CRUEL MANIAX INTERVIEW-1984

One more time...from the pages of the amazing zine UPROAR a cool interview with CRUEL MANIAX in the era of the great lp comp ="THE VIKINGS ARE COMING"...

WARVICTIMS INTERVIEW-2008

They are a fucking amazing RAW D-BEAT CRUST band from sweden!!! and of course they don´t need introduce...but i can say that they are one of my favorite bands from today...
This interview was answered by two members=Fisen and Fetebob...i´d like to thank you for found a time to answer this my friends!!!
Keeping the brutal fucking D-BEAT CRUST at Sweden alive!!!!!!
WARVICTIMS RULES!!!!!!!!!
1. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR HISTORY...WHEN FORMED...ETC..
Fisen: I think it was the summer of 2006, perhaps june/july? Me and Challe had played in bands together before Warvictims so we have known each other for a long time. Both of us are into rawpunk and d-beat a la 90 styles, you know what I mean? We have been talking for a while that we should start a new band with no bullshit melodies on the guitars. Just to keep it simple, tedious and raw with lyrics only about war, starvation and death. We recorded our first rehearsal and that was later released as the minicd “when the innocent cry”. Only 100copies made and it was included as a free record with our zine Skitliv! #3. I think that’s for the best. Back then I played the drums and I really suck at it.

2. WHY "WARVICTIMS"???
Fisen: We wanted a standard name and war and innocent victims is a common topic among punk bands so we just putted together those words.

3. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT "DISCORE"..."CRUST"...ETC...ONE TIME THAT WE CAN SEE/HEAR LOTS OF PEOPLES TALKING SHIT ABOUT THAT...AGAINST THAT TOO...ETC...
Fisen: For me it’s either punk, råpunk or käng. Today there are so many names for the same music (in my ears), why make it more difficult then it is? I saw some youtube movies some weeks ago about the war between crustpunks and trallpunks here in Sweden. I did not even know that there was a war going on. I have never been involved in this conflict and I will never be a part of it. I think it’s pretty ridiculous. In my point of view the punk scene has always been divided, I ask myself for what reason? Punks should just unite and fight back the true evil in the system. We should not try to be some fucking hip hop scene with beefs and shit, we should know better then that. Internet is good for many reasons like finding information, meting new friends/bands etc. But there are also lots of dark sides as well. Like backstabbing and bullshit talking punks on forums and such. Let’s say that Warvictims got ripped off by some label. Then that’s in between the band and the label not hundred of other punks with lack of information about the story between the two parts. I see this often in Sweden with punks defame other punks cause of some bullshit rumours on the net. Mind your own business!

4. YOU ARE A "YOUNG" BAND...SINCE YOU ARE FORMED IN 2006....BUT YOUR DISCOGRAPHY HAVE GROWNING MANY MANY FAST...BEYOND YOUR DISCOGRAPHY...WHAT ARE THE NEXT PLANES??? NEW RECORDS,ETC...
Fisen: We’re a young band with a bunch of old farts. Hehe. We have access to a studio where we can record most of the stuff almost for free. So as soon as we have any new tracks we just hit the studio. We don’t have any future plans as it is today. We have recorded four tracks that will be released by Abuse Records from Belgium. That might be our last record. It’s too early to say anything more.

5. WHAT ABOUT YOUR TOUR?? IT WAS CANCELLED???
Fisen: Yes, unfortunately. Challe (vocals) have been depressed for some time now and he just felt that he couldn’t go on tour. He thought that the anxiety just would increase. It’s a damn shame, but we all have to respect his decision. We were all really looking forward to this tour. We were supposed to play at some great venues/festivals with several of good bands. Fuck, it just makes me depressed to think about all this. I/we wanna apologies to everybody for this inconvenient with such short notice. Read more about it on our myspace profile with a personal letter from Challe with more details and a blog post from the band.

6. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT LINE UP??? MANY CHANGES SINCE THE BEGUIN??
Fisen: We don’t know the current line-up cause we haven’t been talking too much to each other after we cancelled the tour. Challe don’t wanna play live but the rest of us want. He might be up for 1-2 shows at top and we wanna be out for at least 1-2 weeks at the time. Perhaps we will continue as a boring studio project or perhaps we’ll find someone that can replace Challe or perhaps we just quit the band and move on. As I said we haven’t really talked about it. It’s only me and Challe who’s been in the band since the start so there have been some major changes through the years.

7. SAY SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS...AND INFLUENCES???
Fisen: It’s actually really hard to say, I’m influenced by so many bands. Dischange/Meanwhile, Disfear, Warcry, Consume, Disclose…to namedrop a few. When I grew up I more or less only listen to bands that started with DIS, which might reflect some of the chords and songs I do today.

