all that. It's a weird story. I don't know how that name got chosen because I wasn't a member when Pestilent was founded. 

I got on board for vocals because the original singer died in a motorcycle crash. 

We did a EP and album with that name, then later we got threatened with legal bullshit by someone who owned a clothing brand or something called Pestilent who even harassed our fans so we just decided to change the name to Pestilectomy so we could sell merch again andavoid being sued. A lot of people see our name and think "the fuck? another -ectomy band??"but they're unaware that the name is basically a joke. We just took the old name and suffixed it with "ectomy" for the trope. Some fans have come up with their own interpretations of what "pestilectomy" as a word means but to us it doesn't mean anything. Just sounds cool.

Where would you rate "Soundtrack To An Embalming Room" among your other releases? Has each one surpassed the last? 

How has this recent EP been received by your fans?

Dustin: Definitely our most thought through material to date

Len: Best we've ever done. Cool to see the reactions

Alongside the amazing chops on your guitarist and drummer, these vocals straight up melt my

face. So many different sounds and all disgusting! Len, how long have you been at it? Did 

you or do you practice a lot or does this just kinda come natural and you mess around with it?

Len: I started the vocals thing when I was like 15, I just remember first hearing bands like

Cradle of Filth or Job for a Cowboy back then and I became I utterly obsessed with how the

human voice can sound so inhuman so I knew I had to find out how to do that somehow. I'm

almost entirely self taught, nobody ever tutored me and YouTube tutorials didn't really help

either.

How about Dustin and Felix? How long have you each been at it? Have there been other bands?

Dustin: I’ve been playing guitar on and off since 2011 but really started digging into it around 2018ish.   I had several other projects but the most noteworthy would be my deathcore project “Cogitations” that also released its debut album earlier this year

Felix: I started paying drum in the age of 14 and open my first band a few months after.  My

first group was a metalcore project called „Maleachi“. 

We released 2 EPs and played some gigs. Things starting to get more serious, when a friend and me founded the deathcore

unit "I Watched Myself Sleep". 

After releasing a bonecrushing LP I joined slamdown titans

"Chamber of Malice" and toured different countries around the globe.

 We played a backyard

show in Las Vegas where I met Len, and from that I joined Pestilectomy in 2018.

How has working with Reality Fade been? What other labels have you worked with?

Len: Amputated Vein reissued our EP from when we were Pestilent. Masakatsu is such a

wonderful person, but we haven't spoke in years.

Dustin: Working with RealityFade has been nothing but an awesome experience

with both Pestilectomy and my other project. Dimitri handles stuff as professional as it can be

How would you describe Pestilectomy's fan-base?

Dustin: Weird, like us.

What did you guys grow up listening to?

Dustin: I grew up listening to the metal stuff my parents listened to. Basically early Metallica,

Slayer, Rammstein which eventually got me into Slipknot and Death Metal like Cannibal 

Corpse, Six Feet Under etc when I was like 11ish. The rest is history haha

Len: When I was in middle school I liked a lot of rap that was popular at the time like Lil Wayne

and DJ Khaled. Also, alternative music like Flobots, Apocalyptica, 30 Seconds to Mars. At

some point I found Slipknot thanks to MTV2, and I just found more brutal stuff from there. My

family doesn't listen to extreme metal so I never got into it from them

When it's not brutal extreme music, what are you listening to these days?

Dustin: For me its all across the board like US hip hop/trap, cheesy power metal like

Dragonforce, Rhapsody etc, black metal all the way to Japanese music like vkei, j-goth/rock,

some Eurobeat and all that other weeb shit ha ha. As long as it’s catchy, I dig it

Len:

I've been a fan of soundcloud rap like Bones or Bladee and the like for over a decade.

Currently I'm obsessed with Playboi Carti and everyone else a part of Opium. 

In fact Carti's Whole Lotta Red record that we paid homage to via making that album art into a Pestilectomy shirt was my idea. 

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I do like a lot of lofi indie rock/emo stuff too like Teen Suicide and Elliott.

