Abosranie Bogom is a mighty couple of brutal guys playing such inconceivably unrepeatable and inhumanly horrifying gore/porn/shit grind, that even the most diehard fans of extreme music can shit their pants during the first listening (sometimes from laughter). After getting acquainted with the demo tape of these guys I got encouraged and decided to find out what pushed (or should I say «punched»?) them to, I’m not afraid to say it, shit out thirty five tracks of demented aural bedlam that is called music among the most gifted people. Founder, bass/guitar/vocals and the mastermind behind the band — monsieur Shiteater (known as Jash in the world of mortals) graciously answered my immodest questions.

- (AK) I think it will be logical to start with the band’s history — how the band was founded, through what hardship it came through, what has it issued, the line-up of the band?

- (AB) Well, somewhere in the beginning of summer of ‘99 me and a couple of my friends were sitting and listening to German band Gut and we came to the conclusion that it wouldn’t hurt us to create a band/project to express our inbecility, perversion and other cool things. The band has always consisted basically of myself, but different friends were rendering their aid on almost any song, somebody with vocals, somebody with something else, that is, people were coming in and out. Today AB has transformed into the project with only two members: me and The Colon Grinding Corpse Butcher from Intestinal Disgorge who does drums, and I do everything else — vocals, bass and all guitar parts. Currently we have only 4-way Split Tape with us, Intestinal Disgorge, Demonic Orgy and Slough. We just put our demo [under the name of "Isus Pokritiy Ponosom" / "Jesus Covered With Diarrhoea" —AK] on this tape. This split was issued by a dude from Demonic Orgy, but probably it will be issued by three distros: Obliteration Records (C.S.S.O.), on a French label that belongs to Infected Pussy and somewhere else. The price is $3 for US and $4 for other countries. You can order it through Demonic Orgy (e-mail: aaagghhh@mail.com). Right now we are working on the new album which will be much more cooler than our demo. Our new stuff will be in the vein of gore/porn/shit grind, but it won’t be sounding as our old stuff, there will be no noise. It is doubtful that we’ll be writing any lyrics because our songs are too short.

- (AK) I’d like to to know the origin of such an extravagant band name. What led you to create such a peculiar band moniker? Were there any other versions? And finally, what is the correct name of the band — «Obosrannye Bogom», «Abosranie Bogom» or «Defecated On By God»?

- (AB) Well, we were definitely influenced by Gut and various coprophagic movies which I got via the internet. We decided to create something perverse, unusual, something that a usual man would’ve never dared to do. The name came to us when we started to talk about shit; actually, there were other suggestions, but this one we liked the most. Yet, the correct name is «Abosranie Bogom» with letter A, it is written this way intentionally, not because we’re illiterate, but for it just to look more imbecilic.

- (AK) How would you define death metal? How does it differ from grindcore?

- (AB) Personally I don’t go in for grindcore and death metal at all. Maybe brutal death/grind, gore grind, porn grind and of course shit grind.

- (AK) Do you think that the current way-too-detailed stratification of styles present in grindcore is legitimate? Are there any real serious musical differences between, say, goregrind and deathcore; noisecore, shitcore and porncore? Don’t you think that they are just labels used by the bands that try to distinguish themselves from the main flock?

- (AB) I think that we simply can’t get along without such a detailed stratification of styles. There’s quite a lot of styles in grind, for example, grindcore, gore grind, porn grind, noisecore, crustcore, shit grind, and all of them are different. Gore, porn and shit grind are actually the same style from musical point of view, it’s lyrics that differ, for example, if lyrics are about shit, it’s shit grind, if lyrics are about rape, it’s porno grind and so on. And grindcore, crustcore and noisecore are not really my cup of tea, because I don’t listen to and I don’t want to listen to these styles.

- (AK) What were you listening to before shitcore?

- (AB) Black metal and brutal death metal, basically.

- (AK) Do you think that the scene of non-political grind is experiencing its Golden Age?

- (AB) Yeah, sure!

- (AK) What bands influenced you most?

- (AB) The bands like Gut, Cock And Ball Torture, Purulent Spermcanal, Intestinal Disgorge, Utopie, Mucupurulent, Last Days Of Humanity, Inhume, Alienation Mental, Gore, Spleen (USA), Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, Fleshgrinder and many more.

- (AK) How it is that you ended up playing shitcore?

- (AB) First, we do not play shitcore, we are playing gore/porn/shit grind. This style has been in existence long before ever we started to play at all, though we didn’t know it when we started. But the bands like, say, Intestinal Disgorge and Impaled have been playing before us, and now a Dutch band Slokdarm Poep that plays gore/shit grind as well has also popped out.