Fetebob: You could say the whole lifestyle and enviorment within the ranks that we hang out in is our influences.. a hard living contributes to what we do.. band i like is Disaster, doom, warcollapse and the english anarchopunkscene in the eighties. They lived what they believed in, so shall we.

8. HOW ARE THE SCENE IN SWEDISH TODAY??? GIGS, ZINES, ETC...
Fisen: I think that there are lots of new great bands, like it always been. In some way it feels like the scene is growing more and more with young and hungry punks that want things to happen. When it comes to gigs/venues we have “Spatt” in Göteborg, “Skylten” in Linköping, “Verket” in Umeå, “Fullersta” in Stockholm and some other small venues whose organise shows and workshops. We have “Punk illegal” (located in Göteborg) who arrange shows/festivals for the benefits of illegal immigrants. There ain’t that many active papers zines around today which I think is very sad. Internet is taking over more and more with blogs and such.

Fetebob: We have venues but there should be more and it should be alot more discussions about the current situation in the country and how to widen the spectra on teh scene.. like it is now everybody is so segregated and pointing fingers at eachother. I guess every country has problems with the hierarchy and elitethinking. Fuck all that and start communicating and be a threat for real.


9. YOUR MEMBERS ARE PLAYING IN OTHER BANDS/PROJECTS...???
Fisen: Yes everybody in Warvictims has played and plays in other bands/projects. Just leave it as that.

Fetebob: Yes we play in alot of bands but they are not interesting now.

10. TELL US ABOUT YOUR OTHERS WORKS...LIKE YOUR AMAZING LABEL...HOW IT ARE GOING...AND HOW ARE THE NEWS...
Fisen: I started D-takt & Råpunk some year ago with no expectation that it would turn out like it did. When we started Warvictims nobody wanted to release our first recordings so we just decided to release it by ourselves. There where also a lot of other great bands out there that we wanted to release. So that’s why we started D-takt & Råpunk Records. So far I think that we have released some fucking amazing records like with bands like; Mob 47, Nuclear Death Terror, Giftgasattack, Tortyr, Dissober, Besthöven etc. It was a true honour to release the Mob 47 lp/cd. I have listened to them since 92 and I would never have thought that I someday would release a record with them. We always got lots of pre-orders so most of the records get soldout really fast, which we think is great cause then we can put the money into a new release. Hehe. Yesterday I sent two new releases to the pressing plant; Flyblown/Warvictims split 12” and Raw Hate 7”. I hope they will be out in september. After those two we will release 7” with Krossa and Spritvev, 12” with Giftgasattack, cassette with Kirai and a Skitliv! compilation cd/lp. More to come…

11. I..D LIKE TO KNOW MORE TOO ABOUT SKITLIV ZINE!! ARE ALL MEMBERS OF WARVICTIMS WORKING ON THE ZINE...OR IS IT JUST A "ONE MAN" WORKING AT...???
Fisen: This is how it is; me and Challe started the zine Skitliv! by the end of 2005. It’s a true old school cut and paste raw punk zine heavily influenced by another Swedish zine called Sika Äpärä (rip). At the beginning me and Challe did most of the zine related work together. Today I do most of it all by my self. Claude has been helping out the last issues with reviews and reports. Challe is still a part of the zine. He’s helping out with everything he has the energy to. We will put out one more final number (#10) and after that we won’t do any more zine. It’s fun doing a zine, but it takes to much time.

12. TOP 10 (CRUST/D-BEAT AND DISCORE ONLY)!!!
Fisen: Fuck, I hate top lists just casue it’s so hard and you always forget something. If you would ask me next week or next month I would probably say other records. But here it goes:
1. Dischange
2. Mob 47
3. Disfear
4. Skitlickers
5. Warcry
6. Disrupt
7. Disclose
8. No Security
9. Consume
10. Extreme Noise Terror

Fetebob: I..d like to add Contrast attitude, Discharge, Discard to this list.

13. WHAT ABOUT THE OLD SWEDISH BANDS LIKE BOMBANFALL OR FEAR OF WAR...WE NEVER HEAR MANY THINGS ABOUT THEM...
Fisen: It’s two awesome bands so I don’t know why we don’t hear so much about them. I don’t have any records with them, just some songs at my mp3 player. The records are hard to find and costs way too much. Have you heard Disfears cover of Bombanfalls “Hälsning från helvete”?

14. WHAT YOU FEEL WHEN YOU HEAR NEWS ABOUT THE CURRENT "WAR CRISIS" IN GEORGIA????....WAR IS THE REASON TO STOP THE HUMAN MADNES FOREVER???
Fisen: Don’t know what to say, it’s very sad. I feel so powerless when it comes to topics like this. We have no speech among the great masses. Our words and protests ain’t worth shit. The government and the police cover up for the leaders in this fucked up corrupted system. As long as there will be greed around the globe there will forever be wars. History repeats it self, when will the leaders ever learn?

