Interview with TUMBERO

Argentina is not really popular when it comes down to raw grindcore! But some of the bands I heard recently actually deliver some great shit! After his promising demo I immediately had to send Nando / TUMBERO some questions...

⍰ You just played a gig with your other band Kemagorra this weekend! So how’s the show been!? How many people usually show up to gigs in your area? You are doing quite some work in your local scene. So let us know what you are doing! What other grind/noise bands from your country can you recommend to check out?

➤ Hello! if this weekend we played with Kemagorra (mincecore) in a festibal under 11 extreme local bands, it is not usually a very popular show of this musical genre in Buenos Aires Argentina, but we always organize concerts and activities.

Here we are several friends that we like to play and record ... We almost started Tumbero Records doing our productions and recording bands of friends to support the extreme scene ..
I'm currently playing in 4 active bands: Insult (grindcore), Santos Biasati (dbeat powerviolence), Kemagorra (mincecore) and Tumbero (solo project Raw Grindcore)
in the local scene there is not much grind / noise but I recommend some bands of friends Bloodshead Party Gore, Larva, Hate Excretor (rip), human atrocity .. in truth there are few

⍰ You are playing in a couple bands but what inspired you to do your solo project playing all instruments on your own? How are you writing/recording your songs? What bands inspired you to perform this style?

➤  at this moment I am in 3 active bands: Kemagorra (guitar and vocals) Insult (Voices) Santos Biasati (drums and vocals) ... Tumbero was born from a leisure moment, is that in my house we set up a recording studio called "tumbero" records "from there is born the name of the Tumbero musical project and having the instruments and equipment to record available .. the songs are composed at the moment .. everything flows in a short time and it is recorded finally I add the voices .. bands that inspire Tumbero are noisy but with a context in the most social and libertarian lyrics ... influenced by crust punk grindcore and noise music bands like Agathocles, haggus, Fear of god, Rot (br), Sore Throat, carcass grinder, Denak, Warsore, etc ...

⍰ From what I could tell you don’t have any physical releases available from your stuff. Is it something you want to see more in the future or what do you generally think about it? If you would be doing physical copies of your stuff is that something you would want to do yourself or rather seek out for other labels?

➤ I recently had the news of a label from France that was interested in editing the disc of tumbero in split mode with other bands .. so fortunately it was released in France SEBUM EXCESS PRODUCTION + KYST + TUMBERO 3 way split by Inhuman Homicide Rec . (thanks for the support)

I'm really more focused on recording and mixing bands that edit in physical mode, I hope that for the next material of Tumbero have support from an independent label

⍰ If you could go on worldwide tour with TUMBERO and you could form a “dream” line-up… what people would you want to add and what instrument should everyone play!? What countries would you be curious to visit?

➤ a difficult question haha .. luckily I have friends who play their instruments very well .. the one that would surely be Gabriel "the pelado" (kemagorra, rata punk, methrasheros, santos biasati) with him I made many bands and from very young we make noise together ... Gabriel Kanamith (espermorragia, insulto) would also join in. Now I have many projects related to grindcore and music in general ... and finally Gustavo "el guasuncho" (insidious, insulto) is a friend to do music and many other things .. I am lucky to share bands with all of them. so maybe he has a world tour he would take them with me

⍰ Imagine there’s a guy who is visiting all your shows, breaking band equipment, throw away all beer and stealing your clothes because he doesn’t like your noisy shit!!! Now you had the chance to make him pay back, what would you like to do to him? No police investigation!

➤ the most likely is that that guy can not go to our shows anymore ... it would take a beating of all those who support the local scene including me ... usually in our shows we do not accept attitudes like that, we do not share shows with Nazi bands or anything like that ... always anti-fascist grindcore!

⍰ Thanks for taking the time to do this short interview! If there’s anything else you’d like to say, go ahead!

➤ Thank you for your interest in what we do in this part of the planet! the grindcore resists and exists! we will be in contact to share music and news! cheers!

Discography

• 2017 Demo 1017

Info/Contact

• TUMBERO RECORDS

Interview with TAKE THAT VILE FIEND

TAKE THAT VILE FIEND started in 2006 with a demo that was never really released officially. It wasn't until 2015 that the "Excreted brain matters" CD came out and things stated to move on a little more steady. But read yourself what the man has to say...

⍰ I just heard the news about a guy who broke into your rehearsal space and tried to steal that precious drumstick you conquered yourself after a bloody fight during a Slipknot gig!!!! During his escape the thief broke his wrist falling into the bathtub you carefully constructed from images of your favorite scene in “I spit on your grave”. What are you going to do about this now?

