Interview from Filthnoise # 2

An interview from the Swedish zine Filthnoise # 2. It's answered by Jonsson early 1990.

Interview from Sika Äpärä # 1

Haha, I really can't understand why I haven't posted this one earlier? Total failure from my side. But here it is anyway. From the now classic Swedish fanzine Sika Äpärä # 1. Answered by Cliff in 1990.

Interview from WC Zine # 3

An interview from the Brazilian fanzine WC, issue 3. In the post at the official Anti-Cimex facebookpage it says that it is from 1987, but the interview itself is way older. 1984 to be exact, cause in one answer they are talking about their new drummer Patrik who did just one gig in 1984. Answered by Charlie. And since it is in Portugese, you'll find a translation here below made by Jonte Palmblad.

ANTI-CIMEX began in September 1981 with Nillen (vocals), Joke (guitars),Jonsson (bass), Charlie (drums). After rehearsing for three 
months we decided to make an EP with the songs "Svaveldioxid//Heroindöd/Drömmusik and Anicimex". We made 500 copies. After this Nillen left the band, Jonson started singing and Cutting became our bass player.Then we made the songs "Progeria of Power/Krossa NRP/I Skuggan av ett Krig". In February of '83 Cutting left the band and Konrad joined, then we went to the studio to record our EP "RAPED ASS": I think this to be our best record. In the start of '84 we changed bass player one more time, Sixten joined and we recorded our third EP "VICTIMS OF A BOMB RAID". Now I started playing bass and we have a new drummer: Patrick.

FROM WHERE DO YOU GET THE IDEAS FOR YOUR SONGS?
-Charlie: We get the ideas from front pages, newspapers and from things that are happening in the world.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF PEACE, RELIGION AND WAR?
-Charlie: Peace is a really good thing; Religion is just bollocks; War is the worst thing that has happened in the world.

WHY THE NAME ANTI-CIMEX?
-Charlie: In the beginning we had rats in our rehearsal room and had a rat-poison called ANTI-CIMEX.

AND THE MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
-Charlie: DISCHARGE, BLACK SABBATH and some other bands.

DO YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE THE SWEDISH POLICE?
-Charlie: Yes, they always want to take us for the smallest things.

DO YOU HAVE PLANS ON MAKING A LP? 
-Charlie: We have plans to make a LP as soon as we have some money.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANARCHY?
-Charlie: We think it's the best thing for the world.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY IN BRAZIL?
-Charlie: Yes, it would be a lot of fun playing in Brazil, but it's very far from Sweden.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE BRAZILIAN BANDS?
-Charlie: I think the Brazilian bands are very good but it's the language that makes it not so good for us to listen to. I think it would be better if the bands sang in English.

ARE THE SWEDISH PUNKS UNITED? THERE ARE NAZI-SKINS
-Charlie: The Swedish punks are united I think! But it could be better. Here are a lot of nazi-skins but they don't harass us.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BANDS WHO CHANGE THEIR STYLE, LIKE DISCHARGE?
-Charlie: I think it's up to these bands, if they want to change style. The most important is that they like what they are doing.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO RIGHT NOW?
-Charlie: We like listening to bands like DISCHARGE, VARUKERS, DISORDER, BLACK SABBATH, RIISTETYT, CRAMPS, ALAN VEGA, METALLICA, Finnish HARDCORE, Brazilian HARDCORE and a lot more.

SAY SOMETHING FOR THE BRAZILIAN PUNKS
-Charlie: continue playing HARDCORE. Jonsson wants to say hello to all of you!

Interview from Dead Or Alive # 1

An interview from the Swedish fanzine Dead Or Alive # 1 from 1983, I don't know who have answered it but my guess is Jonsson. The editor of Dead Or Alive by the way, is the man behind the (in)famous Flashback Forum. And again, tons of hugs to Ia Hammar for scanning this.

Interview from SIF # 2

Yet another interview answered by Jocke. This one is from late 83 I think, taken from the zine SIF # 2. This one is also sent to me by Ia Hammar. I can't thank you enough Ia, keep 'em coming ;-)

Interview from No Government # 2

An interview from the Swedish zine No Government # 2 from 1983, answered by Jocke. 

Thanks Ia Hammar.

Interview from Pest #?

An interview from the Swedish zine Pest. Don't know which number or who answered it. But my guess is that it's from the secod half of 1983. The scans are done by the very kind Ia Hammar.

Interview from Skvaller # 1

This is a real cool one. The first fanzine interview ever with Anti Cimex. Really fun to see some pics from that era when Nillen took care of the vocal part. The interview is from Skvaller # 1 and are answered by Nillen, Charlie and Jonsson. Again a big hug to Nillen for scans.

