Interview with Julian from 'Shemales from outta space of death', a two-headed German band from Bielefeld, which bring to you: Electro/ Hardcore/ Grindcore. Absurd as they sound, absurd are some of Julian's answers to this interview.

Okay, let’s start! Who could ever think of such a long and absurd bandname?

One night, I went out and I got pretty drunk.  When I woke up the day after, I had a tattoo on my ass which said ‘Shemales from outta space of death were here’.  That is where the bandname came from.

Yes, that is very… common I must say.

It’s true, it’s true!

What kind of music influences the band?

Roman and I listen to ‘difficult’ stuff. We listen to bands like Crystal castles, Alexisonfire, Deftones, Muse and so on. We don’t listen to all this deathcore and metalcore which is going on right now. Not because we don’t like it, we’re just more attracted by other music styles. Also Kylie Minogue is pretty cool, but Britney Spears sucks.

At first sight your music doesn’t seem to be very serious, but when you look closer at the lyrics, there is a lot of hidden social criticism.

That’s right. We’re pretty much like South Park. If you watch it, it looks crappy and funny, but when you look at it closely you can see that there is a lot of hidden social criticism. We have different themes in our songs and we make fun of things. Like our song ‘H&m are watching you’ is about how everybody looks the same, what is going on in the scene right now. ‘Elektro Partys machen mich kaputt’ is about partying and not thinking about the consequences.

You guys have two EP’s out:  ‘You never get a cannibal blowjob twice’ and ‘Totgeburt in Röhrenjeans’.

Both came out in 2009. Totgeburt in Röhrenjeans’ means something like stillbirth in tight pants. Mockery of the scene thing again. We’re recording new stuff right now, which is about social criticism again. We’re working on a song about fascism against the nazi culture in germany. This song, again, is going to be very funny.

Is there a lot of difference with the previous EP?

No, I guess not. The new one is more straight, less experimental, but still shemale-style.

Do people actually dance on your shows?

Yeah of course, we’ve played with Haribo macht Kinder froh, an amazing band. We played in the Netherlands and we didn’t know if the people knew us or our songs. Their reaction to us was great, there was a raving moshpit. We’ve been looking forward to play in Belgium again, the last show was amazing.

On the myspace there’s a clip where you guys are performing in Louisa’s bedroom, how crazy was that?!

It was pretty amazing. It was one of the first shows we have ever done. People commented on Youtube that we suck live and we are a pretty fucked up band, but that was because the room was really small and lots of people were smoking there. All that smoke made it feel like Auschwitz to me, because I couldn’t breathe anymore. It was one of the coolest shows ever after the Netherlands show. It was so crazy, we stagedived, there was a moshpit and circle pits in this small room, just amazing.

Which nice ‘Elektro Party’ could you recommend?

In Germany there is this festival called ‘Meltfestival’, which is pretty cool. There are lots of different electronic styles. Also ‘Love Parade’ is a recommender. Roman, the fellow shemale was impressed by it. The trains were packed, everybody pucked, everybody was on drugs. We had the idea to make a video on the next love parade. But it is not sure if there will be a next edition, because of all the filth that remains on the streets after the festival. I’m not going to any shows or concerts, except when we’re playing there ourselves.

Okay, we’re done. Any last words?

Haribo macht Kinder froh is gay.

Check Shemales from outta space of death out on myspace and fb, you can download their EP's for free!