Jimmy Page Book?

In the latest issue of the bi-annual arts magazine Lid, Jimmy Page talks about his new limited edition book, "Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page".

With a portfolio of photographs from the book and contributions from photographers Michael Zagaris and Kate Simon — author of the acclaimedGenesis limited edition "Rebel Music" — the interview, by the book's photo editor Dave Brolan, sees Jimmy go into more depth than ever before about the making of this ground-breaking limited edition.

Kate Simon: '"It makes sense that Jimmy would work with Genesis on a book of this magnitude because they are the most civilized publisher on the planet. Catherine and Nick are lovely people who are as devoted to their craft as Jimmy is to his. Their books are printed on the finest papers and made by craftsmen of the highest calibre. Jimmy was thorough and focused in orchestrating the creation of this book... he's a hard-working artist."

Lid is available to order from the web site www.lidmagazine.net, but a short extract from the interview is available below as a taster.

Dave Brolan: How did you become involved with Genesis Publications?

Jimmy Page: I had actually bought one of their George Harrison and Ravi Shankar books so I was aware of the quality that they strove for. I had seen some of their catalogue so I fully understood the pure quality that was their benchmark — the printing, the binding, and everything else. 

Dave Brolan: This is quite unlike any other book though.

Jimmy Page: I rather like to try something that somebody else hasn't done before, even if it's of epic proportions which, quite clearly with the amount of photographers and images that were going to need to be trawled in, this was going to be quite something.

Dave Brolan: It's entirely appropriate that you should choose to do a photographic book as the camera was there right at the beginning of your musical career and is always present in one way or another.

Jimmy Page: I liked the idea of doing something from the first shot where I was involved with music, curiously enough taken when I was a choirboy, by the choirmaster who was an amateur photographer... The whole point here is that it's a life in music and so I can see I'm really living it, the way that I was living it. Considering this starts off properly in 1958 or whatever with the Tony Busson pictures, it's a bunch of kids that have got this rock & roll ethic in their dreams you know? Although those dreams don't necessarily translate beyond a front room in somebody's house, it's living that sort of dream their own way and you can see this attitude, I love those photos.

Dave Brolan: There were thousands of pictures for you to consider, how was the experience, seeing your life from a visual, rather than your more familiar musical point of view?

Jimmy Page: Well, I'll be perfectly honest, as you're collating the photographs there does come a point where you say, 'Well I think I've finished for the day,' because, you know, I'm starting to look...(laughing) Well, you're aging in front of your eyes and of course people don't normally go through that so intensely.

Dave Brolan: How did you decide to caption some of the images?

Jimmy Page: the story behind a picture can sometimes be a little disappointing rather than just looking at it and enjoying it for what it is and making you own conclusions, and I certainly apply that to listening to music too. I don't really want too much imagery around it, I don't want to see videos with music, I want to hear what was going on in the studio, the creative process. So I intentionally kept the written information minimal. There was a lot of reflection and thought about the captioning but I really honed it down so that it didn't become boring to read it again the second time around. It's setting the scene.

Dave Brolan: Overall, do you think the book achieved what you set out to do, your original idea of a career in photographs?

Jimmy Page: What I was trying convey was the whole gathering of time and living, very passionately, my role in music, what became a career in music. And this illustrates all of that so in those terms it's a success.

Check out the book's official microsite at www.jimmypagebook.com.

Richard Ramirez To Young Kids "Keep The Evil Thought"

This time around, with great delight, I give you an interview I did with Richard Ramirez, though it seemed like Richard was interviewing me more than the other way around. Also known as The Night Stalker, in the 1980s he brought wonder and mystery to California, not to mention higher gun sales and paranoia. Richard was the subject of many of the 1980's "scare tactics' involving teen satanism and sacrifice, secret cults and the bizarre killings and suicides that were taking place in the heyday of all american Heavy Metal satanism. This interview shows he can be a real nice guy and very down to earth...Depends which side of the bed he falls out of i guess. The nightstalker has many sides to him,  which if you read on you can catch a glimpse into the mind of the original Heavy Metal killer. We kept it light, Richard didnt ask me for photos of womens feet and legs this time, but i suspect he is having some cake buried in the belly of the beast. As documented everywhere you can tell Richard had a flock of groupie whores ready to do anything he had asked. They claimed he took a part of their soul when they spoke to him, yet gave in to him. I wish i had more time with the N.S but of course nothing lasts forever. Enjoy... Hail Satan


RICHARD RAMIREZ: Are you nervous?


