Bile Of Man
Bile Of Man
A great beast laid in wake of the Earth’s mind. A dark conscience within all mankind called … Bile Of Man. erm… maybe that’s not quite it… oh well, we got hold of Bile Of Man anyway and asked these South African Death metallers a couple of questions about their brutally driven metal awesomeness and the real meaning behind their delicious band name!
Puure ‘Suid Afrikaanse Brutale Vrekyster!’
BILE OF MAN ARE: VOCALS: Rehan De Kock GUITARS: Bennie Burger
GUITARS: Nicolas Sothmann DRUMS: Riaan Els BASS: Choroz Bileous
Collaborated Interview By: Scream and MDF
Headbang Today: Welcome to the family of Headbang Today! There is but one house rule and it’s no cannibalism! Everything else goes while constant headbanging is compulsory! We suppose that’s no problem for the members of Bile Of Man, right?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: We got the headbanging down, but whats this about house rules and you leave out an important one: One should always try and be offensive. Unless you make me some coffee. Right now!!
Headbang Today: If you had to cover a Cannibal Corpse song, which would it be?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: It would have to be Stripped, Raped and Strangled! Such a Brutal song!!
Headbang Today: If Bile Of Man could work with any other artist in a big event, who would it be and where would the event be held?
Bile Of Man: Riaan: For me it would have to be Morbid Angel and it could be anywhere. They are the Kings of Death Metal!!!
Headbang Today: You’ll be coming down to Cape Town for your Stages of Brutality gigs on the 26th of March this year. Are you excited about rocking the shit out of capetonian headbangers?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: Oh yes!! We can’t wait to spill some new blood, we want to see the old school moshing, headbanging, heavy drinking crazy motherfuckers to come and show us what the Cape Town scene is made of and that they CAN mosh and keep the pits going!
Riaan: I think we are all very excited, we have never played Cape Town and I hear it’s great down there.
Headbang Today: You’ll also be performing at MotherFudd 2010 where they will also be attempting to break the Guiness world record for ‘MOST HEADBANGING SIMULTANEOUSLY!’ How much headbanging are you planning on for that? (make us proud!)
Bile Of Man: Bennie: For the World Record attempt (Which is great for international exposure), I guess it will be for the duration of whichever song it is that they choose to have us headbang on. But as for the other bands playing, I am sure there will be much more extensive headbanging to take place while watching other bands as well.
Headbang Today: What inspired you guys to become musicians in this genre?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: There is no money. Huge inspiration. No actually since the garage days of covering Sepultura, Slayer and MetallicA, I had listened to Nile and Morbid Angel, but never attempted to learn any of their songs. And when I started realizing what music is, it became clear to me that the three most challenging genre’s to play are Jazz, Classical and Death Metal. And this is purely an opinion driven statement, because apparently it’s very hard to produce dance music and any variation thereof. Personally, with my untrained ear, I can’t hear the significant difference between “House” “Rave” and/or “EBM”. But that’s just me, it might be all the years of death metal and noise that destroyed my ears.
Headbang Today: Tell us more about your actual band name, how did it originate?
Bile Of Man: Riaan: I will give you the short version. I came up with the name so that there’s an array of subjects to write about. Just so that we aren’t nailed down to one subject. So our lyrical themes are mostly about mankind and the bad side of the world, of the reality we live in. We like to keep things really brutal, so the name “Bile of Man” suites our theme and style quite well. Plus it sounds really cool.
Headbang Today: We would like to hear about what went down at your craziest gig ever!
Bile Of Man: Bennie: I would actually say that it must have been one of our best gigs ever!! We were playing alongside Tranquil and The Dead Will Tell at the Black Dahlia in Boksburg. When we hit the stage after TDWT, the crowd was so hyped up because of shit that happened in the middel of TDWT’s set, between slamdancers and moshers. It was honestly some of the most brutal pits I have ever seen. It was pure hate and aggression in that pit. It got so bad in there that the bouncer came up to the stage and threw everyone out the club. We were literally playing in front of 5 or 6 people for more than half our set.
Headbang Today: When can we expect an EP or better yet, a full track album from Bile Of Man?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: We will be hitting the studio in April and then we will set a release date as soon as we have gone through all the motions of shouting at each other in the vocal booth, messing around on Vuvuzela’s and drinking copious amounts of Monster
Headbang Today: With the launch of your official website BileOfMan.com being imminent, give us an inside scoop on what we can expect on it.
Bile Of Man: Bennie: We will have a forum where fans can register and interact with the band and each other. We want to put up a “Hall of Blood” which would be a gallery with photo’s of fans’ injuries as a result of Bileous Mosh Pits, the injured will get the option of getting their own personalized bileofman.com email addresses. There will be a gallery of downloads, songs, pics, and video eventually. We will establish a news blog to keep fans updated to what the latest news is in the band, what we are doing and what we want to do. But this is all still in the mix. We will also be launching an sms hotline for gigs and updates. Still some work to be done and brainstorming to be taken with some vodka, or Bile Drops… (ask us).
