Interview with Sebastian of Dripping/Cadaverment
1. hey sebastian i'm so honored to interview you for dripping and your previous band cadverment! so first off give us a brief history of cadaverment like how the band started and what the line up was.
Hey Bro how are you.Cadaverment got starter by me and Bruce.Tom and joe used to hang out with bruce so then tom joine3d on bass ,abd we made joe sing for us ,whiched worked out great.
2. describe cadaverments sound and what bands influenced cadaverment?
early 90s technical Death Metal
3. so you created tons of cool slams and breakdowns for cadaverment so what bands motivated you to pound out these cool riffs?
Carcass,Suffocation,Pyrexia,Demelich,Baphomet,Immolation,human remains ,candiria,cryptopsy etc
4. who influenced your guitar style when you were in cadaverment?
anything i was listening to at the time i dont really remember just cant remember right now
5. what releases did you have for cadaverment?
2 demos and a split cd called bring the suffering with dripping
6. so who influences cadaverment's vocals and besides gutturals what other kind of vocals did you use?
we never used guttural in cadaverment ,i think joe loved all the greatest vocalist with a tuff sound
7. what did you learn from your time in cadaverment and how did you incorporate that into dripping?
Learned that death metal dont pay the bills and to stop putting 110% into something so closeminded with people so ignorant.scene is gay full of trendy assholes oh and to keep to myself, as far incorporating into Dripping ,to play the most insane bizzare techincal shit i could possibly write.
8. so how did you form dripping what has been the line-ups through drippings life cause i know there had been some changes to it over the years.
2000 Line up :Sebastian Russo - Guitar, Jerry Sammarco - Guitar/Vocals, Tom Kieffer - Bass, Bruce Moallem - Drums/Vocals **Accomplishments:2000 Promo
2001 Line up :Frank Bleakley - Vocals, Sebastian Russo - Guitar, Tom Kieffer - Bass, Bruce Moallem - Drums **Accomplishments:Necrovomisodomy Rehersal**
2001 Line up :Gabe Abatangelo - Vocals, Sebastian Russo - Guitar, Tom Kieffer - Bass, Bruce Moallem - Drums/Vocals **Accomplishments:2001 experimental Promo,Lost Archives pre lp ep**
2001 Line up :Gabe Abatangelo - Vocals, Sebastian Russo - Guitar, Michael Connors - Guitar, Tom Kieffer - Bass, Bruce Moallem - Drums/Vocals
2002 Line up :Sebastian Russo - Guitar/Vocals, Tom Kieffer - Bass/Vocals, Bruce Moallem - Drums/Vocals, Mario Comesanas - High scream Vocals **Accomplishments:Disintegration of thought patterns lp**
9. dripping is really diverse and unique but ultra sick and brutal, a lot more so than cadaverment was so what changed in you for your music style to change so drastically?
we wanted to keep up wit the times cadaverment was early 90s shit it was the year 200 then
10. describe dripping's sound in your own words and what bands influence you guys to cerate this diverse and brutal music?
Dripping is a blend of Ripping corpse Devourment Cynic and candiria we wanted to create ultra guttural grind with technical prog into the mix and jazzy and crazy groove slams
11. as for your playing style in dripping, how does it differ from cadaverment's and who influenced you when it came to creating dripping's music?
wanted to be a better musician but unfortunetly the recording studio fucked us so all my guitar work got lost in the shitty recording
12. what about the vocals how are they different between cadaverment and dripping and who influenced your vocal work in dripping?
Bruce and Mario did all the vox on the album on the demos other people sang
13. you guys use samples in your songs and they are all so diverse so how do all these musical styles and samples influence your music style?
we alwas listen to other genre of music so we throew a hint of it on the lp
14. so how did you hook up with macabre mementos records to release your EP? and do you have any other kind of merch coming out in the future?
i sent them a mp3 of out song i got some merch for sale email me sebnasty135@yahoo.com
15. ok last question, what's drippings status and if your still active what's the bands plans for the future?
I am Dripping everybody else abandonded it ,i still make merch with gutter and roy and still keep it alive so i dont know wut im gonna do in the future, but is gonna be something, just keep intouch with me if your a true fan and you will get the info fresh of the press.
thanks for the interview! any last words you want to add?
thank you!!!! .
Band related links: Cadaverment myspace website, Dripping myspace website