Seek The Truth. Stay Metal!
(Provided
by LEGION magazine & Novum Vox Mortis)
Since these American
brutallers visited Poland, you might have already read a couple of interviews
with them. Still, we decided to talk to Jason Netherton who turned out to be the
best politically educated metaller on this planet... And about DYING FETUS
music one can say simply and briefly: brutal death metal in American way. A
good one and of a high quality.
On DYING FETUS...
We did a full US and European
tour for the album in July and August of 1998. The tour was a great success,
and we are very happy with everything that Morbid Records has done to promote
the band in Europe. It was a great experience and we even played in Poland,
very close to the Ukrainian border, so maybe someone from the Ukraine was
there. After that we have started to write songs for our next album which will
be out very soon, we hope around winter of 1999. It will be even better than
the last album "Killing on Adrenaline". It does not yet have a title,
but it will be a step above the last one in every respect, it will be faster,
harder and involve many more mosh riffs and hardcore breakdowns.
On DYING FETUS lyrics...
I think they are very
educational and should be used in schools across the world as the real truth as
to what is going on in the world.
On the worst thing in DYING
FETUS career...
I would say all the member
problems. We have gone through a lot of members and this has tended to hold us
back for a long time. We could have done so much more a long time ago if only
we had a better drummer when we first started. But we are happy now and things
are fine.
On plans...
We just plan to do a lot of
festivals here in the US, like Milwaukee and Ohio fests, and continue writing
new songs for the next album. Personally, I will take a vacation to Finland to
see my Finnish friends in Helsinki... "voi
vittu perkele! Suomalainen sisu ja Koskenkorva!" (Jason, didn't I tell you that
we are from Poland? - Ed.) Then I will come home and begin school in the fall.
On the new millenium...
I think that the millenium
will bring a big evil spaceship from the planet "analsex" and it will
bring many space monkeys who will come down and rape all the young people who
live in the small town of Alma Ata, and these people will become the new super
race of alien-humans who will take over all of Asia and destroy all elements of
the capitalist bastards who have penetrated the beautiful lands of the elder
race of Jesus Muhammed Ali. Prepare for revenge!
On politics...
Politics is my love, and my
ultimate goal is to become the US ambassador to Russia. I want to sit in the
Kremlin and drink vodka with my Russian friends and discuss the best way to
invade Finland when the 3rd world war begins in 2012. I have graduated from
university, and yes, can you not see that I am now mentally capable of taking
full control of US foreign policy, haha?
On the Cold War...
The end of the Cold War has
changed the world for the worse, and it is still changing now as regionalism
and nationalism are tearing apart many nations that before lived under the
shadow of the Superpowers. In a way things were more stable during the Cold War
because things were more predictable then, and there was more security and
control over the military (and the nuclear missles within the USSR.) Now there
is much confusion within the large borders of Russia and many western nations
are afraid of what is happening to the nuclear arsenal of the former USSR.
The international financers
and investors who infiltrated Russia as the old regime fell in 1991 were also
too quick to shove capitalism and market economics down the throat of the
Russian economy, the Russian people I think were not yet ready to become the
ideal capitalist society as western corporations, economists, bankers, and politicians
tried to push the market economy upon the country too fast, and this allowed
certain people in power in Moscow and elsewhere to take advantage of the new
system before it had a chance to become secure and properly regulated by the
government. Now a chaotic mix of greedy crony-capitalists are mixing with the
honest people who are trying to make Russia strong and proud once more and this
is having a bad effect on the morale of the nation.
There needs to be a positive
approach to the West that at the same time puts the interests of the Russian
people first. The greed must be eliminated from the realms of power in Moscow,
and then leaders who work for the Russian people, and not for the Western banks
must be allowed to take control. I know that Russia invaded Finalnd in 1939 for
no reason and that is a very sore spot on us Finns, ( I am Finnish by default)
but many Russian lives paid for this mistake and hopefully they will not do it
again! (However Russia did beat Nazi Germany and pretty much saved the world)
Also Russia is home to some very good Vodka, and some great underground metal
heads!
