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Interview with Sick artist Lou Rusconi

1. Hey Lou - Whats up you sicko, hows your day going?

Lou: My day is going great, I'm going to ink a piece right after I finish this interview, so any day above ground is great!

2. How long have you been doing artwork for? When did you decide to do nasty shit for bands?

L: I have been drawing since I was about 3. My Old Man painted a lot so that influenced me. I have always been drawn to the dark and nasty so I always wanted to do art for my favorite groups. Around 1996 I was professionally employed as an artist and decided a good way to introduce myself to bands I wanted to do work was to do stage banners for them. So I started that way. Around 2003, I stopped the banners and now only do logos, covers, shirt designs,etc.

3. Do you have a favorite band or artist youve done work for? why?

L: I dig ALL of the groups I have worked for. Mortician, Necrophagia, Skinless, Anal Blast, Cattle Decapitation and Meat Shits are some of my favorites. As for why, I always felt these groups broke ground and pushed boundaries and I have always done the same.

4. The newest peice youve thrown up is the Don Decker tribute, such a badass peice of artwork man! Anal Blast is one of my favorite bands, and it sucked to hear of Dons passing (RIP BROTHER) Everyone should be rocking some Wings Flew Away. I know everyone has great Decker stories, do you have one that sticks out?

L: Thanks for the compliment! I wanted the Don Decker piece to be special. He and I came up with some really cool designs and I will miss him. One story I have is he called me a lot and we would discuss shirt designs and he would ramble for about an hour with these extravagant way-out ideas and he ended the conversation by saying; "Or you could just have me pulling a tampon out of a teenager's cunt by my teeth". And I was like; brilliant! And that became the "Spraying Blood" shirt. Another thing he would do is he would call me and leave these really weird messages where he sang the message and the songs were always about me. I wish I had saved them, hahaha.
5. Do you have any favorite Local bands from where you live?

L: Cattle Decapitation! Great Group, Cool Guys. I did the OCTO-MOM t-shirt design for them this year that is one of my favorite pieces.6. If you could do grotesque art for any band, past or present, who would it be? Death, Corpse, any of the classics? Also do you have a favorite album cover?A: Death would be awesome! Cannibal Corpse, Nunslaughter, SLAYER!, whew, too many to mention. As for favorite covers, ANYTHING by Repka or PusHead. Presently, Mark Riddick, Putrid, Humanburger, Mike Stoneroad, Mike from Devorement, just to name a few, these guys do great work!

7. Has your work been featured in any magazines, or books?

L: I have been interviewed by webzines and a few UnderGround comics, I was featured in Mark Riddick's fine book on logos called "Logos From Hell" (I believe there is an expanded edition being worked on now). I was asked a few questions by Terrorizer this year too. I had some Zombie paintings show at MF GALLERY in New York in 2007 and 2008. Coming up I will be in the 2010 spring edition of Girls And Corpses and also in the Xmas issue of Angry Drunk Comics.

8. Whats been on your playlist lately?

L: In no particular order: Danzig and Slayer are always there. New, I like the new Cattle Decapitation, Cannibal Corpse, Immortal, Fondlecorpse and the new Goatwhore is incredible! I also listen to Hocico, Velvet Acid Christ, Combichrist, Psyclon Nine and big doses of Mayhem and Volker Taake.

9. Favorite beers?

L: hahahaA: I don't drink anymore, I drank enough for a lifetime in my 20's! My favorites then were: BUDWEISER (hahaha), Elephant Malt Liquor, Dinkle Aker, Heiniken, Olde English 800, and anything that was put in front of me : )

10. Cheers man, Thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Keep up the disgusting work man! Final words?

L: Thank you for the time and great questions. 2010 I will be busting out with some cool stuff! I will be doing some design work for ROTTEN COTTON shirts! I also hope to have a comic in the works and some paintings too! ALL DARK ART of course, hehehe. Stay tuned, the ride gets worse from here on out! www.myspace.com/lourusconi

Interview with Offal from Brazil

Offal oozes putrid death metal! These guys are sick as hell. Keep your eye out for releases from these sickos, they are worth your time!

1. Hey Andre - how’s your day going? Thanks for taking your time to do this interview man!

Ohhh, everything is okay here! Really nothing special but we keep trying to get it better!

