INTERVIEW WINDS OF GENOCIDE

 

WINDS OF GENOCIDE IS A CRUST DEATH PUNK D-BEAT BAND FROM NORTH EAST ENGLAND, MOST PRECISELY A TOWN CALLED DURHAM AND THEY ARE WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE, BRUTAL AS FUCKING HELL.

HERE WE GOT AN INTERVIEW WITH KAT SHEVIL, A WOMAN THAT IS PASSIONATE ABOUT METAL AND CRUST PUNK, SHE PRODUCE GIGS AND ALSO WRITES TO TERRORIZER’S BLOG BAND OF THE WEEK.

KAT SHEVIL-Vokill Kommando and Apokalyptic Prophecys Of Doom
LINUS- Svensk Heavy Artillery Drum Batteria
GLYNN HALL - Guitarmageddon Distortion From Hell
DAN H - Four Strings Of The Apokalypse

This is the old formation  from the time of this interview (mid 2011), now Linus is playing guitar and they've got a new drummer Matthew Henderson.

INSETUS ZINE - THANX FOR SPEAKING WITH US, FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH WINDS OF GENOCIDE, CAN U TELL US ABOUT THE BAND?

KAT SHEVIL - Hails and many thanks for the interview Kezio!

Ok we are a four headed APOKALYPTIC DEATH CRUST beast based in the North East wastelands of England that was formed in early 2006 but due to not being able to find likeminded members for a while in the area where we live we didn't become an active entity until early 2009 after finally finding someone to drum for us, a Swedish guy in fact called LINUS who we met totally randomly, actually outside of my flat actually, he was walking past drunk one night soon after moving to Durham to study here and noticed a SKITSYSTEM sticker on my apartment window so he banged on my window and was like "uhhh hey I saw that SKITSYSTEM sticker on your window, I'm into the same music can we talk?!?", so we ended up going to the local pub for a beer and a chat and the rest is history after that and since then things have continued to roll steadily onwards for us, by middle of 2009 we had a set ready to play live, played our first gig in September of that year in Newcastle as a 3 piece no bass, we actually found our bass slayer DAN at that gig, he liked what he heard so wanted to fill the bass vacancy, we have continued to gain momentum as a band ever since.

INSETUS ZINE - I’VE RECENTLY ACQUIRED YOUR DEBUT CDEP ‘THE ARRIVAL OF APOKALYPTIC ARMAGEDDON’ AND ITS GREAT! HOW HAS IT BEEN RECEIVED?

KAT SHEVIL - Glad you like our noise! The response to it overall so far has been great, I have read and heard a lot of very positive things about it, we are personally very proud of this debut studio recording and very happy other people are enjoying what they hear by us. We seem to be appealing to a good mixture of both metalheads and crust punks aswell which is great to see, one of our aims was to get a good crossover appeal thing going on with our music and that seems to be working out exactly as we had planned, a lot of metalheads into black/death/thrash, punks, crusties, metalpunks across the world seem to really like what we do so that is great to see. Haven't seen a bad review of it yet although a guy who reviewed it for a German zine made a comment that he was abit disappointed our music turned out to be more Hardcore Punk than he thought we would be, after seeing our songtitles he thought we were gonna be a "WAR METAL BAND", haha! that made me smile! Well we do sing about war so he got the war part correct haha 

INSETUS ZINE - WHAT DO YOU HAVE PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE?

KAT SHEVIL - Right now we will be hitting the studio again next month to record some new songs, once again at Studio 1in12 in Bradford with BRIDOOM producing. Some tracks from this recording will be for a split CD with the LEGENDARY JAPANESE BLACK THRASH KULT ABIGAIL which will be coming out on WITCHHAMMER PRODUCTIONS (it is already available here ) a really cool label based in Thailand who have previously released stuff by ABIGAIL, BARBATOS, CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY, TOXIC HOLOCAUST, DESASTER, SABBAT(JAP), NUCLËAR FRÖST etc.. aswell as releasing a live rehearsal demo pro cassette tape by us last year titled "APOKALYPTIC DEATH CRUST" which was limited to 200 copies, he was the first label who I approached about releasing this split due to already being affiliated with both bands. The split will be titled "SATANIK APOKALYPTIC KAMIKAZE KOMMANDOS" and will be coming out in a run of 1000 copies sometrime later in 2011 I think.

A couple other tracks from the next studio recording will be used for another as yet confirmed release, possibly a split 7". But nothing else is confirmed yet.

WITCHHAMMER will also be releasing a pro cassette tape version of our "THE ARRIVAL OF APOKALYPTIC ARMAGEDDON" EP limited to 250 copies, this should be out before end of summer all going to their plan.

INSETUS ZINE - WHAT ARE THE INFLUENCES AND HOW THE MEMBERS CONTRIBUTE TO THE BAND?

KAT SHEVIL - Our influences are quite varied, main influences include stuff like Swedish-UK-Japanese-USA crust/punk/d beat  stuff like ANTI-CIMEX, DISCHARGE, MEANWHILE, EARLY DISFEAR, SKITSYSTEM, MASSKONTROLL, FRAMTID, DISCLOSE, CONSUME, DOOM, WOLFPACK/BRIGADE, POISON IDEA, TOTALITÄR, UNCURBED, AMEBIX, WARCOLLAPSE, NO SECURITY, CRUDE SS, SEVERED HEAD OF STATE, AVSKUM ETC.. ASWELL AS OLD SWEDISH DEATH METAL SUCH AS DISMEMBER, GRAVE, CREMATORY, NIHILIST, EARLY ENTOMBED, CARNAGE, MACABRE END/GOD MACABRE, UNLEASHED, GROTESQUE ETC ALSO OTHER STUFF LIKE EARLY VENOM,

AUTOPSY, MOTORHEAD, HELLHAMMER, CELTIC FROST, EARLY KREATOR, EARLY BATHORY, EARLY SODOM, BLACKTHRASH, BOLT THROWER, POSSESSED etc...Our influences are definetly firmly rooted in the OLD SCHOOL OF CRUST/PUNK/DEATH/THRASH/BLACK METAL...we like to keep a good mix of punk and metal influences going on in our music, we do consider ourselves a punk band that is strongly influenced by metal though. Some people have called us a death metal band influenced by crust/punk but we prefer to say it is the other way around, a crust/punk band that is strongly influenced by old school death metal etc.!.

