RUPTURE interview 1997

Rupture needs no introduction: top notch pissed off hardcore from perth with extremely offensive and provocative lyrics and attitude. Taken from swedish fanzine Absurd#5, originally printed around 1997. I've re-typed it since my scan are partially unreadable!

What made you become the group of self-destructive nihilist you are, playing awful rock-music with lyrics about lust and hate, when you could be proper god fearing family fathers, taking care of children and all that? How could it go so wrong? Tell me about yor childhoods please!

Zombo: When I was a kid and in school I was a terrorist. Nowdays I channel my energies into something constructive. Or shall I say destructive! I'm in this strictly for kicks. My upbringing was a modest and a good one and contrary to much p.c. mentality I don't attach myself to causes 'cos my parents drove around in BMW's. Actually, they drove around in space ships.

Stumblefuck: I was brought up in a devil cult and I was the human pass-the-parcel and I got buttfucked long and hard by clergymen, police chiefs and magistrates all through my brutal childhood. My father was a freemason and he forced me to eat the shit out of his arsehole many times, my mother was always exposing my penis in front of my friends and fondling it in public. one day I stood up and declared "Enough is enough!" and fucked off and started RUPTURE and now I am a satanic nihilistic freemason too. I know all the secret handshakes. Now I'm the giver, not the taker.

What do your parents think aobut you and the music you play?

Zombo: Yes, very pleased. Absolutely ecstatic in fact!

Stumblefuck: They both still fuck'n'suck me on demand, so I s'pose that means they still find me sexually attractive. Or maybe they're just punkrockers at heart.

Heard that you kicked out Mikko from the band, why?

Zombo: 3 years on this hardly seems to matter Mikko 47 copped a bit of rejection in his hippy peer group for associating with such notoriously uncouth fellows as ourselves. Frankly, he was loosing his touch! A drummer has to believe in the circle N brotherhood to qualifiy for us.

Stumblefuck: Because he's too skinny, and he likes DINOSAUR JR.

Tell us about your new records "Sex, Drugs and Rupture", "Filthy Habit" and "Gospel from the Gutter". Do you have any upcoming releases?

Zombo: "Sex, Drugs and Rupture" took a week to do at death Rooster with grand priest Al Smith The Red Baron and woshipful brother Col were also present, as were also select members of the media. The vocal duties gave us the opportunity to partake of much Jack Daniels and bookers. The ounce got smoked mainly in the toilet block. The music shop next door was run by christians who called the cops on us, it got real ugly. The final mix was achieved on Corpus Christi day. June 2nd day if mockery of the feast of the flesh and blood of christ. "Filthy Habit" was made up on the spot and recorded in one night, exactly one year before, again for Corpus Christi day. Many of our EPs are done this way. Coming soon from us is a full lenght CD/ LP called "Australia Day", another very important day for us. Spontaneous recordings are almost always done at Hundskit Studios with none other than Grand Priest Stumblefuck himself presiding. The story of "Filthy Habit" is a funny one. It caused outrage with the censorshit board, they seized our artwork/ lyrics and destroyed'em. But Harry Miles bootleged'em for our "limited edition" in murky blue.

Stumblefuck: Well what can I say, all our releases areultimate mindfuck classic. Sheer creative and intellectual genius, actually. We are presently in the process of making up a whole new set of new psychotic ballistic tunes for a new studio CD/ LP release, possibly on Relapse Records. We've also got a shitload of EP releases happening right now, on Slap A Ham, Bad Card, Incognito, Regurgitated Semen etc...which should be out soon. I've just released the new HEIST CD on my label "Big Fred Rec's" and next up I'm putting out a new BEAST IN HEAT studio CD (This one includes me + Zombo, also King Ovey on vocals and a junkie named Harry Miles on drums).

A friend of Mikael Bomark told me that you had problems in the band and that it would not be surprisinf if you split up, what do you say about those rumors?

Zombo: RUPTURE have seen turbulent waters over the years. We know now more than ever that we're in it to the end. We've created this freud stein and there aint no turning back.

Stumblefuck: They're all true. We all hate each others guts! The only thing that keeps it together are the backstage sluts!