➤ Lament the fact that I have never actually been to a Slipknot concert, ring my house & contents insurance provider, kick myself for being a non-confrontational pathetic husk of a man and probably contemplate why I built a bathtub in my rehearsal space in the first place. 

⍰ What inspired you to start TAKE THAT VILE FIEND? You released your debut full-length album few years ago, how’s the reactions been? You’re still playing that wicked goregrind style on your newest outputs, do you regret nothing at all?

➤  The urge to play energetic crusty goregrind was too strong to not do something, and since having kids kills having time to jam regularly, starting a band with myself seemed like the easier option. Especially when the majority of recordings are improvised drums with riffs and vocals slapped on top with minimal forethought.

I've had lots of positive feedback on the album and TTVF more generally which is cool, but most importantly I think it's cool. It will always be a pitch shifted goregrind band in some capacity, I have plenty of other stupid bands for non mega tuff brutal ideas.

⍰ In many cases goregrind has a tendency to not actually sound like goregrind at all. Where do you draw the line? What does not belong in there? What are your favorite bands in the genre and which one is the most underrated one?

➤ I'm too hypocritical to really lay down a do's and don'ts, mostly just keep shitty weak metal twiddling away from what should be nothing more than first 6 frets monotony. I really like 100% Gore Beat/Seuchenherd's use of gory elements in what is an otherwise raging hardcore/grind sound. Stupid Eurowave of tuppa tuppa grindcore dance party music tends to push the limits a bit for me. I actually am less elitist about goregrind than grindcore more generally I've come to realise. I like ya classic Regurgitate style D-Beat driven crusty goregrind, spastic flutter-blasting Brazilian nastiness, 90's/00's grooviness, Putrefaction In Progress-wave of the last decade, and a whole mess of drum machine/basement dweller sleaziness of the 2000's. I tend to lean towards nasty sounding energetic stuff with 'oomph' and 'phwoar' moments, yet am just as appreciative of sloppy, death-tinged, ignorant sickness.

⍰ If you could change one release from a grind/noisecore related band that disappointed you… which one would you pick out? What would you change about it and which instrument would you want to play trying to fix it?

➤ Defecation - 'Whatever that horrible 2nd album that Mitch did by himself was called'

I would kick out mitch and play all the instruments myself, trying to copy the first LP with added Righteous Pigs climbing riffs and none of that stupid proto-metal weird boring chord shit he is now incapable of not writing into every song.

⍰ Now that everyone posts their music on YouTube and Bandcamp and before that on MySpace, how much has really changed in the scene after all? Why do you think it’s still worth it putting out physical releases or is it more like a casual job you have to fulfill so you can chop it off your list to finish an “official” release?

➤ I grew up hoarding mp3's over P2P file sharing on dial up modems, being precious about people sharing your music is stupid, especially when we're talking goregrind or noisy music in general. You should be glad that anyone even cares enough to steal your music, what with all the quality music options Sony and Warner Bros make available to us at a reasonable price. I enjoy the bandcamp model of "pay what you want" where $0 is still a valid option. Paying for mp3's is stupid, thats why I like being able to have a good quality version of my stuff available for free. Making money back from releases is impossible anyway, might as well allow people to hear it in the vain hope they might buy the physical version down the track. The old argument of 'if people can get it for free they won't buy the real thing' is invalid nowadays cos only music nerds and pokemon collectors buy anything anyway.

⍰ I heard you are playing in few other bands, even if it might be no more than one or two!? Any ideas what upcoming releases your vile listeners can expect? Would you like to go on tour with one of them? What band would you want to bring with you if you had the choice?

➤ There is a lot bands on paper, some more active than others but all with releases being sat on because I'm a terrible procrastinater. Internal Rot, Clogged, Umbilical Tentacle & Blarghstrad are all bands that are gigging semi-regularly at least and have releases that 'should' see the light of day this year. Drownd is another solo thing, angry lofi nu metal, tape collection of demos and covers will probably be the next Radical Blarghst release. Umbilical Tentacle has first dibs on dragging my arse to Japan for some gigs whenever I tone down my busy dad lifestyle of the past few years. I'd love to make it over to Europe at some point, and Canada/US again, if for nothing else than the gutbusting fast food options.

⍰ Hope you enjoyed the interview! Last words are yours…

➤ Thanks for giving enough of a shit to ask me questions about my poor choice of hobby and best of luck with your old man blogging.