2. Tell us some history about Offal , when did you guys start, what’s the lineup, etc.

Well, we start our activities late 2003 as a trio just playing some Autopsy’s covers and originally called Orgy in Excrements (Autopsy’s Acts of the Unspeakable song). Some time later we start to do some own songs and when we got some good ones we decided that we must record that stuff! So, we did and I sent it just to some local friends, we really didn’t have any plans to put that stuff out as an official release or something else! Some months later my friend Renzo of I Shit on Your Face would start a label (The Hole Productions) and I sent him the whole stuff, so he said that would like to release it as your number one release! It was really awesome, so we start to produce the whole cover / layout and some months later our 1st full-length was finally out, Offal – S/t full-length CD – The Hole Productions 2004. Fortunately we got several good responses about the CD and nowadays it’s totally sold-out! Later we got some few line-up changes and recently we put out our latest stuff, a split MCD with the Aussie freaks of Bowel Fetus also via The Hole Productions, try to check it!

3. What’s on the horizon for Offal? Any new releases? Tour?
We’re currently working on our 2nd full-length CD to be out late 2009 and we’re planning a split 7”ep too! We’ll keep you all updated about the news.

4. What’s your favorite band that you guys have shared the stage with?

Ohh well, all our gigs were great experiences for us, specially ‘coz we played with great bands such as: Agathocles, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Stoma, Isacaarum, Flesh Grinder… People always give support to us at our live appearances, the freaks are violent and the stage-diving and the mosh-pit circle are really intense, great!

5. Tell us about your record label. Who has released most of your guys stuff?

We’ve just two released stuff: Offal – s/t full-length CD and our split MCD with Bowel Fetus both on The Hole Productions / Brazil. This label is really important for us and all that Renzo did was really essential. His support was really amazing and he always did a great promotion for Offal. It's really easy to find our stuff on most worldwide labels and distros and we got some great responses about both releases. Unfortunately we won’t work together again ‘coz he has other plans for the future and we also think that he can do some opportunity for other new and young bands to put their stuff out, like he did for us in the past! Renzo is one of our best friends and will always be! He’s really doing a great and honest work with his label and with his sick band I Shit on Your Face (Check it out!). Support him, support him! ALL HAIL THE HOLE PRODUCTIONS!

6. So, you guys have a KILLER logo, who was that drawn by? Have you had any others?

Ohhh, thankxxx a lot for your nice comments about logo, great to know that you’ve enjoyed it, thankxxx! Our logo and our latest artwork on the split MCD with Bowel Fetus were drawn by our friend Putrid, you probably saw other sick and vile artworks from him on some stuff from IMPETIGO, CIANIDE, HOODED MENACE, BLOOD FREAK and tons of other awesome bands! Putrid is really a great artist and he really knows what the bands want and what they are about, on this way he can do what the best he has to offer on his amazing and gruesome artworks! Visit his page at: www.myspace.com/putridgoreart

7. What do you do for a job outside of metal?

Well, I’m currently running to finish the university of Zootechny, I’ll work with full animal production. Tersis Zonato and João Ongaro are graphic designers and are currently working with graphic and web design. Eduardo Tobe works with photography and cinegraphy for a worldwide skateboard magazine called Transworld.

8. What’s the process behind writing an Offal song? What are your lyrics about?Well, the lyrics are totally into that disgusting, twisted and vile blood-splattering Old-skull Death Metal addicted to the splatter platters of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s B-cinema following to all that cult late 80’s / early 90’s Death Metal founders! There are lots of bands doing it nowadays and other ones that already did but we’re always trying to do something different and with our own characteristics and this whole old-school universe has all that we need to do something really great! As for the music, we bring some ideas to rehearse, then each one can say what can be changed or improved on the songs.
9. Any plans on coming to the U.S. sometime? If someone gives you the right amount of money eh?
Ohhh, it’s one of our main plans for the future. We really want to play outside Brazil 2010/2011 and we would like to play over U.S. especially ‘coz we have lots of great friends over there and there so many awesome bands to play together that would be really a dream come true if we can do it, we really hope so!

10. Do you play in any other bands? Or have you been in any previous to Offal?
Yeahhh, we all are involved on other bands and side-projects, they are: Lymphatic Phlegm, Creampie, Lutemkrat, Terror Scream, Svartalfheim and Deformed Slut.

11. Final words?
Thankxxx a lot for all your whole support and for this great opportunity, we really appreciate it! Our newest split MCD with Bowel Fetus and our 1st official T-shirt are available right now! Anyone interested get in touch with via: www.myspace.com/offalxxx All the best and thankxxx again and again for this great intie! The past will never die, the cult is alive – All hail old-skull Death Metal!