On Kosovo...
I think that this guy
Milosevic is a criminal and that his dictatorial government is not something
that should be tolerated in this day and age. Anyone who can justify how he has
been running his country can justify Hitler as well, because they are not that
far apart. This goes the same for all countries that use violence to oppress
minority populations, in the USA, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, China, or anywhere
ALL nations are guilty, and the politics of the world always find a way to kill
people and bring the human race back to the stone age. It's sad and I hope that
whatever happens in Kosovo that a freely elected government can be elected in
Serbia and in Kosovo, and that someday soon people can find other solutions to
these complex problems instead of mass destruction.
On the US policy...
The USA needs to work more
with other countries and understand that although the US is the most powerful
nation, there are many other countries who are powerful and deserve to be
respected so as to reduce the level of mistrust and increase cooperation. Russia,
China, the EU, and even countries like Iran need to be respected more to
increase better understanding among the different cultures and races.
On democracy...
The USA is a very democratic
state, but the problem here is that people are getting politically lazy as they
become more and more preoccupied with other distractions and forgetting how
important it is to maintain the democracy with full participation. All people
care about here, is the economy. If the economy is good than the people just
keep to themselves and do not give a fuck about anything. So as long as
capitalism keeps sweeping the globe and raping the poor nations, most
multinational corporations will be happy, and therefore the middle class
Americans will be happy.
On Iraq...
The main factor in Iraq, as it
is in Serbia, is the control over information. Today, many wars are fought and
won half of the time on the battlefield, and the other half of the battle is
fought on CNN. Who ever can wage the best propaganda war with the global media
wins the most sympathy. In Iraq, the people there never hear about the bad
things that Hussein has done, only the goodthings, therefore as he controls
information in the country people never know about anything bad that might have
happened.
On fascism and communism...
I think that fascism is a
reaction of an idiotic one. It comes as a result of when people want to blame
other people for the problems that they have created for themselves. It's
always so easy when things go bad to blame the ones who are in the minority or
seem to occupy a place in society outside of the what may or may not be
considered normal, that is the fascism, which is a very lazy and simply way of
looking at the world.
On terrorism...
I see terrorism as losing a
lot of its purpose and not being very effective anymore. Also, prevention
technology has outpaced terrorism and it is far less prevalent today than it
was in the 1980s. By any means, I think it is wrong in most cases because too
many innocent people are targeted. Terrorism mostly fails to target the ones
who they have the most grief with and therefore it is quite inhumane and
unproductive.
On Arab-Israel conflict...
I think it will take mostly a
lot of time and trust on both sides before anything is ever settled. This is
something that can not have a time table and must be settled when both parties
are ready to come to terms. However, if the Israelis take too long they will
find that the Palestinians will not wait forever, and then they will have more
problems groups like Hamas and such ...
On Bill Clinton and Monica...
That's all with the
politics... That is just a refelction of the way that the mass media has taken
too much control over everything here in the USA, it's better for them to focus
on something like that because it keeps the consumerist masses blind and
ignorant of the many other more important things that they should be thinking
about, like how the G-7 is taking over the global economy with greed and
stealth by using the IMF and the World Bank to control the poor nations and
keep them down.
On greatest fear...
My greatest fear is being
eaten alive by animals, as well as being the one on a crashing airplane.
On
groupies...
We're death metal and there
are not too many groupies for death metal. However, we have had some, and will
remember them quite fondly!
On the top five albums of all
times...
VADER "De Profundis"
KRABATHOR "Lies"
SUFFOCATION "Pierced from Within"
HELLOWEEN "Walls of Jericho"
IRON MAIDEN "Powerslave"
To young musicians...
I think he or she should form
a band whenever they want! You do not need to be good to form a band, look at
90 percent of black metal today!
To fans...
Many thanks and please keep
the underground alive! The underground is strong and will always be above (or
under, hee hee) the politics and cultural differences of the people of the
world. Do not listen to propaganda, seek the truth. Stay metal.