A bit, but hardly. I did an interview with Manson not too long ago. I get a little uptight when I do interviews. You know, wondering if the questions will come out right or will they get angry at anything I might ask?


RR: Oh. Well, uh... go ahead and we'll see what happens. I don't mind any questions really.




Good. Let's start with the ladies. Why are some so attracted to you? Bernadette Brazal, not bad - pretty cute.


RR: I think the girls are attracted to me because they can relate to me. The girls are nice when you're in my situation, but since I'm in here I spend more time writing to them about the relationship, rather than living it, but there are good friendships formed never-the-less. A couple of them are religious, they come into my life to try and help me.

Can you be saved? By God and the Jesus kid?


RR: No, I'm pretty set in my ways. I doubt anything short of a miracle would change me. I do have an open mind, and I listen to them.






Were you brought up religiously?


RR: Very. My mother and father used to take me to church in Mexico and Texas, wer I used to live. The huge figures of saints and crucifixions. Religion played a big role in my life.






You think it captured your imagination?


RR: More than that, I saw myself inside it. It became a part of everyday life. How I thought. How I felt. Later on, by my teenage years, it was all in conflict with me, and still is. You understand? Bad and good and everything I had learned about Satan and God.






Did you believe God was watching?


RR: Yeah.

Most teenagers feel these delusions.


RR: All the actions in my life, at that time, I looked at them and tried to fathom how God would judge them.






So how'd you make out?


RR: Ugh, in my teens, it wasn't going too good. When I got to about 17, that really caused some problems with me. I started resorting to a life my mother didn't care for. At 17 she kicked me out, so it was a pretty hard life. I stole cars, I picked pockets. Stuff like that.






What happened at home that put you into that?


RR: I went off to reform school. I came back, she kicked me out. I fended for myself by selling drugs and stuff. Then I moved to California.






Is that where you got hooked up into devil worship?


RR: No, I started feeling like that before. I believe in Satan. I believe evil is a force that is beyond us, and that we just have to invite him in, and he will.

When did you actively start to bring the devil into your life, worship-wise?


RR: It was about 1980, and I was hustling on the streets. I landed in jail for a month or two for oetty theft. I met up with this guy who was a Satan worshiper. For those two months I was with him, then I get out of jail, but my mind didn't. I remembered everything he said, which basically was, "Why worship the good guy, when the things you do aren't so good?" Somehow it just made sense to me, to worship something that would protect you in what you were doing.






How did your worship take form?


RR: It developed slowly. I started reading the books, and then I started meeting people who were into the same thing. Satanists need to have more faith than Christians, because Christ was seen and felt. Lucifer has never felt the need to be seen, but in everyone's soul he can be felt. A lot of these little cults practice Satanism nowadays, but not in a violent form. They're only looking for ways to play out wickedness.

Ever tried your hand at a Black Mass?


RR: Only one, but kept my distance. I was not part of that group. It was at a cemetery and it was at night. I really couldn't tell what we were doing. A friend and me were watching from a distance. I never trusted people anyway. Especially them.






Why?


RR: They knew me and my lifestyle. They were the ones who made the connection and told the police for being a candidate for the Night Stalker crimes.






: What are some of the things you are accused of?


RR: I've been accused of almost every crime you can imagine.






At your trial, you went all L.A. on us. Dark shades, slick hair, attitude. Did you enjoy the attention?


RR: Going to the trial was very tiring for me, but I did enjoy it better than sitting in a jail cell. That could be very monotonous. The glasses, believe it or not, were prescription lenses that were tinted. And I just don't like my photograph being taken, more so now than then. Did I enjoy it? Hmm. No, not particularly. I would have rather been on the beach or something.

Your entire attitude during the trial was like, "Fuck the world!"


RR: I was receiving so much negative publicity. I wasn't going to give people the satisfaction of seeing me down. Besides, I didn't feel down. Plus, the image I had projected was beyond me. The nedia had portrayed me as a cold-hearted, ruthless monster, but I'm really not that way. I'm very down to earth. So, at that time I let people think whatever they wanted to. Tou see or hear about the crimes and then imagine what kind of individual was behind them.






