Between many names in death metal story throughout the U.S.'s domination, Embryonic Devourment appear with the bohemian style to relying grind- gore cultivation with their mature concept of the musical transplantation. Punctuality and techniques are the main arts of this band to act and react including the superior view due the thematic landscape. Embryonic Devourment is purely eccentric than other bands that has been existed and stood differently with the European enormity due the lane. Here they come undone, to bathing you with a holy water of conscience. There have no oil wars anymore and we are Chitauri hunters at the end. Keep the faith equally and be yourself first to value this all words cleverly. You are the oneguiding the essence.
Hello guys. It’s a pride to talk with you and it’s meaningful to know you all after the second full-length “Vivid Interpretation of The Void”, just make some confirmation here as an info?
This is Austin Spence (Bass and Vocals)
Thank you, we are stoked for the new album, we feel it’s our strongest release yet. We spent a lot of time on the writing process and we think people will like it.
Still deliberate the album and possibly it’s not too late from the launching date, how do you explain especially the recent musicality that you offer to the audiences? How if it’s compared with the first album?
Well, it’s definitely more structured, in the sense that we are becoming better musicians and better songwriters. On our first album we made music solely for our own satisfaction. We didn’t care about impressing people or having “slam” parts for people to mosh too. On this new album however we tried to write in a way that would cater more to the fans of bands like Spawn of Possession, Immolation, and Gorguts. We want the crowd to like what we are playing and be able to bang their heads non stop hopefully we accomplished just that.
The promotion seems less and in rarely the buzzing goes to Embryonic Devourment, why have had that thing happened and what about the circulation to how many copies the CDs that are sold?
This is due mainly in part to our label (Deepsend Records). We feel that we don’t get the support we need regarding tours and promotion. Anything we do promotion wise come out of our own pockets financially. We have to book our own tours and do our own promotion it seems. Our label does do a little bit as far as distribution and merch goes, but that’s about it. We made a crumby decision in signing with Deepsend and it’s no ones fault accept for ours. He tricked us into signing on for yet another album, and we want nothing more than to end our ties and find a more professional label that will actually promote us and give us tour support. Is that too much to ask? Haha.
Embryonic Devourment was formed in 2003, where the the line- up are compromised to the lead vocalist and now become 4 elements with a vocalist in bass duty to the concept of technical Death Grind. Why have you relied that way and could you give some clarity about your decision in extreme music as how your existence is admitted now?
We love the technical death grind genre with all our hearts and want to continue in that vein. We don’t wanna be a band of disappointment and turn into Metallica. We will continue to put forth the sickest music we can come up and avoid being watered down. We added a 2nd guitarist ( Adam Weber ) a few years back and chemistry between the 4 of us is better than it’s ever been. We now have leads, harmonies, and dueling guitar work which makes for a more interesting sound and approach to our song writing.
As the genre to your deepening side, Embryonic Devourment play Death Grind with the technical and progressive touches and it’s so rarely in US where the mostly bands of Death Metal play Brutal Death and Slam Death Metal to the types. What is the reason you walk this path?
We are influenced heavily by the European death grind scene. We hate the status quo of all these us metal core and slam bands and so we try to be as original as possible. Our drummer has a lot to do with our sound as well. He hates normal drum beats, and is also left handed but plays a right handed kit. It makes our sound all fucked up… but in a good way, haha.
You all have been still be a legion of Deepsend Records with the first album, what do you endure until you keep believe that label as your official label eventhough you all certainly involve in that label? Why haven’t you joined with major labels such as Relapse Records or Century Media where your musicality is to excellence if it compares with the average?
We’ve sent to those labels before and never even got a reply. I guess they’re just stuck on hats marketable and “popular”. We’ve been asked this same question many times and brings me to wonder; Do they just hate us? Or do we just suck? Or maybe our label is preventing us from signing with a bigger label. Who knows; we won’t let it ruin our day through, haha. If people like us they’ll just to hunt us down and find our releases, fuck it.
Regarding the themes that Embryonic Devourment write, it’s so unique where some cultural philosophy also protrudes with the scientific circle to strengthen the meaning of the purpose, from where do you have a thought or base to do that great? What books do you usually read or like as a reference?
We really like all the David Icke books like “The Reptilian Agenda” and “The Biggest Secret”. We are all controlled by Reptiles from another planet- sounded cool enough to write about. Every band writes gore lyrics and we wanted to separate ourselves from that lump of shit.
Human behaviours are usually influenced from many factors until the paradoxical decision where a lot of people often fasten the wickedness to find a calmness or tranquility to live, where delirium, anger and ridiculousness are ordinary things in this time to obey the religions where some also have no attitude. Have you ever chosen a paradox to your (sociality) days and where do you stand as your firms? It’s so, if you correlate to the straight edge movement or skin head view.
We like to smoke a lot of pot and we think skinheads are bald. We don’t wanna be bald! We like our hair, haha. I think we just have to “live in the now” and meditate as often as possible to break up the routine of the every day rat race. Go deep inside your own cognitions and always think outside the box, eat healthy food. Because the government wants us to commit cholesterol suicide through McDonalds, and lung cancer from cigarettes. It’s a form of mind control and we don’t want any part of it.
Do you believe Satan have inhibited our lives prop/deviate our existence in extreme music if we still resolute an opposition or refusal where all that we are done is inhuman such as the artworks or the genre irony? What’s the religion subject or purpose to Embryonic Devourment music?
