miércoles, 6 de marzo de 2019

Interview - Macabre Music


1.Rotten greetings of Perú,Reggie! How going the things in Macabre Music?
Hello Diego….gruesome greetings from Indonesia..yeaahh everything is went well in MM, still making improvements to make this label more rotten and macabre hahahaha and also working on upcoming releases for the next few months.

2.Tell us how is form this brutal and raw label called Macabre Music? Hows been the begings?
Everything happened based on my passion for extreme music since the late 1980s, the main reason I formed MM in December 2018 was because I wanted to evoke memories of my adolescence and want to keep Old School Music alive, that's why MM released old demo stuff, and if there were any newer bands then I chose a bands that had an old school influences.


3.How many releases have till moment Macabre Music?
Currently MM has released 3 demo shirts from Lobotomy "when death draws near", Monastery "ripping terror" 91 "and Cadaver" abnormal deformity "which will be released as early as March 2019.
And MM has released the Ectoplasma "cavern of foul unbeings" shirt on February. You have to check this band ... a great band from Greece that has OSDM influences from bands like Demigod, Baphomet, Gutted, Rottrevore and Autopsy.
I also making Monastery “ripping terror ‘91” demo tape..and hopefully will be released soon.

4.Influences/motivations at Macabre Music?
Without putting aside labels such as Earache, Nuclear Blast, Roadrunner, Metal Blade, Century Media and much more, I really like underrated labels like visceral production, wild rags, drowned, revenge production and much more.
And labels like Nuclear War Now, Critical Madness Production, Pulverized Records, Valour Music (Indonesia) are labels that affect me making MM


5.Apart of Macabre Music you have another proyect paralell?
Not yet…I’m focusing my rotted brain on MM right now hahahaha.

6.Explain some more about actual brutal death metal scenee from your city / country nd recommend some bands. 
Well..we have a huge extreme metal scene here. And also we have big metal fest such Hammersonic, Hellprint, Bandung Berisik and many more.
Sure..to name a few you should check Jasad, burgerkill, death vomit, trauma, kaluman, forgotten, hellcrust, disinfected, rottenomicon, exhumation…and…aaahh we could do this all day hahahaha, many great extreme metal bands from Indonesia.


7.Macabre Musid knows punk,noise scene of Southamerica?
My kind punk noise scene from south America are early sepultura, sarcofago, rot, mortem, masacre, RDP.
And cogumelo records releases are bad ass!!


8.Stuff avaliable of Macabre music at moment? where punxs can find the stuff?
Lobotomy, Monastery, Ectoplasma stuff are available for purchase now.

For order and newest update of MM releases Please check :

https://macabremusic.bigcartel.com/

there are also used/rarities shirts.



9.Morbid future plans?
Just wait for more gruesome releases from MM in coming months…

10.Last words mate and thanks for your time in this interview!
Thank you so much for having MM in this interview…STAY SICK AND ROT to keep Old School extreme music alive. 

Regards,Reggie.

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lunes, 4 de marzo de 2019

Interview - The Mentors


1.How are things going in the mentors?
2018 was a busy year for us.We did a European Tour have a long USA tour of about three months.   We also released a documentary on our band.
Since getting off tour in October I am been concentrating on writing new music in writing another book.



2.Why did you form the mentors?
We wanted to play heavy rock.We started our band in Seattle in 1976.  At this time is Sex Pistols were shocking the world and gave us the idea  to be shocking also. We also wanted to tell the women we knew that they should only have sex with us and nobody else. So we started to sing dirty lyrics.



3. Official discography of The Mentors?   
That’s too much stuff for me to write it down we have done maybe many albums Mentors album L duce albums heathen albums, I  cannot write them all down but here is a partial list.





Mentors Merchandise Catalogue 
Mentors stageworn hoods 
Mentors Cd’s You Axed For It Up the Dose Ducefixion West Coast Debauchery To the Max Over the top The Illuminaughty Rock bible To the Max Live 
Mentors Vinyl To the Max Live in Cleveland 1993 
Dr. Scum Solo CDs Mans way to relax Top notch rock Lady killer Masterpiece Real deal Going off half cocked 2016 Harsh – Hollywood Perverts
El duce solo CDs Karaoke King Remastered Symphony Have a Merry XXXMas God Lock up your daughters Booze and broads The man the myth the legend Musical pornography 
T shirts DVD El Duce the man the myth the vido Mentors Rockumentary Mentor El Duce Vita 
Books Mentors Scrapbook Vol. 2 Truth is Funnier than Fiction – My Life with Eldon Hoke and the Mentors by Steve Broy Patches Mentors patch Credit card

4.Influences at The Mentors?
For L Duce and Frank Zappa.
For Sickie Grand Funk And Hendrix.


5.Do you have any side project?
Well I record albums with mentors and also my own solo albums also I work on L duce albums 
I always release new El Duce material I have!



6.Did you do a recording with Pungent Stench?
Yes I did I recorded a bunch of songs with them in Vienna.  It was a lot of fun to do with them but the two guys in Pungent Stench what Under breaking up for reasons I don’t know so we never completely finished it finally got released anyway. I released it myself of my own label and call that the Pungent Stench Sessions.



7.Do you know the scene in South America?   
No not really I don’t I would like to. You want to come to Perú to play Sunday

8.Stuff avaliable of The Mentors at the moment? where the perverts can find the stuff?
If people want to buy merchandise they can write me at my email address sbroy@aol.com



9.Morbid future plans?   
I am working on a new mentors release,   a new solo album,  and a new L duce album.   Also a new book about my continued adventures in the mentors

10. Last words?  
Thank you for the interest and please help us get some shows in South America and Perú!

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