X PANGKAT TIGA

01. TELL US ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF X PANGKAT TIGA?

We’re born in 2010 with name X Pangkat Tiga and first formation, Bondan Wahyu Gumilar (vocal), Siswanto (guitar), Dinda Bahtiar (bass), and Puguh Sugiantoro (drum). But in 2011 Dinda resign because so busy with his work, so the formation was changing. Bondan played bass and calling our friend, Wahyu Firmansyah to be a vocalist. In middle 2012 Puguh resign too, with the same cliché problem, work. So drum position fulfilled with Ananta Andi Prayoga, and the name band was changing to be Necrophiliac Sucula. In 2013 Dinda and Puguh desired to made a band again, with formation Bondan (vocal), Dinda (guitar), Puguh (drum), and with additional guitar fulfilled with Siswanto. Here the name X Pangkat Tiga use it again. But Necrophiliac Sucula also active ‘till now.

02. WHAT´S YOUR INFLUENCES?

We’re like listening Skeletonwitch, Kreator, Woe Is Me, Asking Alexandria, Trojan, Siksakubur and Meshuggah.

03. HOW`S THE ACTUAL LINE UP?

We’re 3 line up with 1 additional player, like I talking with you in answer no. 1. Hehe

04. DO YOU HAVE ANY SIDE PROJECTS?

Only Bondan have other band just like I answering no. 1. Hehehehe

05. WHAT ARE YOUR INSPIRATIONS FOR THE YOUR LYRICS?

Surely like Fiction romance stories, The local scenes stories, and War and Justice

06. WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE?

Right now absolutely sold out, and we’re not yet made again.

07. ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE MUSIC OF PANGKAT TIGA?

‘Till now we’re still learn, learn and learning

08. AS YOU SEE THE UNDERGROUND SCENE IN INDONESIA?

If talk about massively metal scenes in Indonesia of course I can’t answering one on one, because so many metal scenes in my country. But I’ll talk to you with scenes in my town. Until now my town fulfilled with metalic genre like Hardcore, Death Metal, Grindcore and Black Metal.

09. WHAT ARE SOME INTERESTS THAT YOU HAVE OUTSIDE OF MUSIC?

Actually Bondan continuous to finishing his college, Puguh also still work, and Dinda also become artworker.

10. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE X PANGKAT TIGA?

We hope X Pangkat Tiga becoming better and better from now, and we also wanna be recording 1 demo song again. And of course same with others band dreamer, we hope have debut album, music videos and tours. Hehe

11. THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT. ANY LAST COMMENTS?

Yeah thank’s too u, wanna interview bands like this. And don’t tired to exploring underground/indie bands in whole world. Because I believe in other world so many good talents not yet found it. Keep burning with RESIDENT UNDERGROUND ZINE, Hail yeahhh.

VORDAN KARMIR

01. HOW ALL STARTED?

1. It all started when two classmates, childhood friends Davit Grigoryan (lead guitar) and Vahan Poghosyan started to listen to rock music when they were in the 8th grade.
Sooner when they were inspired by the sounds of electric guitar, they decided to learn to play guitar. After learning a few basic chords they found out that they are too lazy to learn and cover their favorite songs, and it's high time to write their own. It was easier and more interesting. Vahan suggested to gather a band and name it Senexes.
It was already 2002 and hell knows what it means.
Senexes band had several gigs in their home town Vanadzor till 2005.
In 2005 Davit Galstyan (bass) and Vardan Paremuzyan (ex-drummer of VK) joined the band. 
Vahan Poghosyan suggested to change the name of the band because he wanted the band name to sound Armenian and have meaning and philosophy. 
Vahan suggested VORDAN KARMIR.

(Vordan Karmir is a name of red paint in Armenian. In the past it was very popular cochineal in the world. That color was used in paintings, king's clothing, medicine, carpets and in many other things. It was made of special endemic insect in Ararat valley, Armenia. 
Now the secret of making that paint is lost. And VK members decided to refine the lost value in their music.) 

So everything started when all 4 members said Yes to the new band name.
In 2010 Payqar Chakhoyan joined the band as a drummer.
During 10 years of existence VK had many concerts in Armenia, played gigs in Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, London, Germany and Spain, appeared in several local and international music festivals. Released one full-length album (A4) and two EPs.