Also heard that the "Rupture HQ" actually is Zombo's mothers apartment, true?

Zombo: This is very strange indeed. You funky Sweded have good imaginations! The "HQ" thing started out as something, now it is just a rough term for wherever we happen to live at the time.

Stumblefuck: No, actually it is my luxury penthouse apartment. Zombo's mother lives in a recycling bin and we couldn't all fit in together. Besides, her vagina smells and her flaps protrude too much.

In Sweden we are always told that drugs are very dangerous. I guess you should know whether that is true or not by now, so please tell us what do you think! Does a frequent drug use make the sexual lust disappear, for example?

Zombo: Only frequent heroin use depletes the sexual instinct, as we have seen to be the case with many dead-fucks. Fortunately I have never touched the shit. I do however like my herb, and believe that it enhances the sexual lust quite satisfactorily. I'm also not adverse to the odd whack'o jimme.

Stumblefuck: No, on the contrary, drugs have turned me into rapist. But I just wanna say to all the kids in Sweden PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE DRUGS!! Drugs are evil!

Tell us about your most exciting, or most terrifying, drug experience.

Zombo: My name comes from a drug experience. My 18 th birthday party with mushrooms, a keg of beer and a keg of hallucinogenic moonshine. I suppose I'll tell that one to ya if I catch up with ya, it's like a tripping joke, y'know.

Stumblefuck: My most terrifying drug experience was getting arrested while peaking on magic mushrooms.I was thrown into lock-up with my brain turned into gas and my arms and legs dripping everywhere. It was like I was astral.projected to Gilligan's Island when suddenly this fat drunken aborigene raped my ass. Then I had to take a dump in front of everyone.

I heard that you, Andrew, got a shit sent by mail after the interview in Riot! How did you react when you opened the packet? Do you know who sent it? Do you get much hate mail?

Zombo: We LIKE hate mail! Too much = not enough!

Stumblefuck: I reckon it was one of Pablo's poof-pals. Or maybe ANTI-SYSTEM.

Also heard that Andrews home got raided by the police in search of snuff movies. Did they find any?

Zombo: They didn't find any.

Stumblefuck: No, but they found heaps of homemade paedo-porn!

You've done some co-operations with DROPDEAD. What do you think about these guys? Did you meet them when they did tour australia? Does their idealistic stance annoy you? Fave DROPDEAD lyric?

Zombo: I can't comment on them since I have not seen/meet them. This question applies to Gus/ Andrew, like the two before this one.

Stumblefuck: DROPDEAD are jewish fags! They didn't come to Perth when they were in australia so I didn't get to meet them.

No actually their idealistic stance does not annoy me at all. I think they are true cultural revolutionaries and my favourite DROPDEAD lyric is this one:

"Twenty million rabbits get their arses fucked every second/ And a hundred billion women get raped every two seconds/ War is atrocious/ Love thy fellow homosexual"

Yes, it is a beautiful philosophical statement! And I think Bob is really sexy.

Which are your fave movies? Have you heard of the famous swedish director Micke Eklof? Have you seen "Heta Linjen Horan"?

Zombo: I have heard of Micke. I dunno if I have seen the flick. have you met Ravolo Yates? (Yeah, I met him down the pub last night /ED). Did you know that Caren's got barnacles stuck to his ball sack?

Stumblefuck: My favourite movie is "The Green Slime". No, I haven't seen "Heta Linjen Horar" but I've seen "Headjob Helga Does Goteborg". (Cunts who draw dots over "o's" must be fags).

What do you fantasize about while masturbating?

Zombo: Me Me Lai's delectable little ass. And those pert titties of her. Where are you, Me Me?

Stumblefuck: My mother. No! my father! No! Cheap Thai prepubescent hookers!!! Yes! Oooo- ooh- aaahhh!!!

What do you think about GG Allin? Was he God, just an interesting phenomena or plainly a pathetic poser?

Zombo: Most of the stuff is right on. But he doesn't give me an erection, if that is what you mean. Plenty of dumb folks idolize him, of course.

Stumblefuck: I consider him a very angst-(unreadable word) young man who made a lot of good punk rock songs and had a lot of good things to say. Unfortunately he was also a raging queen and he sucked his brothers cock. Now that's a "no-no" in my books!!

