Teufel: I'll cut to the chase and get directly to the first real question. Why is Surgeon General Redrum no longer a part of Lord Gore? Don't give me any lame reasons like "due to musical differences", I want the real reason, like you caught him your backyard with your dog wrapped around his naked waist.
Gurge: Well it was painful for all; he's the nicest guy you could meet. Many an eve, we whored and gored together, boozing it up and handing out beatdowns like a Rent-A-Santa at a welfare Christmas shindig! But our goals were different in the end, our dog was slaughtered long ago, we needed spare parts for the forgotten flesh! We bear him no ill will and wish him well. R.I.P. Redrum.

Have you found a full-time replacement yet, and who is doing the session drumming for the recording of the full length?
SCSI: At this time we do not have a full-time replacement. The session drummer is someone whose identity cannot be released at this time due to shall we say "legal reasons"? I will say this though... The Autophagous Orgy will feature guest musicians from the following bands - Engorged, Fornicator, Thy Infernal, Cumshot, Murdergod (R.I.P.) just to mention a few, as well as a collection of homeless bums and random fast food employees from all your favorite fine dining establishments!

One thing I noticed by looking through the various pictures on the website is that both you and Gurge, or Ray Penckill Regurgiphile, whatever the hell you want to call him, both do vocals and both do it without the restrictions of having instruments wrapped around your necks. It's pretty rare to see that, why did you choose to have two non-instrumentalized vocalists?
Gurge: Well actually I play guitar and do vox, but I just can't belt out the bowel chowder and blunder on guitar at the same time, so live I just do vox and snuff a close friend of the band, takes up the slack on guitar. So most all of the photos of me show me croaking into a mic cause they are all live.

Do you feel the duel vocalists helps improve the band's presence on stage, or is more of a hindrance with the two of you competing for space online as you thrash about?
Nekro: Why are you so amazed by the fact that we have two vocalists? Haven't you ever heard of Extreme Noise Terror? Most bands around nowadays have three vocals anyway. Remember Carcass? We only thrash about on the stage when we perform live, or when we thrash fucking posers at a bar!!!

Why do you insist on playing live with your shirt wide open? Don't you realize that you're a skinny white boy standing in front of men, most of whom have been, or will end up in prison?
Nekro: It seems you are obsessed with my Manowar-esque build! Don't stare at the photos of me for too long or you may go blind. I haven't met too many dedicated metal heads that have been to the joint. Sorry bro!

How are you able to get such a full, thick sound with only one guitarist and one bassist? Or are they both guitarists? I can't really tell. Years of lonely nights alone with strange pornography has left my vision in shambles, so I can't really tell from the pictures and I think I need my secret Exhumed decoder ring to read what each band member does.
Gurge: The lineup of this band is very amorphous, but as I said, SCSI and I sling axe on recordings, we both do bass parts on the CD. Dr. Hordak Skum is one of the founding members who played guiterror on the demo but he left cause we ran out of smack and Thai food, we dropped him off at Greyhound with a smart haircut, $5 and an ass-hair sweater. However, he's promised to return to do his vox on Crash Course In Psychopathology and some leads in exchange for a 4-star order of pad thai and a suitcase full of unmarked Magic The Gathering cards.
SCSI: Now this question really opens up the vault... The original line-up was Hordak and Gurge on guitars, me on bass, and Nekro on vox and SG Redrum on drums. The line up quickly shifted because of Hordak's constant "where is he now" status and I took over on guitars. Last time we heard from him he was running in and out of whore houses avoiding "The man" overseas. We recently parted ways with SG Redrum and are looking for a permanent replacement. You interested? How about Abbas? He was out here last year drinking my beer with Impaled!

Obviously my vision is good enough that I can see that SCSI and Snuff are both wearing masks and Gurge seems to be running around in a garbage man's uniform. Is this a crack on, or tribute to, Slipknot?
Nekro: Look, some of us are wanted for crimes that I cannot speak of for fear of being tracked down. If Snuff was to show his face in public, he would be brought up on several federal charges including necroprostitution.
SCSI: I have a rare bone marrow disease that forces me to wear a mask when I leave my clean room. Trust me, it's not pretty.

