Were would you say that Hormones From the Dead differs the most from Sweet Chainsaw Melodies?
Steve: Hmmm... there are more samples. The production has a bit improved, and there are only 11 tracks on it instead of 22. Ehehe.

I fund your stuff quite amusing, particularly the goofy clap part in “Buried Alive III – Suffocation in the Sand-box” how did you get the idea of doing that?
Steve: Well, there was that riff that wasn't going through it all, we had to pause for a moment at the end for it. We thought about filling that hole, et voilà, someone came up with the idea of clapping. We play this song live too, and the people seem to love it - because there are always some who do the clapping!
We just finished the recordings for a new CD, and their will be something special to it, too, not clapping but... you'll hear.

You’ve released numerous of 7” and split CD’s. I’m curious to know why doing all these “little things” instead of putting out a regular album?
Steve: Well, that's some kind of attitude, I guess - Dave and me both we like the vinyl stuff, and in the beginning, we were looking for bands who would do Splits with us. There's also the reason that we weren't known from the start (no band is) and some of the bands would bring the attention of the underground to us to. Also, Dave is a big fan of the Agathocles and has all their stuff, so they're kind of an idol and we want to put out mucho stuff too. But I guess there will be full length albums of us in regular intervals too.

You’ve got quite a few things going on various labels [it seems], so out of curiosity who will be releasing your next release?
Steve: That's Power It Up from Germany, who will bring out a CD compiling all our 7"s, also the forthcoming full length CD we will record this weekend. There might be some small issues too, but those were planned some time ago, so that's not really news, I'd say.
Dave: The new full length CD will be released by No Escape Records!

You’ve got a couple of new split CD’s coming out soon, does this mean there will be no new full-length album for a while?
Steve: We just recorded 32 Tracks in studio, and there will be a brand new full length CD (and hopefully an LP version). Some of the "coming out" stuff on our website has been planned since some time ago but isn't out yet. So some of this stuff includes older songs. We can't change that because we already had decided to take those songs on that releases and don't want to take them back because a label maybe isn't so fast in putting out stuff.

Your lyrics are apparently based on real events. Do you think reality often exceed the imagination?
Steve: Hmno. Imagination normally is triggered by real events. And sometimes imagination can make things worse than they're really are. But I guess it's more disturbing if you read or watch something you know is based on real events and not just sprung from a writer's or director's fantasies.

You blend a lot of [sick] humour into the music. Do you think it’s important to maintain a bit of distance to all the gory and repulsive stuff by doing so?
Steve: Definitely. Some events Marco (our singer) writes about are absolutely weird, and a good deal of it is ironic. That's like if you don't know if you should laugh or feel disturbed. I guess that's kind of a mechanism too: you can handle that kind of stuff better if you're a good deal black-humoured.

Your band name is a bit unusual, how did you come up with that?
Steve: That was Marco's idea. We at first thought to name ourselves after the horror movie by Joe d'Amato, Anthropophagus, but there was already that Italian band using it. So Marco found out that in England the students call the autopsy room embalming theatre, and that's all that is to it.

Like with a lot of other bands within this genre the samples are an integrated part of your music. Are they totally made up or borrowed from movies and documentaries?
Steve: Most of the time they're out of horror and splatter movies, sometimes mixed with other stuff and background music. The sample work on the past outputs has been done by Mia Wallace, but now we got someone new.

There’s death metal, deathgrind, deathgore, goregrind and honestly it’s often difficult to tell one apart from the other. Where do you feel that you belong in that spectrum?
Steve: I would say we're deathgrind. We try to bring some real heavy and brutal elements into our music, but also very fast parts as used in Grindcore. Also, you might find elements from Punk and Hardcore, but primarily we're old stylish Grindcore.

Which bands besides Carcass [obviously] have had an influence on you?
Steve: Uh, there's an awful lot of. Terrorizer, Repulsion, Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Doom, Filthy Christians, Fear Of God - just to name a few of the old legends.

The Swiss scene seems a bit weak at the moment, isn’t there any other death metal or goregrind bands besides you and Cropment?
Steve: Of course there are, like Disparaged and Requiem who both already released CDs. And Carnal Decay. There are a lot more, of course, but that are just the three I like the most. Maybe one of the others can name some more.

Do you have any gigs coming up?
Steve: Well, not until autumn, because our singer Marco will be in the U. S. for about three months, so we have to keep low. But it looks like we'll be having one at the end of the year in Germany - I would like that, so I'm full of hopes we can do it.

Anything you wish to add to conclude this interview?
Steve: Well, thanks for the interview! Keep on grinding and watch out for the upcoming CD!

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