tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18718615223429630342024-03-05T20:47:32.664-05:00Don't Be SwindleWe are a DIY grindcore related e-zine. Columnists are Will Butler, Will Toftness, James Walkley, Ralph Ferrara, and Vii Caos. Hopefully soon to be joined by Paul Sunderland and Pat Forrest.To Live A Liehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17944336824220972520noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-72339853918923582272020-01-21T15:14:00.003-05:002020-01-21T15:14:43.925-05:00DBS 07 - Show #7<a href="https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode7/DontBeSwindle-Episode7.mp3">https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode7/DontBeSwindle-Episode7.mp3</a>
Vile Intent - Muzzle
Archagathus - Real Fancy
Artimus Pyle - Bloodless War
Liberate - Amigo Imaginario
GAZA - Am I Mad
Gyga - Butcher
Mukeka Di Rato - Moldar
Malpractice Insurance - Surgical Sabotage
Worlds - Nomadic Exile
Bastard Noise - Seeing The Same Fate
Exit Wounds - Concrete Childhood
Water Torture - Syntheic Waste
Lost Tribe - The Laughter
Mellakka - Tuhoon Tuomittu
Heresy - Dedication From Inspiration
DeathToll - Prophecy Of Death
God Harvest - Crucifacial
Last Words - Human Trainwreck
Permanent Ruin - White Wash
N.E.K. - O Lema E
Mau Maus - Unforogtten
Pull Out An Eye - Olympic Village
Psychic Limb - Track 3
No Statik - Surrogate
Beyond Pink - I-Landssproblem
Sea Of Shit - Worst EnemeyWill Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-9421858661031317042020-01-21T15:14:00.000-05:002020-01-21T15:14:08.029-05:00DBS 06 - Show #6<a href="https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode6Podcast/DontBeSwindle-Episode6Podcast.mp3">https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode6Podcast/DontBeSwindle-Episode6Podcast.mp3</a>
Sixth episode is a To Live A Lie Records-centric episode, in fact all songs are from TLAL. Self promotion to inspire me to do more podcasts.
1. Sex Prisoner - Piss When I Cum (0:50)
2. Sick/Tired - Last Stand for a Deadman (1:21)
3. Shitstorm - Nevernding Genocide (0:15)
4. XBRAINIAX - Fuck the Swindlers (0:32)
5. Magnum Force - Distort (0:34)
6. Backslider - Some Kind of Moron (0:29)
7. Disciples Of Christ - 12 (0:56)
8. Dos Amigos - Snitch Bitch Eyesore (0:24)
9. Sissy Spacek - Look Alive (0:35)
10. Assholeparade - Bury You (1:01)
11. Beartrap - Nailed Shut (0:22)
12. Suffering Luna - Go Ask Alice (4:12)
13. Archagathus - Intoxicating Aroma (1:33)
14. Sidetracked - Runaway (0:23)
15. Mehkago N.T. - Crustfund Youth (1:55)
16. Capitalist Casualties - Atomic Energy Commission (Live) (0:48)
17. Sakatat - Bu Düzen Hepimizi Bir Gecede Harcayabilir + Kayñp (1:18)
18. Deathrats - Please (1:09)
19. Get Destroyed! - Shut In (0:31)
20. ACxDC - Milk Was A Bad Choice (0:48)
21. Lapse - Trend (0:46)
22. Eddie Brock - Pointer Thumb Pinky (1:56)
23. PLF - Veteran Of Looserhood (1:04)
24. Fatal Nunchaku - Track 11 (0:33)
25. Curmudgeon - Infallible (0:54)
26. Osk - Knowingly Ignorant (0:45)
27. Mind As Prison - Ramifications (2:43)Will Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-37650851072412672232020-01-21T15:13:00.002-05:002020-01-21T15:13:29.466-05:00DBS 05 - Show #5<a href="https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode5Podcast/dbs5.mp3">https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode5Podcast/dbs5.mp3</a>
1. Lapse - Posthumous
2. Curmudgeon - Gran Machismo
3. What Life Is - Street Lights
4. FCH - Japanese Wisdom I
5. Parlamentarisk Sodomi - Introduksjonell Mistillit
6. Sakatat - Unknown Title
7. Beach Babes - Cold Pizza
8. Bloody Phoenix - Isolated
9. The Kill - We Want Blood
10. Violent Children - Culture Sucks
11. Zero Boys - Splish Splash
12. Uniform Choice - My Own Mind
13. Ratos De Porao - Caos
14. Sairaat Mielet - Tippa Tappaa
15. Civil Victim - Coptown
16. Bastard - Flash Out
17. Punch - Been Here Before
18. Creepy Crawlie - Chicken Leg
19. I Accuse! - Can't Stop
20. Inzest - Human
21. D-Clone - What Color The Sky?
22. Nasikuzusi - Japanese TitleWill Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-26984400172339271762020-01-21T15:12:00.001-05:002020-01-21T15:12:55.311-05:00DBS 04 - Show #4<a href="https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode4Podcast/dbs4.mp3">https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode4Podcast/dbs4.mp3</a>
1. Suffer – Numbered
2. Pissed Happy Children – Ready to Fight
3. Pandemonium – No More Talk
4. Cthulhu Youth – S.O.S.D
5. Female Snake – Adulthood
6. Kieltolaki – Maailma Menee Helvettiin
7. Blank Stare – Fuck Drugs. Fuck You.
8. Crippled Youth – Positive Scene
9. Stripmines – Failsafe
10. ¡LIBÉRATE! – Hispano? NO!
11. Attitude Adjustment – Endless Sight
12. No For An Answer – Domino Principle
13. Vile Intent – Front
14. Mondo Gecko – Unknown Track
15. Punch – Get Back
16. Un Quarto Morto – Idiocrazia
17. Curmudgeon – Gran Machismo
18. Raw Power – I Hate The System
19. Riistetyt – Ei Hoitokeinoa
20. Youth Korpse – Disappear + Cop songWill Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-56195385618283191432020-01-21T15:00:00.006-05:002020-01-21T15:00:42.545-05:00DBS 03 - Show #3<a href="https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode3Podcast/DontBeSwindle-Episode3.mp3">https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode3Podcast/DontBeSwindle-Episode3.mp3</a>
1. Doom- Circles
2. Sore Throat- Hang Norman Tebbit
3. Sore Throat- Filthchain
4. Gore Beyond Necropsy- Leavin' Here
5. Iron Butter- Willieburger
6. Final Exit- May
7. Asocial Terror Fabrication- Under the Dark Force
8. GoFuckYourself- Mormons Can Fuck Off pt. 2
9. Herpes- Seguimiento Falso
10. Electro Hippies- Gas Joe Pearce
11. Concrete Sox- Your Turn Next
12. Heresy- Despair
13. Attitude Adjustment- Warfear
14. Ulster- Morte Aos Velhos
15. Excruciating Terror- Human Error
16. Extreme Noise Terror- Cage Paralysis/ Think Outside the Box
17. Phobia- Infant Suffering
18. G-Anx- Life
19. Prophecy of Doom- title unknown
20. Napalm Death- Your Achievement
21. Masskontroll- EpilogueWill Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-16529383216991899802020-01-21T15:00:00.001-05:002020-01-21T15:01:09.753-05:00DBS 02 - Show #2<a href="https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode1Podcast_907/DBS2.mp3">https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode1Podcast_907/DBS2.mp3</a>
Second episode of Don't Be Swidle Podcast with Will Butler as your host with a guest block by Jace Kuhn and shoutout by Patrick Forrest and Logan Neubauer of Backslider.