02. HOW DO YOU DEFINE VORDAN KARMIR MUSIC?

We know that we are playing rock music, with elements of folk and metal. We think that it is not our business to define our music, it is up to critics.


03. WHAT´S YOUR INFLUENCES?

 SOAD, Korn, RATM, Tool, Limp Bizkit, Led Zeppelin, Deftones, Metallica, Armenian folk, etc.


04. HOW´S THE ACTUAL LINE-UP?

Payqar Chakhoyan: Drums 
Vahan Poghosyan: Vocals
Davit Grigoryan: Guitar
Davit Galstyan: Bass

05. DID YOU HAVE PLAYED MANY GIGS?

 Not as much as we'd like to.


06. WHAT ARE YOUR INSPIRATIONS FOR THE YOUR LYRICS?

 Mankind, Life, Society, Universe, God.


07. HOW MANY ALBUMS/CD´S HAVE YOU RELEASED?

A4 Album (full-length) 2013
Not An Album (EP) 2011
Vordan Karmir (EP) 2010


08. DO YOU HAVE ANY SIDE PROJECTS?

Vahan Poghosyan and Payqar Chakhoyan have a side project called Machine Aubergine. 
Davit Galstyan has a side project named AVYUN

09. HOW´S ARMENIA UNDERGROUND SCENE?

Too small.


10. YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS OF VORDAN KARMIR?

Not yet.


11. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE VORDAN KARMIR?

 We hope only success!


12. THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT. ANY LAST COMMENTS?

Would like to play in Brazil. 

Many thanks Agathus!

BLOODSCRIBE

01.HOW ALL STARTED?

Bloodscribe was formed by Jesse and myself (Jasan) in 2004

02.WHAT´S YOUR INFLUENCES?

We all have both individual  and similar influences, for example myself (Jasan) I have a large background in hardcore (Terror, Harms Way). Some similar influences we have are bands like Dying Fetus, Disgorge, Despised Icon, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Slipknot…  

03. DID YOU HAVE PLAYED MANY GIGS?

We’ve been playing shows for over 10 years so, yes we have played tons of shows. We’ve have our share of great, good, and horrible shows… it’s all part of playing in a band.

04.HOW´S THE ACTUAL LINE-UP?

The line up right now is currently complete with the latest addition of Dennis Martinez (Sick) on Bass but the rest of the members have been around for most of the bands time.

Jasan – Vocals

Joseph – Guitar

Mikey – Guitar

Jesse – Drums

Dennis - Bass

05.TELL US MORE ABOUT CD: PROLOGUE TO THE APOCALYPSE?

Prologue to the Apocalypse is our long awaited first full length album, it embodies Bloodscribe as a whole and showcases the sound we have long been evolving into. Our main focus was putting together an album that would be both heavy and aggressive.

06. COMMENT ABOUT THE ¨GORE HOUSE PRODUCTIONS¨?

We’ve always had a “do it yourself” mentality starting the band, from recording to printing our merchandise but signing with Gore House Productions has been great for the band as has helped us reach new audiences. We gained a lot of new fans, just the first week after announcing the signing our Facebook likes went up by almost 1,000 and merch sales on our online store raised as well. We couldn’t be happier with all the help and hard work Carlos (Gore House Productions) has put into promoting us and getting this album to do great.

07. WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE?

We currently have a few design up on our Online store, some current and some older. We are currently working on new design in time for the release of the album as well as for the upcoming shows we have ahead.

www.bloodscribe.bigcartel.com

08. HOW ARE YOUR NEWS WORDS?

So far we’ve gotten some really good feedback from a lot of people who support the album. Things are looking good and hopefully the good responses continue.

09. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF RELIGIONS?

Let me start by saying that I’m a big believer of “to each their own”…

When it comes to religion, for me personally I grew up in a catholic household although I don’t follow nor consider myself to be religions. I feel that religion weakens our society and allows people to justify their shitty actions. Think for yourself, work hard for what you want, and don’t be an asshole.

