Interview with The Juggernauts (November 2025)

The earth quakes beneath their stride, a seismic growl you can feel in your bones, as if even the ground knows what’s coming. The Juggernauts—sound incarnate, summoned from the depths to face a world careening towards its own demise. Their arrival, written in the stars or maybe just scrawled on the back of a crumpled napkin in some forgotten bar, began in 2010, as though they had been ripped from a future too grim to imagine. The apocalypse? We’d all been too busy with our screens to notice. But here they are, unrelenting and unfinished, shaking the very foundations we thought were safe.

Led by BORG (Peter Mastbooms, no stranger to the Belgian EBM scene, where he’s earned his stripes as BodyBeats’ resident DJ and a prominent figure behind the decks), they bring the chaos: a brutal marriage of Electro Body Music, jagged rhythms, and a bassline that punches you in the chest. Alongside him, Philip Roef on E-drums and Terence Gryson manipulating synths, samplers, and percussion, they form a trio that doesn’t just play music—they dismantle it and leave you picking up the pieces.

The Juggernauts are not just a band. They are a waking storm. Their music is a scream against the rising tide of human stupidity, the drowning of our oceans, the death of everything we hold sacred, and the endless cycle of violence we can’t seem to escape. They are, as the world spins faster towards the edge, the sound of the brakes screeching just before we all go over the cliff. And maybe, just maybe, they’re the only ones who know how to make that fall feel like the greatest ride of all.

With Judgment Day looming just out of sight, Peek-A-Boo has the pleasure of speaking with Peter Mastbooms aka BORG. The Juggernauts are coming after you—and there is no place to run, no place to hide.

Q: Mr. Borg, thanks for taking the time to chat with us. Great to have you here. Let’s start with a little history. The Juggernauts formed back in 2010—was the world already showing signs of impending doom back then, a distant thought of something yet to come that led to bringing The Juggernauts into existence?

BORG: Well, I think the beginning of this planet's decline began when apes learned to walk. But that being said, it seemed as if Mother Nature had had enough of humans... A devastating earthquake followed by an unprecedented tsunami resulting in more than 200,000 deaths, and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, hurricanes like Dorian, Irna, and Maria that claimed thousands of lives. Humans also contributed by, for example, spilling more than 600 million liters of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion on the Deep Horizon oil rig… The increasing polarization fueled by questionable politicians and reinforced by the poisoned gift of social media… Wars, Mass-shootings, terrorist attacks all in the name of some imaginary God and/or religion … Should I continue?

Q: Imagine The Juggernauts as a dystopian comic book. As soon as you open the first page, you get a quick intro to all the characters—all the band members. What would the description say for each of you?

BORG: Our drummer would then definitely be Thor, maintaining the beat hitting his anvil hard and occasionally hitting an unruly person on the head after he carelessly throws his rubbish in the roadside ditch or in a park. Our synth & sample man could have been Captain America, inserting his shield between warring factions and trying to reconcile and unite everyone with his enchanting synthesizer sounds and melodies... Unfortunately, that's exactly the opposite of what America's current "captain" is doing so he needs to rethink his outfit and colors. And me … “I’m the Juggernaut B*tc...