How is the scene in your local area? Bands, zines etc? Anything interesting happening down in Perth? Do you know the guys in HEIST; CHICKENSHIT, NAILED DOWN etc?

Zombo: HEIST are in the RUPTURE brotherhood currently undertaking teachings in the 3rd grade. Dirty Dan was gonna join on 2nd guitar, but this did not happen. Trav and Cam from CHICKENSHIT drink beer and they're OK. As far as the bands and the scene, coulden't give two shits. RUPTURE are the scene. NAILED DOWN bobbed Gus in to the pigs and plagiarize our ideas. Dick Diamond from BROWN DEMON drums for us now. Me and Stumbs keep busy with BEAST, who are a lot different than RUPTURE.

Stumblefuck: The scene here sux 'cos there's no venues and also there's too many fags. Lots of good bands like us, BEAST IN HEAT, HEIST, BROWN DEMON, HOSTILE SAUSAGE, CHICKENSHIT, DEAD BABIES IN VOMIT, WHITE TRASH etc. No zines worth mentioning. Yes we are all good mates and get fucked up quite regularly. At the other end of the credability-spectrum, however we have bands like NAILED DOWN who suck cock. There's no room for peace-punks in this town. As soon as they raise their ugly faggot whining heads, we pound the fuck outa'em and run'em outa town!!! PC poofs need immediate extermination!

There are 10 minute or something from a gig on the "Sex, Drugs and Rupture" CD, why did it fuck up? Did you play any songs?

Zombo: About 50 people showed u ad we whipped'em into a frenzy. Later they tried to take us on (in the beer garden mate). Yes, we played some miserable versions, they turned up on "Gospel".

Stumblefuck: That was a gig we played at a dump near the beach called the "Castle Hotel" a couple of years ago. We were "too loud" and the manager kept pulling out the plug so we couldn't even play a song and he had all his bouncers around the stage waiting to smack the fuck out of us so we just abused the cunts and whipped up our legions of fans into a riot and we all totally trashed the place and I went home and ordered a pizza.

How is Yeah, Mate! Records going? It seems not to be very active these days. Will the "Really Stoned" and "Fuck the Eastern State Faggots..." comp. records ever be released?

Zombo: Eventually we will all have our own labels so we can each persue interests indulge desires and whims. I'll be pedding my fucked up art in the form of wall posters beginnings with the "Lust and Hate" one plate 6 I'm working now on the 11th plate. This project is an ongoing one and began long before RUPTURE. Some RUPTURE fans might like it, who knows?

Stumblefuck: If Gus can ever pull that rubber dildo out of his leather clad arse he might one day get around to getting his label cranked up and running. But that's his baby, it's in his hands. (answer continues but unfortunatey is unreadable)

That was all the questions I could come up with, any last words of wisdom for our readers?

Zombo:In the words of the Old Teacher :"Get knowledge, get wisdom but with all thy gettings get understanding". Our philosophy will always endure, it's the antithesis os safe environmentally friendly rock'n'roll. The skirt wearers that play punk these days are about as much a threat to society as the average Top 40 boppers (I'm not talking about girl punk groups). To all our detractors, thank you. It's cunts like you who truly make us great! Power to the initiated!

Stumblefuck: Yes, how about this: "As regards little girls, wecan say of them that they feel greatly at didadvantage owing to their lack of a big visible penis" (Sigmund Freud, 1917)

Finnish Hardcore 1982-1983

It seems like my last few posts are all about scandinavian bands. Well, lets stay in this nordic penisula again. But this time on the other side of Baltic sea, aka Finland. What I got here is the vinyl reprint of both Marionetti's demos, courtesy of Who Cares? Records outta France. As you might get from this very imaginatively titled lp, Marionetti was active for only a couple of years, before disbanding into obscurity. Luckily during this brief period they managed to record two incredibly good tapes. As the title suggests, expect nothing but pure traditional finnish hardcore from the golden era. Seriously, this is so good that, if they weren't so short lived, they would be in the cult finnish hc olympus along with classic names such as Terveet Kadet, Tampere SS & the likes...Their only official vinyl appearance (while being active) was indeed only in the legendary 1983's "Propaganda Hardcore" compilation lp with two tracks taken from their first tape. So thumbs up to Who Cares? Records for saving this from obscurity and making it available again for the masses. Well, maybe I'd better say to the 300 lucky fellas who were able to score a copy... 

