⍰ You started this band almost two decades ago. In the early days you were still the guitar player in the band. What made you switch to drums? Any advice to new drummers?
Well i guess the actual young drummer don’t need help from me, they’re all very good, studying with teachers, playing with click in the ears. But they miss a big part, the musical way, drums is an instrument & need to be drive with passion & kind of love haha. They just do it as a competition to be the fastest & cleanest drummer. I use to say that i’m not a drummer, just a player, for passion & not to reach those 300bpm with click in my hear. As well practicing in a band is the best way to get a very unique music & style.
⍰ You’re one of the few bands that doesn't run a Bandcamp site. What do you think about digital distribution and YouTube - as opposed to physical releases?
➤ Well we don’t have free time to manage all unreal stuff, we rather like to play live & recording materials as a real band together. Maybe i will find time to start a bandcamp page asap, but till then the trend will surely changed haha. Well i think that the question isn’t anymore if it’s good or bad, it’s just a part of our life now & most of all people use it, so we have to follow. I personaly don’t really like mp3, but it’s good to keep your tapes/vinyls/cds safe at home & then running your mp3 wherever you want on your small player. But they’re will still be underground maniacs buyers, real format will still be the best & far more ecogolical than thousand servers running all the times !!!
⍰ What is closer to the truth: “Grindcore is protest” or “Grindcore is fashion”? What does grind or in particular goregrind mean to you? You got anything to say for the political correct fraction?
➤ Good question haha. Grindcore is maybe dead since few years, as well i don’t see any grindcore band anymore, i’m maybe too old for that but most of those actual grindcore bands don’t got the spirit & don’t write/play grindcore, they just think to do it. But there is still some new great bands, but they play in the old school way haha. Actually for many people, grindcore & goregrind are just stupid & retarded, funny with balloons & shit. That’s the way the actual scene is & it’s hard to be away of that when you tell that you play grind !! Some french grind bands just spit on us because we play goregrind, so it seams that we are misogynist, wtf ?? Those guys are sniffing cocaine, beat their girlfriends, stole money, without any respect & we are misogynist or stupid because we play goregrind ?!! Carcass started the style longtime ago, then followed Haemorrhage, Last Days of Humanity, Dead Infection, Regurgitate, etc… That’s fucking true goregrind in the serious gore way, to protest like grindcore did at the same time. We are just playing for passion, to meet new people, mix culture from all around the world & spreading sickness on stage.
⍰ What is the most underrated goregrind band, and what would you tell people about them to wake some interest?
➤ Purulent Spermcanal is one my favourite band from Ostrava (Czech Republic), they released 3 awesome pornogoregrind albums & ended into a more grind/rock style with the last one. There is another Czech band who released 2 great albums called Umbrella. The Czech scene in the ‘90s was so awesome & inspired me alot.
⍰ There's always been a few interesting bands from France. What can you say about the development of your scene from the old days up to now?
➤ France was never the country of metal or even rock music, but we had great bands & still have few ones. The goregrind scene is almost desert, Blue Holocaust/Vomi Noir & Pulsating Cerebral Slime got the true spirit. There is more modern goregrind, groovy/slamming, that’s not goregrind for me. Grindcore is a little bit more present with Blockheads, Inhumate, Unsu, Yattai. Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition still mix different style since few years & we are glad to share again stages with them, even if i like more their past stuff. Well the french scene is very active, very good quality bands, but they’re all want to be famous & getting money. In the past all bands asked to play, now it’s difficult to get local bands to opening for a touring one because they ask more money that the one on tour, that drive me crazy.
⍰ What's your top 5 horror movies and what exactly is it that you like about each one?
➤ Bad Taste for being the best one ever, then Brain Dead for being the second best one haha. Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the putrid & oppressive feeling, the Night of the Living Dead for the dark feeling & one of my first zombie movie ever. Dawn of the Dead for one the best zombie movie ever. Those are classic horror movies that i worship, Bad Taste is really my fav of all time.
⍰ Thanks for taking your time for this interview. Any final words? What new releases can we expect from P. F.?
➤ Well we still use to have many releases on the way, this year was very active with shows, so we started to record new stuff at the beginning of 2017 & we didn’t had time to finish vocals yet, but will do it soon, it must be out in 2018. The biggest part & the serious point is that we will celebrate our 20th anniversary in 2018 & it will be insane, we will announce more dates & tours on our page/website. Thanx Ron for your support, see you all on the road in 2018 & let’s having fun at shows, cheers.
Discography (full lengths only)
- 2007 Organ maggots
- 2011 Interstitial lung diseases
- 2016 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
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