Interviews: ...In Viscero

On this new occasion, we had the opportunity to interview the Death Metal band ...In Viscero from Hungary. Check out the interview and this band!

1. Why did you want to play this genre?

B: I have played in 4 bands counting …In Viscero. 3 was some form of death/thrash metal, the fourth one was classic heavy metal. It was always felt that in the long run death/thrash metal is my style. Musically it is more interesting in the long run for me than other sub-genres.

G.: I have two other projects. One is called RÉM, it's a traditional black metal stuff and the other one is Mutilation Case which is quite weird death metal stuff, where I try to put unorthodox stuff together. For example, I use Japanese koto, saxophone, crazy synth stuff, jew harp, and other weird things. I call this genre dadaistic death metal because I always use things that are not supposed to be there :) So because of that, I like to do some traditional HM-2 style death metal projects with a little twist, but a very common sound. I don't want to decipher the world with this :)

2. Did you know each other before the band was formed?

B: Yeah, apparently we kind of met 20 years ago at a gig when G was playing in Redneck Zömbies and I was in Casketgarden. To be honest I don’t have any recollection of that encounter, as we were having some technical difficulties on that gig and I was in “sorting it out” mode. We’re also been having an endless chat in Messenger for years now mostly about our projects: G has a few, and I have BalashToth. Also, I recorded some lead guitars for G’s other band Multiplication Case before …In Viscero.

G.: As B. mentioned, in the prehistoric ages we played together at a big Hungarian festival called Fezen. But I was totally drunk there of course :D After that year came and went and we started to discuss the world, the underground metal scene, and the master and mixing things, and I asked him to do some solos for my other project (Mutilation Case). He did quite awesome job, so when I wrote the songs for the …in Viscero album I was absolutely sure that I wanted to do this thing with him. With M. we hadn't met in person when we started to do this project, but I asked him for vocals because I really like his band called Boru. 

3. Each band member's favourite band?

B: My absolute favorite band is At The Gates, and it has been since 1994. I love all their albums, the early ones just as much as the new ones. I also love their other band The Haunted, then basically all the 90s heroes: Dismember, Entombed, Dimension Zero, Gates of Ishtar, Eucharist and I could list all the early Stockholm or Gothenburg bands here. From the British scene, I love Carcass, early Paradise Lost, very early Anathema, and Bolt Thrower. Not to mention newer bands as well, I really dig the Danish Baest.

G.: ok I think you will never guess that but my absolute favorite band since I was 10 is Primus. I am a huge fan of their weird-sounding music. Of course, I really love other old-school classics like Rush and Black Sabbath, and my musical fandom started with Iron Maiden when I was 6. And what is really important in my musical thinking is the complete work of Dan Swanö. He is a genius I think, and his attitude for music composing is very influential for me. I always love it when someone tries to walk on an untrodden path, like Swanö or Dödheimsgards for example. Oh… and Darkthrone. I love everything from Darkthrone. That fucked up attitude! They don't want to deal with others or what others are doing. They go on their own path, and if it's bordered with punk, heavy metal, or doom, they do that.

M.: Phew, it would be hard to pick just one band as my favorite, but these five probably cover the musical spectrum of my taste pretty well: Amenra, Full of Hell, Leviathan, Plebeian Grandstand, Orchid.

4. Who or what inspires you to write songs?

B: For me, it can be anything really, a book, a movie, some stupid words of a politician, or a scenario from my own life.

G.: Mostly the things that surround me. Music, Hungarian folk things, movies, comics, books, everything. These thighs are part of my life so these things will be part of my music too.

M.: I don't think of myself as a songwriter, but at the same time, I believe that vocals can be a tool that adds an extra mood or flavor to a song, just like any other instrument. The voices that inspire me the most, and whose techniques I'm trying to learn to incorporate similar vocal styles into my own singing, are those of Colin H. van Eeckhout, Dylan Walker, and Adrien Broué.

