Interview with Surrogate Prey

Surrogate Prey

Interviewed By: Corix

Hello brothers, how’s the band doing? What’s spinning on your player right now while answering this?

Gani (Drums): horns up to NBZ! always was a big fan of your work corix. we're doin' great and stoned-assured. sxpx is on the roll for the past month or two of recording three tracks for alex's production split cd of us with death after birth. the drum tracks are done and we got a track finished with the vox and guitar laid in. fuck yeah, we're happy with it so far!. it sounds damned, doomed and drugged in despair hehe, it's fun!. it's not even mixed yet, but when ian our engineer played it, it was fuckin' massive in the riff. ral's vox was like ice-picked puked blood, man i'm excited to for it be released and for you guys to hear it. as we speak, my playlist is doing ping-pong between motorhead's overkill and buried sleeper's colosseum.

Rallye(Bass/Vocals): right now the test unmixed song from our upcoming split cd hehe. thanks Ian Demiurge!

Let’s start the interview traditionally, your band bio? Just a short one

How did you discover metal? What kind of music you are into before you discover the underground in general?

Gani: i heard metalica's and justice for all when i was in fourth grade and it basically started from there. next thing you know there was just that feel growing how you want to hear music, like you clench your fist lookin' for that spark of "heavy" or "hard" and "fast" scorching music...fuckin' metal. sepultura, sabbath, discharge, napalm, brutal truth; i started digging then on when college came. but before that, i was into a lot of new wave and 80's classics back then. my older brothers had a lot of vinyl, so everything just came naturally to appreciate music. i love the smiths. shit, i even dig eurythmics and i even had a vinyl of sigue sigue sputnik, with that kick-ass robot on the cover hehe. i'm still a big prince fan, that mother fucker oozes and seemingly reeks lavender but he's a genius.

Rallye: before metal I was into some punk, classic rock, 80's new wave etc. when I was younger... I got into metal because I hung out with metal stoners back in high school and from there it got worse

When was the last time you guys are wasted? What dose of drugs you guys abuse while making music? What’s the band influence?

Gani: downers. lots of 'em. the usual sxpx friday night ritual was watching horror films while tripped on morphine sulfate; doped and drunk..then we jam. then we trip again and jam some more. it was actually funny and trancing at the same time. i kind of see the jams like training ourselves on that aspect of making music honestly, like a lot of bands do too. that practice for the subconsciousness to emerge and rediscover the mind , opening portals of perception or compositions aurally. it's part of the craft of the great work still innate waiting to be unleashed. we kinda lightened up on the drugs after a certain incident hehe, so really we're more of just weed-fiends and beer guzzlers now. there's no sadness at all pushing the threshold. i sure do wish sometimes we could remember more stuff we jammed, but we'll get there. don't stop training (with a bruce lee tone hehe). i found that the secret to life is weed and black sabbath.

Rallye: I think my last bday back in March was very memorable... for influences for me I'd say living a certain way away from your house or your city can be an influence. I lived in a different city for a while and absorbing the feel of that place contributed a lot to the feeling

Heard about the split with Death After Birth under Berdugo Records, when is the target of this project?

Rallye: very soon, we are currently working on it, hopefully before doomsday, he he...

The band is around for quite awhile now, and been active playing gigs and doing demos, so it’s obvious that this is a full time band knowing that you guys a have main band like LOC and Religious Nightmare, what’s the bands goal? How about a full length?

Gani: yes, making the full length is the next step. we've talked about it a lot. after we're done with the three tracks offered by alex, we'll pursue with three to four more songs recording with ian for an lp release. the feel's already there and it's inevitable that its going to happen. sxpx has about 8 written songs structured, around a dozen with the old recorded jams, and we'll jam some more to polish 'em up and lay it down scalped. just a matter of time now. we have a concept lined up how the album will sound and be presented. it's gonna be a ride like a mad horror film like rampo noir, and spiritually unholy like that film valhalla rising.

Rallye: yeah we will be working on the full length after this ep, watch out for it. RxNx and LOC are separate this is a left (hand path) turn for us we've been jamming on and off since 2004

Allan fill in the guitar duty in the absence of Albert, what musical direction do Surrogate Prey want to go? Doom and Sludge are quite confusing to me, how would you personally describe your music?

Rallye: Yes and he's got his own killer style... doom is more oldschool, old sounding with negative bluesy melodies sometimes (ala Wizard, Trouble, Acid Bath etc.) but sludge is more on slow heavy riffs that stretch and repeat.. we like both with a lot of noise


Why marijuana should be legalize?

Gani: so everyone and anyone can simply just understand. dont panic it's organic. plus it could save a lot of lives when the cartels are eliminated.

Rallye: yes yes

Any police story encounter while smoking?

Rallye: after we played a lesbian bars metal gig back in 2006 we passed the wrong street and cops harrassed us at the checkpoint.we almost got jailed for possesion of tons of good stuff. It was a weird time when that happened because evil spirits were seemingly following us and left a trail of weird shit and bad luck that led to the manila cops incident. but there were also other unseen things that were helping us and protecting us all the time. cops let us go after talking with Gani and some extra help from a well known FRIEND of ours.. they also realized we weren't out to kill people and murder rape or steal, we were a doom sludge band that was going to an after party, after which they told us about their wild days smoking and listening to Juan De la Cruz back in the 70's he he...

