[INTERVIEWS]

HAEMORRHAGE INTERVIEW (July 1998)
Taken from the Goregrind and Grindcore Webzine (http://come.to/grindcore)
Interview with Luisma - by Pierre - through mail.

So a third cd is coming soon? Did you write many songs since Grume? How is your musical evolution? faster? more slowy? or more groovy?

Yes, a third cd is coming soon. We'd like to finish the recording in september but we could delay everything a bit, because our drummer Rojas broke his finger and he will be out for a month. Then we've to wait to see how does it heal, and practice again. Yes, we've written many songs since "Grume". Some other songs will be placed on split eps and other will be forgotten and they will exist only on some rehearsal tapes.

There isn't a big difference between our new stuff and our old stuff. It's still fast, intense and there's groove of corpse. Anyway, we won't wimp out... we'll be the sick Haemorrhage you already know.

What other releases are coming up? I heard about a split 7" with Groinchurn...

Yes, we'll release three split eps soon: Haemo./Groinchurn (Morbid Records), Haemo./Denak (Upground rec.), Haemo./Anal Getaway (on a czech label). Every one of these split eps will have covers or unreleased tracks so I think they're quite interesting.

Sound on "Grume" is very good, better than on "Emetic cult". New recordings will get an even better sound? Do you always go to the same studios?

Yes, we have to get a good sound for our new album so we will go to "Gore actor" studios again. We recorded all the stuff for the split eps plus 14 old songs in that studio some months ago. We took 2 days to record, mix and master it all and it sounds incredible! We'll go there for the next one. The problem in Spain is finding a studio that understand the music we play, and getting a filthy + brutal sound. That was the mistake on "Emetic cult" I think.

Do you know how your two cds have been selling?

We don't know. But we sell like shit compared to Cradle of Filth or any big or trendy band, but our sells are ok for a non-trendy style as grind gore is. It's difficult to say because there's some licensed editions in countries like Poland; etc... If after all we sell 5000 copies we will be happy. I think we could be near (including cds, tapes and pic. LP) 50 it's ok. Anyway, ask to Morbid recs. ha,ha,ha.

Can you say a short word about band's history? From which other bands Haem. members come from, and is there some paralel bands to Haem.?

Well we started in 1990. We played noisy grind in our begining under the nicker of "Intestinal Convulsion" (We changed because it sounded like Afflicted Convulsion from Sweden-then called Afflicted) then "Devourment" and then "Haemorrhage" (there was a band in Poland with the same name). We were 16 or 15 when we started. The formers were Jose (drums in "Emetic..") and me. Then, in 1993 Lugubrious joined the band after the disolution of his band Lugubrious. Short after Ramon and Ana joined us. Ramon played in a grind band called Greenfly with our new drummer Rojas in those days. Then this band split up and Ramon played in a hardcore/punk-rock band "20 years old". I played with "Avulsed" from 1992 to 1994, and Ana played in a thrash band called "Mortal Housen" (She was the singer)

You released one demo before "Emetic cult"... and maybe others(?). Do you think rerelease this material one day on cd (or whatever)? like Dead Infection did with their demos...

Yes, we have ademo "Grotesque embryopathology" recorded in 1992. It has a horrible sound and the songs which are contained in it appears on "Emetic cult" but with a better sound, so it's impossible we release that demo on cd. Although we had an offer to do it sometime ago.

Which song do you think being the best Haemorrhage song???

I don't know. I like all of them, although people seems to have predilection for "Decomposers", "Excavating the iliac fossa", "Dissect, Exhume, Devour..." or "Rectovaginal fistula". The most covered song is "Uncontrollable proliferation of neoplasm" which has been covered for four or five bands.

Do you play gigs very often? Some Haemorrhage shows coming up?

No we don't like to play gigs very often. We just play for fun and when we have the need to do it. Now we had 3 shows planned in Spain and I've been asked for more, but we can't play because of our drummer's finger.

I just want to concentrate in the new album and then go on the Grind over Europe 3 tour with Brutal Truth, Agathocles and Groinchurn, but we want our new album finished at first.

How your shows look like? Do Lugubrious always paint his body with blood?

Maybe have you seen some live phtos from live show or photos from the booklet of "Grume" So Lugubrious paints his body with blood... it's called "Bloodbath" by me, ha,ha... and we play with surgeon clothes and make up but Lugubrious always use it... He's a sick guy. If there is no blood there is no show!

Your top 5 best albums of all times:

CARCASS "Reek of putrefaction" + REPULSION "Horrified" + GENERAL SURGERY "Necrology" + TERRORIZER "World downfall" + CARNAGE "Dark recollactions"... This could be the first five on mylist, but there will be other as good as these like the first Impetigo album, Autopsy, Napalm Death, etc...

You (Luisma) drawn some bloody artwork for Grume booklet... will some new drawings come with next releases?

Yes, I've drawn some artwork for Haemorrhage in the past, an I would like to do it for the next one. Because people likes these drawings. By now, I've drawn the cover for Haemo./Groinchurn split ep

From where come the "Emetic cult" intro "Nekromantik"? from a movie, or was it composed specially for Haemorrhage?

We took that intro from the movie "Nekromantik". We are totally into that movie when we did our first album. It could be great to get more music from this movie cause it has a very emotional music...

What do you do outside the band?

We all work to get our life. haemorrhage gives us no money to live, so we must earn our money working like the rest of the world try to do.

Your lyrics are pathological and gore... but there's a note on Grume like fuck nazis, fascists, sexists... and animal tortures... but I'd like to know if some of you were vegetarian or vegan?

No we are not vegetarian. Only Ana was some time eating just vegetals. It's quite difficult in Spain to be vegetarian, because there's no tradition in veganism, etc... But I try to eat the less meat I can. We are against the animal torture like bullfights. This is really stupid-kill animals just for fun.

Most of vocals in Haemorrhage are very screamy (the gruntroars and effects can be considered as backing vocals...) and sounds a bit like black metal vocals... Is it to attract black metal listeners? Do you know if some black metal listeners like your music? And do you like black metal?

Our invention wasn't to attract black metal listeners. That's the way our singer do his vocal parts, we can't mix black metal with grindcore. We sing this way from the beginning... It's our style. Yes, I know some black metal people likes Haemorrhage and I don't care. I think everybody could listen to whatever they want... I obviously think our music is better than all that ambient stuff like Mortiis, last Burzum album, etc... ha,ha...

Yes I like some black metal albums like the first Immortal album, Dark throne, etc... But we don't want to be involved with black metal we came from another scene.

Have you got something to say about Spain? underground spanish scene or whatever?

Nothing really important. There are lots of bands with a great level like Denak, Unnatural, Machetazo, the Art of butchery, Difenacum, Ironia, Jigsore, etc... A very small promotion so the most of them are only known in Spain. We were lucky releasing stuff on foreign labels our band has been promoted very well in Europe and we receive letters from fans of far countries like Japan, Brasil, Australia, U.S., Columbia, etc...

Some words to finish the interview...

Thanks to you Pierre... Thanks for the interview and the space in the net... you fuckin' rule!! Stay sick! Long live to Goregrind and Grindcore!!! See you...

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