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TheGoreGnome
07-09-2006, 10:07 PM
Older interview that got printed recently in this bad ass paper zine!

1) ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE SAVAGE BUTCHERY? I DON´T MIND IF IS NOT CAUSE I´M GOING TO CUT FONDLE CORPSE IN SMALL PARTS…JEJEJE
Give me a moment to pop out the lazychair and put my feet up, let the savage butchery begin!!

2)TO START WITH CAN YOU LET US KNOW YOUR ACTUAL LINE UP? UNTILL THIS MOMENT IF I´M NOT WRONG YOU HAVE RELEASED 2 EPS AND A CD COMPILING THE EPS PLUS SOME OTHER EXTRA SHIT. CAN YOU LET US KNOW MORE ABOUT THOSE RELEASES? ARE STILL AVAILABLES?
The actual Line-up for Fondlecorpse is Me, Silvester, i am a couchpotatoe, a dirty disgusting little man, a dwarf addicted to fastfood, soda’s, popcorn and watching as many horror /gore/ b-movies as i can and oldschool cartoons on Vocals, Krite the drummer is an escaped Critter always hiding from intergalactic bountyhunters, Bas our Guitarist is a thrashing madman of a mashed thrashed potato, and Mathijs our Bassist creates sleazy bass riffs while moshing all over the place like a potato out of hell. And well our first release was the split 7” ep with the band Inkblack all 500 copies are totally sold out, than we returned to do a full 7” record called “limbless” which featured 6 new songs by us. This one is close to being sold out off all 500 copies also. A lot of People kept asking us to burn cdr’s and pestering me to get it on cd, so Posercrusher Records figured it would be fun to release so i said fuck it we will drop all the songs on cd and released the “From beyond the Crypt” cd, We added a few songs of the first rehearsal we did years ago for the “Limbless” ep just for fun. Thats pretty much what we have done sofar. And its just the warm up for more insane stuff yet to come!

3)FONDLE CORPSE USES A DRUM MACHINE…THERE´S NO ONE WITH THE ENOUGH BALLS TO PLAY WITH FONDLE CORPSE?
That is correct, because we can’t find ANY proper drummer at all with balls, who has a decent skill, or who doesn’t backstab us, we were forced to use a drummachine. We wish it wasn’t the case but what can we do? We refuse to get a subpar drummer who fucks up and wastes our time. But our new material should have a real drummer since we have a few links to session drummers. So with any luck all our new material will be as a full fledged band finally!

4) YOUR MUSIC IS A KIND OF OLD DEATH METAL WITH SOME GRIND TOUCHES …HOW DO YOU DEFINE IT? WHICH ARE YOUR MAIN INFLUENCES IN THE SONGWRITTING? AND WHAT´S ABOUT YOUR FAVE BANDS? I THINK AUTOPSY, ABCESS, IMPETIGO, CANNIBAL CORPSE, REPULSION, …ARE SOME OF THEM, AREN´T THEM?
Well we do have a few other musical touches in our music like grind and thrash but i would say, simply put, we are Oldschool Deathmetal. The things that influence me in the songwriting process are mainly things that intrest me and occupy me in everyday life. Mainly Anything gore / B-movie / Horror, everything from 80’s thrashculture the cartoons toys etc etc. My talks with Nickolle the muse of Gore, Movies with funny creatures, Mainly everything around me i like. Usually i just read books or watch movies buy toys and something than triggers an idea and than i write a song about it. I usually just let it “come to me”. As to who my fave bands are, thats always a hard one. There are tons of bands that i like, some but not limited to: Autopsy, Impetigo, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Old Cannibal Corpse, Engorged, Lord Gore, Fornicator, Machetazo, Funerot, Splatterhouse, IHR, Ghoul, Frightmare, Impaled, Mortician, GSR, Butcher ABC, Abscess, Zuckuss, Troglodyte, Whore, Crypticus, Zombie Ritual, Cardiac Arrest, Old Misfits, Schnauzer, Kutabare, Bloodfreak, Coffins, and the list goes on and on and on.

