Interview with Serge Rhino (Epicardiectomy)

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1. How have you been?

All is good here. Been pretty busy with personal life recently. So I stayed away from social media for a while and tried to focus more on it, as well as on working on new music.


2. What are you currently listening to that you would recommend?

I haven’t been following the scene much for the last couple of years, but from what I heard my favorites are the most recent releases from Despondency, Cerebral Effusion, Indecent Excision, Necrotic Infibulation, Regurgitated Entrails, Brutalism, Darkall Slaves, Final Resting Place, Submerged to name a few.


3. You have split with your vocalist Ondřej. Have you found a permanent replacement yet?

We didnt really have much time to look for a permanent replacement yet since last year we were pretty busy with touring. Our good friends Clayton from Condemned and Kiriakos from Embryectomy helped us out with filling in on vocals, for which we are very grateful to them. Now that we are taking a break from touring and focusing on finishing the new album, we are ready to consider new candidates.


4. What are your musical plans for the future?

We are planning on finishing writing the material for the new release and hit the studio by this summer, so that’s pretty much what all our focus is on right now. We also have some good shows booked for this year and some cools tours in the works for 2026. 


5. What is your favorite piece of art you have produced that has a special place in your heart?

If you mean music then I guess my favorite is the most recent album, „Grotesque Monument Of Paraperversive Transfixion“ in terms of composing, recording process and overall sound.  Each album I have recorded has a special place in my heart even though some of them (especially the old ones) might sound a bit naive to me now. It’s a natural process because some of my musical visions have changed as I grow as a musician. But each one of them is an honest piece of work in which I put my whole self at the time it was recorded and released.  



6. Can you tell us a fun fact related to your music that we may not know?

I’m sure there are many, but here’s one. In search of unique drums sound our drummer Milan used a 12‘‘ tom drum instead of a snare drum for a while as an experiment and actually used it on the recording of our second album „Putreseminal Morphodysplastic Virulency“.


7. What is the craziest shit that ever happened to you related to the band?

There’s a lot of crazy shit that happened during the almost 20 years of the band’s existence, especially on tours. Travelling to places you never thought you will see in your life, corrupt cops at border controls, weirdest alcohol and food, full speed wild race in the band’s van through the desert, promoters running away with money, people getting knocked out in the mosh, sleeping on the floor of a house infested with scorpions, you name it.


8. What are your five desert island picks and biggest inspirations?

There is too many bands that I love and which inspired me and it‘s hard to pick 5, but if we talk about bdm, it would probably be:

Pyrexia „Sermon Of Mockery“

Suffocation „Pierced From Withtin“

Dehumanized „Prophecies Foretold“

Devourment „Molesting The Decapitated“

Digested Flesh „The Answer To Infection“


9. You announced you are working on your 4th full-length album. Do you have any possible release date in mind yet?

We don’t have a release date yet, we are going to announce it once we know studio dates and take it from there, but I estimate it for early 2026.


10. Alien invasion or zombie apocalypse?

Zombie apocalypse all day!


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A big thank you to Serge for doing the interview and giving us such interesting answers.
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