The judge said your crimes were committed with "cruelty, callousness and viciousness beyond any human understanding."


RR: It is in no way beyond understanding. Mankind has been like that through out history. In today's society, people use those qualities - I call them qualities - for all things. It is for self-gratification. It is for sex. It is for excitment. This kind of fervor servers it's own purpose. It doesn't obey rules. It runs amok. You see it on the news everyday, but society cannot hang it's moral and ethical values on me to survive. i do what I must in all ways, and I'm proud of it. The necessity to be myself passes all moral barriers.






Have you been reading a lot?


RR: Yes, I read. A book I suggest to everybody is called, "Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. It's about Satan and his visit here. A good book. I read suspense and horror, somethings that intrigue me. I have always been fascinated by death.

Is death sexual?


RR: Sexual? It can be. Next to self-preservation, the sex drive is the most important and powerful behavior in mankind.






When did you first start to think about death?


RR: When I was 11, I had an episode in my life. I saw my cousin shoot his wife. It wasn't traumatic... but the shock value. I went back into the apartment to collect some things with my dad, because my cousin was in jail. The bed was all bloody. It was there where she had landed after the bullet. She got a .38 to the face. At the same time it was very... uh. The stillness of the room, the eerieness, you know. We had to open the windows to ventilate the room and it was something. It was... (long pause) ...it was death! I had known the woman. I had known her very well. I went into the living room and saw her purse. I looked through her purse, saw her ID cards and her things. It was a strange feeling. That was the first time I ever ran across death. Ever since, I was intrigued.

What is blood to you?


RR: Blood is the substance that allows any living thing to exist, but blood is blood. I have heard of people drinking each other's blood. They cut each other, and they drink it and it's supposed to be a euphoric feeling. But, you know, blood has no special interest for me. Blood is blood.






Do you believe that when you kill someone, you can obtain that person's power?


RR: That dates back to the Incas and Mayans, they believed in that. It is a possiblity, but to me personally? I've had no experience with it.






Let me read to you a statement you made at your trial, "I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. Legions of the night, nightbeed... repeat not the errors of the night prowler, and show no mercy. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in us all. That's it." What were the night prowler's errors?


RR: I was under a lot of stress then. What I recall and if my memory serves me correct, I just meant not to believe in the system. Don't, for a minute, think you'll get a fair shake when under these circumstances.

Yeah, but were there errors?


RR: I was not aware of my actions. Everyone must find out who they are and be aware of their actions before they wind up in a vicious predicament.






Who are the "legions of the night"?


RR: People like yourself. People who thrive on the night. People who have true moral sense. You know who I'm talking about and talking to. They are the ones who feel they are not the majority. They have different feelings and attitudes about life. The rest are a bulk of cattle. Everyone plays a role and no one says what's truly on their mind.






When you were sentenced to the gas chamber, you said, "Big deal. Death always comes with the territory." What territory?


RR: I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror for me. When I was sentenced to death, it didn't hold anything for me.

What about now?


RR: Even less.






Does the Night Stalker deserve the gas chamber?


RR: It's all a bloodlust. When the state comes to execute a man, they laugh. So do I.






Do you still feel beyond good and evil?


RR: Everybody has got good and evil in them. I'd like to be 100% evil, but I can't. I'm too easy-going sometimes. Then again, while anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it. it causes me headaches and stuff. When I get angry, it's an extreme form. It is the extreme. There is no inbetween. But there is with good and evil, and I am there.






What's your favorite magazine?


RR: I don't know. I like alot of 'em. I especially like Hustler, but not for the reason most think. It's hard to get a copy in here, but I like it for the parody section. life's ajoke, and I enjoy when they make fun of something that everyone takes so fucking seriously. Freddie Mercury said, "In the end, we all die, and nothing really matters." Now I'm sure you're going to disagree with me because you'll get a bunch of these letters telling you that you are evil.

Trust me, I get tons already. with some of the articles I put in this rag, people send me tons.


RR: Seriously? What do you write about?






A sort of social Darwinist philosophy, but much more violent - killing off the weak, and shit like that.


RR: (starts tolaugh) Well alright! Cool. Listen, people are intrigued by that. I'm telling you. They'll say, "No." to you, but feel "Yes," in their hearts. They think it's wrong because they feel everyone wants them to say it is. You'll send me some, right?