Some riffs are already written in advance by GLYNN and some riffs are born out of jamming, myself and LINUS have came up with parts for a couple of songs with him on guitar and myself on drums for example. Yes it is very much a band effort overall when it comes to writing and arranging songs, most of which takes place in the rehearsal room and even I myself have contributed a couple of riffs to some new songs! But most of the riffs have been written by GLYNN, LINUS and DAN who collaborate very well and effectively with each other to come up with new songs pretty quickly. But all members contribute their own part to the new songs.

INSETUS ZINE - HOW  IS THE HEALTH OF UK UNDERGROUND SCENE THESE DAYS  AND HOW IS THE LOCAL SCENE AROUND DURHAM? ANY BANDS YOU RECOMMEND?

KAT SHEVIL - The UK underground scene is healthy overall, some great bands out there in this country playing all kinds of metal aswell as crust-punk stuff. I wish there was more old school stlye death metal bands in this country though, there is too much overpolished, overtriggered, nu school deathcore brootal slam shit out there in this country...more younger kids in this country need to listen to stuff like AUTOPSY, REPULSION, EARLY ENTOMBED, NIHILIST, CARNAGE, DEATH BREATH, EARLY UNLEASHED, EARLY POSSESSED, OLD MASSACRE, ASPHYX, HELLHAMMER, CELTIC FROST, DISMEMBER, EARLY GRAVE, GODMACABRE/MACABRE END and such stuff I think and get abit of dirt under their fingernails and plectrums!!!. 

INSETUS ZINE - SO IT'S TRUE THAT YOU LOVE DEATHCORE , WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS ON THIS NEW TREND OF “EXTREME METAL”?

KAT SHEVIL - Oh yeah Deathcore....hahahaha....I LOVE to HATE it!!! oh fuck where do I begin with my pure hatred for this kind of "music". There is too many modern metal bands in the world like this that are just obsessed with technicality and virtuosity, putting 12943,000 time changes and wanky guitar bits into one song and thus they end up sounding completely soulless and devoid of any decent catchy riffs and hooks. Seriously fuck that kind of shit. Give me straight ahead simplistic CATCHY old school death metal anyday..I want to listen to some fucking RIFFS and HOOKS not some guy wanking himself off over his guitar and giving himself a hard on with how many clever fiddly guitar bits he can put in one song. It is all well and good being a great musician but a complete and utter waste of fucking talent if you can't write a decent song. Deathcore is a fad and trend that is being hyped up by the bigger more mainstream labels and cleverly marketed to appeal to the masses and it has spread like a plague across the modern music scene, it's like a more brutal (or should I say brootal) less whiney offshoot of metalcore but just as annoying, , it has NOTHING to do with real Death metal, and the sooner this whole trend fucks off the better, although something equally soulless boring and shitty will just replace it. The bigger labels responsible for flooding the scene with mediocre identikit deathcore bands should start signing more real Death metal bands again but it's all about $$$$. Fucking mainstream labels and their trend jumping/creating...FUCK OFF AND DIE! 

INSETUS ZINE - DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING OR BANDS FROM BRAZILIAN UNDERGROUND SCENE?

KAT SHEVIL - Of course! Although there is probablys tons of great bands in the Brazilian underground that I have yet to hear, I of course know of the older bands like VULCANO but some newer bands from Brazil that I can say really impressed me in recent times are SODOMIZER, NUCLËAR FRÖST, WHIPSTRIKER, ATOMIC ROAR, APOKALYPTIK RAIDS, HELLKOMMANDER, GRAVE DESECRATOR to name a few.

INSETUS ZINE - THIS INTERVIEW WILL BE ON A PRINTED(PHOTOCOPIED) ZINE, DO YOU THINK  IT IS RELEVANT TO DO PAPER ZINES  WITH ALL BLOGS AND E-ZINES AROUND?

KAT SHEVIL - Yes I think print zines still have just as much relevance in this day and age as I had back in the days before the internet and blogs etc, there is nothing better than actually sitting down with a printed zine in your hands,  I have nothing but total support for print zines and buy them whenever I can!! Long may they continue to be printed!!! It is also a total pleasure to do an interview for a printed zine!. Apokalyptic Hails to you for this interview and Hails to all Brazilian Underground Metal and Punk maniacs out there reading this!!

Their awesome cover for their spilt with Abigail done by SICKNESS666

BUY OUR SHIT!!! OUR "THE ARRIVAL OF APOKALYPTIC ARMAGEDDON" CDEP IS £5.50 INC P+P DIRECT FROM US, 6 TRACKS OF RAW HELLISH APOKALYPTIC DEATH CRUST DEVASTATION!!. WATCH OUT FOR THE SPLIT WITH ABIGAIL AND THE TAPE RELEASE ON WITCHHAMMER, A GREAT UNDERGROUND LABEL WHO DESERVES YOUR SUPPORT!! 

NOTE: After this interview the band got signed to Pulverised Records 

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