{"id":87291,"date":"2018-12-19T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=87291"},"modified":"2018-12-19T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:09:46","slug":"inter-review-viscera-city-of-dope-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/inter-review-viscera-city-of-dope-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter-Review: Viscera\/\/\/<\/b> – City of Dope and Violence<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A look at the new EP and a chat with the band, all for the low low price of some of your precious time.<\/p>\n

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I’ll make it brief: City of Dope and Violence<\/em> was my most anticipated release of 2018, and it did absolutely not disappoint. Viscera\/\/\/<\/strong> were already close to the top of my list last year,\u00a0and they’re residing in the general area again this year. A shout out to Old Man Doom for his review of 3 | Release Yourself Through Deserate Rituals<\/em><\/a> is long overdue, by the way – thanks for turning me on to this band! They kindly agreed to an email interview for the occasion of the EP’s release, and I’ve combined that with my thoughts on the new material. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Since I couldn’t find any interviews with you guys at all, I’d like to start with some basics. You’ve been around for almost twenty years now – how did it all start? How did the current lineup eventually get together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi everybody, Mike (B., vocals & guitar – ed. note<\/em><\/strong>) speaking.
\nWell, we were born as a high-school band in 2000. I am the only original member, but actually G.C. entered not too long after, so he’s to be considered as original too. We went through a long list of line-up changes, but now we feel finally settled since Matia joined two years ago.<\/p>\n

What brought about the change from the more straightforward deathgrind of your first two EPs to your current style? Were there particular influences you drew from or did you have a certain goal in mind? Did you add the “\/\/\/” to the name to signify a cut with what you’d done before or purely for the sake of logo symmetry?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We have always been very wide music listeners and we always knew that we’d never be stuck into a defined-genre zone. In particular, we are crazed for 80s and 90s tunes; new wave, industrial, harsh noise, but also pop, new wave, post punk etc etc. It would have been a shame if we kept for ourselves this knowledge instead of trying to make it fit in our opus.
\nThe logo mystery is simply explained: we’ve been threatened by an ominous band to be sued if we didn’t change our monicker within a very short time. We were young and stupid, so we decided not to take the risk and I came up with the fucking stripes because they were symmetrical, they were three (like us back then) and they looked cool. I still think they look cool, until the notorious sport brand will notice and will sue us for real.<\/p>\n

I think I remember reading that the three albums form a sort of conceptual trilogy – the naming sure seems to suggest it. Was there a unifying concept? Where does Jim Jones, who the third album revolves around, fit into it all?
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The “saga” was called “the trilogy of perception” because it basically was a long-term study of the inner self along the way to aldulthood. Of course it’s very personal, that’s why I often used metaphors to express myself. 3<\/em> is the last phase, the final destruction of the self. Reverend Jim Jones is the perfect sponsor for this concept, because he utterly represents the quintessence of failure, paid with the extreme sacrifice.<\/p>\n

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