What about the bullet belts and spikes?
Nekro: We are a METAL band, metal bands wear spikes, leather, bullet belts, bones and other metal bands' shirts!! Again with the image, why don't you e-mail me your fashion tips for fall and winter 2001?!?!
Gurge: I used to own a pretty sweet ass-hair sweater with real pube hand ticking, but as I said, I gave it over to Skum when he split.
SCSI: Yeah! What about em?

Why do you choose to hide under pseudonyms, rather than using your real names? Are you all mild mannered reporters for the Daily Globe by day and death metal super hero metal warriors by night? If so, do you have any special powers?
Gurge: Well actually, we've done many things that would be frowned upon by the man, an Asian prostitution ring gone horribly awry, uhh... several budding meth kitchens, not to mention numerous illegitimate lil' gorelings who were unfortunately spawned by our laundry list of gorewhores, so we've seen fit to disguise our good names and we've switched to our maiden names for privacy and all. No super powers unless you count a third ball and the ability to clear a city block when dropping anchor! (Light a damn match ya hesshier!)
SCSI: I can type 120 WPM, is that special?

Judging by the sound on your Darks Lords Of The Cyst, and your cover on Wizards Of Gore, that Impetigo have had a strong influence on your music. Why did you choose to cover Breakfast At The Manchester Morgue and how do you feel about the tribute album as a whole?
Nekro: The Impetigo tribute album was a complete honor for myself personally, as Impetigo were the most original, sick, primitive gore-death band ever! Plus, I'm from Illinois and Stevo was a total mentor to me for helping me with my mag, In The Form Of Darkness, by sending me Impetigo and tape trading other bands' stuff for me that was IMPOSSIBLE to get at that time (1990-1993) in Illinois! I was fortunate enough to see Impetigo with Phantasm and the godly Disciples Of Hate in'92. Manchester... is the song that is furthest left of what they always did, it's sooo creepy and moody that you can envision the dead devouring their victims, and taking over the world! It gave me chills to listen to their version when I first heard it!

Speaking of the tribute, it was released by Razorback Records. Why did you decide to sign with Razorback? Was it the allure of Billy's moustache?
Gurge: Well Bill and Jill were staunch supporters of our disgusting dreck from the get go. Hordak and I had met Billy back in '86 at a Forbidden concert in San Francisco, (CHALICE OF BLOOD!!!!!) and we started trading the popular and collectable Garbage Pail Kids cards. I was fingered for several stat rape charges and an '89 sodomy charge in Wisconsin, and when I finally got outta the slam it was 2000, so I changed my name from 40-Dog Smoke Bear, went whoring, crawled out of whatever bottle I slept in and said "Hot damn!! I want to be in one of those new fangled gore metal bands and then I want to put it out via that Billy guy from the Forbidden show!" Soon after we met Jill and were charmed pink and twitching by how kool she was as well.
SCSI: Why WOULDN'T we sign with Razorback? They're the undisputed Kings Of Gore!

The new album will feature artwork by Waita Uziga of Japan. From what I've seen of his artwork, he seems to prefer drawing gore in an Anime cartoonish style. I'm almost afraid to ask, but what exactly does he have planned for the new cover? Sailor Moon being sodomized and skull fucked? I only mention that example, because that's a sample I saw on his website.
Gurge: Well, I don't want to give it away, lets just call it tasty. The album will be called The Autophagous Orgy so derive from that what you may. Its very disturbing, but I think the kids will appreciate it, very gory, but you can still spank to it. Sailor Moon blows ass! Trey must take gay pills to dig that shit cartoon! I'm a fan of the Urotsukidoji series, La Blue Girl, Ninja Scroll, and my fave Japanese flick ever Mermaid In A Manhole from the Guinea Pig series, plus they have the hottest lil' mama-sans ever to make a discreet $5 over yonder in Japan!