- (AK) Is it necessary to know how to play your instruments in order to create a masterpiece in such style as shitcore?

- (AB) The ability to play your instruments is necessary. Our demo sounded like noisecore instead of gore/shit grind because we didn’t know how to record properly, and we recorded all the songs by ourselves and we have never visited a studio. But it doesn’t matter, because our next album will sound like true gore/shit grind, not like noisecore.

- (AK) I’ve listened to the infamous Mayhem «Pure Fucking Armageddon» demo (1986) recently and its sound looked pretty much like an AB demo to me. Do you have any comments on this?

- (AB) Frankly speaking, I don’t like Mayhem and I’ve heard only one album of theirs called «De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas» which I do not like at all.

- (AK) Please tell me about AB’s concept of shit and ass. How does it influence the music, the lyrics?

- (AB) We don’t have any actual lyrics, maybe the song titles that also are the lyrics to some extent; you see, our first demo was just a joke, we even weren’t expecting that somebody will listen to it, but it went its way and we won’t stop here, now we are going to play more serious music though there still will be jokes and fun, and there’ll be much more coprophagic atmosphere.

[In order to properly understand the concept of Abosranie Bogom, it is absolutely necessary to familiarize yourself with The Anal Bible written by Shiteater. Here is an excerpt from this epic work, posted in this interview under author's permission. —AK]

T h e A n a l B i b l e

Chapter 1 – Anal Statements, Sins and Rules

Anal Statements

1) Anus is the gate between the bowels and Earth. Shit must go through that gate. The price that shit pays for passing the gate is the bad smell it gets.
2) Anus is the home of shit, people don’t respect the shit that lies on the ground because they consider it being homeless.
3) Shit has feelings! They must be respected! Homeless shit musn’t be stepped on!
4) Anus is the way to get to a girl’s/boy’s heart
5) Anal wisdom can only be given to the chosen ones!

Anal Sins

1) Never hide your shit from others and play with it on the sly without sharing it with others!
2) Never shave your ass!
3) The use of vaseline is forbidden, it must hurt for you to cum!
4) Never hurry to put your cock in the ass hole, do it slowly!
5) You musn’t use protection of any kind when you’re having anal sex!
6) Never wash and/or wipe your ass before having anal sex, to get pleasure, You have to pay the price of smelling bad and/or getting dirty!
7) You musn’t ever tell any words of anal wisdom to the unbelivers!

Anal Rules

01) Always put things like dildo or a vibrator in your ass to stretch it!
02) You must masturbate a lot!
03) The use of a broom is tolerated.
04) You may spit on your dick before inserting it into the anus!
05) You must use your anus wisely! [The best point, IMHO. —AK]
06) When you are in a company of some other people and you want to fart, you must fart loudly, and spread your smell this way so that everybody can share it equally!
07) You must eat your shit if there’s no other food available. But always be sure you do it with joy and pleasure so the shit’s feelings won’t get hurt!
08) You must treat other people’s shit just as well as if it was your own!
09) When you ride a bicycle, you must take its seat off before you sit on it!
10) Always relax the anus before getting ass-fucked, otherwise you will walk funny for a while
11) If your man is not into anal, he is a bore in bed, RUN

[You can check more stuff about the conception of ass and shit on deathgrind.com. The official band site (URL is given at the end of the interview) can also give you some information. —AK]

- (AK) What color must authentic, honourable runny shit possess?

- (AB) The colour of child’s diarrhea. I also think that the best vomit is the vomit after a shitty dinner (in a literal sense).

- (AK) Is an ass which sucks in everything (including itself), a possible theme for an Abosranie Bogom song?

- (AB) It’s an old and boring theme.

- (AK) Is «Anus In The Fog» based on the famous psychodelic animation film «Hedgehog In The Fog»?

- (AB) Yes, sort of, I got this idea when I was watching this animated cartoon and I simply decided to name a song this way.

- (AK) I would describe AB’s music as an avant-garde trance version of Anal Cunt. What would you say about such a definition?

- (AB) Actually, I hate Anal Cunt’s music, lest their lyrics, which are quite funny and cool. We simply sound like them because we didn’t know how to record our demo properly, but we’ll improve in the future.

- (AK) Why have you written such a monumental work as «The Anal Bible»?

- (AB) One day an idea to write a parody on «Satanic Bible» has emerged, that’s why I wrote it.

- (AK) What would you recommend to musicians who just have started to plow the fields of goregrind?

- (AB) Create something original and do not excessively copy other bands.

- (AK) I haven’t found lyrics on AB’s website. Can you describe to us what are they about?

