interview with Cutterred Flesh

Have any of you played in other bands? Yes. Our guitarist Vitalij plays in melodic death metal band “I Warned You” together with our bass player Zdeněk and in death metal band “Pandemia”. Zdeněk also plays in punk rock “Fallen Angels” and post hardcore “Hadem pro mého munga”.

What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you? We play in four member composition. Drummer is Miroslav Frček – 39 years old, guitarist Vitalij Novak – 32 years old, second guitarist David Krombholz – 24 years old a bass player Zdeněk Hnízdil – 26 years old.

Have you had other previous members? In past we played with ex bass player Roman Pech and in autumn 2014 left singer Stanislav Malý.

Did you make music even when you were young? It depends what you mean ´young´. We are making music from our teenage years.

Where are you from? Half band (Miroslav and Vitalij) is from Karlovy Vary and second half (David and Zdeněk) from Chodov – city near the Karlovy Vary.

What year did the band form? Cutterred Flesh was founded on November 2001.

What's your style of genre? Brutal death metal.

What inspires you? In the beginnings was our band influenced with Mortician. Nowadays we try to play our original music with own sound, movements and riffs.

How often and where do you rehearse? We try to rehearse twice a week. In the former School canteens.

How have you developed since you started with the music? Now we are much better musicians than before. Every our album means step forward. And that goes for guitar riffs and much worked out drums and lyrics. Our gigs are more and more elemental also.

Do you have other interests of work outside the band? Each of us like literature. Miroslav devote his time to his family too and Vitalij likes gym. But it has to be said that outside the band is our biggest hobby music again.

Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? We are not under any booking agency. Everything is planned by us, but it takes much time. So in the future, who knowsJ.

Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? We look for any label before releasing every album. Nevertheless every time we have luck and agreed on agreement with first label we contacted. In one´s time we were satisfied with every label. They do for us maximum. We appreciate that people was found who was ready to invest to our music.

What made you decide to make this music? We are music fans for all our lives and when we were younger we want to play music like our favorites.

What are your songs about? About techniques of torture, execution, depress, alcohol and following bizarre suicide or plague.

Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? Music is written by all members, lyrics by singer. But now we are without vocalist and behind the microphone will stand our guitarist Vitalij. Future lyrics will probably from his head.

Do you start with the music or the lyrics? We always start with music, than goes vocal lines.

Have you done any covers live? Not yet

What language do you sing in? Only English even though we are from Czech republic

What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? Most attended gigs we have played were Obscene Extreme fest 2007 and Czech Death Fest on summer 2014. But sometimes you have to play at 2 am at almost empty club for few totally drunk freaks, but it´s ok :)

What ages are most of your concert attendants? From teenagers to men in forties.

Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? It depends on latest album. We usually play songs from it and gradually put newest songs to playlist until we go to studio a recorded next album.

Do you have a regular place you play live often? No, but we organize own actions in our city and there we play also. It is twice a year, in spring and autumn.

What was your first gig like? First gig was in 2002 with one other regional band. We were fucking nervous, but in the end we, so-so, did it.

What was your latest gig? Latest gig we played in Modrá Vopice club, in Prague. It was 13rd February 2015.

Have you had to cancel a gig? Yes. It happens two times. For the first time it was because of broken car and for the second time drummer´s wife abruptly became seriously ill.

Where have you played live this year? Because of our composing a new material, this year is quite poor in gigs. We played 13rd February in Prague and 21st March in Pilsen.

Where do you plan to gig the coming year? At the moment is planed just one gig for year 2015 In Prague. As we said, we are aimed on composing now.

When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? We sale merchandise from our start. Nowadays you can buy T-shirts with motives of our first regular album Torture is medicine, second album Cause the Apocalypse and third album Dying in pieces. We have sweatshirts and higher mentioned albums also. You can take our vinyl split EP Cutterred Flesh/ Smashed Face too.

Where can people buy your merchandise? On our concerts or order through websites/ email.

What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records nowadays? Real fan or collector always will support his favorites, but downloading music is propagation also. On the other hand we are not in the position, when selling albums bring us any earnings, so we can´t complain about it.

How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? It is hard to answer. We haven´t any experiences with large music industry.

What do you think of my work? It´s great hobby, meritorious job and great occasion for band from the whole world to get any space for other fans in the other countries. You do it well.

Do you have any role models or idols? Nobody concrete. We like many metal, rock, punk, alternative and electronic bands. Each of us listens to different music.

Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? It depends on band. Some modern bands are really great and full of ideas, but old school classic metal matadors are insurmountable.

What have been your biggest obstacles? Every departure of any ex member. When Roman (ex-bass player) left, it takes some time of inaction, but after this period came to the Cutterred Flesh David and Zdeněk and everything turned about 360°. When Stanislav (ex-singer) left, it was hard also. Now we make new stuff without him, so we will see how it ends up.

What advice would you give other bands or artists? Play, play and play J and be patient also.

How do you get psyched for a gig? Nothing special. Rehearsal and beer. And just before concert we drink some alcohol in a car a talk about everything. We are friends with similar sense of humor.

Do you have any new material? New material is composing nowadays.

What are your web sites? 

Facebook profil: www.facebook.com/pages/Cutterred-Flesh/158482622234

Bandzone profil: http://bandzone.cz/cutterredflesh

How can people reach you? On the street, in the shop or in the bus J No, on our websites, or email address [email protected].

What are your plans for the future? New albums and gigs. Next year we will celebrate 15 years of existence Cutterred Flesh, so we may prepare some surprise.

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