LUISMA: Haemorrhage is Lugubrious on vocals, Ana on guitar, Ramon on Bass, David on drums and me Luisma on vocals. About other bands we play I have to tell David play drums for Under Vultures and Ana and Me will start a new band Steelforce with Carcass and Benediction ex-members but it will be a Metal band not Grind or Death Metal.
Your lyrics are quite sick. where did this ideas come to your mind? What impressions are your main influences? For the Luisma -Which stuff does inspire to the band when you write pathologically and surgery lyrics?
LUISMA: In the beggining we got impressed with Carcass lyrics. In the early 90s all the Death / Grind bands were writting lyrics about Gore, you know, zombies etc, but Carcass lyrics were more extreme and sicker cause they were about Pathology but they were written from a quite technical language. That really fascinated me. I used to read lots of Pathological and Medicine books back then and I wrote some lyrics about real or imagined situations but changing the words for pathological terms, They usually only happened in my own mind ha,ha... but later I decided to mix this with stories about the things that usually disgust peoiple. And for the new album I'm writting lyrics about those workers with disgusting jobs. You know surgeons, pathologists, embalmers, morticians etc...
If you should say categories, what category can you mention by HAEMORRHAGE: Death Grind or Gore Grind, and what is the difference between them?
LUISMA: We consider ourselves as a Goregrind band, but people can say whatever they think about us. We grew up listening all the styles from Punk to Black Metal, from Heavy Metal to Grind, so all that influences are surely in our music. I think the diference between Death Grind and Gore Grind could be the vocals and some drumbeats. In my opinion of course.
What changes in line-up happen in HAEMORRHAGE story?
LUISMA: We only have some drummer changes. We started with Jose and then Rojas replaced him in 1996. He satyed in the band until 2011 and Jose came back, but in 2013 Jose left the band and David joined us.
In 2013 you released live album ''Live Carnage: Feasting on Maryland''. Do you tell us album story and critics?
LUISMA: Someday when we were making "Far Beyond Pathology" documentary video I asked a guy for some live footage from MDF and he sent me some files. And one of them was the audio recording taken straight from the soundboard. I really liked that recording cause it was fucking real and cool. So we decided to release it. It seems that our fans liked a lot this release.
From the first album ''Emetic Cult''(1995) to ''Hospital Carnage'' (2011) HAEMORRHAGE played the mixing of Death, Grind, Punk in old school vein with sickly themes. Which changes has occured about band's musical and lyrical progression?
LUISMA: I think there are not big changes in our career. If we are in one of our shows we play songs of the first album and the last one together and you can't see no big differeneces. But we usually like to make some changes in every album but keeping loyal to our style. The same goes for the lyrics. Maybe we have changed the abstract lyrics for stories but the style is more or less the same.
About the cover of ''Hospital Carnage''... How was this cover planned and what does it tell us?
LUISMA: With a title like Hospital Carnage the most of the people could think in a patient being butchered by the doctors but I did a doctor that killed the other doctors to take away the patient. For some people it has a point of "justice" but for other it is like vultures fighting for their prey...I don't know...
As we speak about old times... We can feel the influence of bands like old Carcass, General Surgery, Repulsion in your music. When the band was founded, have you been influenced from these bands?
LUISMA: Yes sure. We were influenced by these bands and by a million more, but if you ask me I don't have a favourite band. I think it has more sense that playing Gore Grind you notice these bands influences and not King Diamond influence for example. But surely I like Kind Diamond as much as these bands.
Which bands has inspired to your music style?
LUISMA: Black Sabbath, Bathory, DRI, Entombed, Necrony, Bad Religion, Cro-Mags, Sore Throat, Doom, Dokken, Pungent tench...All the early 90 Death / Grind bands, all the 80s Heavy Metal bands, all the 80s spanish punk bands, all the 80s/90s Hard Core bands....
HAEMORRHAGE has made many split albums with bands like Exhumed, Christ Denied, C.S.S.O., Dead Infection, Damnable, Ingrowing, Denak, Mastic Scum etc. Was there a special, unforgettable split for the band?
LUISMA: We love almost everyone of these...but I like Dead Infection, GSR, Impaled or Dead splits...
Do you like horror movies and was there a relation between band's music and horror movies as an influence?
LUISMA: Yes we like it of course, but its not a direct influence for our lyrics like it is for bands like Impetigo or Mortician...
Your third full length album ''Anatomical Inferno'' in 1998 was more different than the ''Emetic Cult'' and ''Grume'' about style and sound. Is it for you too or not?
LUISMA: Yes the sound is different. I love drum sound in this album but guitars are not so good as Grume
In year 2004 you released DVD and we saw the HAEMORRHAGE’s live performances first time. And in this DVD some of images from the your 2002 tour and all those live experiences are dissected and digitalized in a DVD- What do you say about this DVD which named ''Visions from the Morgue''?
LUISMA: It was really cool cause we were one of the first bands after the big one like Carcass or Napalm Death etc that released a DVD.My cousin worked in a TV studio back then and he helped us with this. Now its strange to watch those 3.:4 screen format now we are used to 16:9 screens but it is still cool and funny.
How Ana feel in the band like HAEMORRHAGE? I think she's a first woman in gore (or first woman in history who played in Gore Grind band)??
LUISMA: I think she feel ok, cause she is still in the band putting up with us. I don't know if she is the first one, but surely one of the first ones. She is a pioneer.
Last year HAEMORRHAGE released 10" EP ''Obnoxious'' which is a compilation of the songs from your first two split albums with Exhumed and Christ Denied. Can you tell us more about this EP and how you signed with ''Power It Up Records'' from Germany
LUISMA: Well the EP is only the re-release of the original EP with 2 more songs from the same recording session. We are not really signed to Power-it-up. We are still signed to Relapse Records but they give us the freedom to release EPs on other labels.
You've toured extensively, do you have any particularly crazy or funny stories from the road that you'd like to share?
LUISMA: Too many...I remember we were in a festival in Germany and our bass player that day (Dani) felt in love with a girl and they spent the night together at the girl's place so when the festival car came in the morning to take us to the airport he wasn't in his room. We were trying to find him but we couldn't so we have to go to the airport or we would loss the flight. But when we were going to the airport we found him drunk in the road some miles away from the town...I'm still wondering where was he going...he didn't really know but he was lucky.
Out of all the countries you've played in on your many tours, which has the best scene for HAEMORRHAGE?
LUISMA: hmmm difficult to say...Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, hard to say...
How much do you yourselves follow the underground scene? Are there any new bands that you like that you would like to tell us about?
LUISMA: To be honest I don't follow the scene too much like I did in the past but I still hear some new bands. From the new ones the best are Gutalax.
Can you tell us band's future plans? New album works?
LUISMA: Yes we want to release a new album in this year. We have some new songs but it have some delay since we changed ur drummer.
With your releases being spread across so many labels, what is the easiest way for someone to get a hold of your records and merchandise?
LUISMA: fernandolugubrious@hotmail.com this is our singer`s mail. You can order him whar you want to buy.
Great thanx for the interview... Stay undergound!!!
LUISMA: Thank you so much...STAY SICK!!!!!! See u in the morgue!
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