Nowadays, access of music and gigs is so easy; do you think you still feel the feeling of true Underground? Do you think the Underground scene in general is Dead? If so, who do you think killed it? Why?

Gani: i think a lot of people just tend to misconstrue how the underground is and how it was, hence how it evolves is affected. the accessibilty does count on those tendencies as how you observed it. especially when a lot or too much money is involved. sponsors or private companies tend to bank in the ideal which is just plain bad as i see it, because it really just shits on the gist of being a fan of music.
the underground scene will not die at all. the concept of having a "wave" of musical craft stems from being underground y'know what i mean?. its a multidirectional unison sourced from a void, like the chaos symbol. and it's meant to be here, right now in this place called philippines. it was needed here all along.
plus being underground is there because you're fuckin' pissed at a lot of saturation in the input you receive aurally and visually. why cant anne curtis just suck everybody's dick?. i see her face all the time everywhere. we gotta have more of that anger, "yess, yess..give in to the dark side" so they say hehe.

i do believe that there's guys like you corix, alex, rallye, joseph of ia, the real tight crew peeps, jamie of guttural sickness, ian of brimstone in fire, and the man himself roel morres and a whole lot more, cavite, gapo, manila, davao, QC people who fight for this thing that is truly sacred, better than a church, better than a fuckin' mall , better than the senate or publishing house and not a bullshit endorsed music competition (wtf?), sponsored pay to play fiasco can ever ever touch. we piss on them. it is that "we" exist, not because of "them", but seperately we are and shed them like scab. and thus our "will" be so far, far ahead than what they can only fathom so poorly.
true cvlt elite my friend.

Rallye: don't know... the underground exists and those who know, know where to look for good underground stuff

What can you say about our current government? And how about the current trending RH bill?

Gani: rh bill is not correlated with abortion in strict technical terms. people are strongly misinformed,the church are the uneducated breeding their own brand of education how to inform their kin.
i strongly believe that tito sotto can really alleviate himself of his sickness if he can eat a full meal of his own feces. i read that from suehiro maruo that it works, and i'm a fan of tito sotto's work too, it can be good for him as an individual. being a kabayo kid myself, i'll be glad to help, serve him my own shit.

Rallye: no comment

What can you say about this production called “You Ignite it”?

Gani: aww man, honestly i think stephen bit off more than he can chew based from the recent events happening, especially on his rep. i can only wish him the best and hope he can listen and be informed some more on how he can surpass what he placed himself into trying too hard, and being a little too assertive namely to my friend.

Rallye: no comment

Your top 5 local bands playing on your stereo these days? and top 5 fanzines you’ve been reading these days?

Gani: dftw's agony through rituals.., radioactive sago's tangina mo.., hermetic order, finally got a copy of loads of motherhood's album, and pv's degrade the worthless.
as for zines, yeah i got a nice collection im proud of. good toilet reading too. some were burrowed but haven't been returned (hoy allan! hehe)..i've been into nbz#9 and #8, im still looking for more of your back issues too, real tight crew; haven't finished reading #2 yet, scrawlshop #11 is fuckin timeless, incidental afterthought is brilliant, i love the one with serpentine path, and tons of good writing in #11. guttural sickness #3 my fave, i swear to god jamie can be a blast writing comic books. dammit i cant find my old idp's, thats how i found out about malignancy.

Rallye: no bull shit zine of course!incidental afterthought, i remember halloween, konspirazine, idp, wave of darkness of course tripaliium!

Where do you think is your destiny after death? How about your views about the concept of God and Satan? Heaven and Hell?

Gani: i think i got an idea of what i see after life, and it's more of like staring in that itunes visualizer. except its more lysergick, and the music is a hell lot more loud and proud hehe.

Rallye: ask me later when we get there

Word Association:

Gani :

Brutal Death - 7H Target
Black Metal – - vaarg vikernes
Thrash Metal - far beyond driven
Pulp – - INTOLERABLE
Stoner Rock – - holy mountain
Grind – - enemy of the music business
Police – - fuck the karingal police
Gore Films –- braindead (fvckin' masterpiece!)
God - richard corben
Facebook - not for kids


Rallye :

Brutal Death – like this sh*t a lot
Black Metal – Deiphago
Thrash Metal – yes
Pulp – PULP
Stoner Rock – SLEEP
Grind – good to smoke to
Police – no comment
Gore Films – excellent
God - please give me money
Facebook - ok i guess

Alright brothers, thanx for sharing your thoughts and views and giving time answering this shits! Your last message…

Gani: thanks corix! nbz is the best anti-depressant since the invention of prozac; to all readers remember to smoke weed everyday, be careful when getting head while driving, and keep them horns up kidz! \M/

Rallye: thank you Corix!

Contact: isaganisimpliciano@yahoo.com