Interview - Eat My Teeth - 2025 (ENG)

Ah, Eat My Teeth… these young Poles are simply incredible: creative, imaginative, genuinely delightful — and immensely talented. They are also dear friends with whom I have already had the pleasure of sharing the stage twice.

Eat My Teeth embodies Deathrock in its rawest and most magnificent form, a true funeral oration filled with complex and powerful emotions. Rarely has a band demonstrated such striking creativity. These young artists are simply extraordinary, and it would have been a shame to lay down the arms of the zine without first giving them the opportunity to speak.

I am proud to present to you one of the greatest musical shocks I have ever experienced.

– Interview conducted by Xzvrey in 130 BC 🤪

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1/ Helloooo dear friends of the dark. I’m so happy to have my favorite Deathrock band interviewed in my shitty zine . How are you ? What are your activities those days ? Are you playing gigs in Poland and other countries ?

Apolonia : Hi! Good, thanks. Aren't shitty zines the salt of the earth, especially in the era dominatied by short-form video content with no transcription ever available, which cannot be read in peace?

Natt : Thank you for inviting us to do this interview – we always appreciate your support, and it’s a pleasure to get featured in your zine. I would say we’re doing as fine as we can do in these dystopian times. We’re still doing our thing, after all, and it doesn’t look like we’re about to stop it. We are currently focusing on the studio work but we’ve got some exciting gigs booked for this year both in Poland, as well as in other countries.

2/ Let’s do the common questions before going deeper in your brains : please, could you tell the story of Eat My Teeth ? Why this name ? What kind of music are yo playing in your own words ? Who are the musicians involved ?

Natt : Apolonia plays the bass, Prot the drums, and Din is our guitarist and does our noise parts. We have recently kidnapped Samson to play the second guitar for us, and I am the vocalist and lyricist of the band. It all started in 2021, when I was yet in high school, and I’m the only member remaining in the band since its beginning. The name was invented by Wrenne, an exguitarist of EMT, and there was no deeper meaning behind it, it was simply meant to get stuck in your mind. Currently though, I like to interprete it in new ways. As stated in the answer to the previous question, we just keep doing our thing, and we’ll keep doing it. Everyone else can swallow our teeth – sharp, rotting and uncomfortable, that should remain in our bodies yet we keep spitting them all out on stage. Despite the misconception we meet with quite often, it is not a reference to Eat Your Makeup, although I personally enjoy both the band of this name and the art of John Waters. We describe our music with the anarcho-deathrock label because we like to keep our work DIY and raw, since decay wouldn’t have a polished sound. It is also apparently not enough to play punk for people to realise where you morally stand.

3/ Not that long ago, you were featured on the compilation Warsaw After Midnight and we (your fans) had the chance to listen to 4 of your songs. How did this project of a split album happen ? Are the 4 bands from Warszawa* ? [NDT : Varsovie]

Natt : It was all idea of Błażej Grygiel, the owner of Musica Tenebris, the label which released Warsaw After Midnight. Błażej contacted us about this project around the time of the first edition of the HEX&SEX festival we were co-organizing with the rest of the bands included on the compilation. Natures Mortes is the only band featured on it that was not Warsaw-based at the time.

4/ Now THE big question : when can we descently expect a new release from you ? Maybe an album ? How do you organize the work in Eat My Teeth ? Who write the songs, the lyrics ? Who do the designs ? What do you like to do before and after rehearsing ?

Din : When it comes to songwriting, it's never a finished product of one person. Our songs are always a kind of collaborative collage. It usually starts with one simple, repetitive melody, and over time, we let it evolve freely. These songs are ours and I think each of us has a lot to say in them.

Apolonia : The release (s? wink*) are coming soon, big time, and we're only getting started! The songwriting process is generally a completely joint effort usually starting out with an idea coming from our lead guitarist or bassist that gets developed together with the whole band, quite often ending up completely overhauled as soon as the lyrics, vocals or more ideas are in. Natt's a crazy lyricist. Adding up to our recent approach to vocals as an instruement rather than voice laid on top of music, his ideas for lyrics and overall 'feel' of the music can pretty much turn the whole song upside down or, as time's told, have us working on a completely new one in the span of minutes if our impulsive asses like the concept so much.

