I'll post the questions I asked first, answers are in numerical order of what Jimmy wrote back. This guy is an amazing person, this whole group whether it may be the Exogorth guys or the Acid Feast crew, I'm really glad I got to do these interviews first. Here's what he wrote!
Alright Jimmy, give me a background about the band- what other bands did the
members play/ how did you get into grind/ what do you feel about grind,
like why do yo play it?
2. who's in the band. b) what were the main
influences band wise or people wise c) what kind of equipment do you
guys use? drums guitar bass?
3. what are you influences towards the
band? what do you guys write about, what really gets you grinding, or
gets you pissed and makes you really wanna tear shit apart?
4.where are
you guys located- how's the scene over there- how d0 they accept grind?
b) any bands you're looking forward to or would want to see/play live
with?
5. what other side projects are your band members in or is this
your primary and main focus band? b) what would be the perfect noise
grind sound you personally would love to sound like?
6. where do most
shows happen in your area? what has been the best memorable show in your
area? b) how is seattle with grind or any other sub genre scene? what
other scenes are there?
7. have you guys toured? would you want to,
where would you want to go, when? b) I've thrown some sweet ass, you can
almost call every show i've thrown fests, with all kinds of grind here
in Los Angeles. would you guys be down to some day join the fun here in
Los Angeles?
8. list your releases. how long have you guys been a band?
do you have any future releases, splits, or future thoughts or plans to
do releases?
9. how do you guys record, or who records you? what quality
are you guys digging, the grind lo fi style, or do you guys go full on
pro studio? which do you prefer?
10. What are some of your bands goals
or outlooks for the future?
1.
Before grind, I was involved in seattle hardcore, but after awhile I
sorta stopped playing in bands. A couple years later, I found myself
looking for faster and faster music constantly and eventually started
Exogorth with a co-worker in 2009. We were listening to new shit
everyday during closing hours at the local Hollywood Video. Then Nick
from Thrashmouth Recs. asked us to join his 100 band "Grind yer Head in"
compilation. Since then, its been nothing but writing, recording, and
playing shows whenever possible with any of my projects.
2. For Exogorth, I've always tried combining classic mince grind with
some evolved elements of hardcore/pv. The bands I'm influenced by the most
for writing Exo stuff have been Superbad, Graf Orlock, Unholy Grave,
Iron Lung, Dahmer, Spoonful Of Vicodin, Ringworm, Goner, Sakatat, etc. I
run guitar through a Peavey bass stack and then use a 4-piece Sonor
kit. all my recordings are field recorder-to-lap top since i never
really cared to learn anything more advanced. For acid feast i play any
of Brandon's guitars through a shitty Ibanez head.
3. My influences for writing Exogorth have been classic sci-fi films,
comics, and shit that i can't even believe exists that deserves a song. I
try to represent my favorite characters or concepts through the tunes
and write the unofficial soundtracks. For example our split tape w/
Nekro Drunkz exclusively features audio from the movie Hell Comes to
Frogtown. And then our s/t 7" is based of the 1988 police training video
"Surviving Edged Weapons", as a tribute to a training video with
out-dated, flawed advice for surviving blade attacks. We omitted the
title because there's a lot of audio ripped from the film. For
Acid Feast, Drew's the idea guy. I change my style of high's to better
fit his gored out lows, but like exogorth there are no actual lyrics.
4. I live at the Meat Suite on Beacon Hill, we practice, record and do
shows here. The grind scene is pretty much here in South Seattle, though
we play shows downtown or on Capitol Hill from time to time. House
shows/ keggers in Georgetown or Beacon are my favorite, and The
Josephine in Ballard is an old theater some punks rented out for killer
shows as well. Grind in Seattle is not that big at all though. In fact
if shows don't get booked through any of us, then they end up at a bar
with metal bands or a hipster club with hardcore bands. Some bands I'd
love to see roll thru are Grinchfinger, Agitate, DSM, Girth, Violent
Gorge, Satan's Dealer, Powercup, Total Hipster Crusher
5. Other than Exogorth & Acid Feast, I'm also in Chronic Tomb, Mole
Bowl, and Slugged.
b) Perfect noisey/ lo-fi sound is Goner!
6. FBK
House, The Josephine, The Meat Suite. Last year's Speedfest was the
most memorable, it was at the meat suite & fbk. As far as other
stuff in Seattle it's all bigger than grind, especially the Hardcore
scene. But i don't know about noise and other scenes outside of Punk,
Metal and HC. There used to be Methfest which was a grind/noise fest,
but since they stopped doing it, there hasn't been a real harsh ass fest
which is why I'm trying to get Speedfest going annually.
7. Exogorth has toured the U.S. with Totes Brute (Seattle, WA) on 2
occasions and then once down the west coast earlier this year with
Misanthropic Noise (Hartford, CT). Acid Feast is currently working on a
first tour for 2015. We would like to go to the mid west but i think the
first one will be another west coaster. We will definitely continue to
hit you up for l.a. shows man, every time I'm down there, it's the biggest
show of our tour! You guys are a big inspiration for what we're trying to
accomplish here in Seattle.
8. Exogorth discog is: 2009 demo mini cd, Exogorth 7", split tape w/
SnakeHeadFish, split tape w/Abandonment Issues, split tape & 7" w/
David Carradine, split tape w/Nekro Drunkz, split 7" w/Bangsat, split
tape w/ Gezora, split mini cd w/RxTx, split tape w/Sorcerer Torturer,
and then 3 compilations. Acid Feast so far has a demo and a split w/
Horrendous Miscreation. I have put out most of the releases on my labels
Incursion Rec. and RainCityGrindcore, but I have had support on vinyls
from Grindfather Prod., Witch Bukkake Rec., and Opaqus Rec.
9. I've recorded a bunch of different ways for Exogorth. All 3 vinyls
were recorded in actual studios, but the tapes and split mini cd I did
field recorder-to-lap top. The demo was done on a desktop with a single
mic line. The Acid Feast demo was recorded on Brandon's analog mixer and
then the split is field recorder to lap top. Whenever i record i'm
just trying to get the most out of garageband after capturing the audio.
its just naturally a little noisey i guess. I think if i had the
ability to fuck with better programs and try to make things sound noisey
i'd just fuck things up, so this method will do for now
10. Goals for Exogorth are to get back to recording! Its been a year to
the day since the last release came out. Before I injured my hand
falling on a glass bottle i was overwhelmed with side projects, so my
goal is to resume Exogorth for phase 2. For Acid Feast our goals are to
tour and keep writing. I want both bands to stick around for a while and
to continue playing the true blast filth we love! Thank you Jose for
the opportunity to discuss Northwest grind and share a little about my
bands and goals. Hope to see you soon and please bring one of your many
killer bands to Seattle as soon as possible!!
Jose: In response and kind of an update: Ya Jimmy, one of my bands recently got together and we're jamming again, we'll definitely try to see what's up with the Northwest next year!
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