01. TELL US ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF MALIGNANT GERM INFESTATION?

The beginning of MGI started in 2005 and was pretty much me and a friend making stupid songs about things we didn't like in life. However I then decided to take on the project solo and started creating the sickest music possible, covering many themes that would offend and make the average person feel a little queasy in the stomach. We have had a number of releases over the years including some split cd's with some great bands and we do perform live from time to time as well. Over the years I have had various musicians help me perform the music live, however now it's a pretty solid 3 piece band.

02. HOW YOU DEFINE YOUR MUSIC?

Our music is so hard to define.... But generally you could say "Cyber Porno Gore Grind" as we do extreme metal, using a drum machine, plenty of synth and samples. We are also a band which nobody should take 100% seriously, as we don't take ourselves too seriously. I say that as we are a kind of comedy act at the same time as performing extreme metal, as we use some happy sounding riffs, comedy samples, have some humorous song titles/lyrics, generally bizarre moments in our music and an elaborate but again humorous stage show.

03. DID YOU HAVE PLAYED MANY GIGS?

We don't play that often to be honest, currently we do a gig every 3/4 months, but if we could we would play a lot more often as we enjoy playing this music a lot and would like to get out and show the world what MGI is all about and hopefully get a few more people into it! So far the general audience response is pretty good from our gigs as we put on an insane show to go along with our music and we do something a bit different every show. The outfits always change (Except our vocalist "The Wolfman" who is seen in a khaki jump suit etc...) some of the on-stage antics may be done in various shows, but there is always something new to be witnessed.

04. HOW IS THE ACTUAL LINE UP?

The band started off with me alone, (Rob Jeremy) however over the years the live line-up has changed a lot but currently the line up is pretty solid, "The Wolfman" is the main second member covering the majority of the lyric writing and vocal duties live for some years and on the recordings since the album "Into The Asylum Of The Sexually Deranged". I do most of the song writing and recording myself and we also have a live bass player who is known as "Johndom" who has also contributed a couple of riffs to some songs which have yet to be recorded. 

05. WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE?

We have a couple of CD's left in stock in limited quantities, these are the double album "Into The Asylum Of The Sexually Deranged" which is an interesting release as the first disc is the metal side of the band with our generally quirkiness mixed in though the second disc is completely full of synth tracks and piss take rap-songs. This album was the first release after a 3/4 year hiatus so there was a lot of material in the works during that time so it made sense to release a double disc album mixing our metal and synth tracks together in one release.

We also have available our latest release, again in limited numbers, "Angry Toilet" this is a split CD with a band who we're personally friendly with called "Sperm Injection" which is a one man act from Marcus PhD, Sperm Injections music is very hard to define but it's a sort of electronic grind, again with a similar humour as MGI so the split works really well with both bands together.= on one disc. + This album also boasts the beautiful artwork of Lou Rusconi, who has done art for us before and never disappoints, he's a sick artist and blew us away with this cover, it represents the songs perfectly!

We also have a T Shirt available in our store which is again very limited. This is the "Slashed Up, Splattered Guts and Eternally Fucked" design.

I guess there is also the majority of our back catalogue on bandcamp which can also be purchased/donated to as well.

06. TELL US ABOUT THE SCENE IN UK?

The metal scene in the UK is pretty strong. There are a lot of great bands from the UK who are playing shows and doing their thing and hopefully on a small scale these bands (like ourselves) will continue to play shows and keep the scene alive. On a higher scale we tend to get a lot of high profile acts coming through the country on tours, especially in London as well as having a few metal festivals each year, so we always have some great bands playing somewhere. The support from British metal fans is also pretty good, people travel all over the country to go and see the bands they love and often support the bands by buying the CDs and T Shirts as well as being a pretty mad crowd which always makes a gig that bit better.

07. WHAT ARE YOUR INSPIRATIONS FOR THE YOUR MUSICS?

As a band we have a lot of different inspiration as far as our stuff goes as we aren't only inspired by other music, but other forms of media and art as well. As far as music inspiration goes of course the main inspiration is other metal acts, i'm not going to go into listing them as there are too many to name! But we also listen to lots of different types of music which ranges from hiphop/grime to industrial or classical. The inspiration from other types of music I think does help us find a bit of a different/more unique sound to most extreme metal bands and can be heard quite frequently in our music.

08. THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT. ANY LAST COMMENTS?

Thanks to you for giving us this interview and helping support underground metal in general! Of course we send our thanks to anyone who helps to support our band, so thanks to everyone out there who is buying the music/merch, spreading word about us or putting us on at shows! THANKS TO YOU PEOPLE! KEEP IT SICK!!!

+ If anybody out there is interested in checking out our stuff you can hear a lot of our (old) material on bandcamp here:

http://malignantgerminfestation.bandcamp.com/

And if anyone wants to buy any of our stuff you can find our shop here:

http://malignantgerminfestation.bigcartel.com/


Cheers from Malignant Germ Infestation!