Natt : Sometimes I bring a ready vocal line on which I wish to base a new song, but that’s rather rare and most often I base my parts and lyrics on the feelings the instrumental part evokes in me. This way it usually brings something from my subconcious to the surface, therefore it feels therapeutical to me. While we don’t necesserily have any rituals for our band practice, some of our members live together therefore we usually continue the work at home. As for the designs, although I have drawn the cover art for our demo tape, and I’d like to incorporate more of my own visual art into the band in the future, we usually colaborate with our skilled friends. The cover art of our recent single, No Harm, has been created by Zyava, who has also made both of our logo designs. The Salt Into My Eyes art has been done by Sara Ładziak.

5/ Before releasing the split CD, you unleashed a self-made K7 with 3 songs on it. I got one copy (lucky me because it was sold out so fast). If my memory is not so bad, it is Mei (Apolonia) who did the tapes herself ? Will you do this again later ?

Apolonia : That's true. Our demo tape containing early versions of our recent singles was recorded (straight onto tape of course) in our old rehearsal room and duped on my own, back then one deck only, tape setup at home along sharpie-painted cover art drawn by Natt and bands name signed on band-aids plastered onto the shell itself. DIY or die. This is actually what has at last started out my label Daub Conductions I've now got going releasing mostly local dark, harsh and independent music, nowadays in much cleaner, eye-candy vein. Have you got your copy of last years Natures Mortes full length album? Might have some last copy laying around if you haven't! As for physical form of our upcoming EMT releases, guess I don't need to explain where to look for them soon.

6/ Lets talk about your music tastes. What are your favorite records and bands. How do your musical culture influence your own music ?

Natt : Some bands I like are Cemetery, Blue Cross, The Phantom Limbs, Moira Scar, Bone Orchard, Martyr Whore, Nietzsche’s Bitch and Moral Hex. While I’m writing the answer to this question I’m listening to Toxicities Babies CD, and lately I’ve been into 1920s and 1930s music, and Wendy O’ Williams. In 2022 I’ve had the pleasure to see Les Tetines Noires live in Warsaw, in the no longer existent club Pogłos, and it was that night that I have in real time gained the inner confidence to create a stage performance which would not include a single break to feel ashamed, by experiencing what looked like one. I’m a huge Rozz Williams fan and that is an influence I’m rather openly embracing, and often times referencing. In general I do make a lot of references to art I personally enjoy. If a certain form managed to speak to me, I adapt parts of the language to communicate my own message. Through elementary and middle school I was very much into visual kei, and then into Marilyn Manson, and I’d say both have had a deeply rooted impact on my stage presence. I’m certain that is where the attention I pay to the visual aspect came from, and that’s how shock has became the artistic mother language of mine.

Samson : My favourite music was always rock-adjacent. In high school I mainly listened to nu-metal, alternative metal/rock and progressive rock. I remember being fascinated by absurdity of tracks like Vicinity of Obscenity by System of a Down, or conspiratory fueled psychosis of Rossetta stoned by TOOL. Only around three years ago I started to explore widely defined goth music. Some of my favourite bands would include Tones on Tail, The Birthday Party, Specimen, Bloody Dead and Sexy, Malaria! and Cemetery. Currently beside goth/deathrock I also adore 60s rock & roll, psychobilly, synth-pop and mongolian throat signing. One of the most influencial band for me are The Cramps, I love their sexy-horror energy, Human Fly is one of my favourite tracks ever and their are the reason why i decided to choose hollow-body Gretch as my guitar.