10. ANY LAST COMMENTS?

I just want to say thank you to everyone that has helped us along the way and all the people that have gone to our shows, we appreciate the support. Hope everyone likes the album and hopefully we can fly out to play some international shows soon!  

Thanks

Melissa

WORSELDER

(Guillaume (vocalist) for Worselder).

01. TELL US ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF WORSELDER?

The band was born in 2007. James (Guitars) and myself (Guillaume, vocals) were playing together in a band called ArcLite; Mitch (drums), Yoric (Guitars) and Yannick (Bass) were in the band Gunslinger. At the time, both bands were actively looking for musicians to complete their line-up, so we finally decided to merge the bands and created Worselder.

We put our entire forces in composing original songs, and played our first gig in 2008, opening for Firewind in Toulouse (France).

02. WHAT ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?

It is difficult to give the whole list or Worselder’s influences. I’d say that we could be influenced by any kind of artist, and any kind of music. Among metal bands, I would mention for example Coroner, Pantera, Devil Driver, Gojira or Testament as being our main references, but you can hear many other influences in our music.

03. HOW DO YOU DEFINE WORSELDER’S MUSIC?

Worselder’s songs are a melting pot of many metal types. The music is mainly composed of massive riffs, close to stoner type, with predominant thrash hints. The vocals are in the straight line of heavy metal. When we write music, we always keep in mind to make something built for live experience. We don’t give much importance to the technicality or the complexity of the structures. We just play what seems to us to be musically efficient! The result is crushing “in your face” metal, that is appreciated by the public and a real pleasure for us to play on stage.

04. WHAT IS THE ACTUAL LINE UP?

As most of actual metal bands in our style, Worselder is composed of a rhythmic section based on two guitars (James and Yoric, the other members of the band being Mitch (drums), Yannick (bass) and myself (Guillaume, vocals). The line-up is stable since the birth of the band, and no one of us could imagine playing in Worselder with other musicians. First of all, we are a band of really close friends, almost brothers… I can say that worselder is more than a band, it’s a family. We also share a deep love for beer and red wine !

05. COMMENT ABOUT YOUR LYRICS?

I a way, our lyrics are not very original. They are inspired by various considerations about the actual way of the world. As many lyricists, when I have to write a text, I want to express about the feelings I have at the moment. This leads me to write lyrics that are engaged, socially and politically. If I take the example of the three songs that you can listen in our last EP (MMXIV – available for free on our website), “The sickening” is about people that have a blinkered view of the world, just changing TV channel to avoid seeing the real life, “Home of the grave” is a squib against the great democracies, that are also the graveyard of human ideals, and “The Haven” deals with the felling of identity loss in the modern society.

06. WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE?

The only available new material at the time is the MMXIV-EP disc. You can ask us for the CD via our website but you can also download if for free : www.worselder.com orbandcamp.com/worselder.

You can also download our first album (“Where we come from” – 2010).

07. TELL US NOW ABOUT YOUR FAVE BANDS AND ALBUMS?

I already listed previously some of the bands that influence us, but the whole list would be very long ! Concerning our favorite albums, I would just say that we are still very impressed by the albums that are ahead of their time, that initiate a new style or open new musical horizons. The best example for us is the album “Grin” by Coroner.

08. DO YOU HAVE PLAYED MANY GIGS?

Since the beginning of the band, we had the chance to play many live shows, and also to open for great bands, as Dagoba, Firewind, Huntress, Black Bomb A and many others. With the release of the “MMXIV” EP, we plan to book numerous concert dates in 2015, with a strong will to make tours outside of France, maybe Spain or England.


09. WHAT ARE YOU FUTURE PLANS?

We will begin recording a new album in 2015, probably by the end of the year. So we have to do intensive rehearsals and composing sessions until that. As I said, we also plan to tour for the promotion of “MMXIV”.

10. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT. ANY LAST COMMENTS?

Thank you so much for this interview. I just want to remind your followers that all Worselder’s audio material is available on our website (www.worselder.com) and our bandcamp page (banscamp.com/worselder) : you can download for free our first album (“Where we come from” – 2010) and our “MMXIV” EP. To all listeners, please, don’t forget to go on our facebook page to leave your comments. It is very important for us to know your feelings, so that we can go on improving our music ! Stay Metal !