Your new album, Make Them Beg For Death, continues the rich tradition of brutal Dying Fetus titles. Have any of your titles had to be changed because they were too violent?
“Not the title, but I wanted the artwork for [2017 album] Wrong One To Fuck With to be more gory. We were kind of censored by the record label, like: ‘No, you can’t have any naked people on the cover being murdered.’ That’s the first time we were censored, so I didn’t push anything on this album.”
Is it possible for death metal to truly shock people in the modern age? “Everyone is past that now. It’s all been done, right? Unless you’re brand-new to death metal. It’s been done over and over again a million times, so topics like necrophilia are just kind of ‘whatever’ at this point. We’re not trying to be offensive; I don’t think you can offend anyone anymore.”
Your song Second Skin was featured in South Park a few years ago. Was that something you enjoyed?
“Of course, that was a big moment for us –one of our shining achievements! As a fan of comedy and not taking things so seriously, it was an honour to be involved with that.”