15. AND...FINAL WORDS....FEEL FREE TO TALK SHIT...HAHA...
Fisen: Thanks for the interview bro! Take care and good luck with Besthöven in the future. Don’t let the system grind you down. D-beat will never die! Horns up.

Fetebob: Thanx for interest in warvictims.. if we could get our shit together maybe we can come over and play some shows with Besthöven. Up the fucking punx!!!
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G-ANX INTERVIEW 2008

Well,i have to listen and enjoyed a lot G-ANX works since many time ago...and i can´t remember to read any interview with them back in the past...i found Heinz in the myspace of the band,who was the bassplayer of this amazing swedish band!! who said me ok to do this...hope that all fans of G-ANX like me enjoy this interview!! since the band broke up in midlle of 1991... and i´d like to thanx Heinz to answer so fast!!! G-ANX Fucking Rules!!

1-well i remember that i hear g-anx back in the time first time in the amazing comp. ep "BLLLEEAAUUURRRGGHHH!!!!" then just some days after i found and hear too your "masterpiece" ep...i can..t remember the year...but 90?? 91??....well...tell us a short history about G-ANX...
G-ANX started as Gravida Anker (Pregnant Ducks) in the early 80's. They were playing standard 4/4-punkrock until some of the members were replaced by guitarist Steve & singer Putte in late 1983. One year later Hoccy joined in on drums. Those three previously had a band called Penisknyckarna (the Penis Swipers) and their music was nothing but white noise - produced with a guitar connected to an overdrive and a fucked up wah wah peddle, and I guess they were a bit too much too soon. Unfortunately I never heard them play. Their only gig was at a local disco and I think the audience had left the building before the first 30-second-song was over. They might have been the first blastbeat noisecore-band ever, many years before the word grindcore was invented. As the Pregnant Ducks I guess they started to mix extreme speed / distortion with actual tunes and serious lyrics. During a tour in former Jugoslavia in 85 they changed their name to G-ANX. Two years later - just before a summer tour to Germany in their bass player Tomas left and I was asked to take his place. I had recently discovered G-ANX and they sounded like nothing I'd ever heard so it was a great pleasure to be a part of it. There was no time for more than one rehearsal before the tour. That wouldn't have made any difference though coz we borrowed all equipment from FFF - the german band that went along on the tour - and I got to play on a half acoustic Höfner distorted as hell and noone could discern any notes anyway. Everything sounded like an out-of-tune-earthquake car crash

2-Your music was full of influences like grind and crust and some others brilliant elements and originality too...what bands have influenced your music and work???
Most influence came from millions of hc-bands from Sweden, Norway, Finland, England, Japan, U.S... and later - Napalm Death & the grindcore scene. Then there were those dope smoking hippies who always turned up at Steve & Hoccys flat. When they couldn't take more of extreme hc/grind they'd always change the music to something more mellow / psychedelic. Steve - who wrote the most of our songs - turned into a die-hard fan of Pink Floyd and started to write softer instrumental parts. We tried to play some reggae as well - influenced by HR and some 70's roots bands - though we never got hold of it really and I think we invented our own version of white reggae.

3-i saw in old interviews from great bands like:ANTI-CIMEX and AMEN back in the time too and they said tha you are a great band!! how was your gigs in sweden back in the days?? did you played with them??? and others bands you have played with??

We only played about 20 gigs, and I've heard that Anti Cimex were as lazy as we so we never shared stage. At least not during my time in the band. I remember playing / touring with Filthy Christians, Svart Snö, No Security, Wounded Knee, Martial Mosh, Disaccord to name a few.

4.what..s the reason the band broke up??? some members are in COUNTERBLAST Today...tell us about this...
We started to record an album, but took a long break to write some more songs and when we returned to the studio some stupid bastard had erased all the tapes. I don't think that was the main reason for us to split up, but we were too lazy to rehearse and we never got the new songs together live. The last gigs sucked pretty bad as far as I remember. Then I moved to another town and Hoccy & Steve formed Counterblast soon after. Now 16 years later they are more active than ever. That doesn't necessarily mean a lot - I think they have played some five gigs this year. They are also, since a couple of years, working on their third album...

5.i hear you about a reunion gig some years ago...tell us more about it...any chance for another reunion like this??? maybe to record new songs?? or some old "unreleased" stuffs,etc???
We had a reunion gig some 10 years ago, but that was a one-off. Our singer moved to Mexico City soon after that and he has never returned. Not even for a visit. So there won't be any more reunions I guess. I know that a lot of people think old bands shouldn't reform but I don't care. I love to see all the other old bands who are reforming. Let the old people enjoy themself goddammit! I hope to see Moderat Likvidation & Bristles this year. Our reunion gig was great - with Palle from Counterblast on keyboards. It wasn't the tightest band on earth, but what the hell...

