Botulistum, probabely the worst band in the world and I fucking like 'em! So anti-commercial!!! The two psychotic guys behind this band: Botmuyl and Nachtraaf gave some answers to my desperate questions… If you don't know them yet: good! Let these guys be the underground of the underground…Aaaaarrrrgghhhhh…
1. Well, tell us something about all the bands and projects you play in...
Botmuyl: Well, I would like to begin with stating that ALL the bands Nachtraaf and I play in, use Dutch lyrics only. We play in Fluisterwoud, Botulistum and Ketter.
Nachtraaf: It's not certain if Ketter will continue with it's existence, the two other bandmembers are not really motivated anymore, but if the demo is received positive by the public (not in a commercial way!!!) maybe we can persuade them to keep on playing. I'm playing the bass in Ketter, while Botmuyl is the vocalist. Paul is the drummer and Duisternis plays the infernal guitars. The mighty Kris Verwimp has just recently finished the magnificent cover-drawing, so the "De Opstand" -demo will be officially released soon. Ketter plays some sort of blackened Death / Trash Metal, midtempo, a bit old-style, with growls and scrreams...quite brutal actually. The lyrical concept of the demo is the 'war' between The Netherlands (that includes Belgium) and the filthy Spanish tribe in the 16th century, also the period where the infamous iconoclasms took place...
B: Botulistum is a two-headed formation, just nachtraaf and me. We play 'Total Psychotical Hysterical Childmolesting Graveraping Nunstrangling Hellfarting (yessss!!!) Trendcrushing Gaybashing Sickening Black Metal Filth'...or in shorter terms: Peat Metal!!! We've released one promo in '98 called "Hongerend Vuur" which is sold out now. Recently we've released our "Wederopstanding der Veenlijken" -demo '99 with our new, even more cruel / sick style. It's one of the sickest demo's you probabely have EVER heard! There are plans for a split-tape-release with a German Black Metal band on the 'Impaler of Trendies'-label / distro in France, but that's not certain yet. We're already writing new stuff which will be a bit Niden Div. 187 - influenced, and then I mean fast War-like Black Metal, but still in our own sickening style. Soon there will be also trendcrushing Botulistum-shirts!!! Write to Nachtraaf for further information about that topic...
N: Fluisterwoud was at first my solo-band, but I needed a drummer so I contacted Herr Krieger from Welter / Necrofeast and he played the drums in Fluisterwoud. He also recorded and produced the first demo "Een Sinister Schouwspel..." which is a very dark trendcrushing Black Metal demo that breathes the ancient atmosphere of the woods. Now Botmuyl joined the ranks and will take over the vocals from me. He was already active in Fluisterwoud cause he invented the bandname, as well as writing three from the four lyrics (Grimgaert from TTD 'zine also wrote one). The vocals will be not as sick as with Botulistum ofcourse. we've got , however, a new drummer called GNOOM and we will record our second demo in a few months, it will be a bit Enthroned / Funeral Winds -style!
2. You guys seem to have a sick fascination for 'Veenlijken' and all sorts of 'Veen"-things. Why? Since Botulistum is fucking raw and anti-commercial...what do you think of xommercial 'Black Metal' bands?
B: We have both sick and creative minds and we thought that 'Veenlijken' (Peatcorpses) are very interesting to use as a demo-concept. You can find them here in The Netherlands, they are medieval people that somehow drowned in the peat-bogs and were conserved in the peat for centuries. They look horny as hell!!!
N: Well, bands like Dimmu Boring and Cradle of Wimps and Festering Christcunt (haha!) are ofcourse very commercial and should be therefore crushed. They attract wimps and posers and other shits so that says enough...
3. So why do you call your musick 'Peat Metal'?
B: I partly answered this question in nr.1, Peat Metal means Veen Metaal, which is inspired by those horny peatcorpses in the peatbogs!!! (I sure want to 'meat' one -h‚h‚! -hf)
4. Fluisterwoud and Ketter are other bands of yours, but what's remarkable is that in all those bands you use Dutch lyrics...why? (is it to express your awareness of being Dutch...)
B: We are from The Netherlands and we speak / growl / scream Ducth here...
5. Which select group of Dutch bands do you guys prefer? Is it only Black, Death,... or also other styles?
B & N: Bestial Summoning, old Funeral Winds, old Liar of Golgotha, Heretic, Mordaehoth, Wrok, Black Art, Hekel, Holocaust, Christfighter and also some Death Metal bands like Centurian, Sinister, Houwitser, old Antropomorphia, Severe Torture and God Dethroned. We listen about 90% Black Hateful Metal, the rest is Death or old-style Trash like Bewitched, Occult, recent Absu and Nocturnal Breed.
6. There are a lot of sex-shops in Holland, do you sometimes visit them? If yes, wherefore and what are the coolest things you've ever seen there? Do you like porn with extreme fat women? Is there a lot of porn on the Dutch television?
N: We visited them to buy some birthday presents for friends...they've got some cool stuff!
B: We saw the same latex-mask as Ivar (Enslaved) wears at the "Frost"-album, it's killer!!!