Weekend Nachos - Dog Torture
Mihoen - Geinstitutionaliseerde Ideale
Vorhees - Feed The Poor
Neos - Destruct
Malicious Grind - Hardcore Wall Flower
DYS - Brotherhood
Bathtub Shitter - Fuck Hip Raper
Framtid - We Must Impart
Slight Slappers - Normal Life
Toast - Plastic Kill Order
Sea Of Shit - Mindless
Mindless - Diseased
Matka Teresa - Dirty Hands
Mind As Prison - Comp Song
Napalm Death - Unchallenged Hate
Magrudergrind -Stagnant
Bathory - Holocaust
Backslider - Predictable Epitaph
Dead Language - Short Straw
Low Threat Profile - Southern Hospitality
Brain Killer - Tranquilizer
Pull Out An Eye - Paper Soldier
State Violence - Song 2
Surroundings - Gluttony Of God
Coke Bust - DeathbedWill Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-90593099525333523562020-01-21T14:58:00.001-05:002020-01-21T14:58:41.683-05:00DBS 01 - Show #1<a href="https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode1Podcast/episode1.mp3">https://archive.org/download/DontBeSwindle-Episode1Podcast/episode1.mp3</a>
1) Antidote - Real Deal
2) Lärm - Hippies
3) Satanic Malfunctions - Dealing Out Death
4) Electro Hippies - Run Ronald
5) Hummingbird Of Death - Where's The Fun
6) Quattro Stagioni - How Will I Live Tomorrow
7) Knuckle Scraper - The Thing
8) Hatred Surge - Society Sucker
9) Worlds - Imonc
10) Ruidosa Inmundicia - Ello Son
11) Culo - Neighborhood Watch
12) Warhead - You In Corruption
13) Citizens Arrest - Serve And Protect
14) Ripcord - Aim To PleaseWill Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-45201784857082859112014-03-03T21:02:00.001-05:002014-03-03T21:02:22.186-05:00Infest - Live Show Review 3/1/2014<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At
the outset, <i>Don't Be Swindle</i> readers, I regret to inform you that
vegetarian nachos are no longer being served at El Corazon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sad but true!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead, you may now choose between tater tots, a hot dog, a "Seattle
style" hot dog, or a quesadilla.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Naturally, despite bumming out (hard) over this piece of dreadful news,
I soldiered on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I refuse to allow an
absence of "weekend nachos", as it were, ruin the natural high of
this historic show!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hey, punk rock has
never been easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And truth be told, I
didn't want a belly full of artificial cheese, anyway.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So
there's this band called Gag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They're
from Olympia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you read the interview
with them in <i>Maximumrocknroll</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it was great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I suspect that Gag as a collective
may not care what supposed "journalists" (is that a thing?) write
about them in "magazines" (do those still exist?) … because Gag can
rest comfortably in the knowledge that when they're asked to, they can bring
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's hardcore for the hardcore, as
the phrase goes, and resulted in the first circle pit of the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vocalist threw himself around the stage
in finest rag doll fashion; guitarist Jose (who also handles vocals in the
equally excellent White Wards) never failed to summon a sturdy rhythmic backbone;
the second guitarist didn't muddy up the sound; drums pounded, the bass
throbbed … sonic catharsis achieved!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gag
received quite a bit of hype in the punk scene last year — thankfully, it's
deserved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you can tell from the
artwork gracing their vinyl releases, this band has a highly developed artistic
sense, which seemingly flows on tap in Olympia and nourishes its many sacred
denizens!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(After all, "It's The
Water", as the slogan for Olympia beer once had it; scores of incisive,
thoughtful bands have called Olympia home over the years.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gag's t-shirts also demonstrate an eye for
artistic detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly, in a
strictly musical sense, you might not expect that to be the case, given that
Gag's punk rock resembles a seeming patchwork of early '80's hardcore as it
collides with the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>elusive
"mysterious" element of a modern throwback outfit such as Hoax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite the relative simplicity and even
tradition of their pounding caveman roar, Gag can't help but reveal a deeper,
more advanced shade of creativity in equal measure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go see them if they play near you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Warcry
hail from nearby Portland, Oregon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todd
Burdette, their frontman and vocalist, has been active in music for decades —
most notably, perhaps, in His Hero Is Gone, followed by the now-cult Tragedy;
he's also mixed it up (in his apparent spare time) with occasional forays into
"side projects" such as Severed Head Of State and Trauma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In those bands, Todd usually plays guitar,
but at least on this evening with Warcry, he brought his full menacing presence
to bear on vocals alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept
wondering if someone in the crowd would receive a glancing blow from the
microphone, because when Todd wasn't howling into it, he twirled it like he was
about to lasso something, or he'd wrap it around his neck, then loosen it, only
to throw it around and seize it out of the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Todd also pumped his fists relentlessly and flipped off the crowd at
every opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fittingly for me,
they played "B.S.B.S.F.B.S.", with its rousing chorus of
"Bullshit/bullshit/fuckin' bullshit!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As Bruce Roehrs might quip: "YES!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's my favorite Warcry song, but standout
"When Comes The End" sounded incredibly tight and forceful as well,
particularly with reverb and delay drenching the vocals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you attach negative sentiments to punk
rockers who attain "lifer" status, and you look down your nose at
Warcry as a result of that … well, it's your loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warcry are a great band; I felt honored to
see them live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And yes, I bought the
t-shirt!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>None
other than The Infamous Gehenna took the stage next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prior to the start of the show, I'd been
sitting on a couch in the back of a side bar at El Corazon, which was
conveniently close to one end of the stage, while their guitarist and bassist
warmed up unplugged on a couch right across from me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guitarist had sprayed some sort of
lubricant on the neck of his guitar (an apple-red colored guitar which featured
one of those crazy triangle/geometrically-shaped bodies, a sort of variation on
the Randy Rhodes-esque "Flying V.")<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hadn't seen anybody spray oil on a guitar neck like that in years —
usually, that's what you do when you want what's known as a "fast
neck", so you can play a lot of hyper-fast riffs on it without causing
your fingers to bleed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>("What band are
these dudes in!?", I wondered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"They look like hardcore kids, but that riffing, it almost sounds
like death metal …")<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come to find
out, it's Gehenna — band of myth and lore; band with "notorious"
vocalist Mike Cheese (who actually seems like a really nice guy … but keep that
a secret); band of devious intelligence; overall feral, and long-lived,
practitioners of Holy Terror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try the
following experiment, if you will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take
a Gehenna LP off the shelf, let the creeping darkness of the cover art filter
into your senses, then flip it over and read through the song titles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's quite a daunting experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few of these song titles stick with you for
years: "Mescalinpsychosis"; "Spiraling Into My Demise"; "The
Choking Sands"; "Covet Thy Crown" (which the band played
tonight!), and many others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the looming,
starkly intimidating shadow that Gehenna's art casts sonically, I half-expected
to choke in fright as Cheese stormed the stage in an (imagined) destructive,
suicidal rampage — a true disciple of G.G. Allin, perhaps?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such was not the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gehenna's set seemed almost murderously,
methodically controlled; in a manner of speaking, they didn't have to be overly
demonstrative as they slowly twisted the proverbial shiv in your side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The band brought tight, professional drumming
(unconfirmed rumor: Gehenna's drummer that evening also played on Infest's <i>No
Man's Slave</i>), with brutally fast and efficient guitar that somehow never
descended into pure metal; fluid bass playing that kept everything grounded;
finally, and most importantly, Mike's vocals sounded as strong as if the band
were playing in 1995, not 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
all-around impressive set for a deservedly legendary band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gehenna closed with a Discharge cover, and
the crowd went appropriately nuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Iron