6.how many records you did recorded??? is this the "flashbacks" your totally complete discography??? i hear that the "flashbacks" was released just in cd...but ther..s a new edition in double lp??? i..m right????
Oli from Civilisation Records started up his new label Threat From the Past to re-release some old punk. He wanted to release our CD Flashbacks with some unreleased stuff (an old demo and some noisy - barely listenable rehearsal tapes). I didn't see no reason for this until our favourite Brittish artist Sonia accepted to draw the cover. That would have been unbelievable cool but we haven't been able to get in touch with her in a few years. So if you read this Sonia - get in touch! The Flashbacks CD contains all our proper studio recordings..

7.what do you know about brazilian scene??? old and today...and what do you enjoy from here????
I don't think I ever heard any brazilian HC back in the days. I didn't even know they existed. Steve though had his exchange distribution going on and he had records from all over the planet. Nowadays I hear a lot of international punk at Myspace, mp3-blogs etc.

8.what is the feeling when you remember all the works realized with G-ANX??? or when you hear some old record from the band???
A bad thing is that we hardly ever rehearsed more than maybe once before a studio recording or a gig/tour. That became more obvious when the songs started to get more complex. Still I think that we developed a sound of our own. There were not many hc-bands who mixed those really soft instrumental parts with fast hc. Our producer Matte Siltberg whom had never recorded a punk band before made great contributions to our studio sound. And then there were all those instruments. We had never been in a studio clamped with keyboards, instruments, effects ect and due to late nights & poor judgements(?) we couldn't keep our hands away from them.. For our records I like our first one best - the split 7" with Filthy Christians - which has only four simple straight forward punk songs. The second 7' "Far Out" was made out of left overs from that same recording. I still don't understand why that one was ever released. The third 7' "Masterpeace" has some good songs I think. The last one "Out of Reach" could have been better with some proper arrangements instead of those endless - half-improvised instrumental parts. All and all I still enjoy the most of our records.
G-ANX LIVE 1985=

G-ANX LIVE 1987=

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austrinken.com/discographien/G-Anx/ganx.htm

AGITATE ZINE NUMBER 9-REVIEW

UOU!!!! THIS ZINE IS REALLY FUCKING GREAT !! AND ALWAYS FILL MY EYES WITH HAPPINES...THIS ZINE KEEP ALIVE ALL THE TRUE FEELINGS OF TRUE ZINE....SINCE THAT TODAY THE ZINES ARE GETTING LOST IN THE PAST.....
THIS WAS PUBLISHED SIX MONTHS AFTER THE LAST EDITION...AND HERE WE HAVE INTERVIEW WITH CANADIAN AFTER THE BOMBS THAT PALYES METALLIC CRUST!! AND IS FUCKING AMAZING AS WELL!! AND TODAY MY COOL FRIEND MATT STRONG FROM THE TOTAL END RECORDS IS PLAYING GUITAR WITH THEM ,SINCE HE MOVED FROM USA TO CANADA!!
AN ARTICLE ABOUT "THE COWLEY CLUB" A COLLECTIVELY RUN LIBERTARIAN SOCIAL CENTRE...
INTERVIEW WITH WARCRIMES FROM U.K. THAT´S ANOTHER CRUST D-BEAT BAND AND I´M KNOWING JUST NOW,HERE IN THE ZINE...
A SCENE REPORT ABOUT D-BEAT CRUST IN PHILIPPINES FUCKING NICE AND WELL WROTE WITH POINTS AT BANDS,ZINES AND DISTROS LIKE DISABUSE,KILLRATIO,VEX,DEAD ON THE SPOT,ALCOHOLOCAUST,SAMOK ESTADO,ETC,ETC...WITH SOME BAND PHOTOS TOO..OF COURSE...
A NICE INTERVIEW TOO WITH USA D-BEATERS DISSYSTEMA ALWAYS NICE AND COMPLETE...
AND LIKE ALWAYS TONS OF RECORDS REVIEWS AND ZINES REVIEWS WITH ALL CONTACTS LABELS AND BANDS ADRESSES...

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BIZZAR INTERVIEW 1984

This is from the pages of AMAZING(!!!)zine UPROAR...with the fucking nice bands from the comp. lp "THE VIKINGS ARE COMING"...The brazilian edition of this lp was released by "NEW FACE" Records from Fábio=OLHO SECO and not have the zine together...but some of the interviews was published in brazilian "WC ZINE" same time...











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