I'll try. When I send them to prisoners, they send them back saying this material will not be allowed in incarceration facilities. So, tell me, how will you be avenged?


RR: I'm one angry motherfucker. I just hope all those who are deserving will get what's coming to them. I'll just leave it at that.

My philosophy is that most people get what 's coming to them. People really get what they deserve. Are you confident that people will get what's coming to them?


RR: Pieces of shit are killed everyday, aren't they?






Any last words for the kids out there?


RR: Keep the evil thought.






FHF: Thanks for your time.


RR: Take care of yourself.






(for some reason we both begin to laugh uncontrollably)

Kerry King Likes Vinyl

 
Slayer's 30th anniversary is coming up next year, but don't call metal's reigning royalty old. The band is somewhat celebrating the anniversary with the Oct. 12 release of 'The Vinyl Conflict,' a high-end 11-disc vinyl box set which collects the band's entire sanguine American Recordings catalog from 'Reign in Blood' to 'World Painted Blood.'

That's a lot of platelets right there, and with the CD medium dying a slow death and vinyl experience a bit of a renaissance, Slayer are reverting back to a 'classic' medium such as vinyl. It's been years since the Slayer vinyl has been in print -- only the two most recent albums are currently available on vinyl, while the rest have been out of print for years and are very hard to find.

"I think that vinyl seems to be getting popular again since kids these days -- and not-so-young kids -- never got a chance to get into it. So it's new, but it's old," guitarist Kerry King told Noisecreep. "I think that is the idea of why to do it."

'The Vinyl Conflict' is newly packaged, but with no extra odds and ends. The purpose of the collection is renewed interest in vinyl, alonside the fact that Slayer fans probably have beat-up copies of the American Recordings classics and could use the new, beautiful presentation.

King said the initial naming process of 'The Vinyl Conflict' was generic and record label generated, like 'Vinyl Series of Slayer Recordings,' which King and company promptly nixed. "This isn't the Eagles man," King said with a laugh. "We have to have something cool. Everyone busted my balls, so I said, 'Give me a second, and I can come up with something.'"

The guitarist came up with something when he was consuming a libation at a local watering hole. "I was hanging in a bar, and I had nothing to do but think of Slayer ideas, so that's where I came up with it, and everyone loved it. All you need is a minute to clear the head and come up with it," King said.

'The Vinyl Conflict' collects 10 albums on 11 discs: 'Reign in Blood' (1986), 'South of Heaven' (1988), 'Seasons in the Abyss' (1990), the double-record 'Live Decade of Aggression' (1991), 'Divine Intervention' (1994), 'Undisputed Attitude' (1998), 'God Hates Us All' (2001), 'Christ Illusion' (2006) and 'World Painted Blood' (2009).

Supercoven

 Listen here, this interview rules and it happens to be with a “rapper”. Rap and metal has joined in the past and with disastrous results I might add. I won’t mention THAT “music” or THOSE “bands”. As the asshole purist that I am, it ain’t worth it. But with Goretex, it is WAAAAAY different. Like your Mommy said, “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”, or was it “hey stupid, stop jerking off or you will go blind”? FUUUUCK! Well whatever she said, she was RIGHT! Now Goretex is not only into metal. He is a MANIAC about metal. And he has been into the deep underground for years and knows his shit. So after I talked with him about how fucking awesome the Immolation Demo ‘88 is, I had to get a talk with him in here. Gore could have been a fucking opera singer after THAT talk, and I would have got him on here. But I was fascinated with how similar our taste in metal, as well as our overall outlook on shit is. This dude ain’t no trendy poser jumping around to different types of music because he is bored of rap. He is a true fan and he is more “metal” than quite a few people who might run into this interview on here. So read it and weep posers! And to the true, Goretex is one of US! And as he said, HAIL SATAN!

Abominator: Hails Mitch. Thanks for your time. What are you currently up to these days?

GORE: Cheers, brother..I’ve been in the studio for a while now cooking some new treats up for the album ..staying out of trouble. Not an easy task.

Abominator: I want to go back to when you first got into heavy metal. Talk about that. And what were the first records that you bought?