Apolonia : Quite funny, with how typical this questions is for interviews, I've noticed how much those answers change over the years speaking for myself at least. Not the favorite records part, but the influence part, or rather own understanding of it. Used to think this was quite linear influence, yet as time flows this gets not only more fractured, but also harder to give a straightforward answer to. Deep into experimental, drone and industrial or punk/hardcore scenes, the influence of my favorite records, movements, personalities is undeniable - it's how we think, it's what we speak, it's who we are. My point of view on music, or shall I say art all together had been slowly turned inside out since I first discovered the whole universe of industrial, dark ambient and experimental rock music through some online forum back in forum years, which then spread onto my whole understanding of it, got me hooked on particular instruments, made me pay attention to detail far more, conveyed a lot of meaning to SOUND rather than songs than I ever previously imagined it has, pushed me deeper into philosophy and what not. What years on years down the Temple ov Psychick Youth rabbithole do to a girl... As odd as it may sound, with me being heavy into both above scenes, what influences my own playstyle and music within Eat My Teeth comes not from my most listened songs, but rather a need for balance between the styles we're borrowing from I can see myself bringing. This is what makes the music interesting and our very own, no? Punk basslines over weeping guitars to bring out a punch, a hardcore breakdown mid-song so that the bridge part gets momentum, Black Sabbath-ish sluggish tempo change? Got it. I've yet to hear our drummer lay a d-beat for any of our songs, heavy doubts on how would whole band with them up front like the idea though ahahah..

Din : EMT would definitely be something different if it weren't for the fact that we know how to combine our different tastes we're influenced by so many types of music. We don't deliberately try to do anything special. we try to leave it unfold and show itself.

7/ You don’t seem very old to me, how did you enter in contact with the gothic and deathrock culture ? What attracted you the first time ? What memory do you have of the first moment you became aware of the existence of such a culture and scene ?

Din : Speaking for myself, finding gothic never came through actual searching. I came from an absolutely non-musical, nonartistic background. I just noticed at some point that there was a certain group of people who were somehow passionate about very similar things to the ones I liked. So i was like ,,oh good i'm not an only freak" and there is a specific term for this freakness. I think that eventually it is Gothic that binds us and holds us together. This is our common language in art.

Natt : As a child I was introduced to bands such as Skinny Puppy, The Cure or Siekiera by my dad, but with no correlation with goth subculture. I first began to consciously discover goth music when I was in middle school, simply looking for new music to obsess over. I don’t think I necesserily questioned it, goth just seemed like the obvious thing for me to get into. I liked the music because it matched the feelings I already had inside myself, providing a soundtrack to them instead of numbing them. I was always rather morbid in what I was drawn to even as a child, so I’d say it was about finding a community of likeminded people for me as well. And I was immediately drawn to deathrock the most as it embraced what I was already about – it was androgynous, queer, raw, more confrontational, visual and maximalist, with morbid and taboo themes. Therefore I’ve begun to call myself a deathrocker almost immediately, because it simply fit. At first I felt understood and welcomed, after some time though, my approach is less optimistic, and seeing the ignorance and hipocrisy of numerous people in the scene, I feel more pissed off than ever. I do feel let down in a way. At the same time, I did find my community here, and a space to create and express myself. I remain thankful for all the opportunities and friendships this scene has brought me.

Samson : I always enjoyed learning about occult, conspiracy theories, cryptozoology and various moraly questionable science experiments from the 50s and 60s. I think that, throughout the years, those macabre themes slowly pushed me into the direction of the goth subculture. In addition to that I really like to express myself through clothes. When I moved to Warsaw I simply started going out to places that might interest me, in those places I found people that were already into goth subculture and I slowly started to learn from them about music and whole subculture. It turned out that a lot of things and music that i already liked were considered goth without me even knowing that. Not long after that, I sterted going to every concert, dance party or any other event I could find. One event that I remember the most is the first EAT MY TEETH concert I attended, of course I wasn’t playing in the band at given time but during this one event I met so many new people from local scene that later become my close friends.

Apolonia : Always had a feeling deathrock as it is was much 'fresher' to me than to the rest of the band back when I got on bass. Of course I already loved some of the genre's classics ever since I first heard the term underneath a youtube upload of some Theatre of Ice song iirc, knew of the scenes historic existance and, as a huge experimental music nerd, remembered how some of the cross-genre collabs and stories, both those more and less famous (looking at you in both cases, Rozz), brought me much enjoyment in the past, yet I wasn't at all following what's happening around the world in goth culture. This hit me like an unplanned, yet crazy enjoyable crash course in modern scene history to say the least. Years passed by and I don't regret it, even if I find myself going back to the same classics over and over again.

8/ For me, the best way to discover Eat My Teeth is when you play live. It is so powerful and it is a true deathrock show with aesthetic and tension. What is the importance of playing live in the band ?

