Original version of the interview for the Russian Internet portal
1. Hello and welcome! Thank you for being here. Do you listen to a lot of music? What kind do you enjoy or avoid?
☠️ Thank you for hearing us. Music isn’t background — it’s a portal. We listen to what tears the fabric of reality: noise, breakcore, gabber, grindcore, folklore, techno, horror ambient, industrial rap, Japanese ritual chants, and corrupted children’s TV jingles from the '90s. We reject music that’s afraid to be ugly. Beauty is just pain’s side effect.
2. Who inspired you to start making music?
💭 We were inspired by dead mascots, forgotten VHS voices, information zombies with TVs for heads, and spirits living inside spectrograms. We’re not inspired by people — we’re inspired by glitches, errors, and phantoms.
3. What does your creative process look like?
🧟 It’s not a process — it’s a ritual. We summon an entity, give it a name, a visual code, an audio mantra, and archive its biography. Sometimes it speaks through us. Sometimes we just record its scream. It always begins with a mascot. It always ends on the grave map.
4. Who would you most like to collaborate with?
☠️ With those unafraid to lose their face. Artists willing to reincarnate. Those fluent in glitch, error, and myth. We want to collaborate with creators who don’t just make music — they birth viral lifeforms.
5. What do you enjoy most about this kind of work? And what do you enjoy least?
🧟 We love creating entities that exist outside time. We dislike being asked to explain what that means. We don’t explain — we infect.
6. Is there a story behind your name or alias? How did you come up with it?
☠️ xCxYxDxGx isn’t a nickname — it’s a formula. A code you can’t decode, only feel. It emerged as an archive error, a corrupted filename. We didn’t invent it — it wrote itself.
7. Where have you performed? Concerts, events, cities — or is it still in the works?
🧟 We’ve performed in places where sound equals pain. In basements, graveyards, online grottoes, Japanese Discord temples. Sometimes we’re invited. Sometimes we just arrive. Geography doesn’t matter — ritual density does.
8. What’s your favorite song to perform?
💭 We love performing tracks no one can replicate. Ones that sound like a rotting television, a choir of cyborg grandmothers, a spectrogram hiding a mascot’s name.
9. What advice would you give to someone who wants to start making music?
☠️ Don’t start with genre. Start with an entity. Give it a name, a biography, a visual code. Let it speak through you. And don’t be afraid to be ugly — ugliness is honesty.
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