GORE: I think like a lot of kids i was into Kiss at an early age, like 4 or 5 but it was more for the toys, lunchboxes and assorted merch. They were larger than life back then, I identified with the imagery of Gene spitting all the blood bubbles, especially on Kiss Alive II. I got horny and stole a handful of Kiss ‘view masters’, which were these little cartridges youd stuff in this little viewer and you would hit the button and change pics when you looked through it, it was far out then. Around the summer of 80′ my mom was shipping me off to summer camp as soon as she could, i was caught breaking into and vandalizing my school , which was fucking dumb since i lived directly across the street from the school. I stole some cassettes from the counselors, like Priest “Point Of Entry”, “Killers” by Maiden which just came out..First i bought with my own cash would be “Number Of The Beast”, and “Screaming For Vengeance”..they were like $11.49 each..a shitload of cash then. In Malverne on Long Island back then i discovered some deserted train tracks behind my mothers friend’s house, so i journeyed down there to find all sorts of cult activity it seemed. This had to be like 80/81, typical ..bloodstained walls, Ozzy graffiti..upside down crosses, dead birds and animals. Bloody capes left around. Bad Maiden “Eddie’s” spray painted and a foul smell i couldn’t place. i think it was all downhill from there.

Abominator: What bands and albums of metal are currently blasting out of your players? Any “genre” of metal.


GORE: It always changes depending on my mental health i suppose. Right now Excel, Runemagick, Tribulation, Abruptum, Impiety, Sadus, Dokken, Black Torment, Hades(NJ), Ribspreader, Count Raven, Bedemon, Absu, early Scorpions.

Abominator:  When did you start rapping? Did heavy metal twist you towards the dark and extreme side of music?


GORE: My cousin got me into it he was a dj back then , had all the old school vinyl, boom box..all that stuff. I understood it completely, but didn’t think rapping about “Eddie”, or the flying thing from “Screaming For Vengeance” would be cool subject matter. Ive always been drawn to rhythmic structures in music primarily so i understood the asthetic value. Whatever satanic force/possession took a hold of me in the train tracks i think corrupted me for good. Hell Awaits and To Mega Therion had me cutting school to stay home and make custom spiked nailed gauntlets like Kerry King’s on the “Ultimate Revenge” VHS. My buddy Phil who killed himself in upstate NY, we had a band we started then called Warlock, or Hell Spawn..which was more traditional metal. He would wear corpsepaint and cut himself. Once “Ride the Lightning” dropped, everything changed. Everything became more extreme. I’d try to invite normal girls over from school, we’d order pizza and id alienate them by playing Venom, even Armored Saint or Cities. There were no metal girls back then i learned, if there were they were brainwashed by a guy, the usual. Shit, imagine there was internet in 1984/85, with hot sluts wearing Sodom longsleeves haha..I made money by stealing all the latest metal mags and cutting out all the pictures and framing them. Some girls wanted Ratt, or Crue pics, so id go buy cheap picture frames at the flea markets and get my hustle on. After that i started my own zine Graphic Violence, when i moved to the projects. I bought an electric typewriter which despite me breaking my ass, i was 12 years old, cutting out, collecting demos, typing and xeroxing, cutting everything and repeating it over. I was writing letters to everyone and anyone in the scene back then. It overtook my life. I was getting known as that “sick little fucker from NY”. Borivoj Krgin invited me up to his office to show me the lifesize cover of Atheist’s “Piece Of Time” in his office before the album was out, it was huge…Id call Alex from Testamant one day, cut out next day and interview Steve from Atheist, or Bob from Immolation. I’d walk up to Noize records to talk to Mille from Kreator when “Extreme Aggression” came out. Good memories..That is when shit meant something. PRE-fucking internet….I ruined 7th grade by being absent 68 days just to stalk the mailman cause i knew he’d have packages and goodies for me..I racked up hundreds of dollars on phone bills my mom couldnt afford, but got anyone that mattered in death metal and thrash in my zine at the time. i wrote letters to everyone..Nihilist, Immolation, Sindrone, Master, Genocide, Necrodeath, Xecutioner..Chakal

Abominator: Do you also produce and record your own music? Tell me about the process that goes into the song writing process for you.