Headbang Today: With influences like Morbid Angel, Behemoth, Origin, Nile and Cannibal Corpse on your card, which band would you say was and currently still is the most influencial for Bile Of Man as a whole and what about them is it that fuels you to do what you do?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: To choose one band as the most influential band for Bile of Man as a five piece band, is kind of hard. I think each member draws influences from different bands. For me it would have to be Dying Fetus. I think Dying Fetus is the best death metal act ever!
Headbang Today: You’re known to have “very intimidating means of Brutal Death Vocals”… What would you say your lyrics cover in general?
Bile Of Man: Riaan: We write about what humans have done throughout the ages that are basically, inhumane. Serial killers, torture, war and occasionally religion. But with religion, we do not promote or denounce religion. We write about the factual things in the history, like the witch hunts and burnings, people joining cults and worshiping the devil. We also like to write about our deeper, darker inner feelings which would be Murder, Death and Destruction.
Headbang Today: Tell us about what a typical Bile Of Man Jam session consists out of.
Bile Of Man: Bennie: Ranting at each other mostly. Then we cover our whole set, work out some kinks, and then we would start working on new material. We are currently rehearsing Hotbox Studios in Hatfield, so we try to use our time in the studio as efficiently as possible.
Headbang Today: A sheep in Turkey has just recently given birth to a dead lamb with a human-like face thought to be the result of a rare mutation. What the hell do you think went wrong there? Your opinion on this disturbing matter?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: Woah. Cool song title. HUMAN-FACE-DEATH-LAMB. Brutal. Well who knows, maybe it was an “accident”. Some Turk who just lost his job, his girlfriend who is also his nephew, got drunk at the local, drinking the product of the fermentation/distillation of various insects and human limbs, got lonely and saw a sheep, by itself, in the cold. And well. Let’s just say no one would really know where the Turk is.
Headbang Today: Give us your thoughts on the South African metal scene… room for improvement, or do you think the room has already improved?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: Since we started in April 2007, the scene has changed quite a bit, regained some of it’s roots, fell apart and more generics came along that don’t last very long. So in quite a short period of time a lot has happened. I hope to be bashed for this, so, there is just a lack of consistency in our scene. You get bands that gather a name for themselves and then they claim the title of “Greatest-band-in-the-universe” without considering the fact that half of them are still at school and they are still in South Africa. But with that said, there are still some brilliant acts in this country like Architecture of Aggression, Deane Crescent, Azrail (RIP), Pledge Defiance, Contrast the Water, The WarInsane, Theatre Runs Red, Erebus, Selfmoord, Reverend Henry Kane and some more. But between these bands there is no time for such infantile rabble-rabble bullshit and politics. REAL Metal. But with that said, the same applies for fans. People only support the band if they know the members or if they gain free access somehow. It’s not like people go out just to support metal bands anymore. So there is a lot of improvement to be done there.
Headbang Today: Have any of you headbanged today?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: Is this a question? Have you had your morning coffee yet, Headbangtoday.com?
Headbang Today: Have you ever given touring and gigging internationally a thought? If so, which country would be your first stop and why?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: Yes we have been discussing it quite extensively the last while. But we are stuck in a rut where finances always comes in to play. But when the opportunity comes along, most EU countries is a given for Death Metal, Poland, Germany, Holland and then also DEFINITELY the U.S. Everybody knows that some of the best Brutal Intense Death Fucking Metal is spawned in the states. Morbid Angel, Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, you know, that kind of thing. It’s a dream to tour the states. You could pretty much tour the entire US, play a different state every week and it will take you a year. Thats BRUTAL!!!
Headbang Today: If you were allowed to say but only ONE word to your fans? what would it be?
Bile Of Man: SupercalifragilisticexpialiBILE.
Headbang Today: What can we expect from Bile Of Man during 2010?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: Festivals, Vodka, Energy drinks and a 5 track EP. Look out for it online and check out our gigs, we are to debut new songs very soon.
Headbang Today: So now that Bile Of Man will be performing at MotherFUDD 2010, which song out of your set do you think is bound to get the masses headbanging simultaneously like ravenous beasts at the event?
Bile Of Man: Bennie: Amidst the Chaos is a new contender and I think that it is going to break some necks at this MotherFudd. We are stoked about it and we want our fans to be as well. Headbang. Or DIE. You filthy Bile.
Headbang Today:
Last but not least! Answer these short questions:
Shaken or stirred? Shaken.
Black or white? Black. Unless it’s lingerie, then it’s definitely white!
Leather or lace? Leather
Backhand or bitch slap? RLTPK (reeks lae trajek poes klappe)
Headbang Today: Any last words?
Bile Of man: Thanx to Headbangtoday.com for this interview, it was awesome doing it. Come and check us out at Motherfudd 2010 at 22h00 on Saturday 13th March.
We would like to extend thanx to Nescafe, Russian Bear and Monster for supplying us with eternal drinking pleasure, Yvonne from MotherFudd for organizing such a Brutal festival, Marshall Music for your recent hospitality. And lastly but most importantly the Bile Horde for spilling blood in pure hatred for the human race, passion for metal and self loathing purposes. We hate you.
It’s been a feast having you on Headbang Today! Goodluck with all your up and coming shows and we look forward to having you back here again soon!