Lung followed — what an incredible force this band was, is, and likely always
will be … they had me from the very first moments of opening song
"Sexless//No Sex," which was just as heavy and raging in real life as
in its recorded version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sound was
jaw-dropping; literally staggering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
immediately rushed forward to be a little closer, personal safety be
damned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iron Lung drummer/co-vocalist
Jensen Ward wore a genuinely scary Von longsleeve emblazoned with skulls,
pentagrams, and assorted homages to Satan, in the general spirit of what I'd
expected previous band Gehenna to summon musically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the old cliché that "appearances are
deceiving" holds true, because Jensen is in fact humble, approachable, and
just plain nice in person, regardless of the "evil" vibe he might
send off to a square.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also has a rare
sense of humor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jensen's between-song
banter lightened the mood considerably and made many in the crowd chuckle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Well, now … here we have a bunch of
students, just learnin' the game … yeah … all except one" — to paraphrase
one of his comments, followed by: "Spending mommy's money — because
community college doesn't pay for itself!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That might not read as funny as it sounded in the moment, but Jensen had
me laughing constantly — and it was welcome!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not to mention, he's also an absolutely fantastic drummer, dead-on
accurate, hitting with furious power while simultaneously screaming bloody
murder into a mic by the drums … who knows how old he is, but Jensen's
ceaseless energy could put a 21-year old to shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iron Lung guitarist Jon Kortland occasionally
joined Jensen on vocal duties, but mainly focused on that surgically accurate
guitar playing, his hands a blur, with an enviably meaty, thick, <i>heavy</i>
sound that can also be found on any of the band's many records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to see Iron Lung again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You should do the same (they tour a lot, so
you'll probably get the chance.)</span></div>
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… at long last … it was time for Infest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A heartfelt thanks to Mike Crow of Inimical Records, Jensen Ward, John
Pettibone of El Corazon, and all those who helped to realize a Seattle show for
one of hardcore's modern classic bands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the members took the stage, I noticed that Matt Domino, Infest's
guitarist, had some of the thickest forearms that I'd ever seen … he looks like
he could bench-press a car, then pick it up and throw it half a mile!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I suppose that's all the better for
playing those riffs (yes, those riffs! — you know the ones), in his offhand,
effortless fashion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Domino spent their
set positioned next to his guitar cabinets, an immovable object amidst a
churning sea of stage-divers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, of
course the crowd went totally ape — it's Infest!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to laugh at that admonishing sign on
the wall at El Corazon: um, does that white stencil actually read "No
Stage Diving"?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haha, indeed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vocalist Joe Denunzio was just as curiously
tan as he appears in photos, and equally as expressive, contorting his face
into pantomimes of anger, hatred, and that certain joyous feeling that arises
in converting all of that negative energy into passionate performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bassist Chris Dodge deftly avoided dozens of
stage divers; when the band would crawl through that sludgy, feedback-drenched
flipside to their lightning-fast powerviolence, Gag guitarist Jose could be
seen doing his best "creeper" dance, arms dragging near his feet as
he lurched about the stage, only to fling himself at the mercy of the front
row.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Infest drummer Bob Kasitz proved
(as if any proof was needed) that he's one of hardcore's best musicians — man,
this guy can play!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dodge often turned to
face Bob's kit, intent on keeping the rhythmic grounding of the band in place
despite the absolute chaos roiling throughout the club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Musically, Infest's set was a revelation,
with each successive song somehow topping its devastating, mind-melting
predecessor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Believe it or not, but the
Infest live experience is just as awesome as this review would have it — and
that's no hyperbole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to see
them for yourself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After
a triumph like this evening, one's mind begins to wander to the next challenge:
convincing Lack Of Interest to play Seattle again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, let's not get greedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it is, the sheer power of this Infest show
might just be enough to carry Seattle for months to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who needs the Super Bowl when you have
hardcore punk on such a peerless level?</span></div>
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</style> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Questions by Jim Walkley of <i>Don't Be
Swindle</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <b> </b></span><b>Weekend
Nachos recently released <i>Still</i>, their fourth full-length LP as a
band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's somewhat rare for a
"powerviolence" band — if you could limit the Weekend Nachos sound to
just that — to release full-length LPs; a band such as Sidetracked, for
example, is mainly an EP and split-EP band, and genre titans Lack Of Interest
(with whom Weekend Nachos shared a soon-to-be-classic split) have released only
two stand-alone LPs in their storied existence. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Despite
being a "love them/hate them" band for some in the hardcore scene,
Weekend Nachos are back — and with a wrecking ball of a new LP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Still </i>is slightly more metallic in
places, displaying their continued integration of razor-sharp powerviolence
speed with a surfeit of crushing breakdowns (causing everyone to go nuts
live).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haters beware — even if you
dislike the Weekend Nachos aesthetic, you can't really argue with the
music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repeated listens yield repeat
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
conducted this interview with John Hoffman by email … at the gates of winter,
which is a bitter season for Chicagoland dwellers, and produced the "I
Live In Frozen Hell" t-shirt that's been a favorite on the Weekend Nachos
merch stand.</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Congratulations on </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still<i>, John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weirdly, the first time that I heard it, I gathered the impression that
it might alienate some fans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's
musically heavier (perhaps more metal-leaning), but doesn't seem at first to be
as raw, punky, or loud as previous recordings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On subsequent listens, however, </i>Still<i> starts sounding more
natural in the Weekend Nachos discography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, not to mention, the band has always alienated music listeners in a
kind of love them/hate them dichotomy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
me ask you directly: Are you happy with the way that your new LP turned out,
both songwriting-wise as well as recording-wise?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We’re
deliriously happy with the way that “STILL” turned out! I hope this doesn’t
come across as cocky or snide, but honestly we would never release an album
unless we were happy with it — we have actually scrapped recordings before
because we didn’t think they met our own standards. It’s always uncertain
whether the public is going to be as happy with our new albums as we are … but
that’s because you can’t predict how people are going to react to anything. But
once it’s good enough for us, that’s when we know it’s ready for release. We
also record our own music in Andy’s studio so we always have control over how
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</span>Weekend Nachos have played a lot of shows over the years and have also
toured quite heavily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't know if
your "live shows played" number is up into Converge territory yet,
but you and your fellow band members are hardly slackers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for you personally, you played drums for
Pit Of Spikes on the </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2011
Demo<i> and you're also a member of Cyborg, although you've terminated your
bass duties in Harms Way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are those
aforementioned bands still active?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is
splitting time between touring and multiple band commitments difficult, or have
you just become extremely efficient at getting things done?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’m
pretty active, but I also don’t feel like I do this nearly as much as I wish I
could. I have a full-time job and a relationship which take up most of my time.
