Saigon was a blast, people are very friendly, the crowd went nuts and I was dumbfounded when I happen to smell and see some crazy shit mofos smoking weed, enjoying the music and moshing all throughout during our set. Feels like us playing in front of Filipino crowd, fun!!!
I’m sure you had lots of fun while roaming the streets of Vietnam. Aside from the show can you tell us some memorable moments during your visit?
Right, when you are in Vietnam one thing you will notice is there is a huge number of motorbikes you’ll go fucking insane to see them most especially during peak hours on the streets. Aside from that, street foods are amazing very cheap, healthy and really authentic, plus you’ll be able to smoke weed even on public places like restaurants and parks as long as there are no cops. Haha cool!!!
How was your show in Singapore and Thailand? What’s the experience like to play in another country?
It feels great to play outside the country, you’ll get the chance to meet other people, experience the culture and see the scene.
Bangkok has one of the craziest crowds we’ve seen so far. Thai people really know how to enjoy brutal death metal and fucking supports us all the way.
You almost never made it to the SGDF; will you give us the details of this airport incident?
The Philippine Immigration never let us pass through the airport it’s because these certain scum bug officers are required us to show em some working visa and shit. They don’t understand that we are playing in other country and will not get any money from the performance. They insist and believed that we will earn big money out of the tour and for that we, according to them, should show and secure a working visa on that same day which is really impossible to. They didn’t allow us to board the aircraft and for that, our ticket was forfeited.
Immediately, I made a phone call to the organizer in Singapore and told him what had happened. We have to show up in Singapore we worked really hard and came up with the idea that yes, there are other ways of getting our ass off the country.
We have 24 hours before the fest so we decided to get another flight but this time on a different airport. Good thing we still have extra money just enough to buy tickets for five and finally we made it to Singapore.
You’ve just commenced recording tracks for the second album. How’s the progress so far?
It’s almost done; we are on the process of reviewing the entire record and will do the mastering soon.
Can you give us more info about the second album?
The new album “Violence and the Macabre” will be released under the belt of Comatose Music USA. 11 tracks written from 2009-2013 recorded at Demiurge Digital with producer Ian Cuevas, artwork by Isa Pilapil and Executive Produced by Alexander Dela Cruz.
What about the artwork and layout, who are going to handle them?
Art work and CD layout by Isa Pilapil of Demiurge.
How would you compare the songs to this album to your previous records?
We still have the same creative visions and styles, the slam, blast and heavy rifling’s are still the major components of the new songs but we are much mature musicians right now and we wanted to incorporate much more elements into our music.
We don’t have a bass player and we realized that we are not clearly a technical death metal band but we as musicians joined together and push ourselves off to the limits in writing and creating the music and the sound we like. Obviously, the new materials are more devastating compare to the old ones.
Comatose Records will release this album. How did you managed to snag this deal? Is this going to be a one shot deal or multiple album contract?
Steve Green of Comatose is not really that hard to get along with, I mean if you have band and has proven that you are capable to be included in his roster, you’ll get that deal very easy.
We hope we could sign another contract again with his label after the 2nd album.
The band has gone through some tough times with the line-up before. I remember being dumb-struck when asked for advice back then, but in the end you guys were able to patched things up and ended up much stronger than ever. What have you learned from that?
I guess our passion and our interests keeps us going, I mean this is what we want to do and we are happy doing this thing, the weed explains the rest, hahaha.
Jayquin recently left the band. Can you give us more information about his departure?
He is not capable of playing the music we’d like to play and decided to move forward without him, it’s a wise decision for us and it’s proven but yes we are still friends and manage to get along with him sometimes.
Are you now searching for another bass player or simply go on as 4-piece or perhaps re-shuffle with your instruments?
We are. We have couple of friends who want to play bass with us but couldn’t find a single time to jam and practice with us. If there’s anybody out there who has time, willing to play bass and with the same interest like us call me up!!!
You are all now busy with your regular jobs with different working time. How do you manage to get together for rehearsal and shows?
Quite tough!!! With a different working schedules? I and Jeff live in a same apartment but seldom see and talk to each other. By the time I arrived he is already sleeping and by the time he wakes up to go work I’m still sleeping. For rehearsals we normally set a schedule mostly after works or on day offs but very limited time only. We do the conversation on text message, haha!!!
Good thing I got my own kit here in my apartment and I’m always able to jam and practice whenever I want, Jeff do the same thing, he got all the gears and guitars.
There was once a very active metal scene in Gapo, now I seldom hear activities in the area, or am I simply unaware?
Most metal bands here are I call the fly by night bands they just happen to be a band whenever there is a gig/show organize by themselves. They don’t even bother to record or write their own shits.
I’d say the local scene is more active now. More bands are coming up with their own records and the supporters are keener in going out to shows. Unfortunately there are some leeches who are taking advantage of this situation. What can you say about this latest “trend” in our scene?
Yeah good to see more new bands are coming out with their own records these days I just hope they’ll stay true to themselves and on the scene.
Talking about gig organizers/promoters that take advantage to bands and to the scene, these filthy scum bugs should be eradicated. If you really have the passion, do it and don’t take advantage to others.
And speaking of trends, what’s your take on new bands who gets to release tons of shirts first before even releasing a demo?
The situation is very clear, these bands that came up with shirt before music are the one I called corporate bands, selling shirts and wants to earn money. Music first before merch.
You have been around for almost 10 years together, did you ever thought that you could go this far? What keeps the band going?
I didn’t realise that we are on our 10th year already, haha fucking awesome. When Jeff and I started the band our aim was to play the heaviest form of music and that is metal.
All throughout the years passed, we continued doing this thing, writing music, playing live, meeting new people, travelling, and all that shits. These are the best things we got out from the band and I think all of these shits are the reason why DOWN FROM THE WOUND keeps going on.
How far do you think the band could go? Do you think you guys can still carry on once you have your own families?
Good question, I have my own kit and I will play the music I want till I can, this is the thing I love to do and this is the music I want to play all through my life. I think as long as we have the proper time management everything we have started 10 years ago will pushes through till we have our families. Death fucking metal!!!
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