Vermefüg IS fucking METAL. Oh, and they have the best fliers our eyes have ever seen.

Hi, I’m Adam I play bass and do backup vocals for Vermefüg
I’m Nate, I play drums
I’m Jeff, I play lead guitar
I’m James and I also play lead guitar (laughter)
And I’m Matt, and I sing lead vocals

Chief Magazine: So just tell me a little about your band name, Vermefüg, I'm interested, especially with the umlaut

Adam: It’s spelled V-E-R-M-E-F-Ü-G. pronounced fermah-FEUUG. When we started the band, we thought it was German for shitting and vomiting worms, it wasn’t until we were on tour with this German band, and they told us that it didn’t mean anything. So that’s American for shitting and vomiting worms.

Jeff: And that was after a year and a half of doing it, so it was too late to change.

Have you copyrighted that term?

Adam: Yes

Matt: No
[laughter]

Did I give you an idea? So how long you guys been together?

Matt: Going on two and a half, three years

Jeff: Two plus years

Adam: Three years this February.

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Oh I see he knows.

[laughter] Yeah he’s been counting the days. It’s his band

So how do guys start out as a band, how’d you all come together?

Matt: Budweiser.

Jeff:Basically what happened was us three used to play in a band called Jailbait, and they kicked me out cause I didn’t want to be in a hair metal band.

Nate: Yeah, he punched me in the face

Is it because he has hair and you guys….

Adam: Exactly! Exactly why…we decided to come off our hair metal kick and actually play some metal,

Jeff: We used to play punk rock, and then we got good, and we started playing metal, one thing led to another and it got really hot so we decided to take our clothes off…[laughter] and then we were a thrash metal band.

So do you guys not like punk music?

Nate: …Because you have a song called punk is dead, bang your head.

Matt: Nah, punk IS dead

Why is Punk dead?

Jeff: ‘Cause metal is killing it.

Nate: It doesn’t have guitar solos

Matt: That’s why punk is dead, it rhymes with bang your head, and it’s catchy.  It rhymes, there you go.

Jeff: And all punks will evolve into metal heads, and SHOULD eventually evolve into metalheads. [laughter] And I mean it.

So with that question, who are your influences?

Vermefüg: Exodus
The Casualties
Nuclear Assassin
Judas Priest, Iron Maiden
Ted Nugent
Harry Neilsen
Fucking…James Brown
Paul Gilbert
George Clinton
Everyone that’s Awesome

[Laughs] Everyone that’s awesome?

Matt: Weird Al Yankovic. Verbal abuse.

Adam: We also really like Pizza.