Also lately i've been loving witch house such as Salem and White Ring, I kind of want to start a

lofi witch house project because it's just so flame.  I'm not even an electronic music sort of

person but the atmosphere of the genre is

impeccable, if not black metal-reminiscent even.

Just this month I visited Louisiana so I took an addiction to sludge metal back home with me;

I'm so hooked on Acid Bath and Iron Monkey right now.

What are your hobbies/favorite things to do?

Len: hang out with homies, play old PlayStation 2 games in my shed, shoot some pool, make

money.

Dustin: Being goofy with friends, making music/practicing guitar, hitting the gym and some

video games, mostly oldschool RuneScape atm haha

Can you tell us the story of how you came up with the title "Soundtrack To An Embalming

Room"?

Len: I just randomly come up with titles that sound fire and I keep them in my notes.

Sometimes it'll be many months or years til they get used

Who did the artwork?

Dustin: Aziz @BLCXSTRY.ART (@aziz_blcxstry)

Can you tell us a little about the writing and recording process for Pestilectomy?

Dustin: I mostly start with demoing random riff ideas along with basic drums, sometimes 

more sometimes less in one session.  Eventually some of these get scrapped or reworked 

and put together, the drums get more detail to form the song how I imagine it.  When the 

song base is done it gets sent over to Felix who revises the drums.  When the revised 

drums are done I sometimes do some fine-tuning to some sections/riffs or add another 

idea that fits Felix drums ideas.  When the instrumental is done we send it over to Lennon 

who records vocals over it.

What can we expect from Pestilectomy in the near future?

Dustin; Hopefully get STAER on vinyl, and some visuals. As well as promo for our 2 cover

songs we released on our “Ministry of Molested Necrophiles” single in 2020!

Who are some bands you guys really take influence from?

Felix: I started to play drums because of Slipknot. Rings of Saturn influenced my playing style

back in 2017

Len: for gutturals the Japanese band Disconformity has always been my main inspiration, but

for this new EP I also did a new scream style that was very inspired by Embalmer, Cryptopsy

and especially Damonacy.

Dustin: When songwriting I write what I personally dig and that’s a combination of the stuff I grew to love over the past 15+ years so it’s hard to pinpoint specific bands for me

Can you name any up-and-coming bands that we should check out?

Len: I'm not a huge fan of newer bands, at least not in the slam genre these days, but Insect

Inside and Torture are exceptions. They're both so flame.

Dustin: For slam “Axiomatic Dematerialization” and “Ungraceful” come to mind first

Both put out some bangers in 2023/2024

Man thank you guys again so much for doing this! Thank you also for the amazing music! I

hope it keeps coming!!

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Colpocleisis Interview 2024

Beyond stoked to have had the pleasure to ask the dudes in Colpocleisis a few questions!  Read on to learn more about the band's history and future!!!

1. Thank you for taking the time to answer some questions! Let's start with who we are talking to. What is your name and role in Colpocleisis?

JB: I’m Jon. I’ve been the singer of the band since 2018. 

JM: I’m Joe. I’ve played bass for Colpo since 2016 

2. Could you share the history of the band? How it started, if members have switched up much?

Joe - the band started around 2014 originally as a 3 piece with Ste, Marc Mullin and Karl Scahill.

 I came on later originally to play bass for the debut album Fallopian Fallout but decided to stay on board. A few years later both Karl and Marc had decided to leave the band for personal reasons with Karl now playing in Coprocephalic Mutation amongst others. The initial direction for the band was a blend of old school slam bands such as Devourment, Cephalotripsy and Cerebral Incubation but the sound has evolved over time with the addition of Jon on vocals and Lewis on drums. 

3. I think I was late to the game finding your music, but I am in love with it! Colpo has been around for 10 years now correct?  

JB: Yeah! A decade strong. I’d not noticed the milestone. There’s been a few changes but we’ve had the same lineup since Lewis and myself joined in 2018. 

Maybe next year, we’ll find a way to mark a decade since the 2015 Demo came out. 