Victims of an Anarkist Ass

In the urge of repressing every fart tagged as hardcore from the 80s' that doesn't seem to ever stop, it still amazes me that it took so long to reprint the Anti Cimex eps in the right way. I mean, along with Skitslickers, Wretched, Kaaos and few others, we are talking about one of the most important band when it comes to the most radical side of european '80s hardcore. Of course it has already been done on cd & lp that compile these songs. But that's not the proper way. A reprint must be done in one way only: a perfect reproduction of the originals with as little variations as possible. So, in this case, it just means three 7"s. Two labels outta Brazil (Nada Nada discos & Spicoli discos) finally did it right. And they put so much attention on every bloody detail that is touching. 

I was quite bummed when I missed the super limited box set that also includes a flexi with compilation tracks, 3 stickers, a poster & every cover variations of "Raped Ass". Since we live in the record flipping era, one copy has already been sold on eBay for more than 200 bucks. But you can't always win. In the end, after years of devote listening firstly on tape and then on mp3s, I'm super stoked to finally own them on vinyl. And it saved me a small fortune since the price for originals are just insane.

It all started with "Anarkist Attack" ep, recorded in 1981 when the band members were only 15 years old and self-released the following year. The rarest (of the regular versions) of the Anti Cimex eps. 500 only were printed. To my surprise, recently I've discovered that a lot of people consider this ep utter crap. Of course it's a bit inferior to the other two eps. But I do really love it. Vocalist sounds like he's totally drunk, songs are sloppy as hell but at the same time catchy as fuck in their extreme spontaneity. The sound is super raw compared to today's standard but it works perfectly. If you don't get this ep, I guess we have a pretty different vision of what punk/hc is all about.

As I told before, Nada Nada & Spicoli put a lot of attention to details. As you can see, like in the original version, back & front covers are wrongly printed at 90 degrees to the other. Labels are identical to the originals and they even manage to write record label names in a very similar handwritten font. It comes with two insert: a reproduction of the original lyrics sheet and an extra one with a pic of an extremely young Jonsson on one side and liner notes about this record by original drummer Charlie. 

If there are conflicting opinions about "Anarkist Attack", everyone seems to agree about the greatness of their second ep, "Raped Ass". It has for sure one of the most iconic punk/hc cover ever made. Here Jonsson moved from bass to vocals and that finally defined the bands trademark sound that has influenced legions of bands from all over the world during the next 30 years. I don't know why they decided to do not sing anymore in swedish, but I guess that, along with the greatness of the music, english helped a lot when it came to spread the Anti Cimex germ all around the world. For sure a genre-defining record that doesn't need any introduction!

Of course it's again an excellent reproduction of the original. They've outdone themselves by reprinting it with all the different cover variations that are available from some selected distros. It comes with three inserts, all printed on both sides. A reproduction of the OG lyric sheet, some pics, a reprint of an original letter written by guitarist Jocke, the original ad and again liner notes by Charlie that let you discover that this ep was recorded in a home studio that was a rebuilt hen-house. It can't get punker that this!

"Wictims"...oops I meant "Victims of a Bombraid" is their third effort, the one with a cleaner production. According to liner notes, the band wasn't satisfied with the sound they archived. Maybe it was too professional to their parameters, but I think it works perfectly. The title track is probably my fave Cimex song, the one that I often find myself singing unconsciously while I'm doing something else. Again, excellent artwork. But this time I think the back cover beats the front cover.

Like in the first pressing of the original Malign Massacre Records version, the artwork is black and white with silk-screened silver band name and white labels. Three inserts again. The extras includes OG ad, pics taken from this video, liner notes about the recording and much more. Nada Nada & Spicoli head-honchos proved to be true record nerds by assembling some of the most detailed and accurate represses I've ever seen. Their maniacal attention to details is admirable and cannot not bring tears to your eyes. 

If you want more infos about OG Anti Cimex records, check Stuart Schrader's Anti Cimex archive. 

