1.Deadly and bloody greetings from Perú,Matt! How going the things at Ringworm?
Things have been great lately for us! We just released our 8th studio album in May. It’s called “Death Becomes My Voice” and we’re really happy with how it turned out. We also just put out a split 7” with CHILD BITE.
We just got done with a few weeks on the road with GOATWHORE and that went really well. We go out again in a few weeks with HAVOK on the US west coast. Looking forward to those dates.
Also our old bassist and one of our closest friends, Mike Lare has recently returned to the band but he’s playing guitar instead of the bass this time around. It’s been great to have him back on the road with us again.
2.Hows been the bestiality begings at Ringworm?
Ringworm started out around 1990 I believe. They released the demo in 91 and the first album “ The Promise” in 93. They broke up in the mid 90’s and reformed in 98. I joined the band when they were working on the second LP “Birth is Pain” and have been with them ever since.
I just copied this from Wikipedia and added in a few 7” EP’s that they were missing. It’s pretty accurate I think.
• 1991 - Ringworm (self-released demo), later released by Overkill Records
• 1993 - The Promise (Incision Records), later reissued on CD by Deathwish Inc and vinyl by A389 Recordings
• 1994 - Split 7" with Boiling Point (Lost and Found Records)
• 1995 - Flatline (demo from 1991 which became bonus tracks on subsequent re-release of The Promise) (Lost and Found Records)
• 1999 - Madness of War (self-released demo)
• 2000 - Hollow Soul (Split with Godbelow) (Surface Records)
• 2001 - Split 7" with Cold as Life (Stillborn Records)
• 2001 - Birth is Pain (Victory Records)
• 2003 - Splitseveninch (Split with Terror) (Deathwish Inc.)
• 2005 - Justice Replaced by Revenge (Victory Records)
• 2007 - The Venomous Grand Design (Victory Records)
• 2011 - Scars (Victory Records)
• 2011 - Your Soul Belongs to Us... (Split with Mindsnare) (A389 Recordings)
• 2012 - Stigmatas in the Flesh (live album) (A389 Recordings)
• 2013 - Bleed (EP) (Relapse Records)
• 2014 - Hammer of the Witch (Relapse Records)[3]
• 2016 - Snake Church (Relapse Records)
• 2016-Split 7” with Brain Tentacles (A389 Records)
• 2016-Split 7” with Early Graves (Creator Destructor Records)
• 2019 - Death Becomes My Voice (Relapse Records)
• 2019-Split 7” with Child Bite (Failure Records)
We’re influenced by a lot of old hardcore, punk and metal bands. Motorhead, Discharge, The Accused, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Voivod, Kiss, Metallica, Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Entombed,Trouble, Crumbsuckers, Ludichrist, Dead Boys, Autopsy, Black Sabbath, Samhain/Misfits...too many to list.
5.Some members of Ringworm have another proyect paralell?
Our bassist, Ed and I have a death metal band called SHED THE SKIN. Kyle Severn from INCANTATION and Ash Thomas from FaithXtractor are also in the band. We are finishing up our 3rd LP titled “The Forbidden Arts” for Hells Headbangers Records. It should be out in the next 6 months hopefully. You can check out our last album, “We of Scorn” in the meantime. Fans of late 80’s, early 90’s death metal will like it.
Ed is also in a band with RINGWORM’s singer Human Furnace (James Bulloch) called THE GLUTTONS which is a Motorhead styled rock and roll/punk type of band that kicks ass. They released an album last year called “G.F.F.G.” that you should check out.
6.Matt explain some more about actual loud and noisy scene from your city and recommend some bands.
Cleveland has had many great metal, hardcore and punk bands over the last few decades.
If you haven’t heard TERROR (Cleveland death/thrash band not to be confused with the popular hardcore band from L.A.) you should check them out. Classic stuff from the late 80’s. Fans of old school death metal and thrash will love this band. Highly influential
to our entire extreme music scene here in Cleveland. Some members have a crushing new death metal band called VADIAT that is amazing.
THE GUNS were a killer punk band from the 80’s that you should get to know. We recently covered their song “I’m Not Right” on our new 7” split with CHILD BITE.
DESTRUCTOR dates back to the mid 80’s and is a great old school thrash band that’s still making music today.
BOULDER was a really great metal band that broke up and members went on to form the great band MIDNIGHT which I’m sure most people reading this are familiar with.
EMBALMER and KURNUGIA are both great death metal bands that are still releasing great stuff today.
BLOOD OF CHRIST was a great death metal band from the early 90’s and so was DECREPIT. Classic Cleveland death metal that people should know about but a lot don’t. I played in both of these bands back in the day along side our good friend Tom Rojack who unfortunately died in 1997.
KEELHAUL was a great sort of proggy but very heavy band that was amazing. It’s hard to categorize this band but members went on to form great bands like AXIOMA, BRAIN TENTACLES and SIXKILLSNINE. Each of these bands are different from the others but all of them are great and interesting sounding bands.
SOULLESS was a great death/thrash band that put out some very ripping records before they split up a few years ago. Fans of super fast and tight thrash will love this band.
One of the all time great punk bands...THE DEAD BOYS was originally from Cleveland before they moved to NYC. They’re one of my favorite bands ever.
Our good friend...the late Jim Konya put out many, many great releases over the years with bands like NUNSLAUGHTER, FROM THE DEPTHS, MINCH, SPAWN OF SATAN, NORDIC MIST, ALL THAT IS EVIL... Jim put out tons of stuff before he died a few years back. Take a few days and delve into his catalogue.
Obviously we know Sepultura but also Sarcofago and Pentagram (Chile) are some favorites of ours.
8.Stuff avaliable of Ringworm at the moment? where noisy maniacs can find the stuff?
You can get our last few records here...
https://store.relapse.com/b/ringworm
You can also get our shirts and merch at
https://allinmerch.com/
We have the HAVOK/RINGWORM west coast tour coming up in October and we’ll be doing some more touring next year. After that...we will be working on our ninth studio album. We have only a few riffs so far but we’ll be working on that soon.
Thanks for getting ahold of me for this interview. I hope that some people in Peru are turned on to some of the great bands from Cleveland that I’ve listed here. There’s always been a great scene here in Cleveland and a lot of it tends to get overlooked. Thanks again!
https://ringworm.bandcamp.com/
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