.Witch Vomit W/ locals Torture Rack, Nekro Drunkz, and Maniak.
Witch Vomit
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Interview for Headsplit Magazine #4
.This is our first and only interview as of now.
1. First tell these illiterate fucks about the beginning of the band? How did Witch Vomit start?
T.T
Witch Vomit started around the time Dr Loomis (the band me and V.V
previously played in) came to an end. We started playing death metal,
which felt a lot more natural to play than the grinding thrashing metal
we were playing previously. We played a lot slower at first writing long
songs
which more along the lines of doom than death really. Then after a
couple months we found the sound we have kept thus far, somewhere in
between Swedish death metal and death/doom.
2. What are some of the important influences of Witch Vomit. Bands,specific albums, etc
3. You guys recently got a new bass player. How's that working out for you? Do you miss the two piece line up?
4. How do you feel about the revival of old school death metal? Where does Witch Vomit fit in this? What makes Witch Vomit different from the rest with so many bands coming out these days trying to play old school death metal.
5. What are some new death metal bands you guys would recommend?
6. What the fuck is that artwork for the demo? What's the story behind that?
10. What are the future plans for Witch Vomit? Any new filthy tracks in the works?
11. Any last words for these degenerate cunts to close this FANTASTIC interview?
Thanks to D. Hay of http://malign-paradigm.blogspot.com/ for this interview.
1. First tell these illiterate fucks about the beginning of the band? How did Witch Vomit start?
V.V.-
Shortly after the break up of our thrash band Dr. Loomis, T.T. and I
never quit playing music together, every weekend we would jam different
styles and start writing music together. At first "Witch Vomit" was
going to be the name of a Repulsion style band that we spent only a
couple nights working on, one time we just
jammed out something slow and both thought we wanted to start a
"dead/doom" band, so we kept the name and put our focus on that.
2. What are some of the important influences of Witch Vomit. Bands,specific albums, etc
T.T
I take influence from a lot of bands, as I am constantly listening to
music. Some bands that have really influenced Witch Vomit are Morbid
Angel, Nihilist/Entombed, Autopsy, Dismember, Grave, Asphyx,
Incantation, Bolt Thrower, Demigod, Darkthrone, Rotting Christ,
Impetigo, Crematory, Bathory, Disgrace, Archgoat,
and Gorguts.
V.V.-At
first I'd say we were really into something along the lines of Asphyx,
Autopsy,
Incantation, Coffins, Bolt Thrower, Dismember, Grave, and "Soulside
Journey" by Darkthrone. As far as drumming goes I pay a lot of attention
to the drumming on Soulside Journey and Onward To Golgotha. After we
wrote our first demo we lost a lot of
doom influence due to getting drunk and listening to mostly Swedish
death metal all night and day. After getting our new bass player,
J.G.(Torture Rack) , he began to throw more doom ideas our way so we
have been writing a lot more slow riffs lately, which has been going
great!
3. You guys recently got a new bass player. How's that working out for you? Do you miss the two piece line up?
T.T
It has been working really well. It was a long search to find the right
bass player for Witch Vomit. I met Jason when I joined Torture Rack,
and quickly realized how sick of a bass player he is. A talented
musician and absolute maniac! No, I do not miss playing as a two piece,
neither of us were ever happy playing shows that way. The only advantage
was being able to tune to whatever and improvise riffs when too drunk
to remember them haha.
V.V.-
Our new bass player rips! Solid dude and very fun to work with, he
joined right before the recording of "The Webs of Horror" so we were
able to record with him. I don't miss the two piece band at all, it was
nice for practices because T.T. and I have been playing music for so
long together, but I never felt satisfied playing live shows, people
still seemed to like us, but I hated it when people said "You guys are
sick for a 2 piece!", fuck that! Im glad that is over.
4. How do you feel about the revival of old school death metal? Where does Witch Vomit fit in this? What makes Witch Vomit different from the rest with so many bands coming out these days trying to play old school death metal.
T.T
I think it's great, there are a ton of good new bands playing with the
old school spirit. Actually releasing tapes and records instead of just
posting songs on the internet. And having been too young to experience
death metal at it's prime it's cool to have somewhat of a death metal
scene nowadays. There are also a lot of shitty trend hopping fukks who
would recognize Seven Chalices before they would recognize Seven
Churches. But whatever they will give it up within a year or two. Witch
Vomit stands out because we care about playing death metal more than
anything else, we spend a lot of time and energy working on this band.
