Answered Giona (guitars, vocals), thank you!
Recenze/review - PUTRIDARIUM - Necrologia del sadismo: Excerpts from a Deranged Mind (2024): https://www.deadlystormzine.com/2024/11/recenzereview-putridarium-necrologia.html
Ave PUTRIDARIUM! Greetings to the German catacombs. First, let me pay my respects. I've been following your band since 2021 when you released your first demo "Putrefaction '21" and you've been one of my favourite bands ever since. But you are not very well known here in the Czech Republic, we are a small country with a small underground community. How did you actually get together and how did PUTRIDARIUM come into being? Please take us through the history of your band.
G: Uuuuaaargh Jakub!
first at all thanks for follow us since the start and thanks for this interview! we slowly make our name in Europe but since our main label is American we somehow are better know there eheh. We really like the Czech death metal scene in particular i’m a big fan of Mordloch!
I had the idea of Putridarium in 2020 probably, i don’t remember actually when but i remember that the same day i got this idea i wrote the Putrefaction demo. was a intense night but was fun and I got completely in to the music and beer helped a lot ahah. The day after i ask J and E to join and we start to work on the demo.
You have a new album out this year, "Necrologia del sadismo: Excerpts from a Deranged Mind", which again is full of pure true death metal and doom. With what feelings did you go into the studio? For example, did you have a plan for where and how you wanted to move on from the previous recordings? Personally I find the new record more darker and colder at the same time. I have to admit that the atmosphere of the whole album literally won me over.
G: The plan was to write a album for Death metal maniac ahah. we did’t go in a studio but we build one. Our goal was to record the album live, without any trigger, overdub or any modern shit that influences the sound and the dynamic but the most important thing is that it sound like us and not like every death metal band nowadays.
I always had this dream and ideas to record live my music i always do but since last year we finally find the perfect place and we manage to get a killer clean sound. i’m quite proud about but it didn’t was a easy work it takes years to manage this quality of recording with a proper results.
We rehearsal a lot the months before the recording, the plan was to take the best of the 3. so we play 3times each song and we choose the best one, small error are still there we didn't’’t edit anything. the all process take 2 days and the results are amazing!
Who's behind the sound? I like that the sound is massive, dusty, dirty and cold, but at the same time legible. What studio did you record in and who mixed and mastered the album? Did you have a lot of say in the final sound or did you leave it up to the sound engineer?
G: The sound is the sound of our amps and drums.. we didn't’’t change much, we work a lot on our sound but from the roots.. equipments.. the band have the 90’ feeling so first thing we used only(most) 80/90 equipment.. drum is a fantastic Mapex end 90’ with amazing toms sound, guitars are both 90’ a Ibanez destroyer and a bich from B.C.Rich start 90’ both guitar are played on transistor amp (Marschall and Crate) and same for bass, Ibanez destroyer on peavey 90’ transistor amp. all this stuff make the sound already good so our sound engineer had to record and mix everything but the sound it din’t change that much.. live you will listen the same shitty sound of the album. Of course Chris work was on the end sound really relevant because he manage in the perfect way to mix everything. I had a clear idea of what i wanted have and Chris made the magic!
I'm also a big fan of CD artwork and I really like your covers. Who is the author on the new release "Necrologia del sadismo: Excerpts from a Deranged Mind" and what is it supposed to express? I really like the motif a lot, it complements the music beautifully, just please tell us how they relate to the music, how are they thematically interconnected?
G: Oh yes! Maria (Altar of Worms) made a fantastic work. i’m quite happy to had work with her! the idea was to make the cover look like a 70/80 Horror film poster. The bassist is quite into horror films and i’m into Erotic Horror comics was quite a natural logical process. at the end all album is a represent of our passions.
I wrote the cover project before finish the album lyrics let’s say is quite thematically connected if not 1to 1 but nearly.. horror, gore.. killing and a lot of perversions and sex with body parts eheh. you can not ask for better themes.
I would be interested in the process by which a new song is created in PUTRIDARIUM. Are you classical musicians who lock yourselves in a rehearsal room and jam or do you use modern technology and send ideas to each other? Do you even go out for a beer together?
G: 99% of the times i write the song at home or alone and after we meet in our rehearsal room and we work on the song together. In the writing process i don’t use any computer anyway.. i normally play all on my cabinets and i write all on papers (that’’s why my room is full of papers everywhere). one time i finish the song i normally put my telephone nearby the box and i record one time the full song. Drums we do by rehearsal together, we try always different drumming to see which one fit better the riff.