DIOS HASTIO interview '99/'00

Great raw peruvian hc band! Interview taken from UK excellent zine Hell & Damnation #8 from 2000.

Doomsday Troops

E.A.T.E.R. (aka Ernst And The Edsholm Rebels) is one of those bands that I've heard for years people raving about it but never managed to give them a chance. Until recently, when Hardcore Survives decided to reprint it, 30 years after the original was unleashed. I must admit that I've never dug too much into the old swedish scene, so all I was expecting was nothing but another awesome d-beat assault with a heavy downtuned sound. Well, I couldn't get more wrong. These 5 tracks (remastered from the original) are just fast driven & thrash oriented hardcore/punk outbursts. So, more than Anti Cimex or Skitslickers, I'd rather compare it to spanish or italian 80s' hardcore if you need some reference points. Ok, I'm on a lazy mood today so here are the wise words that Mr Pushead used to describe it (taken from MRR#13): "Not to be confused with the '77 U.K. punk band Eater, this Swedish group (Ernst And The Edsholm Rebels) floor down on the acceleration and rapidly hit fast, lightning doses of 1000-m.p.h. thrash mayhem. An outrageous display of burning speed and mind-boggling turbulence, combined with chaotic chops of lyrical expression. Don't be fooled by the hilarious intro to the title cut--this EP hauls its load fast and furious in the new Swedish tradition". Couldn't find better words to describe so well this iscredible swedish well hidden (well, at least to me) secret.

It's a perfect reproduction of the original and it even includes the 8 pages booklet but, being it a Hardcore Survives release, it's not a surprise that even this time So did an amazing job. Now please help me to get a copy of that bloody Anti Cimex eps box set that Nada Nada Discos just put out.

Chainsaw Mayhem

When I started to get resigned that I won't ever listen to new Death Dust Extractor material again, out of nowhere "Chainsaw Mayhem" suddenly appeared on distros. Never heard about it until it was available which is quite weird in these days. Anyhow, Vox Populi Records outta japan put this out and it was about fuckin'time!! Limited to 888 copies, act fast if you want a copy. I've heard people calling DDE a "stenchcore" band. I'm too old and out of touch to give a shit about every useless sub-subgenre definition. To me this is a perfect blend of grind and crust that cannot not bring to mind later 80s' UK bands like Sore Throat, Doom & the likes. All filtered via the last generation of japanese noisy hardcore/punk. Excellent stuff. Nothing too different from their Crust War debut ep "slay your masters or slave in chains" which is exactly what I needed.

I know it's hard to believe, but the packaging is even more minimal than on their previous ep! Just a stamped dust sleeve with tunes titles, a small sticker on upper right corner of the polybag with essential infos and a sticker. No insert, no lyrics or photos. But I have to admit that it looks pretty nice.

I don't care about band shirts but I want this one badly so get in touch if you can help in any way!!!

Defeat Of Civilization

The waiting is over. Since Framtid "defeat of civilization" lp has been finally unleashed to the masses, we can skip the rest of 2013 and go straight forward to 2014. Why? Coz' we already got the album of the year. One of the most anticipated release of the last few years, as expected it doesn't disappoint at all. Solid, noisy, swedish fueled hardcore punk via japan. It took them 11 bloody years to release another full length but the waiting was worth it. I guess the secret of the high quality level of japanese bands is being patient and waiting. Instead of release every fart they write, they take their time and wait until they have something perfect before recording it. Gauze anyone? After all, Framtid has been around for 17 years and they've released only a couple of demos, one full ep, three splits and two full albums. Could you name a single band outta america or europe that has done the same thing? Neither I. I bet that 99% of US crusties that were around when Framtid started in 1996 are now working for a big multinational corporation.

Musically is an awesome riffs feast. Songs are a bit longer this time so Jacky provides a few solos here and there between the wall of noise he creates. Takayama and Inu are offering again the most solid rhythmic session a band can dream of. Maniko vocals sound like the agony of war victims he wants to recreate. This album is simply perfect. Am I the only one who see a tribute to old italian hardcore in the back cover? It looks like a mix of Wretched and Impact covers!!

Dedicated to the master of D Beat.