That’s all well and good, but if it could be 50/50 instead of 60/40, that’d be
ideal. That being said, everything that I do besides Weekend Nachos, in a music
sense, takes a back seat. I practice with Pit Of Spikes when I can, but my time
is always devote first and foremost to the Nachos and the other band I play
drums in, SPINE. Spine is actually becoming a lot more active lately, which is
exciting to me. Spine and Weekend Nachos are my babies.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Speaking of live shows, I'd encourage those reading this to see Weekend
Nachos live — even if you're not really a fan of the recorded material.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In particular, you yourself manifest a much
more positive, downright "happy" energy live, which totally doesn't
come across on the records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The presence
of that "hardcore energy", for lack of a better term, is why Weekend
Nachos live will change the way you listen to the EPs and LPs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems somehow more complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you think about all that, and how can
such a seemingly cheerful dude create such negative, mean hardcore, both
lyrically and musically?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
all have different sides to our personalities. The hatred and the anger is
something I can’t hide … so I choose to show it through music. I consider
recordings and albums to be a window into the side of yourself that you don’t
necessarily want to show to the world physically, so you’re giving them an
opportunity to see it on their own. When we play live, I kinda consider that to
be the grey area between your recorded output and your social interaction. It’s
like the world in-between that connects the two together … the live show. So I
like to allow more of my social personality to seep into the WN live show. I
want to express my inner rage while at the same time being an enjoyable person
to be around. This is a foreign concept to some people … that’s fine, whatever
works for them. I don’t feel comfortable being a tough, negative nancy on
stage. I can be energetic and perhaps even a little violent while still
maintaining a welcoming, positive vibe on stage.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The lyrics on </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still<i>
seem to be a bit more direct and judiciously chosen than on </i>Worthless<i>,
your prior LP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall, instead of
trying an approach where you're breathlessly screaming paragraphs of lyrics
(which, to be fair, has never been your vocal style), it sounded to me as if
you're focusing on fewer words — but voicing them a bit deeper and more
forcefully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for your lyrical themes
specifically, what are the messages/thoughts/ideas behind the lyrics in new
songs such as "S.C.A.B.", "Satan Sucker", and "Late
Night Walks"?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Every
song is different, really. All of those songs you listed are coming from a
completely different part of my brain … "S.C.A.B." is sociopolitical,
"Satan Sucker" is about image and "Late Night Walks" is a
personal song I wrote about relationship drama. So, unfortunately, I’m not
exactly sure how to answer your question. However, I will say that the lyrics
on <i>Still</i> are the most developed and crafted that they have ever been on
a Weekend Nachos album. If there was a such thing as a “matured” Weekend Nachos
lyrical style, then it has been achieved on this latest album for sure.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I understand that Weekend Nachos contributed a song to the forthcoming </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To Live A Lie 100
Various Artists<i> </i>Compilation<i> that Will Butler is releasing (hopefully
soon!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it a new track that's
exclusive to that release, a cover of a classic band's song, an experiment of
some kind, or something else altogether?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If pressed, I'd say that I anticipate your song on the </i>TLAL<i> </i>Comp.<i>
to be short, choppy powerviolence akin to something in that brief/biting style
of your awesome </i>"Torture" EP<i>, the band's debut recording.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can you tell readers about this
soon-to-be-released Weekend Nachos song?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
song we contributed to that comp (which I’m very excited about, by the way…GO
WILL!!!) was actually a song we recorded in the same session as the split with
Lack of Interest. It didn’t really fit with the other material we did for the
LOI split so we decided to scrap it from that recording…but we were still
pretty happy with the song on its own, therefore it was a perfect selection for
Will’s comp! It’s very much reminiscent of the classic WN style that you heard
on “Torture” and “Punish and Destroy”, which is going to be weird for people to
hear considering this comp is coming out AFTER our latest album <i>Still</i>,
which sounds very different from our earliest albums. I also forgot a lot of
the lyrics to the comp. song, for some reason I lost the ones I had written
down when we recorded it … thus, for the first time in WN history, no lyrics
will be included with its release. The song is about tattoos, though.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, that </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Torture"
EP <i>came out on Tooth Decay, a record label that you ran at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You're currently doing a new label with a
similar name: Bad Teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What caused the
demise of Tooth Decay and the subsequent rise of Bad Teeth, and what's it like
to run a label in these times of financial austerity and declining sales of
physical records?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, I'm
looking forward to the upcoming </i>Spine/The Repos Split EP <i>on Bad Teeth;
please feel free to talk about that 7-inch, because it sounds rad …</i></span></div>
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I stopped doing Tooth Decay because I didn’t really have a lot of money and I
needed to focus on my future a little bit instead of pouring cent after cent
into a side project. Fast forward around 7 years and I was definitely in a
better position to start doing a label again, so there you have it. As long as
you have no ambition to make money doing it, and as long as you expect to lose
a little or a lot here and there, then doing a label in these times is really
no problem. You just need to set realistic expectations for yourself and
understand that there is very little money to be made in the record industry
these days, especially when you don’t really set it up like a business in the
first place. At the time that I am doing this interview now, the Spine/Repos
split has actually been released and the first press has sold out! It only took
about a month, too … which is a record for Bad Teeth. Stoked on that! A repress
of 300 copies is coming soon, so it will be readily available again.</span></div>
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</span>John … how about a </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Weekend Nachos/Sidetracked split EP<i>!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or — yes! … a </i>Weekend Nachos/Fever Split
EP<i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could go on, but what I'm
asking is: show Tacoma some love!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
mean, Weekend Nachos/Lack Of Interest was great, but what about </i>Weekend
Nachos/Hummingbird Of Death<i>!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Well …
they're actually from Boise, ID, not Tacoma, WA — but I'm on a roll here,
man).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, though, will Weekend
