Hello guys, to begin this interview, can you write a short biography of the band ?

Greetings Doctor,Machetazo was born in 1994, tons of releases and weird stories since then, anyone interested go to our website and take a look to our biography.

You are preparing a new CD, what can you say about it ?

The new CD is about the Amando De Ossorio "Blind Dead" filmography, horror tales about templar mummies that return to life eyeless and thirst for virgin's blood. We will record 15 new songs around this main theme,an album fueled by the same feeling of those blind dead movies : darkness, phobia, pavor... The recording sessions start on October 31th again in Treboada studio with Paco "Maggot" Liaño,we will look again for an extreme and raw production,no triggers,no computer cheap tricks. The artwork is being prepared right now by our good friend Nor Prego as usual in any Machetazo album,it will be somekind of tribute to the old movie posters of Amando De Ossorio.

What do you think about Razor Back Records ? Why ?

Razorback records are our family,cos' they take care of us and always do the best for the band. Billy Nocera is a very important part in the Machetazo underworld and philosophy, we have the same points of view about many important things in the current grind/death scene, we have the same goals, we look for the same essence, we don't play the fool and we know what we want.

What are you waiting for a label ?

To be honest,the only thing Razorback records lack off is about tour support,but I understand them cos' it's not a so big label (as many wrong people think) and I know they haven't got financial support enough to plan tours for the Hive bands. The Razorback records bands are not very popular bands,they're only for true freaks and underground diehard fans, a kind of old school breed not for trendy ears or mass media, so nobody gets any money with this really.

How do you do the promotion of Machetazo ?

We are always releasing eps in different labels and that's a very good way of underground promotion besides releasing albumes, also our website helps a lot and of course we continue with our massive record-trading contacts, spreading flyers,etc. We carry the distro of lots of our releases, we enjoy a lot doing that and it's very good way to know bands and labels from every corner of this doomed planet.

Can you talk about the Spanish scene ? Are there many zines or labels to promote the bands ?

There are a few good bands but they are all old bands, it has been a long time without hearing something new interesting enough, now the grinders try to imitate Nasum or Pig Destroyer, nobody cares about Carcass, Autopsy or Repulsion. Things have changed a lot and I don't feel identified with the spanish scene. I don't know any printed zine into grindcore right now in Spain, and the only labels who support this style are Throne records and the new one Living Dead Society.

Is it hard to find some dates to play ?

If you enjoy playing shows in dirty squatters, losing money,patience and health, you can play very often around the motherfuckin HC/punk scene,but if you wanna play in good places the oportunnities are just a few. We don't play so much shows cos' of this.

Did you ever play in France ? What do you think about our scene ? What is your favourite French band ? What can you say about French scene ?...

No,we never played in France but hope to do it sooner or later. My fave French band is Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, and I'm very curious to hear Funeralium, gotta pick up their demo tape soon.

Do some members of the band have a side project ?

Yeah,we have a few side projects but they are resting right now,we're always concentrate in Machetazo, and when it leaves some free time (not very often) we like to record some demos with friends. I recorded some tracks with Uge (Throne recs) under the name of Worship The Sun, total doom metal oriented. Rober has another project into doom metal, can't remember the name right now... and Carlos Cadaver has some songs in mind into extreme technical brutal death metal in a project named From The Crypts. ..

Do you have some future project for the band ?

The future plans are recording the new album and also two tracks for a split 7" with Cianide (USA), after the record release we'll play some shows around Spain,there are another show plans but it's soon to say anything sure.

That’s all, thanks for having time to reply this interview… You can write some words to conclude..

Thanx to you Dr Gore, your website looks amazing, all the best luck keeping the support to the underground ! General Surgery/Machetazo split 7" out now, anybody interested feel free to drop me an email, ok ?

http://www.machetazo.org