“In 1987, Roger Karmanik – a veteran musician of the Swedish industrial scene – founded Cold Meat Industry. Over the next decade, the label grew from a bedroom passion project into a world-renowned record company. Whilst CMI grew exponentially, Karmanik’s underground mindset and work methods remained largely unchanged. Plagued by setbacks in both his personal and professional life – as well as deteriorating mental health – Roger Karmanik eventually hit a wall. CMI was declared bankrupt in 2011. Then, thirty years after its conception, people from over 40 different countries gathered in Stockholm to celebrate the label’s anniversary – and something unexpected ensued.”
Grymt bra jobbat av Claudio (Marino) och andra inblandade. Dokumentären var ruskigt bra och intressant även för dom som inte var där när det begav sig (som jag). Visste inte så mycket om denna scen förräns jag hamnade på Cold Meat 30 års kalas 2017. Mortiis kände jag nog till och var ett stort fan av Karjalan Sissit från Eskilstuna men det var det, typ.
Förutom Roger K. själv och Claudio så är det en hel del intressanta inblandade som har jobbat med detta projekt som Vlad (Death Disco), Bardo Methodology Niklas och Mattias Indy Pettersson. Dom syns inte mer än i credsen (vad jag minns) men har en stor betydelse för produktionen. M. från MGLA och Erik WATAIN dyker upp i intervjuerna tillsammans med en massa CMI artister. Själv har jag bidragit med några foton inbakade här och var i filmen. Efter visningen blev det Q & A på scenen med Ika Johannesson som frågade ut Claudio & Roger.
“In Slaughter Natives (created by Jouni Havukainen) is the pioneer band in the symphonic industrial field. Their music is a mix of heavy electronics, martial percussions, religious chants, orchestral samples and gruesome demonic vocals. After releasing some great albums on Cold Meat Industry and Staalplaat, the project remained dormant since many years but kept getting on stage from time to time”
“In Slaughter Natives is the piooner band in the symphonic industrial field. Their music is a mix of heavy electronics, martial percussions, religious chants, orchestral samples and gruesome demonic vocals. After releasing some great albums on Cold Meat Industry and Staalplaat, the project remains dormant since many years but keeps getting on stage from time to time”
– electroracle.com –
“I don’t make— and it’s never been my intention to make— music in order to be liked. I create it for me, because I have a need. If others like it, it adds an extra dimension of pleasure”
– Jouni Havukainen in lastdaydeaf.com [May 2016] “Mind your own, avoid subordinating, stay away from collecting points for correctness, if possible, save a large amount of respect for others or others’ values, but don’t walk the line, take as much time as possible with nature and create as much as possible; it doesn’t matter what as long as you create.”
– Jouni Havukainen: Personal definition of being alive in lastdaydeaf.com [May 2016]
“In 1987, Roger Karmanik – a veteran musician of the Swedish industrial scene – founded Cold Meat Industry. Over the next decade, the label grew from a bedroom passion project into a world-renowned record company. Whilst CMI grew exponentially, Karmanik’s underground mindset and work methods remained largely unchanged. Plagued by setbacks in both his personal and professional life – as well as deteriorating mental health – Roger Karmanik eventually hit a wall. CMI was declared bankrupt in 2011. Then, thirty years after its conception, people from over 40 different countries gathered in Stockholm to celebrate the label’s anniversary – and something unexpected ensued.”
