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Here's a neat Q&A
with Pablo. He's playing in spanish horror grind
bands Gruesome Stuff Relish, Repugnance and
runs Motosierra Records...
Brief, he really has alot of stuff going on. I
tried to ask questions about both bands... (August
3 2001)
Sorry for the Cannibal Ferox pictures
ornating the page, it's just because Pablo picked
it as his fave horror movie, and I have no band
pictures... I didn't find any pictures from the
brain-eating scene though, very sorry!
What's
the difference between Repugnance & Gruesome
Stuff Relish? Why did you start Gruesome Stuff
Relish and what's up with Repugnance?
Ohh!!! What a hard starting !!! Well, I think the
main diference between both bands is that
Gruesome... is more Gore than Repugnance. The GSR
stuff is totally Goregrind in the early Carcass
way and Repugnance are more into old school Death/Grind,
something like Repulsion, Impetigo or Pungent
Stench with a bit of Rockīnīroll feeling on
some guitar riffs. I donīt know... maybe
Repugnance could be more original and Gruesome
Stuff Relish more....straight-ahead and savage.
I started Gruesome Stuff Relish a year and a half
ago just becouse Noel and Iīve been good friends
from long time, we both like the same kind of
music and we had never played together so we
really wanted to stay together in a band (now heīs
also playing bass in Repugnance). We started just
like a two men band, I played drums, Noel guitar
and bass and we all sung. With this line-up we
recorded the split CD and the upcoming 7"
but now we have a new member, Santi, playing
guitar and I think weīll play live soon. When we
started we didnīt want to play live but now I
think weīll try to do it as soon as we can.
The news about Repugnance are that weīve just
recorded the tracks for the 7" with Blood
Duster and a cover for the RGTE tribute, also weīre
gonna record some new tracks for a split CD with
Flesh Grinder that will be out on Bizarre Leprous
and fall this year our full CD for Uxicon.
I
feel like you tried to recreate the ambience of
Carcass era "Reek of Putrefaction" with
Gruesome Stuff Relish... Am I wrong?
Hey man, you arenīt wrong at all. We all love
the raw sound of early Carcass and we are 100%
into this. But not only Carcass is an influence
for us, I think we donīt sound quite diferent
from General Surgery, Necrony or Dead Infection.
Can
you say something about Gruesome new Ep "Last
Men Alive? Is it gonna be on vinyl and cd? Why is
it out on Uxicon?
"Last men alive" must be out next month
(August 2001) on the belgian label Uxicon records.
It has 13 new tracks recorded at the beginning of
this year on my own recording studio, Dirty
Recording. I think itīll be release as 7"
and CD-S.
We choose Uxicon records for releasing this just
becouse I know Burt from long time and I think heīs
a cool guy and his label is also so cool, I think
he did a good work with the Repugnanceīs "Maximum
perversum" MCD so we liked to release
something on this label. He offered us to release
our first recording (the stuff on the "Brothers
in gore" split CD) as 7" but when he
did this offer we were already in deals with
Bizarre Leprous.
You
also run the label Motosierra Records. Is there
really gonna be a Blood Duster/Repugnance Split 7"?
Any other plans? Will you release any of GSR
& Repugnance future releases on it?
Yeah, Iīm just starting with the label with
another Repugnance member as a partner, Segio the
guitar player. At the moment we have only
released the MCD of the finnish sickos Morbid
Savouring "Autopsy lust". It came out
early july 2001 after some troubles with the
censorship, we tried to make it on a factory in
Germany but we couldnīt because they didnīt
want to press a CD with this kind of sick lyrics
so this way the release was delayed 2 months. Now
itīs out and I think everybody should check out
this band !!! They play raw and catchy Goregrind
very influenced by Regurgitate, Dead Infection
and Impetigo but also by old-Death/Grind freaks
like Funebre or Xysma. This will be also printed
on a vinyl edition by the german label Stuhlgang,
I canīt say for sure when itīll be out but itīll
be released.
Iīll try to release the Repugnance/Blood Duster
7" as soon as we get enough money, I spoke
with Jason of Blood Duster a few times and he
said they really wanna do the release. I know
they have a live recording ready to press, so
this could be their side. The Repugnance side is
already recorded, weīve recorded 2 new tracks
and a cover of Pungent Stenchīs "extreme
deformity". I hope this can be out before
this yearīs end. Now we are in the process of
promotion/distribution the Morbid Savouring MCD
and all what we have planned is to do a mailorder
catalogue after summer, also we have in mind to
do a little sampler with some of the stuff we
have for sale in the catalogue, maybe in
colaboration with a spanish newsletter called
Pathologically Explicit. As I said before weīll
press the Repugnance split 7", but by the
moment we havenīt planned any other release from
any of my bands on Motosierra records. Both bands
are signed with other labels, Repugnance with
Uxicon and Gruesome with Razorback so I think
these labels have more experience than we have
and, for the bands, should be better this way.
Are
you happy the way the Brutality Reigns Supreme/Gruesome
Stuff Relish Split Cd came out? Did you have some
response from grindfreaks about Gruesome yet?
What do you think of Brutality Reigns Supreme?
