Interview : Chris Durk - Intracranial Butchery
Hey, what’s up guys ? Thanks for this interview.
Not much! Just chillin....listening to Nirvana, trying to find some bud,prolly go get something to eat here soon.
The band born in 2007…Were you already friends before the band’s creation? How did you met and how the band was formed?
Yeah I started this project in November of 2007 just out of boredom,didnt expect to take it as seriously as I am now. I was living by myselfand didn't have much to do besides play video games and smoke weed.So I busted out my guitar, old drum machine, and made two songs.Then I asked my friend Jaymes Grundmann to lay down vocals.I met Jaymes about a year before hand through his one man porno grindproject Extreme Whore Disorder back when I was making music forPostmortem Procedures. He lives in Colorado and I live in Missouriso we did everything over the internet and still do.
Mike Majewski designed your logo.What kind of relationship is there between him and the band?
No relationship what so ever. I just needed a logo and saw him makingsome pretty cool ones so I just asked him to make one and he did.Plus I like Devourment, so I thought it would be pretty sweet for him to make our logo.
You made a split with Plerosis called “Slaughtered in Seclusion”
How did you collaborate for this?
Neil Ruppert from Plerosis just wrote me up out of the blue one dayasking if we would be up for putting a little split together.Checked his music out and thought it was bad ass, so I said sure.Thats when I started to take this band a little bit more seriously.I Wasn't even considering playing live or anything like that at this point.
Is the split cd artwork a common choice between the 2 bands? Can you explain this choice?
We didn't really talk much about how the cover would look and stuff like that.I was pretty broke and couldn't pay an artist for new artwork so I used someof my dad's photography (http://www.360icon.com/). Also made the cd layout and everything.In the end I'm glad I went that route for this release. All out gore covers are awesome,but I thought something a little more subtle would be cool, plus its just differentfrom anything else anyone is doing. Breaking down the walls the hinder imagination.
You’ve started a tour called “sexual preda tour” with CR and EFRO…
Who’ve organised this tour?
Yes! just got back from the Sexual Preda-Tour on sunday, it was a blast!Got to meet Neil from Plerosis for the first time and see Dyscrasia and SikFuk live!!!This tour was all 'do-it-yourself'. Clay from Cemetery Rapist did most the work, bookingall the shows by himself. Didn't have any help from booking agencies or any crap like that.
Did you want make a tour or is it just an opportunity that happened?
It kinda just happened at the last minute. I saw Cemetery Rapist had atour and was traveling with two other bands, then one day I was talking tohim about it and he said one of the bands was missing in action and hecouldn't get ahold of them. So i offered to take their spot, knowing I coulddo it 100%. So it all worked out and we got on the tour.
The tour include 9 dates for july and august in the United States…
How the moving from a show to another are taking place?
Are there some long distance between all the dates?
Yeah, we had a date on the last day in july but it didn't pan out sowe started on august 1st at the Cesspool Castle in Joplin, Missouri.Everyone just met at my house the day before and we crammed allour gear into my brothers Hyundi Santa Fe. Let me tell you, aftertraveling in that car for 9 days it smelt like rotten milk!!! We hadsome pretty long distances to travel also, from Columbus Ohio toMilwaukee wisconsin was the furthest I think.
I’ve read that for your next album you didn’t want to record yourselfthe song with the intention to have the best sound you can… So did you have already recorded something by your means before?
All the music we have so far is recorded and mixed by me.I would just run my drum machine through my mixer into mycomputer then record the drum track. Then I would record aguitar track once on the left then again on the right. I would haveput bass but I dont have a bass guitar and couldn't get ahold ofone so there are no bass tracks on those recordings. Then I wouldrecord/mix the song on Garage Band through my Mac then send themusic track to Jaymes through email. Then he would send me a vocaltrack he recorded on his own, then I would mix it into the song thenI would be done. I mean I really don't think they sound bad the wayi recorded them. A lot better then most home recordings that bands do,bit I just want a more full sound and have all the levels, volumes, etc correct.
We’ve listened your first album’s promo, it’s fucking kick ass!Can’t wait the album!How is it approach?Talk me about this album.
We're just working on music for our first full length, we plan to recordit around december. We have 4 tracks written so far. It will be releasedon FTA Records and it will be the first pro cd release on the label. no cd-r's.We have some sick ass artwork being made by the artist FRENCH.Like you mentioned before we wont be recording this album by ourselves.We'll go into a reputable music recording studio and record there,plus I'll be recording bass guitar on the album also so it will sound fuller.Also were gonna try to get Colin Davis from Imperial Mastering to masterthe cd to give it that big sound. I always think the next song we write isthe best and i try not to repeat myself so it should be full of awesomeriffs you've never heard before. I'm really stoked about it. Its turning outto be a lot better then our old stuff. Experimenting with different soundsand having different guitar rhythms on the left and right side giving it areally sick sound. We're def not gonna stick to any rules or any onedeath metal genre on this album.
After your first album’s release to come, have you think about merch too?
I'm prolly just get some more t-shirts printed up around the time of the release, maybe have sort of package deal, we'll see though.
This interview is over, something more to say?
Thanks to everyone that supports death metal and grind.Thanks to you ladies for the interview!-Chris Durk
Thanks a lot, Stay brutal!