We don't just throw together bullshit riffs and write a song in five
minutes.
V.V.-
I definitely like that there are good death metal bands coming out now,
its nice to see that the thrash metal revival died down a bit and more
people are playing death metal and putting out killer demos and records. I feel like Witch Vomit is a very honest
death metal band, we take a lot of time writing our new material and
want it to be different, but still have a completely old school feel.
Ever since we started the band we would skip class just to practice at
our parents houses and record demos almost every week. I guess a
difference is that we don't hype our band like a lot of other new bands
do, we just practice and record and when people hear it they will like
it or not. I could
care less what your band does every week, but when your record comes
out Ill fuckin buy it!
5. What are some new death metal bands you guys would recommend?
T.T
Too many! Vastum, Ritual Necromancy, Sempiternal Dusk, Rude,
Trepenation, Cemetery Lust(more death thrash, but totally sick) Bone
Sickness, Cryptborn, Shroud of the Heretic, Innsmouth, Sacriphyx,
Teitanblood, Dead Congregation, Vanhelgd, Krypts to name a few.
V.V.-There
are a lot of killer new death metal bands and just killer new bands in
general, some recent death metal I really enjoy is Disma, Torture Rack, Ritual Necromancy,
Rude, Horrendous, Trepanation, Dead Congregation, Anhedonist, Bone
Sickness, Weregoat, Cemetery Urn, Ignivomous
6. What the fuck is that artwork for the demo? What's the story behind that?
T.T
Hahaha everyone who bought that tape says that exact same thing. Our
former bass player drew that, it's supposed to be a scene from
Creepshow 2. I thought it fit pretty well with the shitty sounding
rehearsal tape haha.
V.V.-
We wanted something to look similar to the Nihilist demo art pieces,
but according to many people who bought the tape it missed the cut. Tons
of people couldn't tell what it was, I don't blame them, but oh well
the new artwork is sick!
7. Who did the artwork for the webs of horror. Killer drawing!
7. Who did the artwork for the webs of horror. Killer drawing!
T.T
A good friend of ours Matt Stikker drew that for us. He did a fucking
killer job, totally sick guy. Check out his band Contempt!
V.V.- That would be our long time buddy Matt Stikker! Our old band used
to play with his old band and when Witch Vomit started he started a new
band called Contempt. We kept playing sows together and became good
friends. We wanted the art to be by someone new who people wouldn't
really
recognize. The art he did was sick!
8. The webs of horror is a Lord of the Rings quote. Are you guys Lord of the Rings nerds or something?
T.T
Yeah, that song name and most of the lyrics came straight out of the
book. Jason also called me a "fukkin nerd" when he realized that. I
wouldn't say I'm a nerd, but I do love Tolkien's writing. Death metal
inspiration can come from anywhere haha.
V.V. Yeah I am a fan of Tolkien...but Ill leave this one to T.T.
9. Your debut EP is due out soon on cassette, what about a vinyl release. Any plans to put that shit on wax?
T.T We are planning on putting it out on vinyl. It may
not be soon, but we will make it happen.
V.V. Yes the cassette is out any time now, the vinyl version isnt set in stone yet but hopefully within the next year.
T.T
For the passed couple of months we've been writing songs for a new
recording. All of us have been writing riffs lately, so the songs are
all over the place which is really sick. I'm hoping to have around ten
tracks and make a full length record by the end of the year. This summer
I want Witch Vomit to
play shows as often as possible so come out and actually support bands
instead of sitting at home crying into your shitty records ya fukks!
V.V.
Yes, we are currently writing a full length and have finished writing
our third song. It is a little more complex than the earlier Witch
Vomit, so far its sounding killer. We have a show in Seattle with
Undergang, Trepanation, Astraes Pestis and Cauterized for July 5th and on July 12th with Shroud of the Heretic in Portland, thats about it for now I think....
11. Any last words for these degenerate cunts to close this FANTASTIC interview?
T.T Get drunk listen to death metal and vomit!
V.V.
Support the underground metal and punk scene, go to shows, buy tapes,
records, write reviews, whatever, find a way to support!!!
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