Well, the CD came out with more than 6 month
delay, but I know Roman from Bizarre Leprous had
some money troubles so I can understand this
delay. All the way itīs already out and I just
have to say good words about the label. He let me
do all the layout and I think I did it the way I
liked, very much into Horror/Zombie Comic style.
Also I know heīs sending a lot of promo CDīs to
īzines, webzines... Good label work!!!
I think we are getting great reviews from all the
grinding underground and a lot of people is
writing to us and showing their interest on our
band so we have to be really happy with the
response of everybody.
I like Brutality Reigns Supreme a lot, I have all
their stuff and I think this recording is their
best, it sounds really better than their full CD
or their tracks on the 6-way split CD, the guitar
sound is more powerfull and tight now.
Repugnance
have been in activity for quite a long time, but
you didn't release that much stuffs. Is it any
more serious now than it's been before?
Yeah, I think we are a more serious band now, we
are playing together since 1991 but we havenīt
released too much stuff on our early days and
what we released was rarely distributed out of
Spain. We were a bit lazy, and also between 96 to
98/99 we didnīt do anything. But after we
recorded our promo ī99 (the "maximum
perversum" recording session) we came back
to the underground and we tried to do it more
serious and "professional". Repugnace
is a band that really likes to play live so weīve
always tried to play as much as possible.
Last year we were touring Belgium and we played
on the Wee Levat Festival with bands like Sanityīs
Dawn, Agathocles, Ingrowing, Last Days of
Humanity or Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, then
we did 3 gigs more also in Belgium. It was
fucking great to play with all those people and
meet some more nice grind freaks, that was the
first time we played out of Spain.
This year we played in the Repulsive Festival
with Disgorge (mex.), Sanatorium, etc... and on
the Steel Warriors Rebellion in Portugal with
Avulsed, Undertakes, Groinchurn and many more.
Maybe next year, after releasing our full CD, weīll
do another tour all over europe.
Spain
nowadays seem to have better bands and labels
than ever... Machetazo, Haemorrhage, Ironia,
Denak, Upground, Fleshfeast... Are you in touch
with all these wonderful people? Are there any
talented bands from your country who are unjustly
ignored in your mind?
Of Course, there are more labels and bands than
never and some of them are well known and
considered outside Spain. The spanish scene is on
their best moment without doubt. Years ago only
Haemorrhage were releasing stuff and playing live
out of our country but now Machetazo, Denak...
and many others are doing good things.
Iīm in contact with some of the people you ask,
I meet the Machetazo guys and use to write with
Mike of Fleshfeast, Iņaki of Upground/Denak...
There are more labels, bands and īzines. The guy
of Goremanía records, who put out time ago the
Fermentoīs debut CD, has now another new label
called Hecatombe Records and heīs gonna release
some CDīs. One of the bands heīs gonna put out
their stuff is Tu Carne. I think this is a cool
and interesting band, not very known out of Spain
yet but in their way to be more and more. They
play not-too-fast but very very sick Goregrind
with short tracks and lots of funny intros, I
think they could sound very close to Gut, Utopie
or CBT.
I
assume you're a horror fan... Can you pick one
unique ultimately favorite movie of yours? If
possible, explaining why, and maybe describe your
favorite scene out of it. Can you remember what
got you into horror in the first place?
Maybe my favourite horror movie could be Canibal
Ferox, I saw this movie when I was only 10 years
old or so, I saw it at home on video with my
parents and I got really crazy with alI I was
watching. If I have to pick my fave scene of this
movie Iīd just take when the cannibals put the
guy on his kness under a table with a hole in the
upside so that he puts his head in the hole. He
has a bar under his chin in order to keep his
head hold. After that, they slice his head cover
and they start eating their brain. REALLY SICK
!!!!
What's
your current playlist, favorite new bands etc...?
My all-the-time fave albums are:
Carcass - Reek of putrefaction
General Surgery - Necrologies
Brutal Truth - Extreme conditions...
Impetigo - Ultimo mondo cannibale
Repulsion - Horrified
Pungent Stench - Split with Disharmonic Orchestra
Napalm Death - From enslavement to obliteration
Terrorizer - World downfall
Heamorrhage - Grume
Regurgitate - Effortless regurgitation...
But the stuff I
listen most these days is:
Sanityīs Dawn - Chop chopper
Engorged - Death metal attack II
Morbid Savouring - Autopsy lust
Regurgitate - Carnivorous erection
Wizards of Gore
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition - CD
Gronibard - CD
Is
there possibly gonna be a website for Repugnance
or/and Gruesome Stuff Relish any time?
Yeah Iīll try to do a website for the bands, Iīve
already done one for the label but I donīt like
too much this kind of work, Itīs a bit boring. Iīm
not too much into doing webpages, I like graphic
design and I use to do all the covers, flyers...
of my bands/label but webdesigning is not my cup
of tea, he, he, he.
That's
about everything I had in mind for you! Please,
feel free to add anything concerning you,
Gruesome Stuff Relish, Repugnance &
Motosierra Records that we failed to mention here....
Thanks for your time!
I donīt know what else I can add, the intieīs
been vey complete, I think Iīve told every
interesting thing about Gruesome Stuff Relish,
Repugnance and Motosierra.
O.K. many thanks to you for your interest and for
doing this great webzine.
[LINKS]
 Motosierra Records
[E-MAIL]
zombierampage@hotmail.com
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