Not much! Just chillin....listening to Nirvana, trying to find some bud,prolly go get something to eat here soon.
The band born in 2007…Were you already friends before the band’s creation? How did you met and how the band was formed?
Yeah I started this project in November of 2007 just out of boredom,didnt expect to take it as seriously as I am now. I was living by myselfand didn't have much to do besides play video games and smoke weed.So I busted out my guitar, old drum machine, and made two songs.Then I asked my friend Jaymes Grundmann to lay down vocals.I met Jaymes about a year before hand through his one man porno grindproject Extreme Whore Disorder back when I was making music forPostmortem Procedures. He lives in Colorado and I live in Missouriso we did everything over the internet and still do.
Mike Majewski designed your logo.What kind of relationship is there between him and the band?
No relationship what so ever. I just needed a logo and saw him makingsome pretty cool ones so I just asked him to make one and he did.Plus I like Devourment, so I thought it would be pretty sweet for him to make our logo.
You made a split with Plerosis called “Slaughtered in Seclusion”
How did you collaborate for this?
Neil Ruppert from Plerosis just wrote me up out of the blue one dayasking if we would be up for putting a little split together.Checked his music out and thought it was bad ass, so I said sure.Thats when I started to take this band a little bit more seriously.I Wasn't even considering playing live or anything like that at this point.
Is the split cd artwork a common choice between the 2 bands? Can you explain this choice?
We didn't really talk much about how the cover would look and stuff like that.I was pretty broke and couldn't pay an artist for new artwork so I used someof my dad's photography (http://www.360icon.com/). Also made the cd layout and everything.In the end I'm glad I went that route for this release. All out gore covers are awesome,but I thought something a little more subtle would be cool, plus its just differentfrom anything else anyone is doing. Breaking down the walls the hinder imagination.
You’ve started a tour called “sexual preda tour” with CR and EFRO…
Who’ve organised this tour?
Yes! just got back from the Sexual Preda-Tour on sunday, it was a blast!Got to meet Neil from Plerosis for the first time and see Dyscrasia and SikFuk live!!!This tour was all 'do-it-yourself'. Clay from Cemetery Rapist did most the work, bookingall the shows by himself. Didn't have any help from booking agencies or any crap like that.
Did you want make a tour or is it just an opportunity that happened?
It kinda just happened at the last minute. I saw Cemetery Rapist had atour and was traveling with two other bands, then one day I was talking tohim about it and he said one of the bands was missing in action and hecouldn't get ahold of them. So i offered to take their spot, knowing I coulddo it 100%. So it all worked out and we got on the tour.
The tour include 9 dates for july and august in the United States…
How the moving from a show to another are taking place?
Are there some long distance between all the dates?
Yeah, we had a date on the last day in july but it didn't pan out sowe started on august 1st at the Cesspool Castle in Joplin, Missouri.Everyone just met at my house the day before and we crammed allour gear into my brothers Hyundi Santa Fe. Let me tell you, aftertraveling in that car for 9 days it smelt like rotten milk!!! We hadsome pretty long distances to travel also, from Columbus Ohio toMilwaukee wisconsin was the furthest I think.
I’ve read that for your next album you didn’t want to record yourselfthe song with the intention to have the best sound you can… So did you have already recorded something by your means before?
All the music we have so far is recorded and mixed by me.I would just run my drum machine through my mixer into mycomputer then record the drum track. Then I would record aguitar track once on the left then again on the right. I would haveput bass but I dont have a bass guitar and couldn't get ahold ofone so there are no bass tracks on those recordings. Then I wouldrecord/mix the song on Garage Band through my Mac then send themusic track to Jaymes through email. Then he would send me a vocaltrack he recorded on his own, then I would mix it into the song thenI would be done. I mean I really don't think they sound bad the wayi recorded them. A lot better then most home recordings that bands do,bit I just want a more full sound and have all the levels, volumes, etc correct.
We’ve listened your first album’s promo, it’s fucking kick ass!Can’t wait the album!How is it approach?Talk me about this album.
We're just working on music for our first full length, we plan to recordit around december. We have 4 tracks written so far. It will be releasedon FTA Records and it will be the first pro cd release on the label. no cd-r's.We have some sick ass artwork being made by the artist FRENCH.Like you mentioned before we wont be recording this album by ourselves.We'll go into a reputable music recording studio and record there,plus I'll be recording bass guitar on the album also so it will sound fuller.Also were gonna try to get Colin Davis from Imperial Mastering to masterthe cd to give it that big sound. I always think the next song we write isthe best and i try not to repeat myself so it should be full of awesomeriffs you've never heard before. I'm really stoked about it. Its turning outto be a lot better then our old stuff. Experimenting with different soundsand having different guitar rhythms on the left and right side giving it areally sick sound. We're def not gonna stick to any rules or any onedeath metal genre on this album.
After your first album’s release to come, have you think about merch too?
I'm prolly just get some more t-shirts printed up around the time of the release, maybe have sort of package deal, we'll see though.
This interview is over, something more to say?
Thanks to everyone that supports death metal and grind.Thanks to you ladies for the interview!-Chris Durk
Thanks a lot, Stay brutal!
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