Natt : I do view EMT as mostly a live band, and myself as a poet and performance artistrather than a musician. Live experiences bring people together and I think that especially in the current technology and internet driven timesit is particularly important. We do our best for the experience to be unforgettable.

Samson : Even though I am rather new in the band I feel like one of the most important advantage of live performance is the fact that you can express yourself not only by the music but also by its theatrical aspect. Live shows can break barrier between artists and the audience. For me it is always important to come up with new ideas to shock and entertain the audience during our shows. Stage is also a place where many important stuff can be highlighted and brougth up to attention of people. We have to use it wisely and speak up about problems that need attention.

9/ Natt Nemesism, your singer, has a very powerful presence on stage and a very specific voice. It makes me wonder, Nat, did you take lessons for the voice or did you learn all by yourself ?

Natt : I took extreme vocal classes and have learnt to do the screams there. Besides that, I have attended some vocal lessons throughout my childhood but with no success, nobody managed to teach me how to do it. With the start of EAT MY TEETH, I began to mix different techniques, in order to develop my own style to mask that I couldn’t actually sing at all.

What a fucking memory !

10/ We had the chance to play together in Rogoźnica for the Batbeque/Chlewik Party. What are your memories of this festival. Wich bands did you like the most ?

Natt : When it comes to the bands, with full honesty, it’s definitely your performance I remeber most vividly. I wish I had seen more of the bands that have performed, I remember being extremely tired and sleep-deprived during that year’s event. I do like visiting Rogoźnica though. I think Haunted House is a great initiative, which I encourage to support, and I love the nature surrounding it. And the nearby church !

Apolonia : Fond memories from Rogoźnica each and every year! Liked the performances of many bands, both the ones I already knew and those I've got to witness for the first time over there: Cierń, Kurschatten, Dicephal Mortus with amazing Aurum Putrefactum performance, Dear Deer and of course The Last Oath back in 2023:)

Samson : I unfortunately missed Batbeque where The Last Oath was playing but we still had a chance to meet during Hex & Sex 3. When it comes to my favourite memories from the last Batbeque I think it would be the day when I decided to swim fully clothed in the lake nearby. After that I and Din run into forest to climb trees and eat acorns like our ancestors thousands of years in the past. Latter in the same day I had a chance to hear Twisted Nerve live, which was awesome experience, and afterwards I decied to swim in lake again (this time alongside Marta From 25 Jeasuses of Fear). After all that, soaking wet and covered in algae, we decided to go and dance in the barn at the afterparty DJ set.

11/ In addition to the care you take in your music, you worked a lot on your look. It is very effective if you ask me. What are your inspirations when it comes to your gigs outfits ?

Natt : Lately I have been wearing mostly full beige on stage, what I had the plan to do for few years. I interpret it as the color of decay, both physical and, with the current fashion and design dominated by it, spiritual. I view fashion as a form of transgression, not always a purely aesthetic choice. I often quote and distort the gender norms, expectations and prejudice, from my transgender perspective. I like to keep it all grotesque. The sunglasses I’ve began to wear on stage recently are supposed to be a distortion of the rockstar stereotype and a question whether it still has place in the current day entertainement. I paint my face white to create a blank canvas for myself to make it whatever I please. I put an X on it, a symbol of social exclusion, as a reference to the women of the Manson Family. Every part of the look has its meaning and a source.

Din : For me it was always an attempt to achieve something mesmerizing, to reproduce what I saw in characters, in German movies from the 20s. In our band, the colors, they have meaning, they are another part of the narrative so listen and look.

Samson : From almost my first apperance in local scene I have been known as « that goth pirate guy » as I often wear a pirate hat that I really like. For inspiration for my outfits I use many different things, mostly 80s fashon, artists I like, video games that look cool or just some concepts that I find interesting. Some time ago I wore few outfits inspired by apperance of Screaming Lord Sutch, Adam Ant and Alien Sex Fiend. In the future I was thinking about one specific outfit inspired by Bloodborne (game I like) and I wanted to do something that would reference Strange Case of Mr Hyde and Dr. Jekyll.

12/ The gothic underground is full of classic legends, that’s a fact. But there is also a lot of incredible bands emerging those years (like Eat My Teeth… do you know them ?). Do you ay attention to both classics and fresh bands ? Do you have some recommendations ?

