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INDEX
INTERVIEWS
GUESTBOOK
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1. Hello! Your first album was just released! Are you a happy bitch ?? ;-) Do a little introduction to GORGASM for those who don’t know the band!
BARBY: Hello Gab! The band exists since 1997, under the form of a trio Drums, bass and guitar that grown bigger with a second guitarist and a lead vocal. Since about one year, we play with Sandrine behind the drumkit, myself at the bassguitar, Mathieu and Arnaud for the guitars, and Guillaume for the vocals.
2. While your demo mainly offered death metal tracks that were rather brutal and technical, your new album shows other important influences such as some heavier Death/ Thrash or some powercore. Are these the new influences brought by the new guitarist, or is it a face of GORGASM you didn’t want to show on your previous releases?
First of all,
to really clear things up, there are some blasts and grind in our
tracks, but we do not and never played Brutal death. It’s a kind
of music we are numerous to enjoy in the band, but GORGASM plays
Death metal. Then some will say it’s technical death or melodic
death, why not, anyway we’ve talked about it with a lot of peoples,
the definitions change all the time!! Anyway Death is our style
because we play an aggressive, insane and angry music and it can
be seen and heard on stage, it’s an essential point, because if
you’re not a minimum brutal on stage, stop Death metal!!
Concerning
Powercore… well no I don’t agree!! But you may call powercore the
heavy riffs we own!! On the other hand, it’s true we have added
few atmospheres on the CD and one should know how to evolve as a
musician, but before all we play Death!
Arnaud, our new guitar
player since one year has bring some plus to the band, but concerning
the album, every songs were finished when he arrived.
3. Your most technical songs are really hard to play! (sorry, I didn’t try! Ah Ah !) Do you play and rehearse your instruments very regularly? How long have you been seriously working the guitar since?
Effectively, we offer interesting songs on a musical point of view (and technically since this aspect seems important for everyone) but without reaching the demonstrativeness. Because it would be boring! When you want to offer and interesting and well played music, you have to play your instrument since quite a lot of years. We all play (because the guitarists aren’t the only ones to work hard their instruments) since quite a lot of years, otherwise we couldn’t offer a quality release. This said, if you want to try playing our tracks, there are a lot of scores on the website site (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gorgasm )!!
3. A good amount of your strongest influences is the music of bands who has split up (CORONER) or whose musicians died (DEATH- R.I.P). Do you think the bands one have listened in its adolescence are those that influenced him the deepest? Or would it be because the current metal albums aren’t as inspired as in the 90’s ? Do a list of the biggest musical influences for GORGASM.
Yep, well seen,
most of the bands who influenced GORGASM at our beginnings has split
up!!! I think the bands of your adolescence are the ones who mark
you the stronger. Concerning myself, the first time I heard OBITUARY,
I said « Ah, yes, this IS fucking GOOD!! ». It’s clear some releases
of this time has badly grown old (the compositions as much as the
production), but well, listening to these from times to times warms
up!! Speaking for myself, It’s also true I currently have problems
to find bands who makes me something good on a physical point of
view, but there are anyway beautiful things such as GORGUTS, MARTYR
(They are strong these Canadians!), GORGASM US, AGIEL, the come
back of SUFFOCATION (One stage it’s the fucking butchery!!), PSYCROPTIC,
ANATA, SYL…
Concerning the influences of GORGASM, there are of
course DEATH, CORONER, CARCASS, CANNIBAL CORPSE, CYNIC, SADUS, SLAYER,
METALLICA, MEGADETH… it influenced almost all the band members.
And then each individual has quite varied tastes, might it be in
metal or in another kind of music.
Lately, one can say MARTYR,
PSYCROPTIC, GOJIRA, SCARVED, NECROPHAGIST, CAPHARNAUM, GORGASM US
or MESHUGGAH were played quite a lot on our Hi-Fi systems!
4. Your album was released on DEADSUN Records, a label that isn’t known for having a very good flair concerning the bands they release, apart from a few ones… Did you receive the offers of other labels and was the one of DEADSUN the most interesting one at every levels? Did you have to pay for a part of the CD manufacturing, as well as some other DEADSUN bands?
I read you are well informed!!! We didn’t receive much offering and we fastly signed a deal with DSR. It’s true they sign a lot of bands who have nothing to do with us, and who do not have our ambitions, but it’s DSR’s problem, and as long as they stay honest to their promises, there are no problems!! We have honored our part of the deal, they have to honor theirs.
5. GORGASM would have been at the right place on SEKHMET Records for example, did you get in touch with them?
All the more you have good tastes!! It’s clear we would have liked a lot to be on SEKHMET, we contacted them, but they refused! That’s life! Anyway, it’s true the bands they have signed are a part of those we enjoy, they had the guts to run a good music label!
6. The member of GORGASM who aggress the drumkit is a woman. Is it hard for her on a brutality and endurance points of view compared to other drummers? Generally speaking a man is more direct and brutal than a woman… So do you force her to practice fitness and body building? Lol.
SANDRINE :
No, the fact I’m a girl doesn’t makes it hard, at least I don’t
think so. It’s obvious this kind of music isn’t convenient to play
but it’s what I like! Concerning the fact men are more « direct
and brutal » than girls, it’s true I’m not a big violent woman,
but there are no links between what this kind of music can let you
hear and my personality, and it’s absolutely not a problem… I don’t
think it’s a good thing to build links between this kind of music
and this or that side of ones personality. Peoples who know me can
tell you so!
All the more, for myself the fact of playing drums
in GORGASM or in general isn’t a way to express brutality, on the
contrary it’s something I like to do and asks me for a lot of work.
