INTERVIWED 1998
1.How old are you?What are you doing in your everyday life?For how long have you been ATRAX MORGUE?
I dont like to talk about my age;Just let you know that I am feeling unborn....I am doing ATRAX MORGUE since 1993.I dont have ordinary life....My life is completely sick and nothing is programmed;I just live like a living dead;My bigger enemy is boredom.
2.What does ATRAX MORGUE mean?
The name ATRAX MORGUE is a combination of two words:It means nothing;ATRAX comes from the name of a big dangerous spider called "ATRAX ROBUSTUS",and MORGUE is the place where the dead are.
3.Judging from your cd titles and song titles,you are interested in serial killers.Do you have any favorite serial killers?I am interested in Peter Sutcliffe and Jeffery Dahmer.How do you think about them?
Yes,I find the life of some serial killer and murderer really interesting;The wish to kill is hidden into everyone and only few "humans" touching this dangerous key....I am also find Jeff Dahmer and Sutcliffe interesting,especially Dahmer I think he was really obsessed by death, and I can find more common with him....Another interesting murderer was Dennis Nilsen,I think he is a great personality and he is very deep introspective man,Kurten was also great.He never stopped his nature.Everyone must do what feel inside.Murder is part of nature.Death is part of life.
4.I think almost all of your works are death-oriented.How do you think about "death" itself?I think it is the end and very merciful.
Death means more and more things for me.I can consider it the end or the beginning....Death is just pure,the most bigger great thing,I like death,I enjoy death....I play with her,she plays with me,we have a fun together.She is indestructible.I consider myself as a corpse,like a dead; I think it is necessary living to be dead.It is a cycle.
5.Do you believe in god?I do.But I dont want to share my god among others.How about you?
I agree with you.I also believe in my own god.
6.In your CD "CUT MY THROAT" you express your hatered toward society and mass.I agree that society destroys a lot of people.By the way when I was an univ.student I have a conversation with my professor about society.In that conversation I sai "Maybe I have to be in society after my graduation." And he just replyed "What is society?".Hearing his reply I fully understand that so-called society is just an illusion made up by the mass.How do you think about this?
Yeah,"CUT MY THROAT" was an act,a scream of hate upon society and the masses,but it was also reflected to myself and it talks about my self-destruction cause half of my personality is really masochistic....I remember I wished to burn the CDs after releasing them;society sucks,yes,as you sai most people are contaminated by society,or better,they are only stupid stereotypes that repeat themselves.Stupid sheeps.Yes,society is an illusion.Everything is an illusion....
7.Your CD "CUT MY THROAT" is dedicated to MAURIZIO BIANCHI and from your label "SLAUGHTER PRODUCTION" 12 cassettes-box set of MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA has released.Do you have any comments on these great Italian industrial giants.Have you met them?
I enjoy very much the early works of MB;He was very twisted at the time and he did great noise soundtrack to his obsessions and visions;I have never met him but I consider him a great guy.... MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA also did interesting brutal works and he is a must of the early powerelectronics scene in Italy,like THE SODALITY and BRUNO COSSANO.Ihave met Pierpaolo Zoppo two times.He is really a funny guy,very twisted and pleasant.
8.We Japanese tend to think your motherland Italy as nice and good place.But on the contraty horror movies,noise bands from Italy are quite dark and grim.Can you explain this conceptual gap?
I dont know about this.By my side,I am always out from everything and everyplace,I just look out at the world from "MY" personal world that is very "PERSONAL" and have nothing to compare with the world outside.I like Italian horror movies,there is really much nice stuff here,like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci.They are rules!
9.What do you want to express with your music?
I think my sounds are purely cathartic,like an exorcism.I am constantly attracted by the things that scare me....Fear is a key.You can just use fear as a natural process to learn more about yourself.
10.Do you often play live?How an audience react?
I played some live show here in Italy,but there is not more interesting audience at my performances;It can be easily understanding.
11.Please let me know your future plans.
Some new releases by ATRAX MORGUE will be out soon this spring 98.My latest CD is called "DISCONNECTED" and will be released in a strictly limited edition of 250 copies by the Italian label SIN ORGANIZATION.Just out for the American labael AVA/LIVE BAIT is the re-issue of "WOUNDFUCKER" that was released on tape in 1994(This CD contains some extra tracks).
12.Thank you for your kind answer.Anything to add?
Nothing to add.Thank you for the interview.