| When we started this zine over 15 years ago,
we always tried to feature an interview with those sick New-Yorkers.
We always had funny answers...
What have you been up to since 14 years? Our accountant warned us of the tax implications in earning excessive revenue due to sales of our records. So, we decided to engage in other less financially rewarding endeavors. For a while, I was in the genetic engineering field. I was able to successfully cross-breed the DNA of an organ grinder and Pee Wee Herman. Unfortunately, my creation spanks more monkeys than a birthing nurse on “The Planet Of The Apes”. Have you kept the same line-up? A few years ago, we were looking to add George Harrison to the band given that he would be able to contribute to the “Sgt Leppers Falling Parts Club Band” theme. We left him a message and never called back. Then, we were told that he was dead. That explained a lot. What pushed you to reform the band? How did it happen? Was it difficult to convince the other members?
Fetus and I were talking about how we first formed the band. I was in the thrash-Calypso band “Penis” while Fetus toiled in the folk-Grindcore band C.U.N.T. . We met at a show where C.U.N.T. opened for Penis. Nine months later, Intense Mutilation was born. So, it was more a matter of “conceive” vs. “convince”. You've always had a different musical approach, a basic guitar sound, no excess in heaviness… How would you label it, for the 99% of readers who sure have never heard about I.M.? MP3s are downloadable for free at our website – http://www.listen.to/intense. People can draw their own conclusions. However, if I had to describe our sound like a recipe from a cookbook, this may capture it:
Your songs are based on silly lyrics, what's your main source of inspiration? We delve into the topics that other bands may find too controversial. We thrive on the opportunities made available to us and seek to fill voids like this. For example, on the new album, we had the bravado to tackle the long-standing concerns about love-making in the dyslexic community. Whether it’s 69 or 96, everyone should equally enjoy oral stimulation. So you finally have a new album coming out. What's the main differences compared to "Safe Sex"? The machine-like drumming that will be unleashed on the ears of the unsuspecting listener only make me wish that I was nothing more than a chunk of discharged ear wax in an auditory canal so that I can experience the user reaction up close and personal. We have also been working with a guitar player who has introduced a level of mayhem that is groundbreaking for Intense Mutilation – so much so that if guitars were implements for circumcisions, he’d have more “O” shaped meat at his feet than a near-sighted calamari ring maker. Look for a formal introduction on our website soon. The bass now has a heavier bottom-end than Rosie O’Donnell after failing to squeeze through a stall in the restroom at Grand China Buffet. The cover is inspired of an old Beatles album cover. MACABRE already made fun of it for "Sinister Slaughter". What does that original album cover have to inspire "joke bands"?
What’s the similarities? The main character in Wacko Jacko is based on a fictitious musician (that’s what our lawyer claims) who wears one glove and has relationships with small boys. Still don’t see the similarities? It turns out that ‘Wacko Jacko’ has strangled all sorts of stuff – from Boston to Barcelona and from Alaska to Australia. We respect the creativity of Macabre. Our album, “Sgt Leppers Falling Parts Club Band” features many graphic representations from the leper community – we felt that it was about time that this unrepresented segment of society had its fair share of attention. What’s ironic is that although our album features lepers, there are more dead people on the Beatles “Sgt Peppers” cover than there are on our “Sgt. Leppers” cover.
Our need for wearing masks is asynchronous to our lyrical content – the attire is medical related: since we’re so ugly, it helps our medical personnel from distinguishing which end is which. Last week, I wend for a colonoscopy without my mask. After being sedated, I woke up half way thru the process with a black hose sticking out of my mouth. Being that I was the last patient of the day, the experience left a bad taste in my mouth. I’m not even going to get into the bite plate that my oral surgeon transplanted into sphincter… Some news about Rick Allen (drummer of DEF LEPPARD-s)? It’s sad how a simple edict from the government can lead to such a tragedy. I mean, sure, people want to see hostilities between the British and the Irish end – each side has suffered long enough. You can’t blame the Irish for asking the Brits to disarm, but Rick Allen took that request way too literally. We recently ran into him at a club. Someone pointed him out to me. I thought that he was waving “hello” until I realized that he was dancing to the song “Y.M.C.A.”. He was kind enough to pose for us for the album cover – nice guy… Have you done many interviews since you reformed? Not sure if this counts, but a couple of months ago, I was at the shopping
mall and I took part of a survey where the results were published in
the local paper. They asked people if they thought that survey results
were statistically accurate. My response was part of the final tally:
OK I guess it's enough to get an image and I hope you'll check their stuff out cos it can't go sillier than that! Steph
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We
were looking at the track listing of the Macabre “Sinister Slaughter”
album and noticed another similarity. Macabre has a song called “The
Boston Strangler”. We have a song called “Wacko Jacko”