4. Elegant Degradation is my favorite album of yours, but maybe just because it is what I heard first.  It's not hugely different from your first record, Fallopian Fallout, song-structure wise. What I mean is, you guys are consistent with quality writing and production. What is your writing process like and then also what goes into the recording and production of everything? 

Fallopian Fallout was entirely written by Ste and Karl focussing on caveman brutality in the riffage. Production was handled lately in house with Karl recording and mixing much of the album.  Karl and Marc were both involved in some of the writing for tracks that appeared on the Human Dignity Violated EP also.

Elegant Degradation was different in that I led quite heavily on the writing before and during the pandemic with a lot of remote collaboration work with the other members.  Myself and Ste would meet when permitted by restrictions to work through ideas and structures.  Over time the songs fleshed out with Jon and Lewis adding their own character to the songs. We also focussed heavily on themes and running order to make the album sound more like an album rather than a collection of tracks. This is most noticeable in the opening and closing tracks Degrade and Decay which bookend the album with motif oriented riffs and structure. We wanted to increase the atmosphere and intensity of the 2nd album but still keep it aggressive and over time have finely tuned out sound in the studio to match our sound on stage. 

5. Also seems like you started with Inherited Suffering, then joined the ranks of RealityFade? For those of us with no idea, how does this sort of thing work, signing to a distribution label?

JB: I can’t speak on how the Inherited Suffering deal came together as it was before my time, but I know a deal to release one album was signed. The debut, Fallopian Fallout came out in 2017. 

We recorded some new songs in 2019 to showcase the then new lineup. These songs were released as singles to generate some buzz and put us in the shop window to labels. 

After going through a few offers, we decided to work with Reality Fade. RF bundled our 3 singles together as the Human Dignity Violated EP in 2020 and then after a long delay caused by COVID we eventually got album 2, ‘Elegant Degradation’ out in 2023. 

As of right now, we’re free agents again so we need to talk to labels and see who is a good fit to release our future material. 

6. I've looked up the word, but I'll let you share. How did the name Colpocleisis come about? Was this always the name?

Joe - Yeah the name was there from the beginning and was used for the shock factor when people googled the name. Much of the medical world has been used in brutal music titles and names but this was untouched and lent itself to the aggressive nature of the music the band intended on making. 

7. You guys seem to have creatively funny song titles, and some lyrics to match. Do you all write these together? How do the ideas for songs form?

JB: As far as lyrics and song titles go, that’s normally from silly ideas we throw around in the group chat. We have been introducing some darker themes and ideas recently and using less puns though! 

Corpocleisis was born from an in-joke about our corporate jobs away from the band. Third Degree Gurns was based on a story about a mate of the bands on a lot of drugs. 

I think the best origin story for a song is with #ProlapsoVaginal as this relates directly to the band. As Joe detailed above, the band name is a form of surgery and we kept getting tagged by South American doctors promoting their surgery successes. We saw how funny the Spanish to English translation of the captions were and decided to make a song just using these captions for lyrics. 

The songwriting is a mix of individual writing (Joe and Ste primarily), collaborating on riff ideas together and loose jamming whenever we’re all in the same room. 

The last album was written over a longer period and in many different ways because of the pandemic. After finishing a run of shows with a February 2020 appearance in Moscow, we were set to begin the writing process for the album. Of course in March 2020, the pandemic shut the entire world down and derailed any plans. 

With our practice space shut, and the band spread across the country, it was impossible to get in a room and jam like normal. So a lot of that album was written by Ste and Joe with ideas discussed over weekly Zoom calls and sharing ideas on GuitarPro. All of the songs then came to life once we got together and Lewis put his drums over them. 

Flagellating and Six Feet Chunder were the last two songs finished and by that point we were all back together and jamming in the room again. 

8. I love the artwork for both full-lengths! Who did it? Any stories behind the art?

Joe - The debut was intended to be a mix of the band names theme (hence Fallopian) and the video game Fallout (which influenced the artwork). The word Colpocleisis being a surgical procedure to fix a vaginal prolapse. Fallout took on the meaning of both the procedure and video game. Rudi Gorging Suicide was responsible for that one

Elegant Degradation was a different approach. We found an unknown artist in Daniel Francisco through some internet searching. He'd not worked with any bands before and just had a great style that was super grimy and dark. We contacted him and gave him some demos to listen to, discussed the concept of Elegant Degradation, dehumanisation and  such and told him to go wild with creativity. 