5. Where was your last gig?

B: I haven’t played proper gigs for 12 years now. The last Casketgarden gig was in August 2012, then the band called it quits. Since then I only appeared once as a guest in a Hungarian Entombed tribute band Wolverine Blues Brothers, that was last year. We played Wolverine Blues and Out of Hand, it was fun, but playing live is actually a part of being a musician that I don’t miss so much.

G.: My last live gig was in 2016 with Redneck Zömbiez. We played at a small one-day club festival. But to be honest…I never liked to do live gigs. I am more like a composer guy than a player. I love to write music, but I don't like to play it live. 

M.: Although out of this project, I’m probably the only one with an actively gigging band, called Boru, we also haven’t played a concert in over a year. There are several reasons for this: our drummer went to South Korea for half a year, several of us in the band moved to the capital, but most importantly, we’ve been working on our third full-length album, which is expected to be released this fall. My last concert with that band was in a club in Budapest, which was the debut show of a good friend of mine (Keserv DIY) as a booking agent.

6. Where would you like to act?

G.: I don't wanna play live gigs with these or any other of my projects. It's not my coffee shop. I love live shows, but I don't want to be on a stage.

7. Whom would you like to feature with?

G.: There is not a special name on my list. I always feature Hungarian musicians because I think it's really good for the Hungarian underground when we try to support each other. We can widen the base around us. So for me for example it's more important to do a feature with a Hungarian or other foreign underground artist than a huge foreign name.

8. Whom not?

G.: Coldplay, Scorpions, and U2. Well man, I never will understand why they became stars. It's just a mystery to me.

9. Have any of you ever suffered from stage fright? Any tips for beginners on how to beat that?

B: I actually had “before hitting the stage fright” that was gone in a minute when I stepped on the stage and started to play, but before it, I was scared shitless. I think the best thing to do is ask yourself “What makes you afraid? What is the worst thing that can happen?”. Try to give a very specific answer, as specific as you can. It will be something like “I’ll fuck up this or that song”, “My cable will break”. Then find the solution: what if you fuck up that song? Answer it: well, I just get back to it, or we stop and start over or I just switch the cable. You’ll find the solution for your “fear” is mostly simple. That helped me a lot in the later years of Casketgarden.

G.: Hungarian palinka is the best for everything! :)

M.: As G. also mentioned, alcohol can indeed help, but only in moderation, of course. For me, the combination of 2-3 beers and a shot of Unicum (a Hungarian spirit) works well. And although it's not very mental, different breathing and meditation techniques can also help ease stage fright.

10. What bands have inspired you the most?

B: At the Gates, The Haunted, Carcass, Dismember, Paradise Lost probably.

G.: Edge of Sanity, Dödheimsgard, for my other project, Mutilation Case Abysmal Grief music was so inspirational for me. But I can mention most of Dan Swanö’s work.

M.: For this project: Bolt Thrower, Swedish crust punk bands, and Mayhem.

11. What's the weirdest thing a fan has ever asked you for?

B: In my previous band Casketgarden, the singer was always this chick magnet guy. Once he broke up with the girls, they came to me through the “official Casketgarden” email address: “Why doesn’t he love me?” and stuff like that. There were some weird askings there, haha.

G.: I can't tell you weird stories, because when I was in Redneck Zömbez and did live gigs I was some sort of “person for yourself” guy. But my ex-bandmates could tell weird shits because they used that “huge” success that we had :D

M.: Once, after one of our album release shows in Szeged, someone asked me for an autograph. That was weird… :D

12. What do you think of your fans?

B: I don’t know if …In Viscero there are no fans yet, but they must be cool guys liking death metal and old Italian horror movies.

G.: If you like Death Metal, and Italian movies you are the best! :)

13. What do you think of our site?

B: Looks like a well-built professional website and supports cool up-and-coming artists.

G.: Really good stuff! And what I really like is the possibility that you can search for stuff by country.

14. Something to add?

B: Thanks for the support and interview!

G.: Thanks for the interview! And for everybody: Listen to underground extreme metal, and watch old movies!

M.: Thanks for the support and stay true!