Interview from Sörja # 2

This interview is from a fanzine called Sörja, issue number 2, from 1983. I don't who have answered this one. Big hugs to Nillen for scanning this and the previous interview. 

Interview from DP #4/5

Interview from the fanzine DP #4/5 from 1982 made by Patrik Jonsson who have the label Really Fast Rec. Answers from Jonsson.

Interview from Sodanuhka Zine # 3

An interview from Sodanukha zine # 3 made by Paul "Pore" Vahala who played in Nisses Nötter / The Nuts. In Finnish but there's a translation made by Ukko Iiris below this text. so don't blame me if it looks weird ;-) Thanks to Yra who sent it to me. Answered by Charlie late 84/early 85

I send letter to Anti-Cimex singer but got answer from the drummer. Who had answered to my letter interview. This is what he write about. Su= sodanuhka/ questions. Charlie = answers 1. SU: how is your band doing now ? C: yea, thank you just allright. 2. SU: has your EP (victims of bomb raid) sold well? C: it has been selling very well, just now it has been sold something like 1300 pieces. 3. SU: do you have new songs? with what name? C: we have a lot of new songs, what they are you’ll see when our next record comes out. 4. SU: what does ANTI CIMEX mean? C: Anti cimex means insect, about, it is latin, we helped each other with the name. 5. SU: who makes the songs+ song lyrics? C: songs Jocker & Conrad makes, lyrics Jonsson & Charlie (me) makes 6 .SU: how many gigs have you done? C: something like 30 7. SU: where you got influence? C: just now from nowhere, but when we started I suppose it was Discharge, disorder, chaos uk, black Sabbath 8. SU: Will you have any gigs? C: We have gigs every now and then, now for example. (February) we are going to Vaasa (Suomi) and play there 9. SU: What will happen in future? C: we will make one LP NOW AND I SUPPOSE THEN WE ARE GOING TO EUROPE TOUR. 10. Where are you rehearsing? C: nowhere right now. 11. SU: what are you against of? C: Nazis, cops and this fucking system that borns that kind of pignecks, and so on. 12 SU: what your songs tell about ? C: they tell about system and how idiotic war is. 13 SU: when and how was this band formed ? C: in September 81, Jock, Jonsson and Nillen was playing in a band called Bohman Brinner, then they kicked out the drummer and I came along and then we changed the name. 14. SU: what you think about religions? C: it’s one of the most horrible things that exists, its just a big lie. 15. SU: what you think about politics? C: Same thing, just lies. 16. SU: how many songs do you have ? C: just now we have something like 15 songs that we play in gigs. 17. SU: do you get lots of post from abroad? C: we get letters from everywhere among England, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Finland and so on. 18. SU: do you have anything else to say? C: nothing special at least. ((and then i cant see the rest of it..) Anti-Cimex interview by: PORE AND CHARLIE Anti-Cimex interview has gotten old little bit, band made 12” EP for English record company and that’s tough! Now days there is 5 members and new guy is Jean-Louis Huhta, Anti-Cimex will probably get new guitarist soon, and apparently he should be finnish ! Thanks: FOR CHARLIE & ANTI CIMEX

Interview from Streetmusic FC #12

An interview in Swedish from the zine Streetmusic FC # 12. Answered by Charlie in spring 2005.

Interview from MRR # 353

 

 

Interview from Maximum Rocknroll # 353 (2012) answedred by Charlie. Tonys' pics from his Ipadfetta are now replaced by better ones ! (Thanks Yra)

Interview from Toinen Vaihtoehto # 7

An interview with Cliff from 1991 in Finnish from the zine Toinen Vaihtoehto. Yra who sent it to me also have had it translated by a friend of him named Herq. So two thumbs up for both of you :-) You can read the whole interview in English here below. (Don't blame me if it looks wierd)

 

TELL SOME HISTORY FIRST?
-ANTI-CIMEX STARTED 1981 and has so far made 3 ep's + one 12 inch. First ep was called "Anarkist Attack", next one "Raped Ass", then "Victims Of a Bombraid" and 12' lp is called ANTI-CIMEX, released by english label DISTRRAIGHT at 86. Four years later we changed guitarist and released first full-length, "Absolut", which was released by Swedish label CBR. '86 our band made tour in England with AGONY (Swedish trash band). Line-up at the moment is: Charlie - drums, Freke - vocals, Cliff - guitar and Conrad - bass. Cliff came to the band in '86 after he had left from his former band BLACK UNIFORMS, which by the way released LP called "Faced of Death".