GORE: I have produced some stuff Ive done for myself in the past and  on various solo stuff. The new record will have some stuff Ive done as well. the difference now is i have younger producers who are very hungry and dedicated to the art and cult. The Non Phixion stuff had big guys on it,  like DJ Premier and Pete Rock, but these days i don’t really hear too much new stuff that anyone does that i feel i cant accomplish on my own, plus i like to work with very hungry, ritualistic characters..i don’t need to pay anyone $8000 for a beat so they can go buy a car off my back, fuck that. No Thanks, been there done that. I work with people who still care about the music and its integrity and the ritual side of it. I think i take music way too seriously..with hip hop the words are very important, but these days hip hop is I feel with a few artists aside, is out of gas. Everyone wants to be a rapper, or DJ or producer, they think daddy buying them a $200,000 dollar studio will give them a career or respect..it’s not for everyone yet to the human eye they think it’s easy to do. It’s funny to also see every shitty confused deathcore band also, maybe 2 out of 60 do anything. If you make a gay florecent emo deathcore logo with pastel design’s, chances are your band will sell. One or two “new thrash” bands come out like Warbringer, Skeleton Witch or Violator and then theres 100 more newer thrash bands that suck and think theres a new renaissance brewing, not to say those bands suck there pretty good, but i think all of the “new thrash’ is missing that something. You cant recreate that history, nor will you ever get that crunch. Unless your Gary Holt. As far as rap i wont even call it Hip Hop, major labels are only signing that down south shit, or if you are related to Ludacris or have a shitty beat that can be raped as a ringtone you may get in,  other than that its all hook ups and closed doors, which is ironic since, underground rap is dead.There is no room for an artist to grow, and your canned if you don’t sell 150,000 copies of your first album. Its a mockery really. Labels are mortified and losing cash everyday. I’m content to sell cd’s out of a fucking trunk if i have too, its the same mentality as selling drugs. at least i know how many were sold. Everyone steals music or they use the old ‘If i download it and like it ll go buy it” haha that bullshit. It’s similar to a new black metal group with an unreadable logo, who threw together a basement tape rehearsing, out of tune, and put some paint on their faces. It’s all assembly line bullshit, except this guy has a two million dollar home, car and 70 chains on. It’s faceless. Truth is any one of these shitty rappers you see on mtv or where-ever are just moving large sums of drugs. They are getting away with it too. In that regard it’s cool. Fuck the system cause it’s all coming down soon. Get money FTW.
The process of writing for me is based on atmosphere or whatever trauma my head is in. It’s usually alone in the dark. Some out of body experiences at night, sometimes help me focus on getting the inner-subliminals out. The depression and confusion are molded into something visceral for me.There can be chemicals or not. I generally do a lot of research and like to read as well. I like getting the listener involved in ideas they are hearing in the music.

Abominator: Being out on the East Coast, do you get to check out a lot of metal shows? What are some of the best that you have ever been to?


GORE: I go to shows here and there if its worth it..Unearthly Trance, EHG, Sleep, Toxic Holocaust but most of the best shows i have seen in New York are the shows i would see at L’amours here in Brooklyn, probably pre -1991, which had the sickest in the east coast. I think seeing Death in 88 was probably the most bloodboiling, i didn’t understand how Chuck’s voice was so brutal but he didn’t open his mouth at all really and was effortless for him. Bill Andrews kick drums mangled me too particularly on his down/up beats. Leprosy just dropped. Carcass in 89 was unspeakable…The Exodus/Anthrax headbangers tour was great too then..King Diamond..Vio-lence in their first NY show, Prime Evil, Nuclear Assault..Cities. Destruction in 89 was savage, Entombed back then was also insanity. After Destruction I managed to sneak backstage and interview Schmier after the show. I didn’t drink beer then but he persuaded me to have one with him ,but i really wanted a Gatorade but felt like a pussy telling him that.

Abominator: Give me some of your all time top albums of metal.
That’s a hard one brother..First 4 Sabbath records, All Maiden’s stuff up to Live After Death, (somewhere at the beginning of 1986 i felt the powers being sucked out of that group.)
in noo order.


