HAEMORRHAGE
INTERVIEW (2000)
Taken from www.grindcore.com
Interview with Luisma
Hi, how’s it going, what’s
new with HAEMORRHAGE?
Hello, this is Luisma from HAEMORRHAGE. We’re living a hard
time now, cause Grind Over Europe Tour was cancelled on the 8th
date, after a lot of problems. We’re down, cause all the
shows were great, with many people and a big response for all the
bands, so it was very hard to cancel the tour and come back home,
but we’ll do it again as soon as we can. There’ll be
more tours I hope.
Whose idea was to record a cover album?
It wasn’t an individual idea. It was a collective feeling.
We talked a lot of times about recording some covers of our
favorite bands and put them together on a disc. If you look back
in our band’s history you’ll find that we’ve
recorded five covers before Loathesongs that were included on old
split EP’s and as a bonus track for picture LP. We can say
we’re pretty much into covers, so after Anatomical Inferno
album we felt it was the time to do something like Loathesongs it
was a project of everyone in the band.
How did you choose the songs for Loathesongs? I’m sure you
didn’t manage to put all the songs you wanted to…
Yes, it was really hard ´cause we love music too much and we
have lots of favorite bands, songs, etc. So, we chose the songs
because of emotional motives for example CARCASS, REGURGITATE,
ENTOMBED or DEFECATION. Another ones like CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER were
just to show people another kind of bands for the middle 80´s
that were really fast and intense. And at last the cover of UFO
was played and recorded in a funny moment, so we don’t take
it seriously. Anyway it was a pity cause many bands like CARNAGE,
XYSMA, TERRORIZER, REPULSION or MACABRE deserved to be also on
Loathesongs. Maybe we should record a Loathesongs part 2, ha-ha!
And what are your plans for the full-length album and future in
general?
Now the tour is finished and it’s a hard kick in our heads,
but we will concentrate in the new stuff. We’ll channel all
our anger in the new stuff so we expect a totally outrageous
album for 2001. Morgue Sweet Home will be the title for the new
massacre.
I know this year you’re going (or already have celebrated)
the tenth HAEMORRHAGE’s anniversary…
Hmm.We don’t feel good to make some celebrations right now,
but I’m sure we will make something before the 2000 years
end - maybe a special gig or a big gory party. We have to forget
all our problems and then we’ll do anything...
Are you going to have a special tour like “Ten Years Of Anal
Bleeding”, he-he?
Maybe Ten Years Making Your Anus Bleed will be great! I don’t
know, but I don’t like to hear the word “tour” in
the next 1000 years...
On the Loathesongs booklet there is written “grind gore”.
Is that how you call your style?
Yes! It’s not only our style. The style was born before
HAEMORRHAGE. We’re just a part in the grind gore universe.
Our mission is infecting the world with grind gore and it will be
completed! There were others before us IMPETIGO, CARCASS, DEAD
INFECTION. We’re the inheritors the new vanguard of the
elite. Grind gore rules!
What’s your favorite HAEMORRHAGE album and which do you
think is the most successful?
I think the last one Anatomical Inferno sold a lot, but
definitely I thought it was easy ´cause Grume opened the way,
and it was the album that told people "Hey! We are
HAEMORRHAGE and we’re here to make you vomit!" So in my
opinion Anatomical Inferno was better but Grume was successful,
cause it had to do the entire job, we were totally unknown back
then.
I know that you wanted to play a gig in a real morgue. Have you
managed, he-he?
No, we wanted to record a live album in a morgue but we only
could dismember some cadavers.
Are you using some reference books during writing your lyrics?
No, it was just in the beginning. Now we don’t need medical
books cause everything is in our minds. My mind has all the
pathological wisdom of this world.
Do you have lyrics in Spanish? Are you going to use your mother
language to describe all this bizarre insane stuff? I think it’s
going to sound killer!
Yes, but we play grind gore and that’s an English word so
our lyrics are in English. Anyway some lyrics in Spanish could
sound great, but it’s not our business.
I know you did the artwork on IMPETIGO’s EP. Is he a
professional artist or just amateur gore painter?
No I’m not a professional artist, I don’t get any money
for my artwork. I’m getting paid with the support of people.
That’s enough. I only want money from bands I dislike, but I
always loved IMPETIGO, so working for IMPETIGO was too much! It
was the price!
What do pathologists like you do besides playing in HAEMORRHAGE?
Our main hobby is music, playing music. We also like go out,
drink, smoke, football, etc.
Some guys in my band are into sports. I personally am interested
in art, painting, sculpture, etc. but the most of time is
absorbed by HAEMORRHAGE.
You know, nowadays grind and death are going down letting black
posers take that place. Don’t you feel that you’re a
part of elite underground without any trends and other bullshit
like these true and evil gays have?
I don’t care. In our first European tour in 1996 we felt we
were the minority, going against the grain, in a big black metal
trend, but in our last tour we saw many people are coming back to
the roots. For me black metal and grind-death are different
worlds. We have our scene, with our fanzines our distributors,
labels, etc. Totally rooted into the underground. It’s a
very strong scene; it’s alive after very bad times. Let’s
see what will happen when the black clouds are over black metal...
How many of them will survive? We are here for 10 years without
trends just believing in this music, cause grind gore is in our
veins we will raise the grind gore flag till death! They can fuck
off and die in the gothic-metal-gay scene!
From your point of view how the real grindcore should sound?
Fast, intense, heavy, with extreme vocals, with power, with
feeling. We really feel what we play, it’s really important,
we don’t lie. Grind gore is god!!!
Does this insane nice looking doc on your website (taken from
picture LP Anatomical Inferno) and Loathsongs CD have a name?
Yes, he’s Dr. Obnoxious. Do you like to meet him, he-he?
I’ve noticed that now the most brutal grind and death are
played in countries with warm climate. How can you comment on
this?
No. I don’t think so. What’s up with the godly Czech,
Slovak and German bands? For me the new gods of grind will come
from east/north Europe. It’s true that there are extreme
bands here in Spain, but it’s something exceptional.
You know, you sing about all this dismemberment stuff. And have
you ever had nightmares (I suppose you watch thousands of horror
films), he-he?
When I was a child I had a nightmare: there were amputated arms
and legs hanging from the windows and roofs of my neighborhood.
Then I watched a kind of angels coming from horizon. I used to
dream about that, before I was into horror movies and grind gore....
Were you afraid of the dark when you were a child?
No, I really feel great in the dark.
Do you have a dream?
Yes, we are playing in Africa with HAEMORRHAGE.
Maybe you have something to say to our readers?
Yes, thanks a lot for their support throughout the years. Sorry
to our fans in Slovakia, Czech Rep., Switzerland, Italy etc. for
canceling G.O.E.III. We’ll play there soon. Keep the faith
and stay sick! See you in the morgue.
Thanks for the interview and grind on! Set the morgue on fire!
Thanks Gurin, for the interview, good luck with “M”/Legion.
STAY SUCK!!!
© 9urin