I personally went down an academic rabbit hole reading journal articles on the psychological aspects of degradation, humiliation and similar topics. This first appeared in the Human Dignity Violated EP which was actually the title of an article that I read which inspired the themes. It was a conscious decision by the member to keep exploring these themes to add a deeper and dark experience to the music rather than standard fictional gore and famous murderer type stuff.

9. Anything new in the works currently? Please??

We’ve got 4 songs recorded and ready to go. Still undecided on how we will release, but it’s looking like a new EP for 2025. 

Beyond that, writing is underway on the next batch of songs for what will be Album 3. Hopefully we can pull this one together a little quicker and easier. 

10. What is your take on the current state of BDM/Slam?

Joe - There are a lot of insanely talented bands coming out now, especially on the US west coast. The younger generation of bands are delivering Huge quality brutal music which is great to see. The scene can seem a little over saturated at times and to be honest it does occasionally feel like it's ran by merch companies rather than record labels supporting artists.  Dig through bandcamp and you can find some gems. Our mates in 357 Homicide, Coprocephalic Mutation and Vulgar Dissection are making waves in the UK right now. 

11. Can you name 3 bands that you take influence from?

JB: Slam and brutal death metal is the core of our sound, so in terms of direct influence it’s hard to not say Devourment, Cephalotripsy and Cerebral Incubation. 

There’s a lot of influence from of course the likes of Internal Bleeding, Dying Fetus and Suffocation. 

More and more outside influence has been creeping in though as we look to create our own unique sound in such a crowded scene. Things have got more chaotic and noisier with more fx and samples. Plus we’re pushing the tempos up as much as Lewis can handle 

12. The UK Slam scene seems CRAZY right now! Can you name a few upcoming bands from your area that we should check out?

Joe - Beyond the bands I mentioned earlier I'd definitely recommend Hacked Up, Ovulating Cadaver, Vast Slug, Exhumation, the list could go on. 

13. What is something about you that fans of your music would be surprised to learn?

Joe - were largely open people so it's hard to think of anything surprising. Jon is massive into fitness which is quite evident because he is massive. I have a master's degree in musicology which is why I'm such a nerd. Ste and Lew are big into their video games. Lewis is forging himself a career as a session drummer if any bands are in need. 

JB: As brutal as our music is, we all have wide and diverse tastes away from the band. Everything from goregrind to black metal, nu-metal to metalcore, prog and classic rock etc etc but most of that wouldn’t be obvious to the listener. 

Joe loves everything from Primus to Cephalic Carnage to Don Broco. Lewis is well known for his love affair with Megadeth and lifelong feud with Lars and recent obsession with Ja Rule. Ste is big into nu-metal and bands like Fear Factory and Rammstein as well as electronic music. I’m into all sorts from brutal death and grindcore to hip-hop. 

Thanks again for pumping out consistent caveman slams and all around sick music!

14. Anything at all you would like to say to our readers?

Joe - cheers for the support, keep moving forward, stay active in the pit and support your local scene 

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Pusboil Interview 2024

Pusboil, a Slamming Death Metal outfit from Switzerland, released a demo in 2022, an AMAZING full-length in 2023 with "Ancient Stories of Suffering and Disease", and have a brand new EP coming in 2025!!!  I was lucky enough to have vocalist Marvin answer a few questions.  Enjoy below, and support Pusboil!

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Thank you for taking the time to answer some questions! Who do we have the

pleasure of  speaking with, and what is your role in the band? 

Thanks for having us/me! Im Marvin and I do most of the vocals in the band, handle a part of social
media, recording and some other background stuff. 

How did Pusboil come to be? Can you tell us about the other members of the band? 

Remo, our guitarist/vocalist and I started Pusboil in march 2022 as a bedroom slam project with no intentions to play any live shows since we had no experience at all with making music.

