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Albums of Purgatory interview Porno Coma

Firstly, whats the band up to right now?
Just like everybody else who recorded an album, unsuccesfuly trying to get a distribution deal... our music seems not to have the right parameters for todays ultra conservative market. We're also all involved in SEPTEMBER 12, Montreal's first doom engine which started last year, right after the Porno Coma studio session.

How would you describe the Porno Coma sound?
You tell me. Our sound evolved a lot. When we started, we played some sort of "prog" thrash/core with a touch of Bad Brains and Voïvod. We've then been recently compared in Terrorizer Mag to "Khanate and Voïvod jamming together with Gwar's costumes" or something like that.
Half the band is under 24, and let's just say the other half is old enough to have bought "welcome to hell" when it was brand new. So we draw influences from 70's to 90's music, from Iceburn to Sabbath to Primus to DRI to King Crimson to Brutal Truth to the Melvins to Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers to GISM to Voïvod to Victims Family... Mix all that with a good dose of sarcasm towards modern generic metal (no matter what's the color, black, death, nu...) and here we go.
We call it TRUE DOWNTOWN BROWN METAL.

How did you get involved with the band?
I met Mathieu when I joined the band he was drumming for, Tenebrae (Mtl's 1996 CoF clone, see http://www.mp3.com/TENEBRAE666). We became very quickly bored of modern (cheesy) black metal and decided to start Porno Coma, with no real direction. That was in 1997.

Can you remember your first gig (how did it go)?
Yeah, it was at Mtl's shitty disco place called Foufounes Electriques, with Martyr (who still play lots of guitar solos) and Decayed Remains (who were wearing Musketeers costumes).

Can you remember your first gig (how did it go)?
Yeah, it was at Mtl's shitty place called Foufounes Electriques, with Martyr (who still play lots of guitar solos) and Decayed Remains (who were wearing Musketeers costumes).

Are you involved in any other projects and if so how do they compare to
Porno Coma?
I had founded a band called Doris in 1999, some sort of grinding metal (http://www.mp3.com/doris), who included singers from Aphasia and Atheretic. Doris was euthanized in March 2002 because I started to get bored of it and with the drummer Julien, we staretd a new project called E with guitarist Miguel (who played on Cryptopsy's "Whisper supremacy"). E is currently auditionning singers, the music is really heavy and slow, fans of Iceburn and Eisenvater (whose song "Idiot" we play) will like that. E will relase a demo CD by the end of Summer 2003.
Finally, Mike (from doom/goth/black/whatever band ...AND HERE I LIE see http://www.mp3.com/andhereilie), Alex (guit. from Porno Coma) and I started September 12 last year. We realeased a demo (see http://www.mp3.com/september12), this is total doOom for those into Boris, Earth, Khanate, Teeth of the Lions, Corrupted etc. Mathieu also recently joined S12 and we're working on new material which will maintain the ultra doom constructs, with some added experimental subtleties, for an album that I will produce (target : Fall 2003). This means everybody in S12 (including Mike who sang for Porno Coma for a while) is in Pono Coma and vice-versa. It has no marketing value however. But we could mix both repertoires and play a brown doom show...
Let's also mention that I am producing THE GOAT's first release. This is Alex's other band. Watch this if you're into high class grindcore, ie. Voïvod / The Locust influenced thrashing grind-rock. Will be ready in June 2003.

What are your favourite Porno Coma tracks?
Anything on the last album, especially "La vache"/"Sacrifice of self?", and "Georges" on the previous release (1999's double cd "Culinar Nostalgy West").