GORE: Manowar – Battle hymns

Obituary- Slowly We Rot

Voi Vod- Killing Technology

Slayer- Hell Awaits

Vio-lence – Eternal Nightmare
Celtic Frost- Morbid tales
Sepultura – schizophrenia

D.R.I – Dealing with it
Deathrow – Deception ignored

Anthrax – Among The Living
Sarcofago – INRI

Repulsion – Horrified

Excel – Split Image
Mayhem/Morbid live split

Saint Vitus- Thirsty And Miserable
Witchfinder General – Freinds Of hell/all
Entombed – left hand path
Def leppard – pyromania

Autopsy- Mental Funeral

Death – Scream Bloody Gore
Darkthrone – soulside
Kyuss- and the circus

Kreator – Terrible Certainty
Possessed – all

Immolation- Immolation
Napalm Death-scum

Metallica- ride the lightning

Witchcraft- all
Down-S/t (1995)

Morbid Angel – Altars Of Madness

W.A.S.P- (1984)
Terrorizer- World Downfall

Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry
Carcass- Necrotism

Blue Cheer- Inside/Outside

Atheist – Piece Of Time

At The Gates – Soul
Siege-All
Eyehategod- Take as Needed for Pain
Sleep- Holy mountain
Megadeth – Peace Sells

Abominator: Now give me some of your all time top hip hop albums.

GORE:
Rakim -Follow the leader.
Rakim- Let The Rythem hit Em

Wu Tang- Wu Tang forever

Geto Boys- ALL
NWA – Appettite for Destruction
Scarface- Mr Scarface

Ghostface killah – Iron man

Gza – Liquid swords
Dr Dre – The Chronic

A Tribe Called quest – First two

Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Links

Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation..

Abominator: What are some of the darker, heavier, more extreme rap/hip hop artists that you are into? You ever perform with Dalek?

GORE: I haven’t performed with them no, there cool though..I am not sure there is anything modern that is extreme, but whats extreme ya know?..Kool Keith, sure..he was a gas,  but some guy in a stupid 40 dollar cap with baggy pants he got at TJ Maxx 8 years too late is a fail. Maybe some rapper will mention Metallica and Obituary in their songs 32 times lol..that was impressive in 1989 when i was doing it. In 94 i was referencing Eyehategod in hip hop which is still 16 years ago ha… Whats extreme?..Some fat douchebag wearing a Slayer hoodie?..I see a lot of trendy unlistenable novice -bedroom horror rap, which is awful. They should die. The two genres should never be combined. Only by professional satanists.
The darkest moment period in hip hop is rapper Big Lurch..He smoked a shitload of angel dust, got into a argument with his girl and beat her, stabbed her 100 times and cooked her liver and stomach on the stove. He had dishes set on his table. When police arrived her liver was being boiled. There is an artist named Lil Boosie who style wise is a throw back to some of the Geto Boys stuff. He killed 7 people and has been tried for 2 murders, he wears a Lector mask too which is cool. He will get the death penalty. Other than that i am more intrigued with finish black metal and cheap obscure bay-area thrash.

Abominator: I will say a few things, just respond with one word of how you feel about them: Justin Broadrick. Black Sabbath. The Rza. Slayer. Public Enemy.
GORE: 1.innovator 2. Father 3. PCP 4. Kill 5. Riot

Abominator: What are some future plans for your next album? Any tour plans?
GORE: Right now like i said im working on the new record. I’m taking my time so it s not something i learn to dislike. Im not being rushed this time and there is no negative energy or jealousy straining this project. I am doing everything myself this time, Id hate to have to go to some record exec’s house and tie him up again haha..Once released i will be touring every crack and asshole of the planet to spread my apocalyptic rants and hatred.. It will be out before the end of the year. The Supercoven website will also be up very soon with tons of new merch etc. I will also be writing a book soon about my life, if i don’t die.

Abominator: Thank you for your time man! Any last words? Where can people check out your music and merchandise?


Thanks man….I also produced a band from NY,  Bleach Eater, they will also come out on Supercoven Recordings. They sound like Unseen Terror, Repulsion and Morbid Angel a bit, I produced their EP “Night Work” and we are working on their full length too. I have some shit up my sleeve. The Supercoven record will come out and for those of you wondering, yes i am legally no longer allowed to use my former name Goretex on cd’s, merch or dvd’s. I was ratted out to the actual company, with a highly thought out plot to try and destroy me. I have no name which suits me better. I will not be stopped.

Hail Satan.

Interview by Mike Abominator @ Metal Maniacs

http://www.metalmaniacs.com/2010/interview-with-goretex/