Hi
there... Ok, so can you introduce Antigama's band members?
Did some of you play in other bands before that?
Cheers.
Antigama is: Lucas on vocals, Michal on bass, Siwy on
drums and me Sebastian on guitar. All of us plays in a
different bands before that and now, Michal plays in Reinfection,
Siwy plays in Damnable - now he' s playing in Herman Rarebell
together with me. Lucas has his own electro project called
IN.
How
would you describe your music style? Which bands do you
think have the biggest influence on you (conscious or
not) when you write songs?
I
don't really know. You can call us whatever you want.
I think we're mixing a lot of styles like grindcore, hardcore,
metal, industrial and so on. Everything's got big influence
on us when we're started to writing songs - it's not only
music but also every kind of art and life in general.
Antigama
Discography
(Upcoming:
3rd Cd for Selfmadegodin May; Split Cd/Lp with
Noisear, Split Cd with Deformed)
"Sweet
Little Single" Promo Mcd
"Intellect
Made Us Blind" Cd (The Flood Records, 2002)
"Siekiera/Destination
Death"
Split w/ Jan AG
Promo
2003 Mcd
"East
Clintwood" Split Cd-r with Deranged Insane
(2003, Mortville Records)
"Blastafuk Split Cd"
Split Cd w/ Openwound (Antiself Production)
Split Tape w/ Elysium
(Vendredi 13 Recordings)
"Discomfort" Cd
(Extremist Records, 2004)
Split Cd w/ Third Degree & Herman Rarebell
(Selfmadegod, 2004)
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How
often do you rehearse? What kind of place do you rehearse
in? How does the song writing process works?
We're
rehearsing as much as we can, so it's means that we're
practise 4-5 days in a week. We've a nice rehearsal place
with cool equimpent and stuff. The writing process is
very simple: we're smoke a lot of pot and jam! We have
no special kind of writing style - everything is out in
a very natural way.
Any
special meaning or reason why you chose Antigama as a
band name?
No,
not really. Antigama means destabilisation, difference
and this is the reason why this name was chosen. Except
all this, I think the name is cool itself - short and
easy to remember.
You're
pretty prolific, 2 cd's, plenty of split releases, I haven't
heard all of your releases... But for example, the Split
cd w/ Openwound featured material with some raw rehearsal
sound/live tracks... which ones of your split releases
are studio material? Which ones are rehearsal/live? And
finally which releases are you the most satisfied with
or just feel special to you?
Yea,
we have a lot of stuff out. On the split with Open Wound
we've some raw sounding shit like Promo 2003, Live stuff
and some demos. On the split with Deranged Insane we've
a material recorded and mixed by us - it's sounding also
little raw, but it's totally different band direction
- a lot of electro, noise, harsh stuff mixed with our
tech-metal. It's sounds very strange but great! Except
this we've a split tape released in France (together with
Elysium) with some old live/studio shit, Tribute to Godflesh
(also for French Nihilistic Holocaust), split 7"
with Italian Bastard Saints, lots of compliation CD's
etc.
The best releases from Antigama so far are "Discomfort"
- our second full length, and a 3-way split CD together
with Third Degree and Herman Rarebell - this is the REAL
Antigama and we're proud from these them both - they have
the best sound, ideas and reviews so far.
Regarding
the Antigama/Third Degree/Herman Rarebell... From what
I understand Herman Rarebell contains members from Antigama
& Third Degree... So is it a real band or just a one-time
project?
It's
a real band. We're working on upcoming full length album
for Selfmadegod Records and some 7" and compilation
tracks for the future releases. We're not rehearsing together
as much as we wanted, cause the voxman living in London
and the bassplayer 200 km from us. But me and Siwy still
keeping the spirit of the band, writing new songs and
have a lot of fun. Herman Rarebell is a full blast grind
band inspired by the likes as Napalm Death, Repulsion,
The Kill, Anal Cunt and Bolt Thrower.
You're
already working on a third cd, what can you say about
it? How will be the new songs? What label will be putting
this out? Any other releases planned as of now?
Yes.
At the moment we're busy with writing and rehearsing songs
for the upcoming studio session. We wanna enter the studio
in February 2005. The new Antigama songs are different
everytime, I hope you'll dig it. It's hard to talk about
my own music, so what I can say it will be a brutal records
for sure. We will be releasing it on Selfmadegod Records
in May I think. The future releases are split CD/LP with
Noisear, split CD with Deformed and more to come if we'll
make it. There is all the time somebody who's wants us
on some releases like splits, compilations etc.
What's
been your most memorable live gig so far? How would you
describe one of your live show? How's the crowd reaction
usually?
We're
playing a lot shows so far with different bands from Tragedy
to Dead Infection. The crowd is usually always different,
so it's a good thing. We're trying to play for the mixed
audience like punks, metalheads, grindcores and so. I
think we're pretty known in Poland now, a lot of peoples
likes what we're doing, Karol/Selfmadegod is selling our
Cd's like hell. You've asked me about most memorable gig
with Antigama or my best live gig in general?? With Antigama
most of my gigs where cool, but the best show I've ever
seen was just Kiss in Prague in 1996 - my dreams comes
true, I've seen original line up in make up! hahahaha.
What
do you think of the polish underground? What are your
favorite current polish bands?
Third
Degree, Dead Infection, Nyia, Pignation, Shackled Down,
Rzeznia, Toxic Bonkers - they are my faves. I don't know
much about polish underground scene, we have a cool and
shitty bands here. The same with magazines - I think "Violence"
is the fucking best! Labels for sure Selfmadegod - there
is no other guys like Karol - he's a wicked fucker!! Always
supportive, always friendly. We're in contact with all
the bands I have mentioned before - they are cool and
friendly guys.
What's
your current playlist/favorite bands?
Goblin,
Pig Destroyer, Laibach, Napalm Death, Agoraphobic Nosebleed,
The Kill, Grace Jones, Kiss, Discordance Axis, Fabio Frizzi,
Duran Duran, Kajagoogoo, Motorhead, Young Gods, Noisear,
Zombi, David Bowie, Ozric Tentacles, Lalo Schifrin- it's
changed everyday…
You're
occasionally using movie samples... Do you remember which
were some of the movies you sampled? What are some of
your alltime favorite movies?
Don't
remember them all!! Hahahaha. But movies is the thing
I really dig in. I love tons of great movies, so I think
my list is too long for this interview… I like old
kung fu flicks (Bruce Lee is GOD), slasher/ exploitation/
giallo/ horror stuff like Argento, Fulci, Bava, stuff
like Carpenter, Peckinpah, Coppola, Gilliam, Ferrara,
Nacho Cerda, Buttgereit. Tons of sick underground films
I have seen lately on "Horror Fiesta Festival"
where also fucking great!! Too many to mention!
That's
about everything I've got... Thanks for going through
this... Any closing words?
Yes.
Thank you very much Pierre for this so cool interview
and your support for Antigama. Keep it up!!
Everybody interested should write me antigama@poczta.onet.pl
or go and check out our website at: www.antigama.com
Cheers!