What are your favourite all time songs?
in no order other than my pierced memories
"don't think about it" by UPSIDE DOWN CROSS
"lysol" by the MELVINS
"black sabbath" by... ehmm.... I forgot
"child in time" by DEEP PURPLE
"chemical warfare" by SLAYER
"couch slouch" by DRI
some song in eastern europe language by DISTORTION X (on the split with BSG)
"jacqueline" by BSG
"warhead" by VENOM
"jump in the fire" by METALLICA
"fuck authority" by RAW POWER
"mengele" by LUDICHRIST
"under rotting skies" by KHANATE
"john wayne was a nazi" by MDC
"outbreak of evil" by SODOM
"doomsday" by DISCHARGE
"am i punk yet ?" by ELECTRO HIPPIES
"the big takeover" by BAD BRAINS
"buried alive" by THE ACCÜSED
"spirituo lo continua" by NEGAZIONE
1st song on side B on INDIGESTI's album
3rd song on side B on CCM's "into the void"
last song on SNAKE NATION's LP.
"hungry child" by C.O.C. ("animosity" version)
"too many puppies" by PRIMUS
"satan song for mom" by VICTIMS FAMILY
"nuclear war" by VOÏVOD
"endless blockades for the pussy footer" by GISM
the song after the drum solo on PLANET X's "live from oz"
"triumph of death" by HELLHAMMER
"where have all the good times gone" by VAN HALEN
"day of suffering" by MORBID ANGEL
"godplayer" or maybe "walking corpse" by BRUTAL TRUTH
2nd song on SCAT OPERA's "four gone confusion"
"lead the blind" by THE BEYOND
"Idiot" by EISENVATER
2nd song on CRISIS' "deathshead extermination"
"woke up this morning" by NAZARETH
"not fragile" by B.T.O.
"genocide" by JUDAS PRIEST
"runing free" by IRON MAIDEN
"babushka" by Kate Bush
"Oh no Bruno" by NOMEANSNO
"killer on the loose" by THIN LIZZY
"claustrophobia" by FORCE FED
"scab on my brain" by RICH KIDS ON LSD
"god is everywhere" by LUDICHRIST
I can list 20587 more titles like that if you wish...

What the first record you ever bought?
DEEP PURPLE "black knight" 7"

Which album was it that got you into metal and can you explain why?
a compilation with Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Bachman Turner Overdrive, The Runaways, Nazareth etc.
Why ? Ask Freud.

Whats the last album you purchased and what did you think of it?
I think it was SPACEBOY "Searching the Stone Library for the Green Page of Illusion ", a total masterpiece, I constantly listen to it.

What would be your dream band line-up?
Our current line-up with a record deal.

If you could do a cover for a tribute album to any band, which song of which
band would you pick and why?
We used to play covers from CELTIC FROST and the DAYGLO ABORTIONS. With September 12, we plan to do a doom version of a Police song.
Reason good enough to do a cover : "we like this song and we might do a great new version". Now that's a revelation.

What do you think of the position of metal and music in general today?
We love the hilarious trends like "brutal" death/power/black/nu metal, gothic, ska, oi, stoner, Epitaph punk, post rock, emo... We're still wondering why there are so many bands cloning each others, and why most people need to perform in strict musical tunnels. One good thing that mp3 piracy will achieve (I hope) is to counterbalance the exponential overcrowding of the music scene and weed out all that generic shit, letting only deeply motivated and inspired people on the map.

Which other bands stand out for you at the moment?
the MELVINS and NEUROSIS for the last 17 years... among newer bands I'd include MASTODON, PLANET X, KHANATE, TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION, MAUDLIN OF THE WELL, MUNGBEANDEMON (rip), ASSOCIATION AREA (rip) and tons more...

Do you have any funny stories about the band you can share with us?
Yeah, we've all been involved in black metal bands like Tenebrae or Shade...

and finally, what do you see in the future for Porno Coma?
We concentrate on our own music, which obviously is always a bit too shifted from the current trends to become succesful, whatever the trends are. Now that doom seems to be the new hot thing, maybe Porno Coma will get more attention when S12 has a name... For the moment, there is no record deal in sight, let's see what happens after the S12 album is ready. I hate making predictions - this is too difficult, especially about the future.
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