Profane Existence Online Zine

Agrimonia

AGRIMONIA are a dark hardcore band from Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2008 they self-released a "demo" CD featuring five lengthy and brutal tracks that created quite a buzz in the underground punk / crust community. In 2009 their "demo" was put to vinyl by Skuld Releases and mass released on CD bv Inget Javla Chafs and Detesta Records. The following interview was conducted with AGRIMONIA for the Bulgarian-language webzine DIY.aresistance.net, who have asked us to print the original English version in Profane Existence.

ALEHAMMER, ASSRASH + WAR//PLAGUE

New photo galleries have been added to the PE web with ALEHAMMER, ASSRASH and WAR//PLAGUE taken by Dan Siskind at the Hexagon Bar, Minneapolis, September 22, 2009.

VITAMIN X recently toured the USA to promote their new album ''Full Scale Assault''. I caught up with them at their show in Cleveland.
Interview by Abigail D.

A:Why doesn't everyone introduce themselves.

AX: I'm Alex I play bass.
MK: I'm Marko, I'm singing.
M: I'm Marc, I play guitar.
W: Wolfi, drums.

A: All right, so how long have you all been a band?

M: Well, we put out two 7" in 98 and 99 and our first album was produced in 2000. Alex, the bass player, entered the band in 99. Alex, Marko, and I (Marc) have been in the band since 1999 and Wolfi entered the band two years ago.
MK: First practice we ever did was November 1996.

A: How did you all form as a band?

MK: When we started the band, it was me, another friend, and Marc. Of course, in the beginning, we didn’t take ourselves seriously, we just wanted to play music that we liked; 80’s hardcore punk without any (mosh) metal influences. At that time, the hardcore scene was really down, nothing was really happening. The scene was just filled with bad metal bands who called themselves hardcore. Fortunately there were quite a few new kids that liked our style of music, so after only a few weeks practicing we already started getting show offers and we started taking ourselves more serious.
M: Yeah, when we started, we just had some practices for fun, with me on drums haha. I've been in tons of bands but with this band we already after one month had an offer to play. We didn't even have songs. We just played everything we had which was like three songs. The show went down great and we got more show offers and then someone offered to record us a 7". One thing led to another and here we are playing our 160th USA show and touring the world. I don't know...Its really strange that we got so far.
AX: The whole scene in Holland was really on the rise at that point, from 1995 to 2000. There was a surge. There were a lot of new bands from all over Holland. We just had a really good scene going. VITAMIN X was one of the bands that started and helped the whole thing.

YAKUZA HORROR Interview from PE #58

Zaragoza is a mid-sized city strategically situated in the northeast of Spain, 300 km from Barcelona, Madrid or Bilbao. This geographical location has enriched the DIY community since the early 80’s: Nowadays we can find a great quantity of bands of interesting and different sounds, but as a whole form an attractive political and cultural network. CHICARRICA, KARNVAPEN ATTACK, CRIATURA, BLOCKBASTARD, DOWN TO AGONY, INSOMNIO ROTTEN MEYER AND THE PSYCHOPUNKS and even YAKUZA HORROR are a clear examples of it. With the release of their new work I believe that it is a good idea to know more about them, of their activity and of their small but powerful local scene. From the police state of Zaragoza for the international community, here is YAKUZA HORROR!! Come in and read!!

Interviewed by Juanme for PE.
Pics by Sonia and Abel.

PE: YAKUZA HORROR have been out there for some years. Apart from playing in several places, you have also released a demo tape and a 7”. Please tell us something about your trajectory for the people who don’t know you.

Dani: We started back in 2003 with the intention of playing traditional crust. It was more a project, as most of us were (and are) in other bands such as DOWN TO AGONY, KARNVAPEN ATTACK, CRIATURA, TOTALIKERS, ASALTO 54, etc. We did some very chaotic gigs, with not many songs and not very many practices. This changed when Alex came to sing with us and the line up was definitely established. Since then we have recorded a demo tape, a 7” (La VI Extinción) and toured in the south of our country. Since there we’ve played all around Spain: Barcelona, Andalucía, Logroño, Valencia, Euskadi, etc.

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