Of course no one forces me to do anything (Hopefully enough, shit).
7. When she plays, is she injecting her beers through perfusions or in hospital alimentary tubes? Héhé
No, nothing of that and certainly not all these shits like smoke or anything bad for your health. A bit of water and some Coca light for the days of fiesta and that’s all.
BARBY: I didn’t speak in the previous questions, but for this one I can’t help but answering! Generally speaking, we like the things that are good for the health and we have a well-balanced daily way of life, during rehearsals or on stage! Unfortunately when we play we can’t keep this good rhythm, but you may have found the good answer to the problem with your perfusions!!
9. I know GORGASM only since your previous demo. What where your previous releases like? Your style isn’t much gore (cf GORGASM), was it the case at the beginnings of the band? Please do a little analysis of the way GORGASM evolved on a musical point of view.
As well as every bands, one could strongly feel the influences in our first demos, that’s to say Thrash, all the more GORGASM was born from the ashes of an old Thrash metal band in which I played with Mat!! Then, it’s true we do not have a gore visual, but on the contrary the lyrics aren’t about a charming gay who will set free a middle-class domestic to deflorate her on the greeny delicate grass! Nope, the moronic bitch, we shred her and then we fuck her as hell! Stop the bullshits! We are fed up with innocent girls’ illusions, the last ones who say to be so innocent usually fuck with their sheeps or their father because of how much they are isolated!
10. You seem to be fond of the technical thrash of CORONER! What’s your opinion about the evolution of their last albums that didn't’have much to with their first Lps? It was much simpler, not technical, and a bit anywhere else in the spirit…
Yes, it will be well understood, we like CORONER!! I sincerely think this band has evolved in a right way during their albums, it’s CORONER from the beginning to the end. I don’t agree with you when you say it’s simpler and less technical than before. I personally think than « Grind » (I think you talked about this album) is one of the best played metal albums of all times. It has some very intense moments, some super structures, but with a music always remaining efficient, and this is the harder!! Sorry, I know a lot of peoples think the way you do, but for myself, this album remains one of my fave at every levels.
11. Is your bassist satisfied with the mix of the album?
Ah ! This question is for me! It’s good, questions must be asked to bassists, they are the most informed ones!! I love the sound of my 36 strings bass-guitar and sometimes I play with mittens to have a bigger sound. Concerning the mix, it might lack a bit of power and some bass guitar as a whole, but all is very clear and at the end all the instruments make a whole sound that comes in your face, and that’s all! We recorded the album at home, at BUD RECORDS, so if you’re interested don’t hesitate to visit the site: www.budrecords.com
12. What do the lyrics of GORGASM deal with?
It deals with all the shits and disillusions you can have to deal with. Then we transform and come into an ethereal world, and it’s brutal at every corner !!! But Guillaume might talk about it in a better when than I would do !! GUILLAUME: That’s it BARBY, a big outlet from our ball breaking reality. An audacious dream allowing us to regulate our beings and our hatred. Each one of us has a part of destruction to explore, as much for the events of daily survival as for our various visceral fears. GORGASM is the theatre of the acts linked to these facts. Unrestrained, violent, half-fantomatic, this place transcribes this earthquake of violence and then the NEUROPSITRICKS appear. Pillars of this universe with infinite epoch. These are the incarnations of our deep feelings PIG S BLOATED FACE. NAILHAIRED. EARTH PUS… The part of reality GUTTING JOB. SMOKED SKULLS.. is used as a basis for the story. The lyrics are linked each others by two, it occurs during very old epochs. The concept isn’t bound in stone and it will evolve later on. There will be several acts. Notice Yohan from IMPLY IN ALL, the co-conceptor of the album’s artwork imagines GORGASM in a wider concept with the project ADAM as an origin and the search for absolute intelligence. To be followed.
13. Another American Brutal death band also uses the name GORGASM. Did it bring problems?
BARBY: As you underlined, they play Brutal Death and we don’t !! It did bring any problem until now, I don’t see why it would! I think peoples won’t confuse us. All the more I really think these guys are the best in Brutal death metal, there’s no comparison.
14. On the index page of your website, one can see an album cover being different to the one in use. Was it the previous cover? I prefered this one…
In fact it’s the promo cover of the album. That’s true this one is very cool as well!! It’s not as detailed as the one of the CD and it certainly brings a more direct edge. But well, what was done is done and we do not regret anything!! The album cover has many little details being nice to discover (Isn’t it romantic?!). I think both cover has its own disturbing edge.
15. Would Yngwie Malmsteem be a nice guy if he had played Death metal? Would you prefer Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteem or Steeve Vai to try extreme metal? And why?
Well, I’m a bassist, and I think Y.M is really too much apart from few tracks… I think it’s better if a guitarist answer, and there’s a fan in the band!!
ARNO: No I’m not a fan !! I think his music is funny, that’s not the same! I’d compare that to a good Bézu or Dorothée (Cult French grandmas’ hymns ! –Gab), during the nights of fiestas, it has its little pleasures !!!! No, seriously speaking there are some good stuffs, but it’s the less good one of the 3 guitarists you quoted. It’s a matter of tastes… I don’t think Death metal needs Malmsteem, there are so many more inspired guitarists (Daniel Mongrain for example !!!). Personally speaking, Vai would shredd everything, but he don’t play good metal, so…
16. This little interview is finished, I let you conclude! Thanks and see you later.
Well, that’s
cool, we have spoke about few interesting subjects!! We are searching
for gigs outside from Bordeaux, we aren’t very demanding about the
conditions, so contact us! We’ll play with Imperial Sodomy on the
4 December in Bordeaux.
Death and Vodka, the winning mix !!!
Website: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gorgasm