Well, I think we should worship our end. We should embrace the fact that the world will end in atomic flames and hopefully cleanse the earth of all this bacteria we call humans, population, oil, war, religion, and corruption are what humans bring to the table and it’s just fucking disgusting really. As Morbid Angel once said …”Cleanse this world with fire”… to us, it’s not a religion; it’s a solution. Pure death is divine in the sense that the world can recycle itself for a better purpose.
Your shows are really cool with the 4 members formation, what do you practice besides at the rehearsal studio? It’s so wonderful to see Luke plays some punctual beats or the adrenaline transfusion from your energy.
Currently we have been writing new material and have 8 songs so far. We plan to record them in February 2012 but nothing is certain as of yet. We’re a very live band and come across better than our studio albums when we’re up on stage. Luke (our drummer) is the main heart and soul of our uniqueness and really shines in a live situation. He is unlike any other drummer, and I can say that with full confidence.
A split had been made for Embryonic Devourment with grind/noise core band Kuru, how could that happen because you all are into death metal? What about split album do you mean and will you do that method to release stuffs later again?
We have known Kuru for years and talked about the idea on several occasions. I personally love the noisy grind core type stuff as well. Kenny from the band Kuru runs his own label called “Buried in Hell Records” and offered us the opportunity to do a split and we were were more than excited to hop on board. I hope we release more vinyl in the future. It keeps things underground and non-commercial.
What do you think about Islamic culture after some occurrences where Osama was killed for his accused terrorism to kill many people not only in U.S. also Libya-n president- Omar Qadhafi to the big enemy of capitalism as US civilians? Where do you determinate for places such as Pyongyang or Havana?
I say support the troops, fuck of the government! All these leaders who are at war: Osama, Obama, Khadafi, etc. Ughhh, they are all controlled by a masonic force - a reptilian force. They are merely puppets on chess board that are controlled by reptiles from another planet called Niburu. It’s out of their hands. they are mind controlled slaves that are a part of a bigger picture. A massive human harvest that meets the needs of population control.
San Francisco, California is a big spot for underground/extreme music scene, but how about Willits your hometown regarding the state of extreme music, how about the improvement?
Our hometown is a small mountain community with no metal scene whatsoever. When we play shows in Willits there is only like 30-50 people at most. To play bigger shows we have to travel to San Francisco or tour other states where there is a bigger scene. Most of the bands in our area play reggae and folkrock. It’s much like the cartoon southpark here in Willlits, haha.
Many familiar bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Cephalic Carnage, etc have shared the stage with you, if you are in choice to choose with the other great bands, what bands do you wish to play with and why?
Napalm Death, because they practically invented the grind core drum beat which so many bands copy nowadays. Their lyrics have political sense and meaning. They have a message and it’s a good one which comes across very angry with a lot of emotion. They rule. Our dreams will have come true if e can ever score a show with Napalm Death…. Cheers to Barney!
A little mess and twisting, what is the meaning of beauty for you guys and definitely Embryonic Devourment? Are you all married? (We should go to Africa to find Cleopatra girls.)
Yes, we are all married except for Adam, but he is well on his way, haha. To us, we are married to the most beautiful girls in the world, both inside and out. They support our music and want us to go far. Without them, our band would be seriously crippled. We’d be homeless with no direction, ahaha.
Europe is in the resurgence of extreme music once more, Asia is in the fast growth and Africa is doubly injected by. What do you view about the world-wide scene to the strength and function correctively in reality, wherein misery, injustice also repression still hinder a together victory on humanity? What has to be done as our duty (where our music is only sawn by some people as entertainment like mainstream music)?
I think death metal becomes stronger everyday as a result of all the corruption in the world. It gives us something to be pissed off about. If the world were perfect then death metal wouldn’t exist because there wouldn’t be imperfect people flooding the music industry with blast beats. Death metal thrives best in poor places, areas of poverty. Real metal you know? Ugly, poor, and pissed off at society.
After a little journey from 2003, how do you emphasis your hearts and- hoping with some recognitions to play your deadly musicality?
Our journey is far from being over. We still have like 10 albums to write before we will be satisfied. We look at Cannibal Corpse as the main example of why we need to stick around. They did it, so can we. We are starting to headline bigger shows now and getting paid money so we will only get better I hope. Our love of music is ultimately what keeps us going, and the growing support and respect from fans.
What do you propose for the next release after "Vivid interpretation Of The Void" concerning the theme and the musical form? It’s so substantial if you give an interpreted description.
We will continue to explore new musical directions within the framework of brutal death grind and dig up any cool conspiracy theories and try to make sense of them. We will extract the menstrual blood of a virgin and use it as the red ink for our next CD cover. Maybe it will be a scratch and sniff cover so you can really smell the brutality, haha.
It’s too late and time to go. Thanks Austin to guide us. Please say goodbye to the readers by your last maxim or aphorism? Have a great day and see ya again.
I would like to remind people not to download albums on the internet because that is what ruins bands. Without financial support we won’t be able to tour and make death metal our livehood. Support your local scene by going to shows and buying physical CD’s and t-shirts. Go to our website at www.embryonicdevourment.com and buy something! Help us out! We need your support! Don’t buy from our label! Buy directly from us because our label doesn’t give us any money!