Shortly after we asked Sandro if he wants to take over bass duty, since Remo  knew him already from his other band, Goreshower and we released our first demo as a 3 piece. 

After that we started to rehearse and write more music and we played our first 2 shows with backing drums.

In April 2023, shortly after we released our first album, Maxi joined us on drums  and since then we play in this formation as a 4 piece

"Ancient Stories of Suffering and Disease" has an old-school BDM vibe mixed with

some  slams and a crazy range of vocal sounds. Can you explain what sort

of influences bring this  sound out? How would you describe your sound? 

Like you already mentioned, we are all very much influenced by a lot of oldschool BDM/Slam and  classic DM bands, even some grind and punk bands, so we always tried to incorporate that in our songwriting with our own twists and trademarks. Speaking for myself I don't really take a lot  of influences from other vocalists, I always tried to do my own thing and being as unique and  true to myself as possible. Same goes to Remos approach to write and create new riffs and I think in the end that makes us sound like Pusboil and not just a cheap clone of other bands.  

Since the songwriting on Ancient wasn't that outstanding we tried to add a bit more depth with  different vocal styles. A big influence on that record was definitely .357 Homicide.

Jake Gamble  also recorded the drums for this album. 

Who did the artwork for ASOSAD? 

Rudi Yanto from Gorgingsuicide Art, he also did the artwork for our upcoming EP.

Shout out to  him for being one of the best artists in the scene!

I know you guys have an EP coming soon. When can we expect "Indictment"?

The cover art  and single are both amazing! 

Thanks a lot for the nice words, we are also really happy and surprised with how good it came out,  since we recorded everything on our own for the first time. The EP should drop around march 2025 via Pathologically Explicit Records. 

"Indictment" marks a bit of a milestone in our musical career if you wanna say so lol. We evolved a lot in the short amount of time since we have been around. So it a great display of what we kinda always  wanted to sound like as a band. Its way more BDM influenced with less slam parts and more memorable riffs/parts. Maxi also adds a lot to the songs with his outstanding and rather untypical drumming for a Slam/BDM band. We aimed for a classic oldschool BDM sound- production wise - and took influences from bands like Lividity, Digested Flesh, Eternal Suffering and Regurgitation mixed with our own Pusboil style of course. 

What else can we expect in the near future? Live shows? New merch? 

The next big thing is the release of our EP "Indictment" in March 2025. We also just got some  new shirts with a new design, which was made by the super talented Eder Hernandez from Putrid Carcass Art. We also have a bunch of different live shows planned for next year like the first edition of Karlsruhe Deathfest in April, NTYE Deathfest and Berlin Desecration Fest both in may and some others I cant spoil on here, since they are not official yet, but its going to be a busy year for us! 

How did you guys land on the name "Pusboil"? 

Oh, thats a good question and most people get the meaning of our band name wrong. Remo and I wanted a short, concise name that also fits our lyrical themes, sticks easy and wasn't already taken by several other bands. So we came up with Pusboil, which has nothing to do with boiling  pus like many think. It's an abscess thats filled with pus, a medical condition that people got from the bubonic plague. 

Can you name 3 bands that you take influence from? 

We have a lot of influences but I would say 3 big ones for us are Lividity, Beheaded and Digested  Flesh. 

Can you name a few upcoming bands from your area that we should check out? 

Sadly, there aren't that many sick bands from Switzerland anymore, but first of all Goreshower, which is Remos other band. Now a bit shameless self promotion, Remo and I also have a Goregrind project which is about to release our first album under the name Septizin, so make  sure to check that out.

Then not so new our brothers from Consumed by Vultures, if you dig a  more modern approach to BDM/Slam. Our good friends in Rectal Depravity which probably is the  most dumbest (in the most positive way) band we have in Switzerland. Last but not least the  most sickest and underrated of them all: Kakothanasy – make sure to check them out!

Thanks again! Anything at all you would like to say to our readers? 

Again thank you very much for having me/us and the support for Pusboil and like always: keep it  sick in the dick and listen/support true underground sickness!

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