Discography

• 2006 Demo
• 2015 "Excreted brain matters" (CD)
• 2016 split w/ Metastasis + Organs Tortured
• 2016 split w/ Blarghstrad (TAPE)
• 2016 "Riff Deth Noise Gore"
• 2017 split w/ Cystoblastosis + Nasty Face + Regular Sized Rudy (TAPE)
• 2017 split w/ Sulfuric Cautery (7" EP)

Info/Contact

• RADICAL BLARGHST

TUMBERO - Demo 2017

Here we’ve got an exotic one man project from Argentina, even with real drums playing! All instruments, recording and artwork are done by Nando. TUMBERO reminds me a bit on Warsore or Dead Infection on the “Poppy seed cake” EP but more in a chaotic and scabby way! The guy is blasting, screaming and barking through 11 tracks with simple but raging riffs often borrowing from crustcore territory. There’s this sloppy, raw rehearsal vibe going on which adds a lot to the overall attitude of this demo! I don't know if this is available in physical format as well, I only know about the YouTube link. But what serious label wouldn't want to have this gem in their catalog? So go for it fuckers!!!

Contact:
https://www.facebook.com/tumberorecords/

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glopmnY1PTs

BLARGHSTRAD - s/t CD

Most people playing in multiple bands make them all sound the same. That’s not the case with BLARGHSTRAD - a not so typical one-man-project by our fellow Brad Smith. It sounds obviously way different than TAKE THAT VILE FIEND and we don’t even need to talk about his full line-up bands INTERNAL ROT or SUPER FUN HAPPY SLIDE. The term one-man-band is taken to a new level here as all instruments are played at the same time. Bass in one hand, drum stick in the other, and a mic attached to his helmet - and things are pushed further than just a funny gimmick. This of course doesn’t mean that Blarghstrad doesn’t sound hilarious as fuck! It surely does a lot, and is exactly intended to be like that. Tracks on this album often start by a feedback drenched poor-man’s attempt to sing whatever song, which unfortunately doesn’t really end well and so very much leads to barbaric blasts of straight-up noisecore. There are cases when the caveman singing is going on a little bit too long but overall this is well done! Your typical stupid noisecore band often struggles to deliver an intense experience and therefore plays the whole thing down as “shitnoise” and rather focuses on a competition on how many records they can release in a month. However there they get a great lesson taught here by only one guy that does all the work alone! 27 tracks total plus a comatized hidden track!!

Bandcamp:
https://radicalblarghst.bandcamp.com/album/blarghstrad

CORRUPT HUMANITY / CUM SOCK - split tape

Sadly Corrupt Humanity faced a rather short existence (only active between 2011-2013) and this recording was released posthumous in 2015. But they put a hell of an intense set on this short tape! It sounds a bit messy at the beginning like if they were still warming up. But after 1-2 songs they really push up for more blasts and violence! The quality is quite bad (still in a good way) but if you consider those songs are taken from live recordings then after all it’s not too shabby at all, damn it, it just fits exactly right as it should be! Shit sounds way more intense than a carefully recorded studio session! Thing is, every motherfucker can get their band easily recorded by someone else, but how many of them manage to still sound great when you hear them like they really sound? For me this tape was a great introduction to this band, you don’t often have bands from that era sound like it was straight from the 90ths! But who knows... it could be something those Scotts had in their whisky??

The CUM SOCK side contains two previously released lathe-cuts and two unreleased songs. They are playing a totally different kind of game. The songs sound more like a improvised rehearsal session, with sloppy blast beats (to the point of barely being recognized as such), wacky guitar riffs and over the top dumbass vocals! Usually bands quickly get out of that phase and regret it, but this project seems like it proudly sticks with it forever! Anyway, I don’t give a shit what you think! This is funny shit after all and your life sucks!

Contact:

http://www.grindfatherprod.com/

V/A - “Pieces”

This insane compilation is as contradictory as a noisecore comp can ever get. There are 77 artists on it making up for a total track count of 300!! It was supposed to be released by a label called “Reanimated Miscarriage” but as the guy was unable to properly release it nor send any artist copies, he got some help from “Craniophagus Parasiticus Records” who is working quite more reliable and dedicated. There are mostly pure noisecore bands on it but there are also a handful grind bands - however those seem to have been edited to sound just like the rest of the bands on it. You know, you can clearly say that Captain Three Leg, Reeking Cross, or hell, even Gore Beyond Necropsy, usually sounds quite different than on this tape. After people complained about the sound of the comp the guy who originally put it together just said he couldn’t make it any better due to the shitty source material he got. Well, you can look at this like you want!? But if you ask me it makes me think some of these bands even sound better with a rawer sound like that! Speaking about Gore Beyond Necropsy, Meat Shits, Traci Lord Loves Noise and stuff like that it’s pretty obvious they just have been put on the tape without permission. After all, if you look at this tape for what it is then I must say I have some great fun listening to it! I heard people say the quality on it was quite varying between the different tracks, but I can’t really confirm this as I think my copy sounds as it was intended! It’s just pure destruction and it got the perfect length (after all those 300 tracks don’t last very long). So if you are really into noisecore then better try to get this tape as long as it’s still available!!