Nachos be sharing split EPs or LPs with any bands in 2014 or beyond?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far, your band seems to primarily release
stand-alone recordings, which you've done throughout a good-sized discography
of EPs and LPs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think you'll ever
have any desire to change that and become more of a "split"
band?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Critically, I think the solo
Weekend Nachos material is strong enough by itself without a band on the flip
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You
seem to have a pretty good inkling of what we’re about … honestly, we don’t
appear on a lot of splits. We’ve only ever done 2 during our whole existence …
Chronic Bleeding Syndrome in 2005 and Lack Of Interest in 2012. It’s hard to
say whether or not we’ll ever do a split again … I can see it happening but I
can also see it never happening again. The only reason we did the LOI split is
because we really couldn’t say no. Bob puts out all of our records and we were honored
to do it. Sidetracked is an incredible band and so is Fever … to be honest, I
didn’t even know Fever still played. Sidetracked is one of the very criminally
underrated fastcore bands of our generation. Jay Tichy is a musical genius and
should be recognized as such.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People may not realize this, but Weekend Nachos definitely have a sense
of humor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's something that I think
the band's "haters" miss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
instance, your drummer was wearing buttless chaps and a Discharge-like,
spike-encrusted jacket with "Nachos" crudely scrawled on a back patch
at your Rain Fest 2012 aftershow at the Black Lodge space in Seattle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man, that image was hilarious, gnarly, and
intense, kinda similar in a way to that John Lennon/Yoko Ono-inspired photo of
two Weekend Nachos members cuddling that graced the inside of the </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Worthless<i>
LP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You're obviously not a guy who takes
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that the average Joe music fan out there still misses your band's sense of
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
think we are fun-loving dudes amongst a sea of try-hard clones out there,
unfortunately. The extreme music scene places an unrealistic expectation on its
musicians to be “brutal” and “hateful” all the time. That’s just not what WN is
about, in fact we tend to laugh in the face of anybody who thinks that’s what
it takes to succeed in these parts. Give me a fuckin' break. The hard stare and
constant snarl on these death metal bands is something to laugh at. Come to a
Weekend Nachos show and get your nose broken by a dude in a Hawaiian shirt, see
how tough you look then!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just like
to mix it up a bit. You can have songs about slitting throats and still find
time to get naked or dance like a goddamn retard every now and then. Why not?!</span></div>
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</span>I purchased a download of Still from iTunes — and I realize that mp3
fidelity isn't great — but as I mentioned earlier, the recording seemed a bit
quieter than previous Weekend Nachos efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In actuality, did you intend it to be less loud than previous LPs, or am
I just totally wrong and need to crank the volume?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did Andy Nelson handle recording duties
again?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please discuss recording and
artwork details for </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still<i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cover art, for instance, looks a good
deal like the image on your "I Live In Frozen Hell" Weekend Nachos
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
image on the front of <i>Still</i> is definitely very similar to the
"Frozen Hell" t-shirt design … I don’t think that was intentional, it
just sorta looked right. They are definitely different images that I just
happened to stumble upon at different times. As far as the recording is
concerned … I don’t think the recording is much lower in volume than the
others, if at all. You may be right but I’ve just never noticed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andy recorded this as he does all of our
albums, and it was mastered by Trevor Sadler. If it’s quieter, it was
definitely not intentional, we would never willingly choose to make our album
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Okay … Freddy Krueger or Jason from </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Halloween<i>!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it "Merry Christmas", or Happy
Holidays!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To elaborate, I know that Dom
at A389 produced a </i>Nightmare On Elm Street<i> shirt for you guys; in
addition, I've seen a Weekend Nachos shirt with a Gingerbread Man below the
words "Merry Christmas".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do
you celebrate Christmas and are sick of trendily referring to it as "The
Holidays"?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And who had the idea for
the </i>Nightmare On Elm Street<i>-themed band photos and layout?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you take care of that aspect of the band —
designing or planning official merchandise — as well?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
am definitely the Freddy Krueger fan of the band, the other guys just kinda
accept and go along with it. We all celebrate Christmas … there is no reason
not to. Gingerbread cookies are amazing. Family is great if you have a good
one. Presents are nice, personally I like giving them more than I like
receiving them. People also feel the desire to cook around the holiday season
so I enjoy that as well, give me a warm home cooked meal and I’ll stay a while,
you know? I definitely prefer Freddy over Jason or Michael Myers. But they are
all pretty legit spooks.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In closing, please talk about upcoming plans for 2014, whether that
relates to any of your bands or various other projects (such as your record
label).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, any exciting
releases planned for Bad Teeth in 2014 that you'd care to disclose?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for Weekend Nachos, will the band be
playing any big Fests next summer, or at some other time in the upcoming
year?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd also like to thank you for the
interview, John … the </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still<i> LP is excellent and has been dominating my
listening time for days on end!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks
man!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No,
dude … thank YOU. It means a lot. Anyways, 2014 is going to be a chilled-out
year for all of my projects; however, I do have some cool things planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very beginning of the year, BTR will
release a 7” by DRAIZE, an unbelievable Boston hardcore band that everybody
should definitely check out, they’ve been around for years but are releasing
their first new material in a long time in January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than that, BTR will be laying low due
to some other financial shit I have going on, but depending on when they’re
ready, I may be doing a 7” single for FULL OF HELL … one of the greatest
current bands right now, so that should be sweetness. As for Weekend Nachos and
Spine, well WN will probably chill out until summertime when we return to the
UK/Europe for our fourth tour overseas … obviously we are pumped for that.
