Entrails Interview

IF, BY SOME ACCIDENT YOU MISTOOK LOGO BELOW AS ENTOMBED OR CARNAGE ONE, DON`T WORRY, YOU`RE NOT FAR AWAY FROM WHAT YOU EXPECTED TO HEAR. SVENSK DODS METALL IS GETTING BACK STRONGER DAY BY DAY. AMONG FEW CONTNIUOUSLY ACTIVE OLD BANDS AND DOZENS OF NEWCOMERS, THERE ARE SOME, WHO FAILED TO POSSESS THE MINDS OF DEATHSTERS DURING FIRST YEARS OF EXISTENSE, AND THEN CEASED YOUNG. ONE OF THEM IS ENTRAILS, WHICH HAS BEEN REBORN LATELY, AND THIS TURNED TO BE VERY GOOD NEWS FOR ALL WHO WORSHIP THE SWEDDISH SOUND. TWO DEMOS REALEASED SO FAR AS WELL AS UPCOMING DEBUT ALBUM ARE MONUMENTS FOR THE MIGHTY SWEDDISH SCENE. AND HERE`S JIMMY BLOODSPILL, WHO DESERVES TO BE CONDEMNED TO EVERLASTING FIRE OR SODOMIZED BY DEMONS FURY COCKS FOR HIDDING THESE SONGS FOR SO FUKKIN LONG!!



You are in the middle of recording debut album, aren`t you? Where are you recording? How is work going?

Yeah that is correct.. I`ve started recording the lead guitars 2/3-2010. Our session drummer Fredrik Widigs from Stockholm has recorded the drums in his studio until now so finally we can begin this recording. All the guitars and vocals we are recording in my own homestudio that is built in my apartment.. Things are going great so far so I’am really exited about for the result.

You decided to pick 9 songs from your two demos for your full length is that right? Which are these songs? And what was the key for selection - was it your own sense or you were influenced by suggestions and reviews?

Yeah.. right again. Hehe well.. we have picked those songs that we thought were the best so there are no any special key for our choices. So these are just our own favorites, that will be recorded plus a new track that I made around-93 that now will see the light for the first time in a more pro recording. The tracklist is not official yet so I can’t give you the titles yet :)

What is current Entrails line up? Is it going to be constant? Also is it possible to see Entrails live someday?

Well.. Entrails line up now is Me (Jimmy) on Lead guitar and second guitarguy - Mathias Nilsson and this great Growler Jocke Svensson that also will have the job as bassplayer if we do shows in the future. The drummer seat is vacant for the moment, but we will use help from a special guest in shows.

Is it like"`Reborn` tracks are Entrails early 90s songs and `Human decay` are new ones? Can you say that new songs are different in any way from old (I have my opinion on that, but would love to know yours)?

No man.. all songs we have made so far are from the time between 91-and 94. Well if you`re asking about my songs - I will always have the old spirit in making songs, but if you mean other bands music I would say it was better in the early days when those riffs were made.. today everyone have to play so fucking technical and that is not brutal at all...

Where comes these stunning melodies from? This solo on `Euthanasia` is amazing!

Hehe.. well we were a band in the 90`s and that guy that played the second guitar at that time was much better than me to do solos, so he did that solo from the beginning and now when I had to play that solo by myself I couldnt do it very well, so I stole some tones that I could manage to find and had to come up with new stuff too.. And for the melodies on the other solos I like melodic solos and David in Dismember does that in a amazing way.. So taking my own thoughts mixed with others ideas will sometimes result in pretty neat solos.

As your bio states: `we went to a studio and recorded a few songs, but quality became bad, so there was never any demo made at that time`. I bielieve it`s about sound quality, not the songs themselves, huh? Do you have many recordings left from past years?

Yeah.. the soundquality was the biggest reason.. these songs were great and all that but living far away from a bigger town and trying to get a label with some people in the band that didn`t really know what they wanted to do.. And therefore there were no money to pay any engineer to help us in the studio so the result were bad everytime we tried to record something because we had to do everything by our selves.. I`ve got some taperecordings left that I use to bring the songs back to life again..

What are your expectations on your upcoming full length, I mean death metal scene nowadays is quite different than when you started as Entrails?

Well.. of course I hope some people would like it and buy it. Hehe.. and of course we hope it will sell good so we can do more albums in the future. We don’t follow the trend of todays death metal.. we play oldschool and we are good at it :) so nowadays scene doesn`t bother us at all.

And how do you consider growing strength of old sound death metal we have for couple of years now?

It seems the growing is going to be pretty good.. and I hope it will stay that way and a new wave of the old type of death metal will rise again..

What is your favourite book and why it is `Svensk Dods Metall`, haha? How do you think, was this book an impulse for renaisance of Sweddish sound?

Ha ha.. I havent red that book yet.. I am not a fan of reading books... So I can`t really answer that question now.

Your view of death metal is strongly inspired by Dismember, do you agree? I`m curious about your opinion on Dismamber, Entombed, Unleashed, Grave of today? Also any other early death metal bands are important to you?

Yeah I agree hehe. But there are more bands that are still cool. Well my opinion of those bands is that they were the best in the early 90`s and when they had that sunlight sound and a lot more darker riffs. I think it`s only Dismember that still going strong and doing their thing and have not changed much with their sound since the beginning. But all the bands are still fucking great and I`am still listeninug to them. Other bands from the past is Morgoth, Cancer, Morbid Angel, Obituary and of course the thrash kings Slayer and the cultband Hellhammer and the first black metal band Venom among a lot more bands that inspired me..

How would you encourage readers to buy your fullength? Is the release date set yet?

Well. I say this then: if you like Entombed, Dismember and all those Sunlight bands from the time of 1990-93 you should check this out. The fat Stockholm sound is back and the riffs are truly brutal and with a scary atmosphere and catchy and groovy style and the spirit from the early 90`s have risen again.. The whole shit is mixed and mastered by Dan Swano.. and he did a awesome work. The date for the release is not set but hopefully there will be something out in may/june or in worst case July. Visit www.myspace.com/entrailsreborn for details about the release.

Last word from you to readers?

Only death is real!


``Reborn``, Demo 2009

First Entrails effort after coming back from the dead brings near 50 minutes with 11 tracks of Sweddish sickness, positioned somewhere in triangle between Dismemeber, old-Cemetary, old-Edge of Sanity. Truly, I tell you this – these songs should be recorded and released as full lengh years then, and today Entrails woould be if not with the big four, then surely among Necrophobic, Centinex, Vimitory and few others. But these were not, and now available just as a demo, still reccomendable, despite all the years.

``Human Decay``, Demo 2009

Last apetizer before debut lp release and it is direct turn towards Dismember/Entombed legacy. This has sound it needs, this has melodies that will remind you Matti and co best years, it has `Left Hand Path` keybourds, it has `Dreaming in Red` alike guitar passages. Not very oryginal, but who giva s fuck? 7 unholy tracks including intro and `Casket Garden` cover. Only 50 copies available directly from band, probably totally and ultimately sold out by now. If you pussies missed it you have nothing left but wait for a CD now.