- (AB) Well, we don’t have any actual lyrics. We had one text once, but we decided not to use it, because it was too long, and all our songs are shorter than a minute, ha-ha.

- (AK) Do you think that politics is a legitimate topic for death metal and/or Grindcore? What do you think of Dying Fetus and Napalm Death? Should death-metallers write lyrics about social problems?

- (AB) I think that you shouldn’t mix politics with music, at least in grindcore where you should write lyrics about perversion, sadomasochism, various diseases, etc. Down with fat bastards!!! I didn’t like Napalm Death from the very beginning, though they’re the founders of grindcore. I can listen to Dying Fetus once in a while, but I don’t quite like them, actually.

- (AK) What is pop in your opinion? Can a band playing death or grind be or became pop?

- (AB) I think that pop is not only bullshit like Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls, pop also exists in metal and in extreme metal as well. For example, take bands like Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir and even Deicide — they are commercial bands, they play for the sake of money — this is true pop. It is possible to became pop in death-metal somehow, but it is unlikely so in grind, because there aren’t many people who listen to grind.

- (AK) Shitcore — was this definition of the band’s style given by you or by somebody else?

- (AB) Well, as I told before, there were bands already playing shit grind before us.

- (AK) Can you compare AB with any other band? Do you have a paragon band, an ideal you want to achieve?

- (AB) Actually, we try to be as original as possible, but we are certainly influenced by Gut and some other bands.

- (AK) Have AB ever played live?

- (AB) No, and I doubt that it will ever happen in the future.

- (AK) I know that you are from St. Petersburg (correct me if I’m wrong). What is your relationship with other bands from SBP? What do you think about the ex-USSR scene? Is it prospective?

- (AB) Whence do you know that I’m from SPB? I haven’t lived there long. I’m living in Israel now, though I’m not a Jew. I do not know any grind bands here except Lehavoth (brutal death/grind) and AB (to tell the truth, we were a completely Russian band before we disbanded a bit). Frankly speaking, I was never interested in the ex-USSR scene. But I like the bands like Necrocannibal and Carnal Decay, even some bands that play black metal.

- (AK) What do you think of drugs?

- (AB) Drugs are quite bad… though beer is okay, if you can call it drug.

- (AK) Do you care about politics?

- (AB) I absolutely don’t.

- (AK) What do you think about gore stuff and lyrics? Do you think that they became a cliché? Can such subjects be interesting for an intelligent man?

- (AB) Personally I’m interested more in music than in lyrics, and everybody takes lyrics in his own way: there are people who are interested in them, there arå people who do not read them at all and there are those who just do not take them seriously.

- (AK) What do you usually listen to? What do you prefer? What can’t you stand?

- (AB) I usually listen to death, gore, shit, porn grind, sometimes even black metal (but not pop one). I prefer the most brutal in the grind scene. I can’t stand the bands that copy others, pop/commercial bands and most of all the bands that start to bullshit when they receive bad press, for example, Cenotaph from Turkey.

- (AK) What do you think of black, especiallly its ideological side?

- (AB) I think nothing about its ideological site at all, and its musical side… there are bands that I really like, for example, Graveland, (early) Satyricon, etc.

- (AK) What had you thought or felt when you saw the sleeves of Carcass and Cannibal Corpse albums for the first time?

- (AB) I felt nothing when I saw the sleeves, but I felt a great pleasure when I heard the music.

- (AK) What can you say about the world of death metal and grind?

- (AB) I can say nothing about world the death metal scene because I’m not into it, and the (gore) grind scene is the most brutal and non-commercial scene.

- (AK) What do you dislike in people?

- (AB) Poseurship and imbecility.

- (AK) What are your thoughts towards religion?

- (AB) Bad ones, I don’t like religions at all.

- (AK) What about the internet? Mp3? What changes can the internet bring into the life of a musician?

- (AB) Less feisty things, ha-ha!

- (AK) What do you do in your spare time, other than music? Do you study/work?

- (AB) I’m studying in a University.

- (AK) What are your thoughts about fouling-up of our planet and Greenpeace? Just don’t tell me that you had nothing to do with it! :)

- (AB) I think that Greenpeace is total bullshit. Planet has always been fouled-up, and it will always be the same, it cannot be changed.

- (AK) What do you think about Beavis and Butthead? Do you think that creators of this series were complete idiots, or they simply wanted to make a cynical parody on dumb American teens?

- (AB) I think both.

- (AK) Is it possible to live in Russia on money from music?

- (AB) No, and moreover I don’t respect the people that want to make money with their music, especially in extreme scene.

- (AK) What E-zines would you recommend to our readers? What are your thoughts about «underground» press and reviews?