Samson : I try to keep up with everything but I mostly discover bands via concerts. From currently performing bands, my strong recomendation would be Tiss Vampiric, I was amazed during their performance at Return to the Batcave 2024 . I also like Cataphiles, they make amazing stuff and I have been on multiple concerts of them. Some of the other tracks that I have recently found out and really like are : Seven Eyed Horse from Cyan Revue (which was recomended to me by Din) and Death of Nation from Detoxi. When it comes to our local scene I try to keep an eye on all new bands that emerge from it. Recently my friends from Apokalipstick (the one from Poznan/Wroclaw) had their first concert in Warsaw and soon they plan to realase their first EP.

Natt : I listen to both old and new bands, whatever sparks my interest. I wouldn’t say that listening to classic bands only carries no sense, because it does if that’s what speaks to you. But fresh bands is what keeps it alive. I love Moira Scar, Illegal Funeral and Tiss Vampiric as well (and I’ve got Take It, Eat It, This Is My Body signature by Tiss tattooed on my ribs). I adore the other bands of Din and Prot, and I enjoy Apokalipstick a lot. Obviously The Last Oath CD has also accompanied us in numerous car rides. I would personally never listen to degenerates such as EAT MY TEETH.

Din : For me, bands like CAN and NEU have always been the most important, although it was only when I got to know Les Tétines Noires that I encountered something so exceptionally different and new.

Apolonia : Always finding myself going back to the roots of both deathrock and anarcho-punk with Rudimentary Peni, which is no secret if you ever heard me play. Apart from that and aforementioned Theatre of Ice, best fun I've had is with the internet finds from small labels/Bandcamp and local gigs like Chain Cult, Rakta or a Orgy by the goth punk band Infidel which just had to be one of my most listened EPs of the 2010s. Oh, almost forgot an obligatory Poison Ruïn mention this question screams for.

13/ Besides Eat My Teeth, are you involved in other projects ? Bands, zines, radios ? I know your are a part of the Hex & Sex festival in Warszawa. Could you say some words about this gigs organisation ?

Din: Besides EMT, Prot and I are involved in two other bands, 25 Jesuses of Fear and Mekanical Menagerie. It really helps me determine which ideas best fit our main project. And it helps drain some of the water from my boiling bucket of creativity.

Apolonia: Apart from the label I also host an online radio show 'dust dunnies' playing all sorts of sad and alternative music, mostly out of synth, ambient and industrial compilations to which you can tune in every other Saturday at 11PM. Been quite busy last year booking mostly, but not only, punk gigs locally, which is already starting to continue this season, so stay on a lookout when you're coming over to Warsaw not to miss any!

Natt : HEX&SEX is a DIY goth festival in Warsaw which we are currently the main organisers of. So far we’ve had the pleasure to co-organize three editions of it, and are currently working on the fourth edition. Besides bands, we welcome DIY vendors and tarot readers, and at the last edition we’ve had the pleasure to welcome foreign musical artists for the first time, including Hihelga from USA, and you, dear friends – thank you once again. It was a true pleasure to have you here.

14/ You are from Warszawa, the Polish capital city. How is the underground there ? Do you have a lot of audience, venues bands ? How is it to be a gothic people in your city ?

Natt : When I first began to attend local events there was no young artistic goth scene here. I was meeting very few people my age and deathrock was not as popular of a genre as it is now at all. It has changed rapidly, we have experienced a boom which gave birth to the scene that is most definitely here, even if it’s not as ‘trendy’ as it was two years ago. I’d say it got more experimental and, even if slightly smaller, more diverse. It’s very honest, very DIY, almost everyone here makes their own art. I also view it as very socially charged what I appreciate. But I’m speaking about the goth-punk scene. Simultonausly, there seems to be a phenomenon of far-right and straight up nazi ‘goths’, who hang out in places other than we do and do not come to our events. We attract both goth and punk audience, and I’m happy that we do. Even though we live in the capital city, I feel the bitter lack of alternative places, as my policy is that if nazis feel safe going somewhere, I do not go there.

15/ How can we all help your band right now ? Do you have specific needs (tour, record session etc.) that requieres help ? Maybe there is people ready to give a hand in the zine’s readership.

