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| DISMEMBERMENT TORTURE. Left to Right: Papap (drums), Glenn (vocals), Dedra (guitar), and Ramon (bass). Ramon also plays for SAFFAR, Dedra also plays for DIGGING UP, and Glenn also does vocals for BLOODGUSH. |
Our
interview with DISMEMBERMENT TORTURE (Bandung death-metal)
By:
Kieran James and Popo Demons Damn
Interpretation
by: Popo Demons Damn
Expert
Comments & Questions by: Popo and Bobby Rock (Vocalist Hydro)
Date:
12 December 2014 @ Papap’s house, Ujung Berung
DISMEMBERMENT
TORTURE is: Papap (drums, ex-JASAD), Glenn (vocals) (BLOODGUSH), Ramon (bass)
(SAFFAR), and Dedra (guitar) (DIGGING UP)
Kieran James (Busuk Webzine): How is the plan for the new album?
Papap (DISMEMBERMENT TORTURE): We plan to
have an EP of four songs. It should be released next year 2015. It will have two
bonus tracks live. One song is from the first EP and one song is from the
promo. For the two old songs they are live recordings. There will be two new
songs.
KJ: Do you have any
song or album titles yet?
P: The title will be “Convulsion of Perfect Abomination”.
KJ: Is there any change
to the music style?
P: There is no change;
it is the same as with the promo. On 4 January 2015 there is a gig organized by
Groupies Merch label called Groupies Death Fest. DT will perform at that gig.
We will play with a new guitarist, additional. Dedra has an appointment. So we
decided to use an additional guitarist, Egie Devoid from Gore Infamous.
KJ: Are you happy with
the progress of the band so far?
P: For DT we have a
different style. The music concept came from me. I make solo drum to build the
song first. Then the guitarist, bassist, and vocalist all follow the drums. In
the band all of the members are additional [guest members].
KJ: It is your solo
band?
P: Yes [laughs]. This
band is a result from my experiment. Every song is created by starting with the
solo drums. Sometimes DT does a practice and don’t need anybody – only me. To
prepare for a performance it is just me.
KJ: Is the line-up the
same as for the EP?
P: Yes. But in the new
album I will invite anyone who wants to play with the band. The members may
change but I’m not sure yet.
KJ: Are you happy with
how Glenn has improved as I think he has improved a lot in the last few years?
P: Yes, Glenn is
passive at this stage and with his personality. The interaction with the
audience is important.
KJ: Do you think you
helped Glenn to become more confident on the stage?
P: No.
KJ: Does anyone ask you
to play Jasad songs on the stage?
P: Yes, we start to
play some Jasad songs on the stage. Some people in person do ask me to play
Jasad songs. These requests are from friends and fans and those from other
countries. I am confused as to how to reply to them.
KJ: Do you want to make
any comment on Rebirth of Jatisunda
album?
P: I’m confused as to
how to answer. I am afraid to give a wrong answer.
KJ: Any comment about
Abaz’s drumming on that album?
P: It’s good. It’s OK,
he plays well. It is like Jasad is Metallica and I am Megadeth. We have
progressed on recording the EP. It is more than one year. When I finished
recording the drums then Digging Up started to record their album, so the
progress for DT to record was delayed. We had to wait for Dedra to finish
recording his album. Then Saffar was recording for their next EP. Then Glenn
started recording with Bloodgush. We had to wait so long. We had to wait for
three bands to finish recording. I took Glenn only on leave as an additional.
KJ: Why does Glenn not
leave Bloodgush to focus on DT because Bloodgush does not seem to have much
potential to rise up any further?
P: Glenn is staying
with Bloodgush as it is understood he would keep going with his original band.
Our EP has now finished recording. We are waiting to copy the cover for CD.
After all the copies of the EP are finished we will be releasing it. DT is
being released by my own Pieces Records. Pieces also released Undergod’s first
album, Bleeding Corpse first record Resurrection
of Murder, and the Panceg Dina Galur
compilation.
KJ: Do you want to comment
on the change in vocalist for Bleeding Corpse?
P: I more love the
first album. Then about the singer it is the same comment.
Popo Demons Damn: And
the singer is who?
[All smiling because
Bobby Rock, the first vocalist for Bleeding Corpse, was there with us]
KJ: How is your
relationship with the Jasad members?
P: It’s still good, no
problem, just enjoy life. The important thing is that I play the music I like.
KJ: Jasad changed their
lyric and style. Maybe DT has the old Jasad spirit more than Jasad does. What
do you think?
P: That is some
people’s opinion. However, my intention is not to create any new Jasad. I do
keep the gore and the bleeding lyrics whereas Jasad has changed their lyrics.
Many people do think I take on the old Jasad spirit but I never really planned
this.
Bobby Rock (Hydro):
There is a plan to play any songs such as dangdut or pop?
KJ: Maybe black-metal
or heavy-metal?
P: Maybe someday it
will happen I might play HM or BM. I still don’t know.
KJ: When the positions
in DT become vacant what do you think of Bobby joining the band?
P: We never know. We
still don’t have a plan.
KJ: I want to ask
Papap’s wife Amel whether Papap is happier in Jasad or now in DT?
Amel (Papap’s wife from
Malang): Jasad have everything but I think if I must choose it is better that
he stays with DT.
KJ: Are you surprised
that DT rises up so fast to play up near the top of the bands?
Amel (Papap’s wife from
Malang): No, I’m not surprised.
Popo: Amel learned
Sundanese when she got married to Papap; she is a Javanese hot chick.
Bobby Rock: For the EP
or next album was any foreign record label interested in the album? Or will you
stay with Pieces Records only?
Papap: I hope some
record label from the outside can release this album. But I hope that they can
give Pieces Records the right to release in Indonesia. This has become common
practice.
KJ: What are your
favourite five Indonesian death-metal albums?
P: 1 Dirty Infamous
(Jember, East Java) – Die on Pure
Adrenaline
2 Digging Up (Bandung)
– Disseminated Inapparent Infection
3 Gore Infamous
(Bandung) – Cadaver in Methodical
Overture EP
4 Brutal Corpse (Yogyakarta)
(1996-99) – one album
5 Anorgasm (Bandung) –
EP
KJ: When Jasad turned
to sing about Sundanese culture in the lyrics do you think this is sincere or
they just want to have a new and clean image?
P: When I played in
Jasad I just contributed to the musical material only. I didn’t care about the
lyrics then. The same applies today. I only think about making music in terms
of instruments only. I never know or care about lyrics.
KJ: Who writes the
lyrics for DT?
P: Glenn.
KJ: So you don’t care
about the lyrics, whether they are Sunda lyrics or about gore?
P: No, I don’t care.
Even in the past I did not know or care about Jasad lyrics. The same applies
today.
KJ: What would you
think if there are women musicians in DT?
P: It is impossible.
KJ: What is your
message for the fans?
P: Brutal death bro!
THE END *******
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| The old JASAD. Left to Right: Dani aka Papap (drums), Man (vocal), Yuli (bass), and Ferly (guitar) @ Papap's house, Ujung Berung, East Bandung, February 2011. This is one of the last pictures of the old line-up because Papap had a motorcycle accident in May 2011 and he was then replaced by Abaz in JASAD. |