5)I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THE FUTURE PLANS FOR FONDLE CORPSE, YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF CONTRACT WITH RAZORBACK? ARE THEY GOING TO PUT OUT YOUR NEXT RELEASE? WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS GORE/HORROR GRIND LABEL? I THINK IS THE BEST LABEL FOR A BAND INTO GORE GRIND…WHICH ARE YOUR FAVE RAZORBACK RELEASES? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BANDS AS MACHETAZO, ENGORGED, COFFINS, …AND THE REST OF THE RAZORBACK CATALOGUE? NO ONE INTO GORE GRIND MUST LOST THE CHANCE OF BUY THE RAZORBACK CDS!!!
We joined the hive short after releasing our first ep, but we decided we wanted to grow first as a band before we wrote our debut cd. The ep’s are to me basically our demo’s and figuring out what works for us and grow as a band. We wanted to wait with our debut on Razorback untill i was comfortable with our sound and was sure we can record an album we are happy with. And we fit perfectly in the Hive i think, musicwise and concept wise and we have a lot of good friends in the hive we communicate with a lot, i guess the best thing about it is that it’s a kind of big family instead of a list of names. We all help eachother out and it’s basically a huge group of friends with similar intrests doing their thing instead of just being a label with a batch of names on a roster. We “signed” with Razorback because we stand behind Billy and Jill 100% and they respect us as a band and they are good friends, they help us where they can and they give us the one thing we need and that is full artistic freedom. It is the best thing a band can get from a label. And i think there is a mutual respect for the hard work we both do on band and label and the total honesty with which we do it, we do it for OURSELVES above anything else. We both know how hard it can be to do your own thing because there are a lot of people who will give you shit for it, be it jealousy or general retardation. And i pretty much like almost all the bands in the hive, if i didn’t we wouldn’t have allied ourselves to them. Like i said before a lot of the bands are on the same wavelenght as us. And well bands like Engorged and Machetazo are on top of the game i think, same with bands like Ghoul and Frightmare. As far as us, We are now working on getting two split cd’s recorded one with Frightmare and one with Engorged, and we have slowly started working on our debut cd “Creaturegore”. Expect some crazy packaging and other ideas for the upcoming cd’s.

TheGoreGnome
07-09-2006, 10:10 PM
6) ALSO I KNOW THAT YOU ARE DOING SOME LAY OUT FOR DIFFERENT BANDS, IS THIS A HOBBY OR PART OF YOUR WORK, IS EXPENSIVE WORK WITH YOU….JEJEJE!!! ALSO YOU HAVE A ´ZINE CALLED TRENDKILL WITH OTHER GUYS AND ALSO DO THE LAY OUT OF THE ZINE…IS TIME TO PROMOTE YOUR KILLER GORE ´ZINE…
Well i used to work as a graphic designer for a few years and went to school for it and graduated so i figured i would use my skills to help people out. It’s mainly just a hobby and helping out people i know. I used to do it a lot, but many people treat you as shit and just want someone to give them free stuff and do it for nothing and than disrespect you so i quit doing it for strangers and just do it for people i know now who need help. If i needed money ill get a regular job in the field, this stuff is purely to help out my buddies, fuck money i don’t think money should stand between friends. You help out friends for free, not to make money over their backs. It’s hard enough to survive as it is as an underground band i always say. And yeah i help out Trendkill Magazine but the zine itself is from Reinier. I just do the layout and somethimes do some inties too. And also there is another dude Steven who does stuff from time to time. I try to keep it low profile so i can work on it relaxed, it needs to stay fun and not become a chore. I like working on it because the zine features a lot of small bands and starting bands instead of just going for the obvious bands. It’s a true oldschool support/fanzine. So no paid adds or people kissing ass to get in there. It’s purely run by us and we add whatever the fuck we want without regard of what others think. Fuck what other people think. When it starts becoming like a job it will be time to quit.

7)I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE “COUCHPOTATO” MEANING , ARE YOU A TV ADDICTED?AS A FAN OF GORE GRIND I THINK YOU ARE INTO GORE TERROR FILMS, ISN´T IT? WHICH ARE YOUR FAVE FILMS? DO YOU LIKE ZOMBIES FILMS (I´M A HUGE FAN OF THIS FILMS)? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE LAST ZOMBIES FILMS AS “LAND OF THE DEAD”, “DAWN OF THE DEAD- THE REMAKE”, “THE UNDEAD”,…I THINK YOU ARE A FAN OF THE OLD FILMS WITH HORROR MUPPETS AS “GREMLINS” , “GHOULIES” , “CRITTERS”,…AREN´T YOU? WHICH ARE YOUR FAVE MUPPETS MONSTERS? IF YOU CAN DO A FILM AT THE STYLE OF “FREDDY VS JASON” WHICH MUPPETS DO YOU CHOOSE?
Ah a “Couchpotato” is an initiate in the cult of the giant Mr. Potatoehead in the sky. Hahaha no seriously it’s just what we are, we like to watch tons of goremovies from our comfortable lazy chair binging on popcorn, chips, sodapop and beer. And enjoying the more fun in things in life to escape the daily killer grind of real life. It was a joke at first but i guess it became a badge of honour for us and who we are. And yeah definately, watching goremovies is a big influence on our lives, i personally collect every weird/horror genre imaginable: Horror/Gore/Splatter Cannibals, Zombies, Giallo’s, Exploitation, Sexploitation, Creature features, Man in rubber suit flicks, Kaiju, Sci-gore, Slasher flicks, Japanese horror, Italian horror, Eurotrash, Hammer flicks, Post-apocalyptic movies, cheesy fantasy / gorebarian, Spaghetti Westerns, Stopmotion flicks (harryhausen), 80’s thrashculture flicks and almost every 80’s cartoon and tv series available. I don’t understand some bands who sing about horror but don’t know shit about any of it......... whats the fucking use? To me its an essential part of my life and thus drips down into the music we do. And favourites there’s too many to name if its weird and gory ill like it basically.I like so much shit it’s hard to compile a favorite list some but not limited to would be ROTLD, Romero’s zombie movies, Phantasm, The Thing, Predator, Gremlins, Ghoulies, Critters, Zombi, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, Braindead, Bad taste, Re-animator, Basketcase, Deep Red, Toxic Avenger, Henry portrait of a serialkiller, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Sergeant Kabukiman, man i can go on and on i am a horror fiend i like it ALL!!! And zombie movies are definately a very important part of the genre i love, i pretty much own all the classics and a host of non classics haha. As far as the new ones, i watched Land of the dead and i pretty much liked it, sure it had its flaws i agree but all in all i enjoyed it, its a romero movie after all, Undead i liked also since it has that braindead kinda vibe and humour, for such a low budget movie it was pretty good. The Dawn of the Dead remake i have yet to see but i am still put off by them using the Dawn name which was used just to cash in. I am fed up with all these remakes, be original do something NEW. And yeah as a band we champion the forgotten little b-movie monsters, thats why creaturegore is a concept album only about b-movie creatures we already have songs about gremlins, critters, ghoulies, munchies etc etc. My absolute favorite creatures must be Critters,Ghoulies, and Gremlins because they are so funny and i would def choose them in the Versus concept. But i would have them attack humans and team up, devouwering people while having a blast!! And film it from their perspective, so you follow THEM and not some stupid humans. Humans will just be FOOD and things to TORTURE hahaha.