I'm sure you've heard all about your label mates, Intense Hammer Rage, and their troubles with customs in Australia. What is your feeling on that subject? Have you ever had problems dealing with customs and how would you react if the same sort of thing were to happen to Lord Gore, with police, forensics and customs officials raiding your home?
Gurge: Well we've never had any trouble with customs so far, but if the authorities or the ATF wants to have a little, I say BRING IT! Here at the vomitorivm compound, we're at work around the clock and have amassed enough firearms, top ramen and fresh porn to make Waco look like a three hour tour!
Nekro: Yea, we don't live in the land of warmetal godz SADISTIK EXEKUTION! FUKK YOU WE ARE METAL!
SCSI: It's real simple chief, we're using his art and there's nothing ANYONE can do about it.

With Uziga doing the artwork, are you now planning on this possibility, should Billy try to distribute the CD anywhere outside of North America? Or even within North America?
Gurge: Yeah the art won't cause a problem, its so loving and Disney-esque, almost wholesome that it is sure to be embraced by the warm and sugary public.
SCSI: If the art gets banned, we'll prolly put it on the website with some sort of a disclaimer that will discourage everyone that's not old enough to view from looking at it. There will most likely be a cardboard cutout of one of the girls from the art that says "You must be AT LEAST this tall to view this".

Your lyrics seem to have been written in a very loving and touching manner. Lines like "As I bite at her face and my seed burns her skin, the putrid gestation is coiling within behold the sickening creation of rancid disease. I spit from my loins." is reminiscent of Shakespearean sonnets in their intricate beauty. Should we expect more of the same from The Autophagous Orgy?
Nekro: Why thank you on the Shakespeare comparison. Titus is a stunning piece of work! However, he did not directly participate in the lyric writing process.
Gurge: When we write lyrics, the formula is 50% sickness, 30% pussy reference, 20% misogyny, and 110% class! The ladies dig on em big time!

How about musically? Is there any major change in sound and style, or does the music go along the same path created and perfected with the demo tape?
Nekro: It only gets sicker, gorier, creepier, and more disgusting than before! BEWARE! DO NOT play the Lord Gore CD in a graveyard after 11:11 PM, we will not be held responsible for any zombie molestations, mutilations, lacerations, penetrations, etc.

What sort of reaction have you received from metal fans and zines since the release of your demo and your appearance on the tribute to Impetigo? Specifically from metal warriors from Malaysia, I hear you are considered gods there.
Nekro: We are considered gods on Cybertron, Io, Algol, Monoceros and Neptune, but I had no knowledge of a Malaysian kult of fans!
SCSI: I often get e-mail from people in Malaysia but am missing a translator so I'm not sure of what they're saying. Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure they're FROM Malaysia...

How do you feel about other groups in Oregon and the scene there as a whole? The only other band I can think of from the entire godforsaken state is Engorged... is that the entire metal scene for the state? I know there must be at least one or two other metal heads, since you're also in Wraithen or is it Wrathien?
Gurge: We have a great scene here, its very incestuous as has been said ad infinitum, but the bands are very carnivorous and hungry too, were like a big dopy inbred litter of deformed, slavering, horny saint bernards on crack. Wraithen are friends of ours who dress in black and hold seances on November 11th, creepy bastards those. Our other comrades in severed arms are Engorged and Fornicator, sick wife-beating grudgefuckmongers who have a CD out on Moribund in October.
Nekro: Also, Genital Meat Grinder and black metal heathens Thy Infernal.

Whatever it is it sounds like it could be a breakfast cereal. Wraithen's Bran. Think about it... Anyway, I'm sorry if all of most of these questions were incredibly inappropriate and very very stupid, but I don't really care. I'm sure if I did the interview would have been filled with deep thought provoking questions, but you sing about humping dead bodies, so I'm figuring I shouldn't set my expectations to high. Do you have any final words before I throw gasoline on you and flick matches at you as you run down the street half-naked?
Gurge: Well, thanx for your time and ceaseless browbeating, may your ball hair be entangled with your bung hair forming a poop-proof chode pocket! Til next time, pull up a stool, enjoy a nice steamy bowl of bowel chowder garnished with lung butter and ball cheese, and sell your children to buy our CD The Autophagous Orgy out on Razorback soon! REST IN PIECES!!! XXX
Nekro: Thanks for the support, and I will send you an autographed photo for you to hang on your wall next to your Ross of Impaled Metal Maniacs shot!
SCSI: http://www.lordgore.net - Thanks man, tell your friends!