We used hang together at the start, now 2 band members have move from Marburg so is not always that easy party together.
You are experienced dogs who play in your own way. You have your own handwriting, which is something that is sometimes forgotten nowadays. A lot of bands just sound like copies of other bands. Are you sure you had any role models? Who influenced you as a musician and who was your role model? When and how did you actually start playing? What was the first impetus for you picking up an instrument?
G: yeah now are quite some years that i’m releasing my shitty music (sorry for that). Of course by playing old school death doom is difficult to don’’t sound like other bands.. i try to give some more personal taste in my music but i just use feeling i never learn to play guitar, it just happened and probably this is my lucky part because i’m free to do what i like without let the theory interfere with my ideas. i think as role models Tom G. Warrior was quite important for me and his philosophy to do music will always influences me. there are some Guitarist/songwriter that i really like are Kyle (-ex Acephalix) that guys have always the right riff in hand! other are: E.Rutan, Annti Boman and Jeff Hanneman. My first approach to heavy metal was 24 years ago with Iron Maiden and immediately i wanted to be like Steve Harris fo for the first 10 years i just play bass eheh
I think the biggest reward for any band is the reaction of the fans. I like smaller clubs the most, where the musicians and fans are close to each other. How often does PUTRIDARIUM perform? Do you tour, for example? I've searched the internet and haven't found much live footage of your shows. So how are PUTRIDARIUM's live shows? How about a tour in Europe? I would love that.
G: play live is everything we play every time we can! we love Tour be overnight somewhere else and drinking partying knowing new people, that’s why we do music! eheh
we had a tour last September with Trollcave (amazing guys and bad) and we had one show in Czech R. at Tones of Decay fest, where was you? eheh but we have other tours in plan for next year! And we really love to play outside Germany so anybody want us vomiting on their stage please don’t edits to ask! we always ready to rot!
I've always wondered what kind of music musicians actually listen to. Do you have any albums that you like to revisit often? What about any new releases from the last few years? Anything that intrigued you enough to buy a CD?
G: I listen quite a lot of music and i always on search for something new! and i collect LP,Tapes,cds..
yes i have some album that i need to listen in a weekly dose ahah
Acephalix - Interminable Night
Cannibal Corpse . The wretched Spawn
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Autopsy - Acts of the unspeakable
Cianide . the dying truth
Temple Nightside - the Hecatomb
this album minimum 1 time a week are spinning my head away as the first time i listen to it!
new release that i enjoyed in this last years… a lot but in particularly :
Atramentus - Stygian
Morbific . Ominous sleep of putridity
Mordloch Ep , Dipygus - Dypigus , Scolopendra - VM 18 , Morsch demo… so many ahah last 2 new autopsy!! Uuuuaaaargh!
You're from Marburg, Hesse. What's the state of the underground in your country? Our bands like to come to Germany because you have a strong fan base and the bands support each other here. What is your scene really like? I'd be interested in your perspective as someone who is right at the source. Do people go to a lot of death metal? Do the fans support you?
G: Marburg is quiet outside all germans scene… sad fact, i have to drive every-time a lot of hours for see some good shows, here there is no scene.. probably 10 people that understand about death metal.
I really like the NRW scene. they do always a lot of shows and Berlin too at the end there are always the same maniacs all around ahah i really like more Holland and Poland for playing. the most of our fans are from Usa so one day we rally wanna go play there! is just hard as fuck!
Death metal is my favorite style of music. I'm fascinated by the darkness of it, the dusty stench from old graves. Then also the power and the pressure. When I listen to a good record, I'm literally energized. What does it mean to you? How does it affect your life, your worldview, how do you perceive it as a creator?
G: Death metal is everything, is a way of life, if not for everybody but sure for me.. i can’t live without. i love the adrenaline that give. i like the family that create and friendship, partying. It connect disturbed people in all world ahahah i write music but first at all I'm a death metal maniac, is the only way for real understand this music is living it! That’s why we write on the album that this album is from maniacs for maniacs! Uh!
Thank you so much for the interview! I wish not only the new album "Necrologia del sadismo: Excerpts from a Deranged Mind", but also the whole PUTRIDARIUM a lot of success. I'm going to listen to the album again! It's really great. Good luck in your personal lives too.
Thanks to you! Feel the madness and stay dead, stay ugly!
Giona/Putridarium
Recenze/review - PUTRIDARIUM - Necrologia del sadismo: Excerpts from a Deranged Mind (2024): https://www.deadlystormzine.com/2024/11/recenzereview-putridarium-necrologia.html
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