SPINE is working on our first full-length as we speak and we will hopefully
record/release that in early 2014 on Youth Attack Records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep an eye out and once again, thank you for
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What was probably a few months ago now, I had the pleasure of seeing Nak'ay live. When I first heard them a few years ago (split with Unholy Grave) I didn't know shit about them, other than that they came out of the ruins of Daisycutter. That particular split (the 5" with Unholy Grave) is literally blast beats start to finish. Their contribution to this 10" go a little bit beyond that, but not by much. That's a good thing. Live, they smoked so hard. Their drummer is a rare exception. They played with full stacks. It was awesome.<br />
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This record, fuck... is brilliant. Gowl manages to do so much with so little. The riffs, drumming, and song structures are primitive, yet unique. The tones and recording production are ugly. The lyrics are disguised in murk and sleaze. The whole ordeal is uncomfortable. The layout looks like it was rescued from the trash. There also certainly isn't any street cred, hype, or bandwagoning. <br />
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This record has something for everyone- there are riffs if you want them, and if not, sit back and enjoy the BBBRRRZZZZZZZZZZZ. There is as much focus on rhythms and textures as there is on the riffs. It works, even if you don't think that sounds like a good idea. There is very little in the way of fills, intros, or breaks. The blast beats are super fast at times, and occasionally insultingly choppy. Amidst all this, on the B side, there is one distinct stand-out, and that's Bastard Song, with it's clean guitar section that in turn pounds so hard when the bass and drums kick back in. <br />
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The lyrics, are the lyrics printed inside? I've seen them, but I don't think they're in there. You can basically get a feel for them from the song titles. That feeling is uncomfortable. Gowl doesn't care what you think. Is this grindcore? Is it noisecore? Is it something else entirely? Whatever it is, it's good. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-1749675396739273082013-03-19T18:12:00.000-04:002014-01-23T18:47:07.238-05:00Interview with the Oily Menace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>The Oily Menace come oozing out of Michigan eating kale, borrowing lyrics, and grinding your mind. Interview by Will T. and answered by Kevin and Dylan of The Oily Menace. They can be found online at http://theoilymenace.13bels.net/ and theoilymenace.bandcamp.com and <a href="http://theoilymenace.13bels.net/?p=382">facebook</a>.</i><br />
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Dylan: Well Kevin has a soft spot in his heart for things that are smelly and cold and I was both of those things. But really I was homeless in the midwest in early november so he let me stay on his couch which turned into us building a loft over the kegerator in his dinning room. Also Travis already lived there, it just so happens that we got along. Anyways we all love grindcore and D.I.Y. Music so I guess it just made sense.<br />
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Kevin: Well I own a house in Lansing, and I was renting a room to my buddy Travis. Our friend Dylan found himself homeless so I let him stay on my couch and he stayed for almost two years. Dylan plays drums could practice on my kit so I strong-armed both the dudes into starting a band to force them to have fun. So to recap: save Dylan from life of crime, and forcibly entertain Travis. Pretty much zero success rate. And its going to end the same way but in reverse. Travis and Dylan will move away but I will be stuck with this fucking house forever because its in the god damn buckle of the rust belt. Fuck you Wall St. Sorry, this is how I open every interview, even job interviews.<br />
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<b>What are your thoughts on the demo? It got a pretty terrible review in Short, Fast, and Loud if I remember correctly. What's changed since then? </b><br />
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Kevin: Demo has some awesome greasy atmosphere, lyrics against Facebook, selling out to Scion, and drinking corporate beer, but man its sloooow. Dylan has practiced so much since then, and is a one-foot blasting monster. Its a good mix of fast hardcore, grind, and death metal with nasty production. Short Fast and Loud named checked a bunch of bands and then called our music nu-metal with blast beats, stating that it had "weird 2010 pro-tools grind" production. If that is what the reviewer heard then so be it, but the exact same text was printed for another review as well so it may have been a misprint. Anyway SFL rules but I doubt they would read this because I'm pretty sure they didn't listen to the demo. We did get some strange criticism for putting the original song explanation text that Heresy used along with our cover of Make The Connection. Lyrics, song explanations, and the ideas behind the music are super important to me so I wanted to include that too. I get so bummed when I get a ripping demo and there is just a facebook address for the band, and then you find out they have stupid homophobic lyrics and you are forced to get real and take it to the next level by posting about it on an internet messageboard. Yeah thats right! Put the lyrics in your shit or you are gonna get the 2013 version of an angry letter to MRR...a brutal keyboard lashing from me on the To Live A Lie message board with a straight up DEVISTATING use of emoticons. (V) (;,,;) (V) THE MUSIC IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD!<br />
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Dylan: Nothing changed really, I know I got better at my instrument but I mean... not that much better. I dont ever really pay attention to that kind of stuff. I really appreciate it when people have kind things to say but at the end of the day you got to be real about this shit, we are playing grindcore and its not for everyone. Also just for the record were not a pro tools grind band, kevin use logic pro so snuts to you S.F.L!!!!<br />
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<b><br />Are you all really into folk music, or you just find the lyrical themes appropriate? It's certainly a refreshing take on an old tradition of reworking folk tunes to your own style, and a far cry better than doing the same old grindcore covers.</b><br />
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Dylan: I really like the artist's we choose to “cover”, but Its hard to say, I don’t think I heard a lot of these songs or artist until Kevin brought them to my attention, does that make me a poseur? I kind of hope so. Anyways, these folk songs have some of the most brutal lyrics around, just check out “Ludlow Massacre” by woody Guthrie.<br />
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Kevin: Yes we are all legitimately into folk music to varying degrees. My grandmother collected folk art, and some folk music, and my grandfather on the other side of the family played it professionally. So I grew up listening to folk and bluegrass alongside pop music but never really knew it by those names and didn't really understand the distinctions. I didn't get into the protest folk that we use as a source of lyrics and ideas until much later. Dylan wrote most of the lyrics for the demo because I'm not very comfortable with that aspect of music, never have been. So when it came time to write more music after that I thought that using the lyrics to the Tom Paxton spoken word piece “Mr. Blue” would be sweet. It worked well enough and we got some of the only positive feedback we have ever received to we decided to make it our gimmick. Some ideas are taken from the music of the originals, but mostly its just fitting the lyrics to our own grind songs. Why not utilize these lyrics and ideas? No one needs to hear another middle-class white man grunting about how much he just don't give a fuck over alternating fast and slow riffs. By using these lyrics we are standing on the shoulders of giants, but unfortunately I think we are pissing into the wind instead of lofting the words to unrealized heights. I had a band before this that wrote all the lyrics from the point of view of bears that were killing hunters so this has to be an improvement. <br />
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<b>How did you decide on the name The Oily Menace? What's the meaning behind it?</b><br />
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Dylan: I hated the name at first but it made Kevin really happy, now I'm pretty indifferent. I think Kevin better explain this one.<br />