8)THE COVER ARTS OF YOUR RELEASES ARE VERY BLOODY , FULL OF BLOOD AND FLESH WITH NUDE CHICKS MADE BY JAKE FROM TALES FROM URANUS…WHY HAVE YOU CHOOSE THIS ARTIST? IS HE A FAN OF FONDLE CORPSE?
I think it is the other way around, i was always a fan of his comics, i pretty much was there since he released his first issue of Tales from Uranus. I later went on to help out on a few issues with interviews and some reviews. And i basically dug his art and asked him to to do some art for us. I have always been a fan of real drawn artwork and i dug his style a lot it’s overly gory but also very funny so it seemed to fit. Sadly he doesn’t do covers anymore but for our new releases we will use our new main man http://www.adamgeyer.com/ he is a fucked up gorefiend fanatic like us and i promise you, you have seen nothing yet. We started work on a few covers and they will be SICK and FUNNY as fuck, hopefully it will be something totally original that amuses and amazes people. Let’s just say he draws what i have in my mind so we are totally happy with him. Be prepared for something special!!! thats all i can say.

9) THIS IS THE QUESTION PRESENTED IN EVERY INTERVIEW…WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SPANISH SCENE? I THINK YOU HAVE TO BE A FAN OF MACHETAZO….LET ME KNOW SOME BANDS FROM HOLLAND.
I know the Spanish scene quite well, Ive been a fan of the scene for many years when even Repulse records still was going strong. After it died it seemed to be silent for a while but then Machetazo popped up it has been flourishing ever since. Spain has a lot of cool bands old and new like Uncreation, Reincarnation, Kevlar Skin, my brothers in Machetazo, Fermento, GSR, Denak, Avulsed, Unsane Crisis, Looking for an Answer. And well Dutch bands well i would say Sinister, Bile, LDOH, CSMD, Anatomically Incorrect Crackwhore, Maggots, F.U.B.A.R, thats all i can think of at this moment.

10) HOW IS LIFE IN HOLLAND? A LOT OF PEOPLE IS DREAMING TO GO THERE TO GET SOME WEED , BEERS AND FUCK WITH LEGAL WHORES…. IS SO “BEAUTIFUL” AS PEOPLE THINK? IF I GO TO HOLLAND WHICH THINGS I HAVE TO SEE OR DO?
I am not the happiest person, so to me life sucks everywhere. And as for the appeal to people to come here to get high and shit. For us it’s normal so it doesnt have much of an appeal. Nobody really gives a shit. It doesnt have that aura as being “illegal” around here. If you want a joint you smoke it if you want a beer you drink it and if someone is in need of a whore they are available. To foreigners Amsterdam looks beautiful, for me its just a regular metropolitan cesspool hahaha!

11)IS A PLEASURE TO GET AN INTERVIEW WITH FONDLE CORPSE FOR THE 8TH ISSUE OF MY ZINE I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT AND THE LAST WORDS HAVE TO BE WRITTEN HERE…SEE YOU IN GORE!!!!
Hey man, no problem. It was an honour to be featured in your zine, it’s highly appreciated. And any freaks who wanna hang with us go to http://www.fondlecorpse.nl And thanx to everybody who supported us, without your support we would not exist. Well man good luck with you zine, keep the paper zines alive!!!!!

TheLadyofGore
07-16-2006, 04:38 PM
hey wow what great taste you have ....Great INSPIRATIONS.......i totally dig your band i think i love you :)



your #1 fan....just like in misery....


<3 your secret admirer

TheGoreGnome
08-05-2006, 02:31 AM
and what did your parents have to say about that young man!! hehehe