N & B: There's some soft-porn like Erotic Dreams on TV but that's about it. There was also a program in which people's sexual wishes would often come true, very disgusting. I once saw a guy screwing a teethless hunchback hermaphrodite granny in her hairy armpits!!! The guy behind that program is Menno Buch, he's a disgusting person and the people from Veronica (the TV-channel) contacted us, aswell as Heretic, Mordaehoth and Apator, to perform in a new program with Menno Bich where people from all kinds of extremes are interviewed and stuff like that... We refused just like the rest, cause they will surely try to make fun of us, things will be twisted and turned and posers might get attrackted by Black Metal and start all kinds of trendy shitty bands, and we don't want that to happen huh?!
7. Also famous in Holland are the coffee-shops...do you sometimes go there or don't you use mind-expading stuff like weed, paddo's,...
B: I urinate in my bong for an enrichening effect!
N: I role peat-joints and sniff lime regularly cause that's nice and cheap! Haha!!!
8. How was the ugliest / worst cunt you've ever put your dick in? Or how would you imagine one like that?
N & B: That must have been you mum's definitely, HellFart! Hahahiiii!!!!
B: No, the worst one I can think of is a 60-year-old transsexual sailorman which you fuck very hard in the fresh stitched-in pussy which was put there a day before...so your dick will be covered with blood und puss!
9. Do you sometimes suffer from haemorrhoids or other 'diseases'? How do you experience it?
B & N: No, unless perverted sick minds count?! (Lucky bastards! My haemorrhoids are so big, my girlfriend thinks I've got 3 nut-sacks!!! -hf)
10. You know Boer Midgaard from the mighty Lugubrum, what do you think of their music? Don't you think normal people are not 'Boersk' enough (they disapprove farts, burps, smells,...), are you boersk, explain a bit please?
B: Boersk Blek Metle forever!!! Beer us or Die!!! Support the Total Boer War!!! It's brilliant raw underground Black Metal with Ducth lyrics, so it's fucking great!
N: It's fucking killer stuff!!!
N: Well, we are a bit Boersk, but I think we are more Veensk!
B: Nachtraaf farts all day while I'm highly skilled at burping, so it's a bit divided up. I definitelythink that normal people are not Boersk enough, normal people are more like...Hoersk!
11. You (Nachtraaf en Botmuyl) almost always wear an axe when you get photographed...do you think it's such a powerful weapon? Are you fascinated by the middle-ages? Why that?
N: We're very fon of primitive weapons. An axe is a nice heavy skullcrushing weapon, it ain't much effort to mutilate someone for the weapon is heavy by itself and it makes nice clean shops...
B: I'm indeed fascinated by the Middle-Ages, my favorite part is definitely the Iconoclasm in 1566!!!
12. I -Hellfart- collect my own farts in bottles, do you guys also collect something...?
B: I collect toddler-testicles (as far as they have any) to make lovely bracelets out of them!
N: Huge purple granny-nipples are more the things I collect, I hope to finish my cloak of them soon!
13. Will you guys start new projects / bands in the future? What kind of drumcomputer do you use, I think it's a very powerfull thing...it can sound really aggressive!
B: I'm not, I'm busy enough with Fluisterwoud, Botulistum and Tswaert der Duusternesse 'zine.
N: Maybe, time will tell...
14. Your decomposed peatrectums may cut a question towards me now...
B: Which three CD's from which three bands should be farted at thy funeral?
Hellfart: Well, to be honest...I'm the greatest poofter-trendy around, you know? I don't even like Bottelistion or how's your band-name? (can't read the logo)...I just want to have your painted faces in my 'zine... together with the axes, those things attract people so I can make money out of it... I don't even like Metal, I like Volumnia, Marco Borsato, Clouseau...but especially Get Ready and the Spice Girls (pity the red one with the big tits split with the other Spicies...). Also, my funeral has to be in a church...so the Priest and God can wacth over me... all those Satanic things frighten me! AAaaarrrggghhhhhhahahaaaa!!!! 3 CD's? Well, surely they must play "K.A.O.S." of the mighty Sadistik Exekution; "De Mysteriis..." of the true Mayhem and maybe "Chainsaw Dismemberment" of Mortician...but it's difficult! Too many great bands (Bestial Warlust, Destroyer 666, Slayer, Darkthrone, old Samael, Desaster, old Carcass,....)
N: Is there a lot (or enough) porn on the TV in Belgium?
Hellfart: Nope, only stupid soft erotic shit in which you can see two nipples and -if you're lucky- some pubics. Fortunately I'm a famous porn-actor myself here in Flanders! That's because I can fart some fancy tunes while I'm penetrating all those women with my purple meatscepter...they're very greedy for my spunk, maybe because of the great amount of alcohol in it...héhéhé!!!
15. You may spread your last clouds of rectal methane gas now...
B & N: Thanx for the interview and support Hellfart! Hails to Clauwaers, Hieronymus, Midgaars and Grimgaers for their support! Hear our stuff! And also check out our homepage: http://home.wxs.nl/~doksite/fluisterwoud.html. And remember: Peat Metal will crush your testicles!!!
Unholy contacts addresses:
Botmuyl
Marga Klompélaan, 18
NL- 6662 MB ELST
The Netherlands
or
Nachtraaf
Schaepmanstraat, 15
NL - 6662 AN ELST
The Netherlands