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Kevin: There is no good answer to this so I will just make some shit up: The Oily Menace conjures a mental image of some low-level Lovecraftian minion doesn't? Like some kind of shitty dime store shoggoth or perhaps a sick or injured mi-go covered in its own secretions, kinda of laughable yet at least a little dangerous. Or perhaps a drunken Turkish oil wrestler who was wandered into a gift shop, ruining everything he touches, smearing all the cards, knocking over the figurines. Really I needed a name for this band, and I had just looked at a poster for the old kung-fu movie The Oily Maniac. I have terrible, terrible handwriting, so by the time this made it out of the wash in whatever pair of pants I was wearing I was like “The Oily Menace, Totally.”<br />
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<b>On the 3-way split you did with Cloud Rat and Wolbachia, I loved the idea of each band having their own section on each side of the record. That's the best way to do a 3-way split I've ever seen. </b><br />
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Dylan: Thank you.<br />
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Kevin: Perhaps no one else will remember it this way, but I'd like to take FULL FUCKEN CREDIT on this one. Cloud Rat asked us to do a split 7”, and we also wanted to do one with Kursk who became Wolbachia. I am a lazy man, and do not like to get up and flip a 45 every few minutes. Most people who are into grindcore have a huge 7” collection, but I have totally lost out on releases because I have the irrational idea that maybe just maybe all those will be collected on an LP someday with sweet liner notes, an 80s thrash style collage of pictures, and maybe even sweet anecdotes about that one time with Matt Damon. So I asked everyone involved if it would be cool to do a 3-way like that, and no one said no. I think really it just caught everyone off guard and then enough time went by that no one was willing to say no at that point. One person told me it was a bad idea and that no one would buy it because Cloud Rat was too emo, but now they are touring Europe and that dude is living with his mom.<br />
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<b>I have Kevin to thank for turning me on to hugelkultur. Around the same time, I saw it in a Sepp Holtzer book. I'm working on implementing it in my garden. Are all of you into gardening? </b><br />
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Kevin: Hell yes gardening fuck yeah! We are all very into it! Especially permaculture methods like no-till, hugelkultur, rain gardens, and global buckets. I actually got into the rotting-wood-in-a-berm via permies.com, which is a forum I highly recommend! Only later did I get a copy of Sepp's book from a buddy out in California. Sup Travis! The gardens were fucking sweet in Rockford, IL when Dom Del Pan set us up with a show last summer. I can only imagine how cool the Connecticut garden scene is. Well, food is the most important decision you make every day. It determines the health of yourself, your community, and the planet. So many sick people in this world and it all relates to shitty western diets. So many farmers being crushed by Mansanto. Food riots, modern dustbowl situations, food deserts in Detroit. Food security or local food and not relying on industrial mechanisms for food production is at the heart of this. GM crops have saved how many lives in Africa? Well they have also fundamentally transformed those people via diet and the techniques of the green revolution that the food system is broken. END CORN SUBSIDIES! REVOKE SEED PATENTS! BOMB MONSANTO!<br />
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Yes I like to garden.<br />
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Dylan: Food is so important, three times a day we are making choices that literally have a global impact. I think food independence is really important to all of us. I've worked on a couple of vegetable farms over the past four years and I helped Kevin with the garden while I lived with him. But summer 2012 was my most concerted effort at gardening with varying degrees of success. Eating food from your front yard is so rewarding its unbelievable!! as I'm sure you can relate will, but I can't think of a better way to spend a day then rolling around in the dirt!! (grinding is a close second!) <br />
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<b>The kale seeds in the 3-way LP was a great idea. I had the same one, but you beat me to it. My kale seeds didn't germinate, though. What the fuck? Is there a reason you favor the Lacinato type over the curled scotch varieties?</b><br />
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Dylan: All kale rules hard, but lately I've been favoring vates collards, this has been a huge debate within “da menace” camp and if anything is going to break up the band it will probably end in a fist fight over kale VS. Collards. Fucking seriously. Collard leaves are just SO FUCKING BIG!!!!<br />
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<b>I'm really excited about your split with Infanticide. How did that come about? </b><br />
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Dylan: Infanticide makes the grind sound good, but I've never actually had any contact with those dudes so I think kevin is better equipped to answer that question.<br />
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Kevin: Johan from Infanticide wrote me about it. I've been a fan since he posted on the old Relapse board about his band so it was an honor to be contacted kind of out of the blue about it. He got in touch with Jesse from End Theory (turns out I know Jesse's roommate since forever ago) and made that happen! Thanks dudes! We also have a split with Cogs and Sprockets due out soon. Our side is a bit of a collaboration with Derek Fucken Jones, a Muskegon, MI artist of the highest caliber.<br />
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<b>You seem to be relatively inactive as a band. What's the hold-up? </b><br />
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Dylan: Kale VS. Collards... FIGHT!!!<br />
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Kevin: We are very passionate about the ideas and music of this band, and love playing live but speaking for myself I don't need that to complete myself, boost my ego, or to define who I am...So I am the primary impediment to the band. Touring and traveling is so expensive not just in dollars, but in burned fossil fuel, and time spent away from my cats. Like I said, I do love playing live, but I don't think the world will stop spinning if we don't go out and play. Polar bears that are drowning from lack of ice due to anthropocentric climate change aren't like “At least the drummer doesn't cheat with two feet and you can hear the snare during the blasts.” We stacked our last tour with visits to family, and a summer vacation to see Michigan's upper peninsula to maximize fun and we tour in a tiny station wagon to minimize impact.<br />
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<b>Do you have any plans or intentions of touring out to the Northeast again? I didn't have any clue about you when you came this way the last time.</b> <br />
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Kevin: I'd love to at least once again. It would be great to grind some of the sleepier towns instead of the usual Brooklyn shows where people send a lot of texts and tweets and sexts instead of participating in the show.<br />
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Dylan: I sure hope so! But can't rightly say when. Just keep on eye out for the kale signal in your town, or if I have my way the collard signal.<br />
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<b>Travis, our bassist, abstained from this interview because he was on an ice-climbing expedition in Canada. He did send this picture:</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cynarae</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Interview with Kyle Oels (Vocals)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction/</span>Questions by Jim Walkley of <i>Don't Be
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Seattle,
Washington's Cynarae fuse the grueling, crust-endebted aural wreckage of bands
such as Mörser or Systral with a weighty nod to '90's metallic hardcore as
outlined by Catharsis and Unruh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike
vast numbers of modern "crust"-inspired acts, however, Cynarae are
passionately political, outspoken in their ties to activist causes, and
refreshingly D.I.Y.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, don't
confuse them with "trend crust"; thankfully, Cynarae an actual
hardcore band who are equally at home playing a word-of-mouth basement show or
a more traditional, over-21 venue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cynarae were selected to play New Directions Fest 2012 this past August
in Olympia; the band also participated in a successful benefit for Queers
Fucking Queers at legendary Seattle D.I.Y. venue The Morgue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to mention that they also had the great
honor of playing the secret, second-to-last Undertow show at rad Seattle D.I.Y.