- (AB) I would recommend my own E-Zine called «DeathGrind WebZine». I like underground press a lot, reviews too — I’m writing them myself.

- (AK) Do you think that the creator can do everything that is okay with his inner sense?

- (AB) Yes, definitely.

- (AK) What attitude do you have towards cult horror movies?

- (AB) I like comedies. :)

- (AK) What do you think about necrophilia and other paraphilias?

- (AB) I think it’s wonderful. But I’m fascinated more with coprophagy, coprophilia and coprotherapy treatment.

- (AK) Your attitude towards hippies?

- (AB) Bad.

- (AK) Punks?

- (AB) Bad.

- (AK) Hoodlums?

- (AB) Even worse.

- (AK) Policemen?

- (AB) Bad.

- (AK) Scrubwomen in men’s bathroom?

- (AB) No way.

- (AK) Hobos asking to leave them a bottle?

- (AB) No way.

- (AK) Living small children?

- (AB) Very bad. [Jash, are you sure you cook them properly? —AK]

- (AK) Dead small children?

- (AB) Very good.

- (AK) Jokes about dead small children?

- (AB) Even better.

- (AK) What are you enjoying more — optimism or pessimism?

- (AB) Imbecility and not giving a fuck. :)

- (AK) If you were told that there are 24 hours left before the end of the world, how would you’ve spent these 24 hours?

- (AB) I’d have my sleep out! :)

- (AK) Have your eyes ever run after entering a pay toilet?

- (AB) Yeah, sure — you can’t imagine how it hurts my feelings when people flush their dungs.

- (AK) Your dearest dream?

- (AB) My dream is to turn all water in the world into runny shit. :)

- (AK) Your future plans?

- (AB) We plan to put out as much shit (shit/gore grind albums) as possible.

- (AK) Greetings, wishes, thoughts, words and everything else you want to say?

- (AB) First, thanks a lot for the interview and thanks to all who support the grind scene, and also I want to say a huge «Fuck you» to all commercial bands and all poseurs! Stay Brutal, Disgusting and Sick!

[I think it makes some sense to demonstrate attitude of AB's leader towards gore-grind with his own words taken from Deathgrind E-Zine and posted here under his permission. —AK]

…What Gore Grind is all about:

These are some points which we think are worth noticing about the music we play. Of course these are only OUR opinions so that doesn’t mean you have to agree…. In case you don’t, you suck anyway, he-he…

1) You shouldn’t be good at playing your instrument. Technicality is a show off.
2) You must record your demo/CD/LP/EP/whatever with a raw production. Therefore at home or garage with your own recording equipment. Good production is NOT what goregrind is all about.
3) Pitch shifted vocals are a must and spice up the music(k) with a tinge of insanity.
4) Even if you play the most brutal music ever, if you even own a CRADLE OF FILTH shirt, you’re simply an idiotic fart.
5) We need not mention that down-tuning is the most obviously required thing in goregrind. The lower the better.
6) Goregrind is all about Death, Gore, Porn, and the entire universe as far as negativity is concerned. Any peace, christian lyrics prove you’re simply playing the wrong music.
7) You should use intros from films to enhance the perversion, sickness and back up your songs. Only ONE intro before the start of your material shows that you are not perverted, dirty, depraved and sick enough, and you’re a weak pussy piece of crap.
8) As a complement to rule #7, the intros from films shouldn’t be taken from crappy mainstream films such as SCREAM, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER or the crap that’s coming out today. Your choice of films plays a very important factor in the quality of the sickness. Beware.
9) If you start off as a GoreGrind band, then quit or even worse, wimp out and start playing any style which is NOT GoreGrind, then you’re a commercial sell out or just plainly a fake pussy poser.
10) Artwork plays a very, very important factor in your overall work as a band. Pictures stolen from the Gore Gallery or other now famous Gore, Pathological sites simply show how uncreative you are. Artwork should be a cheesy, hand drawn sick paintings done by the band members themselves.
11) If you do not show some originality in your music(k), you suck and you’re untalented too. Also, plain and boring live performances furthermore prove you’re a born loser.
12) If you don’t agree, fit in or whatever with these rules, consider yourselves out of the scene.

We are sorry for any inconveniences made. If this has offended you in any way, we the staff sincerely don’t give a shit and we can also add that you can fuck off in a traditional, inferior, feminine manner.

Cool? Welcome to official Abosranie Bogom page @ abosraniebogom.deathgrind.com!

E-mail:
Jash aka Shiteater @ abosraniebogom[AT]deathgrind.com
The Colon Grinding Corpse Butcher @ corpsebutcher[AT]workspot.net