Interview:

2011-03-29 Cliteater

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The new album "The Great Southern Clitkill" of the Dutch formation is again a masterpiece of Grindcore that can easily persist on international floor. But when he is asked about some ambiguous details, guitarist and founder Ivan Cuijpers does not really show the humor that all listeners of the band´s albums would expect...InterviewHi! How are you?



Cheerz, I´m fine. I just had a hell of a car trip trough the snowblizzard and I can tell you it’s hard to drive in these weather conditions without winter tires, haha.



Who had the idea to call the band CLITEATER? And by the way… the question that all of your fans would ask… how does clit really taste? And can you eat one´s fill with clit?



In the beginning we had no bandname and we just wrote songs and lyrics for rehearsing. After some months our singer Joost wrote a song called „Cliteater“ and we all looked at each other and said “Woow that’s a hell of a bandname!”. So we decided to use this name for the band. The name is short, brutal and everyone who we tell the bandname they will never forget, haha. I don´t know how a real clit tastes cause I never ate one.



Where do you get all your lyrical ideas from?



Our singer Joost gets lots of inspiration by things he is seeing on TV or things he reads in books. Also some lyrics are autobiographical. Also we gave him some ideas and then he was going to research the subject on the internet and write a lyric about it. Most themes are about gore, murder, killings, inner fears, serial killers, porn and humoristic horror.



Where did you get the idea to entitle all of your albums like famous Metal-masterpieces? And do bands like MOTÖRHEAD, METALLICA or DEATH belong to your favourites?



This idea was started in a pub when we were discussing about our first record name. In a boozemood I yelled “Clit ´em all!” and they all liked it. The next CDs all had titles from bands we all love and respect very much. It’s a total tribute to METALLICA, S.O.D., DEATH, SLAYER and PANTERA. Many think we do this to fuck those band up, but that’s totally NOT trough!! We grew up with these bands and thank them that we make music like CLITEATER nowadays!!



Who is the fat angry man on all of your album-covers? Does he have a name? And do you know him personally?



It’s a mascotte!! He does not exist, only in our phantasies, haha! He returns on every albumcover and his name is Andrey Nicolai! Don´t ask me why but this name sounded very awesome for this CLITEATER butcher!



A band with a similar musical und lyrical concept to your´s is ROMPEPROP, also from The Netherlands. Are you friends with these guys?



I think our lyrics and music are two different styles but we grew up together as bands. We both started in the same time and we helped each other for years and years. In the beginning days almost every gig we did was together with ROMPEPROP. We did already two tours together in USA/Canada and Europe. We respect each other and we are good friends!!



Can you tell us how your next album will probably be called? Maybe “Painclit”, “The Number Of The Clit”,… or even “Transylvanian Clit”?



Haha, we never thought of that, our latest album is just released so our focus is now to promote this album as much as possible. I think we are going to think about the new title in about a year!! Any suggestion?



Please tell us your favourite five porn-movies.



I never watch porn movies cause that’s a waste of time. I only watch interesting documentaries about history or nature or read books.