Active since 1998, Fuck The Facts is a devastatingly great grindcore band from Quebec with a new killer album, Disgorge Mexico, out now on Relapse Records. Listen to it now on Fairtilizer! Fuck the Facts member Topon Das was also kind enough to answer our silly questions.

What’s goin’ on in Fuck The Facts’ world right now?

We’re rehearsing for our CD release show this Saturday. We’re gonna be playing the whole new album ‘Disgorge Mexico’ from beginning to end, it’s pretty intense and tiring cause it’s a 50 minute set. We usually play half that long. We’re also finishing up recording for a split with Leng Tch’e. We’re pretty much done, just recording the keys and samples this week and then we start mixing. This is the first recording we’re doing ourselves since 2004, so we’re taking our time.

What are you currently listening to?

Most recently listened to albums:

Cursed – III

Cryptopsy – And Then You’ll Beg

Anaal Nathrakh – Eschaton

Naked City – Radio

Patton & Kaada – Romances

Pearl Jam – Live: On Two Legs

Gadget – Funeral March

Genghis Tron – Board Up The House

Daughters – Hell Songs

The Locust – New Erections

Ion Dissonance – Minus The Herd

Ion Dissonance – Solace

Entombed – Wolverine Blues

Secret Chiefs 3 – Second Grand Construction

Jesu – s/t

Rwake – Voice Of Omens

Radiohead – Ok Computer

Minsk – The Rituals Of Fire

I have a lot of CDs, so I try and listen to a wide variety of stuff and always put on something new or that I haven’t listened to in a while even if I don’t love it. I rarely get rid of music, so I have to really not like something to chuck it.

What are your favorite albums?

Favorite albums is tough, but here’s a few:

Brutal Truth – Need To Control

Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante

The first Mars Volta album

Pile Driver – Heavy Electricity

How is the scene in Ottawa at the moment? Good bands around?

I have to admit I don’t really go out and check out many shows at all here. Mainly if friends bands from out of town are playing. But in Ottawa we got bands like Buried Inside, Deamon, Daiquiri and Insurrection that are good. I’m sure there’s more, but when I’m home I usually don’t go to shows, I see my fair share on the road.

How important is the internet for Fuck The Facts?

Probably too important; we have a web-site and a Myspace and all that other junk, which we maintain pretty regularly. It’s a pretty big tool in the promotion and even the networking of the band. Personally, I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It’s fun to find all this stuff and pretty much addictive because there’s no end to all the things you can check out. But I feel like shit if I sit at my computer for more then an hour. I would love to not even have the internet one day.

Where do you see this whole internet thing going?

I think the internet can be good and used for handy things, but it’s scary when you see it taking over people lives where they basically live on there. But it’s gonna get bigger and bigger. Even from when this band started it’s exploded. I used to trade tapes through the mail with packages filled with photocopied flyers. It’s so rare now days. I didn’t even have the internet till I was in my 20’s but now its part of my daily life. I’m not knowledgeable enough about computers to know where it’s going, but who knows, perhaps hard copy formats of albums will become a thing for collectors like vinyl is now. All music will become free, but you pay to go to concerts, buy a t-shirt or other merchandise.

Anything to add?

Thanx for the interview dude!

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