Contact:
https://www.facebook.com/craniophagusparasiticus/

CYSTOBLASTOSIS / TAKE THAT VILE FIEND / NASTY FACE / REGULAR SIZED RUDY

Unlike other goregrind bands from Russia CYSTOBLASTOSIS on this recording is less about the LDOH rip off style but rooted more in old school goregrind, often even turning down the tempo. There’s a nice raw and crushing production to it though. The vocals however need some improvement as they somehow sound really weird compared to usual pitch shifted vocals.

If you thought CYSTOBLASTOSIS is raw then you haven’t heard TAKE THAT VILE FIEND. This is a devastating project from Brad Smith (Internal Rot, Super Fun Happy Slide, etc.) and while he still had another guy help him out on vox for his full length CD, he’s back to doing everything on his own again. You hear a couple riffs here and there, often just to start into a song, but most of the time he’s just blasting his drum kit into the ground with goregrind so vile it descends into total noisecore. The vocals sound really sick like a deformed filthy abomination from hell that is just about to barf over your smashed remains! That’s the way to do pitch shifted vocals properly by the way! So this could be easily the winner on this tape, but I won’t be too hasty with this opinion for now! Maybe there’s someone else too?

Next in line is NASTY FACE from Switzerland. Their side consists of only cover songs. I don’t really appreciate the selection of songs they are performing here. Even if they seem to know what they’re doing, but it sounds somewhat “at the wrong place” compared to the other bands on this tape. So skip this!

REGULAR SIZED RUDY is a project by a guy surprisingly called Rudy. It’s fast and chaotic grind, but still manages to sound different than most other bands, as he brings in different influences without sounding like a fuckin douchebag! Instead of just trying to copy the same bands all over he somewhat got his own thing going on here. I love the overdriven and broken guitar tone, spontaneous riffs, and the screaming and gory puking vocals which are all over the mix. Some songs remind me a bit of S.M.S.B. but without the techno-ish sounding drum kit. Great and entertaining stuff! This was really a surprise to hear, and together with the TAKE THAT VILE FIEND tracks it definitely rules this comp! Discogs doesn’t know about any other releases, so I hope this wasn’t just an one-off-thing because I already want to hear more!

Bandcamp:
https://choothartapes.bandcamp.com/album/obstreperous-mangling-botheration-4-way-split

AGATHOCLES / MALPRACTICE INSURANCE - split tape

For sure I didn’t check out this tape for the AGx side. Still had to make through it somehow to reach the flip side and didn’t want to be a total asshole that doesn’t listen to his stuff. So here’s a recording session from 1995. I don’t know how Ivo (or whatever his name is) was able to get on a split tape with his stuff, but the session was probably used on 3 other releases as well - AGx fanboys prove me wrong! Indeed I was at first surprised as it sounds really fresh and actually enjoyed it if I’m honest about it. After a couple great songs however it quickly starts to wear down and gets worse with each following track and so reminds me why I never been a fan of the band. I more or less like the style they’re playing here but I always thought other bands usually sound way better doing that anyway. And it’s no different with this tape…

MALPRACTICE INSURANCE is a band featuring Ivo/RADIATION VOMIT on guitar/bass/vox. Straight from the first track it sounds like AGx but actually done right! It blows the “originals” away (ey… who themselves are just bad Napalm Death wanna-be’s in the end) just as good as MALIGNANT TUMOUR did during their peak - minus that terrible “mince” preacher shit. There are only 6 songs on this side and contrary to the AGx side they’re over way too quick, which definitely tells there's a lot more entertaining material. Songs are really aggressive and hitting hard, combining all the good parts this style is all about. The filthy and raw sound definitely helps me to enjoy this more - but then I’m not sure if this is really as it was intended to sound or only due to the quality of the tape. The risk you take when putting out stuff on this format. But my noise polluted ears couldn’t care less, so just get this tape anyway, I hope yours sounds just a bad!

Contact:
http://www.grindfatherprod.com/