HELLBÖMBS interview

HELLBÖMBS is mighty grindcore/crustcore band from
Indonesia, an interview with them was taken autumn '2008
Take a look at their page: www.myspace.com/hellbmbs
Herusegn (guitars) answered all questions.

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- P: Hi Hellbömbs! How are you guys?..
-H: Great fine...we're fine thank you

- P: Tell me about the band please: for how long its existed,
how much people are in the band? maybe some story
about the band.
-H: This band's found in 2005, we're members are:
Din on vocal, Herusegn on guitars, Iphe on bass,
Gaban on drums.

- P: Your music is incredible mix of rawpunk, disbeat
and extreme metal. How you just found out that you
want to play such a mix of genres?..
-H: We're influenced by so many bands from Sweden!
Genre of our band is dark d-beat crustgrind.

- P: How much demos do you have up to date?..
-H: We just have 14 songs, and 3 songs in split
with Hellexist From Malaysia which was released
by Broken Noise Records.

- P: Do you like to play alive, do you oftenly do that?..
Do you prefer big festivals or club-shows?..
- H: We prefer with simple stage and D.I.Y gigs/shows
because we're more closer with our friends people like us.

- P: What names from punk world influenced you most?
And, maybe some metal names too?
- H: We're the band influenced by Discharge, Anti-Cimex,
Avskum, etc. And some oldschool Blackmetal like Venom,
Burzum, and some little touch Grindcore like Assuck,
Birdflesh, Cripple Bastard, Nasum, etc.

- P: "When war exist, we're ready to resist" and such words..
what does it mean to you?..
-H: Seems like on our songs "When war exist, we're ready to resist"
it's told that we really hate war... and we're Anti War!

- P: War, hell, pain topics - do you think these topics are alright
(and still actual) with modern punk music?..
- H: we've overflowed our emotions with our music and lyrics
we hope, some people who likes war will be having pain
in their ear ..hahahha...

- P: What other punk/metal examples of nowadays
do you like, some young bands?.. can you count
several cool (in your opinion) bands?
- H: a lot of bands we like, as Martyrdod, Nuclear Death Terror,
Wolfpack, with various sound who influenced our band.

- P: Is a scene in your country big and strong?
Let us know some about it, what Indonesian bands
can you recommend to listen to?..
- H: Community in our country is very strong and in here a lot of
bands play punk hardcore such as Krasskepala, Decay(Bandung),
Proletar(Jakarta), Extreme Decay(Malang), etc.

- P: Seems like asian scene are growing now and gettin
better and better. Can you suppose the reasons of it?
- H: Solidarity and our community are strong! So our community
is kept in until now.

- P: Is it hard to play hardcore/crust music in your country?..
Are all bandmembers having a constant jobs?.. What 'hobbys'
do you guys have?.. what do you like to do in your free time?..
- H: We're in here do some merchandise for the band, like t-shirts,
patches, and some of our friends are working at different places.
Our hobbis are different from each other.. Din (playing game),
Herusegn (design), Gaban and Iphe (stencil-plate/silk screening).

- P: That's all for now, thanx for answering the questions...
You can say whatever you want to my readers. Thanx!
- H: ok..thank you for the interview, ...still crust!! Thanks!

cheers *Herusegn

-- D-BEAT DARK ATTACK!!!

p.s. please mention that almost 7 months passed since
this interview was taken. Originally printed in december
2008, on russian language.