 

SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEW LP?
-The name is "Absolut Anticimex" and it includes 10 new studio songs. CD version has 17 songs, because it also includes the 12' lp. We recorded the album in 5 days in Sweden at April '90. 10 songs might seem short for punk/hc album, but songs are quite long. I don't know how good is the distribution with our record nowadays, but you can order it from CBR.

 

HOW YOU GOT A CONTRACT WITH CBR LABEL?
-ANTI-CIMEX didn't have any contract at the time when I joined the band but we knew that here and there were interest towards us. I decided to give a call to CBR (the biggest underground hc/death metal label in Sweden) and told them what kinda music we play and the guy on the other side of the phone was excited. They paid all the recording costs but we didn't sign any contract so we just make one record at a time to CBR because we are willing to accept new and better offers...

 

HOW DO YOI LIKE SLAYER?
-What a question! I have their first "Show No Mercy" lp which I like but I don't know anything about Slayers new stuff because I barely listen to that kinda music. Slayer is anyway original and brutal music.

 

DO YOU RECEIVE A LOT OF MAIL?
-I really don't know, because in the lp there is no contact address, so it's propably the label who gets all the mail. Charlie (drummer) also gets some amount of mail for some reason, for example interviews, gig offers etc. It's very hard to answer to a huge amount of mail. With my former band (Black Uniforms) I answered to 60-80 letters a month for three years and I had to quit my work as well just to have time to answer all the mail, but in the end it was worth it.

 

DO YOU BELONG TO CHURCH? YOUR OPINIONS ABOUT RELIGION?
-None of us belongs to church anymore. Religion only causes confusion. We have nothing to do with any religion. We are all food of the worms.

 

DO YOU HAVE PLANS TO MAKE ANOTHER ALBUM?
-Yes, we already have 5 or 6 songs ready and there's been talk about going to studio at the end of May this year, but nothing's been decided yet. ANTI-CIMEX hasn't rehearsed since last July, but we will start any day. Unfortunately I cannot give any names of the songs neither any release date of album yet. But it's for sure that second LP will come if anything major doesn't happen.

 

I HEARD THAT YOU (Cliff) MOVED RECENTLY. DOES THIS HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THE BAND?
-Nowadays I live in Göteborg and Anti-Cimex is from this city so everything is much easier now with the band. I used to live in Malmö and will propably soon move back. Freke also lives far away from here and we don''t practise more than 3 weeks per year. We only rehearse before going to studio or before gig, otherwise travelling expenses would too much and this way we don't get too fed up with each other.

 

DO YOU THINK THAT PEOPLE READ TOO MUCH LYRICS WHEN TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING BAD?
-Yes, especially the critics. If lyrics are personal to the one who wrote them some people can't figure out what's it about. Some people for example think that it's bad thing if punk/hc band doesn't sing about war, radiation, hamburgers etc. On the last two ANTI-CIMEX record there were no lyric sheet, you can still hear that the songs deal with disappointment, hate and stuff like that. Later we're gonna publish a booklet with lyrics and pictures and so on.

 

DO YOU KNOW WHO'S DARIO ARGENTO? DO YOU LIKE HIS MOVIES?
-Yep, I know ARGENTO and his films like SUSPIRIA, PHENOMENA, OPERA etc. His movies doesn't quite suit with my taste, too deep stuff. Instead this other Italian director LUCIO FULCI'S movies are the most enjoyable things to watch. I really love horror/splatter videos and I have them some 150-200.

 

IN THE END TELL US HOW THE NEW ALBUM HAS SOLD OR ADD SOMETHING ELSE?
-From what I've heard we are the best selling group on CBR. During the first week "Absolut" sold something like 3000 copies, but I don't know much about the situation now. And then also, that sticker on the cover of "Absolut" wasn't our idea but a mistake from the label. Thanks for the interview!

Interview from Skitliv # 10

An interview with Charlie from 2008 taken from the Swedish zine Skitliv! (#10). An awesome zine made by  Jocke A and Jocke S from Warvictims, but during the Skitliv! era they were more known as Challe and Fisen.

Interview with Charlie from 201?

An interview with Charlie from the legendary Swedish zine "Skrutt". Don't know exactly when it's done, but I guess ca 2 years ago. You can read it here.

Interview from Flass #?

An early interview with Jonsson from a Norwegian zine called Flass. It's from 1982, maybe early 1983. It's pre-Raped Ass cause he's talking about they're going into a studio and record 5 new songs in english for a 7'', and the address is to Mariestad. And yhanks again to Yra for sending this to me.

Interview from Vermynoze Pútrida Zine

 An interview from Vermynoze Pútrida Zine . It is done with Charlie in 1992, originally in Portuguese and published in a zine I don't know the name of. But it was later translated to English and Fofao published it in his zine, and now also online. Read the interview here.