Natt : We are very much open to different offers. We would love to perform in new places. If you, dear reader, would like to do something with us, just send us a message and we will be pleasured to work on something together.

16/ Besides music, what are your other passions ? Do you have hobbies ?

Apolonia : Huge music archivist and tape collector here, what should make perfect sense with what's been already said above. Constantly making plans to be acquiring more obscure tapes not available anywhere in digital as to preserve its content from a complete loss, yet for now I mostly stick to scavenging the internet for rare music to share further and expanding personal tape collection, because vinyl is pricy and usually less fun, and you can't DIY your way in:)

Natt : I’m interested in the occult, I like fashion, dadaism and weird cinema. I currently study Japanese studies. I’m fascinated with eroguro as a cultural phenomenon, and I enjoy looking at the world through this lense.

Din : I’m a surfer, I ride horses and I play solitaire.

17/ Your traped in my claws, now that I hold you, you have only one solution to escape : answering the most important and frightening question ever : what are your favorite food and drinks ? What is your most memorable hangover (if any) ? Can you recommend some classic food from your country (I already know pierogi and pyzy) ?

Samson : My most memorable hangover was around year ago when I was at Natt’s birthday party. Before the party Natt said that he can accomodate only one person at his place, and for safety reason he had this place reserved for anyone that would be too drunk to return home. Due to that, two of our friends were staying at my place. Everything was fine but when the party was coming to the end, I remember casually talking with others while taking small sips from my cup. Unfortunately I forgot that inside of my cup was pure jagermeister. Few minutesl later, just before we were going to leave, I blacked out. Ironically I was the person that needed the reserved bed and two of my friends couldn’t return to my place alone. Next morning I woke up beside two friends that were supposed to stay at my place and Natt, all sleeping in Natt’s bed like a pack of wild animals. I had the worst hangover in my life but I still remember kindly the whole party. And about food I like Pierogi.

Apolonia : Don't find myself in the kitchen as often as I'd like due to working in a place that serves decent food and dining in most of the days, yet my favourite food would probably generally be middle eastern cuisine, as much as broad and generalizing this term is. Polish food is riddled with so many fascinating little ways of how to add meat or other animal remains to the seemingly safe to eat, even with most of them being just fine without this addition, and some level of vigilancy is always required if you don't fancy grubbing on carcass. Happily there's also a ton of great options you can never go wrong with such as pierogi or pyzy with mushroom stuffing, placki ziemniaczane or some of countless polish soups. Be the change we all want to see and go vegan today.

Natt : I enjoy trying cuisine from different parts of the world and I haven’t got a particular favorite dish. I like any drink you buy me. I keep memorable intoxicated and sober memories, and I try to forget the hangover ones. But, for the New Year Eve we have done a Greek mythology themed party at our place, and at around 4 AM Prot and I have decided to go to a gay club. The next day I woke up naked, with makeup still on, and the lights, also on. I surely do remember the two days after that. I also felt like shit after I got drugged once, which is not a funny story but I will use it to remind all readers to stay aware of their surroudnings and keep an eye on their friends, even in seemingly well known locations and communities. My favorite Polish dish is blood and tears of Polish right-wingers.

Din : I like milk.

18/ If you could do some impossible thing (like playing a gig with a dead legend) with Eat My Teeth, what would it be ?

Natt : Make a living out of music.

Din : If we could raise the dead, I think maybe we could invite Prince to play support before us.

Samson : One day I would like to meet Din in real life.

19/ Well, we are already reaching the end unfortunately. Do you want to say something more to the people reading those lines ?

Natt : Stay true to yourselves and don’t be afraid to speak your mind. Don’t be afraid to change it neither. And do things scared. You can put your energy into self-discovery and self expression instead of trying to fit under a pre-made umbrella. Deconstruct the idea instead of changing its name and color.

Samson : The machine god must be killed.

Din : You should read between the lines.

Apolonia : It's been a pleasure chatting with you, Florent, and thanks to you, who's reading this. Remember it's you who creates your local scene keep your friends close, know your priorities, and stay safe out there.

20/ My dear friends, this is the time to let you go but I’m so happy to share the stage with you again in september for the Hex & Sex 3. Thank you very much for taking time to answer this monster. I wish you all the best and see you soon.

Bye 🦇😀