This interview was originally from Dublin zine "Smegma" issue 7 done by Angus, around 1990. Definitely the most original introduction in an interview. Fuck me I'm rightly nackered, still I'm nearly at the top of this shagin mountain now. Hope there's a bloody pub up here somewhere I'm gasping for a pint. Hello, Hello, hang on a minute who are those three smelly looking weirdo's looking at me with hate filled eyes. Fucking hell its Snapa, Mid and Adam from bleedin Deviated fuckin Instinct. What are they doing standing around looking ominous on this here mountain summit. "Looking for you, ya bastard", replies Mid as if he had read my thoughts"we heard you was up here prickin around". "Yeah", says Snapa. "That right", says Adam. The atmosphere is tense and fraught with danger. Like y'know I'm getting bad vibes here man. I think they're pissed with me. "What seems to be the trouble lads",says I. "Are you lookin for a kick in the bollix", says Mid. "Yeah", says Snapa. "He, He, He", chuckles Adam. Taking the question to be rhetorical I ignore it and ask, "What's this all about then?" "It's about your interview in Smegma", replies Mid. "Yeah", says Snapa. "Thats right", says Adam. "What interview"replies I, puzzled like, "I've never given you an interview in Smegma". "Exactly"snarls Mid, a vicious grin spreading across his face as he calmly takes a sharp rusty Stanley knife from a pocket of his faeces encrusted combat jacket", you got something against us Angus, you not like Deviated Instinct, we not good enough for your pissy little rag". "Er, ahmm, of course you are, I just, like y'know never got around to getting an interview to ya". Mid eyes the blade of his Stanley"Isn't it about time you did". "Yeah",says Snapa. "Too right", says Adam. Well folks it was touch and go there for a while. It took alot of begging for mercy and promising and swearing to dispatch an interview to the lads within a week, but eventually I got off that mountain alive. Well on my arrival home an interview was immediately written up and dispatched. Mid answered the questions and sent them back and what follows is an amazing, exciting and long overdue Deviated Instinct interview. Q. So what have you being doing since you released Guteral Breath? A. Cor what's all this, you call this an interview and don't even start off with the obligatory "can you give me a band history" question, what is the world coming too, so I don't even get the opportunity to moan at you for asking such a predictable question, thrown me right off track that has. Now where was we said the arch bishop, arh yes. Well firstly since the L.P we've had a drummer swap, that being Adam has buggered off and the new one is Charlie and basically that is the D.I line up that will conquer the world. We've just done a U.K tour with Prophecy of Doom and Decadence Within and our new 12" Nailed, is out this very minute on Prophecy records and we're busy writing shit for our new 3rd L.P. It's all go daddio. Q. What type of atmosphere or vibe do you try to capture or put across with your music? A. I dunno, something stark, barren and positively urghh like I suppose, someone asked us on tour in an interview whether we often felt suicidal, so it obviously depresses someone, ha pessimism core. Actually I really don't know. We're certainly not into any light happy vibe. I quite like listening to that kind of stuff but I wouldn't like to play it. We just like playing ugly noise, black and cold. Q. What would you say to someone if they came up to you and said that everytime they listen to your music they get images in their mind of artillery shells exploding, tanks grinding forward crushing everything in their path and blokes with flame throwers squirting napalm into bunkers and that they think that your music would be a perfect soundtrack for a Sven Hassel novel if it were to be made into a film? A. I'd say, "cor blimey guv how much do you want for the camel", but that wouldn't make an awful lot of sense. Anyway Sven Hassel is for Cyrils, one of our old drummers. He was heavily into his stuff, doesn't hold much interest for me I'm afraid, though still I guess its better than sounding like a soundtrack for Enid Blyton. Q. Liked Snapas inner sleeve illustration for "Gutteral Breath". Does he like H.R. Giger and what does he think of my humble opinion that he seems to be in a large way influenced by him. A. Aahh yes, well alot of people have seen that design on T-shirts and said "is the a Giger design?" which I think Snapa gets a bit narked at, but he has to admit he does worship the paper Giger warps his brain on, he's recently mastered the air brush, so now he has no holds barred on the Giger trail, tut, tut, tut. Q. What's Leggo up to now? A. Basically getting banned from as many places as he can. Did you know he eats live babies before breakfast and is into sex with dead halibuts, its all true. Apart from that I think Filthkick are still going strong. I think they've dropped alot of their old hardcore stuff and are apparently going in a physcodelic rock vein, sounds intriguing. As he lives in Birmingham we only bump into him a couple of times a year but we all still get on. Must have been the only D.I split that was amiable. Q.What do you think of pornography and do you think it should be illegal? A. Oooh arrh, and the cheeky little blighter throws in a deep and controversial question just to make it tricky. Well this is a very big question which has many angles to it. There is alot of the more so called soft core stuff i.e. page 3 and the like is alot more offensive than the perverse stuff. I don't think you can make it illegal, that wouldn't stop anything just drive it underground and there are always going to be people who are into it. I could go on all day and still not come to any conclusion, there are a lot of arguments going on here. Alot does portray women in general in a very negative and offensive way but then what about male porn, gay porn, what about the women involved to have the freedom to do what the fuck they want with their bodies. I really ain't sure, personally I don't get anything out of it and alot of it is pretty sad but I'm gonna sit on the fence here......nah, fuck it, lets be controversial, I'm having my scrotum nailed to traffic wardens. Q.What are the bands plans for the future, when's the next record out? A. Well as I said earlier if you'd being paying attention our new record is out now. Its a four track 12" on Prophecy records called "Nailed" and its as heavy as a bloated colostomy bag. Future plans are to make our next rip the face off all who play it and to gig everywhere conceivable until we have achieved mass domination. Q.Do you like ravens and what do you automatically associate with them? A. Yes indeedy though we haven't associated ravens with D.I for several years they are still cool fuckers. I see them as massagers of doom, they are gnarly miserable bastards and they don't care because they will know what we are always too shit scared even to imagine. Q. If you had to put an existing comic character on the sleeve of your next L.P who would it be and why? A. Hmmm difficult one so difficult in fact I'm going to sit down and think about it. If I had known I was going to have to use my brain answering this I would have had a heartier breakfast. Perhaps Slaine sitting in a pile of gore, nah, I'm sure he'd be into us but that's too clichéd, people would think its a manowar L.P. Maybe Deadlock of A.B.C warriors looking mean as fuck and giving off heavy chaos vibes or then again being totally stupid how pigpen from Charlie brown for being a crusty git. Q. Is there anyone in particular you would like to do a tour with? A.The bay city rollers coz they're just so fab and groovy and they've got the kind of dress sense we aspire to. Failing that I'd settle with the Melvins except they're so bloody weird I'm sure we'd all get migraines besides it wouldn't be much fun getting blown off stage every night. I really don't know too many to mention really. Q. Anything else to say? A. Thanx for the interview may your next zine sprout wings and play the banjo. Mid from Deviated Instinct's art site