space The Black Lodge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cynarae opened
for a reactivated Kiss It Goodbye here in Seattle this past June, and vocalist
Kyle Oels generously took the better part of an hour for this interview, which
follows in full.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Your Bandcamp page says that Cynarae
are "____violence".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would
you put in that blank?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I think that our drummer wrote
that, and it was a play on all the separate genres; it's "over-genre
classification" … everyone wants to be "emo-violence", or
"grindcore-violence" …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: "Powerviolence" …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Everybody wants to be some sect of
hardcore; so it was just, "fill in the blanks" — tell us what we are
… we are whatever you say!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We've been
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: It's interesting, because when I saw
you guys live … I know Dom Romeo (A389 Records label owner) wrote up that blurb
about you guys, in which he likened Cynarae to "Mörser/Acme/Systral"
with a "His Hero Is Gone/The Swarm" aspect to your sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That seems to come out more on the demo …
Acme and Systral were a bit more chaotic, but they were almost more
"tech-y", in a way … whereas Cynarae, especially live, sound much
more like "metallic hardcore" of a sort, or even powerviolence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think that's a legit interpretation,
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I know that when we started out, we
had a few bands in mind that we wanted to be in the same realm as, but I can
definitely see a lot of what people compare us to — although that wasn't our
intention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In terms of Acme and Systral,
yeah, the Systral <i>Black Smoker</i> record is awesome, and that's a really
crusty, heavy, destructive record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
Acme, of course, I grew up loving that, too; same kind of deal, really chaotic
and destructive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, from my
viewpoint, we always wanted to be a bit more straightforward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some of the newer stuff, there are some
trickier riffs … but it still makes sense; it's "accented", in a
sense …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That was the thing about that </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Black Smoker<i>
LP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first few times I heard it — and
it's only recently that I've gotten beyond this — it almost sounded like
different bands playing at once!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
riff will come in out of nowhere … I can't remember how many guitarists they
had in that band —</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: — I know that Mörser had at least
three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't know how many Systral
had, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Morser had … two bass
players?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems like it was something
weird like that!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I can hear the Systral/Mörser
influence in Cynarae's guitar tone, and how you would be comparable to those
bands, but at the same time … every time somebody compares something to
"'90's metallic hardcore", it's a loaded comparison —</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: — Totally …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — because your band doesn't sound
like that, in a sense, but I can see the band growing out of that in an organic
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEVfMzTTVPSmWG7a71GQ6RPQwTndWC-d7tu3B3mxKxpzjaS6q46iShmbHTF0IxAVDTPZ8HfeHJd16JMjOHqy65TfrK3uJbgQgINTu-tn8XK6i9efOniW42LyGjQ-EgRGY63lnXoB2yd0k/s1600/cyanrae4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: We were talking about this earlier
— the two bands that I wanted to capture the "feel" of were Unruh and
Catharsis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those are two bands that we
all love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought those two bands had
a really intelligent approach, but Unruh sonically is just destruction, at
least to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just sounds like pure
hatred!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hatred, for lack of a better term — because
Unruh were so over-the-top, and angry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And that's what I want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we
started this band … I wanted us to be the angriest that we could be; I wanted
the slow parts to be crushing, and the fast parts to be blistering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to be every extreme that we possibly
could be … that's what we're going for, in a sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Catharsis and Unruh make sense from that
point of view, but what you were saying about "metallic hardcore" —
that can mean anything, you know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
can be Integrity, or that can be, you know … (Laughter)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: … Kiss It Goodbye …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Fall Silent comes to mind, as well …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: And Fall Silent are the perfect
example of a band that defies comparison, because they had so much punk
influence, so much metal influence, and so much hardcore influence —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — And even a slight rap influence!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah — there was that
"weird" element, too … I guess you could say that they were all over
the map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And seeing them live, in the
'90's, in Reno … those shows were insane, because everybody would come — punk
kids, metal kids, hardcore kids …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Levi Watson (vocals) of Fall Silent
described those shows to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were they
ever dangerous, or fraught with tension?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I guess what was going on then was
that there was some sort of feud between Fall Silent and some of the more
"negative edge" members of the community.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Unconquered were always giving them
trouble, for instance …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: It was mutual trouble, I would
say!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They probably gave Unconquered as
much trouble as Unconquered gave them!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's why it was
always sort of funny for me, because I was stuck in the middle — I loved Fall
Silent as a band, and I wasn't a "fighter" … but I've been straight
edge since I was about fifteen; I identified more with Fall Silent, but I was
sort of in the middle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was never
involved in any of that stuff; however, it was definitely around … and
everybody knew about it.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And Fall Silent provoked it; for
instance, the song where Levi says, "fuck your movement" and that
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: One of my favorite songs of all
time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know what I mean!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love that song!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in talking to Levi in years past, I feel
like he could have worded that sentiment a lot better … if he just hadn't said
that statement, or worded it in a different way, I felt that it would have been
more successful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And wouldn't have led
to all the trouble that it created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However … he was probably 19 when he wrote that, or whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's simplistic: "fuck your
movement", I'm drawing a line …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Apparently, Levi had been one of
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: That's really common in Reno, in
general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside of straight edge, or
even outside of the hardcore movement … it's common in Reno for people to fight
— all the time; there are always people "crewing up", or starting
drama and issues, in every sub-sect that you can think of, whether it's
skateboarding kids, or punk kids, or jocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those are typical classifications, but overall, it's common in
Reno.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To get back to Levi … he was in a
band called New Blood —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — Yeah …</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I don't know if you've ever heard
them, but they were a straight edge band, and Glenn from Unconquered was in
that band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When New Blood broke up, they
split into two camps: Fall Silent and Unconquered … there was always tension,
always drama, always fights …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: … because Fall Silent had
non-straight edge members, as well …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those two bands wanted to write
about different things; Fall Silent didn't want to be limited, which I always
respected …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And Levi's lyrics were awesome.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Best lyrics!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved his lyrics, as well as his approach,
and his delivery … no one else could front that band!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People sometimes said, "Ugh … I hate the
sound of his voice", and at first, I could see how people could say that …
but to me, no one else could front that band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That's an interesting concept,
because according to some of the other members of Fall Silent, they hated
Levi's vocals in the band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn't
like his lyrics; didn't like his vocals … for instance, Danny was more into
death metal —</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: — Danny became a really good friend
of mine … but that's what was so great about them, because they could
seamlessly blend … some of Danny's riffs could be off of an early Deicide
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah, those half-step breakdowns …
they were so flawless, but they could have been from an early Deicide record,
whereas Levi's vocals could have been from an early 7 Seconds record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it just worked!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything came together — hardcore kids
loved them, metal kids loved them, punk kids loved them … and that's why I felt
like they were a band beyond definition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: … I don't know if it was just
because I was younger, but shows in the '90's, in a broad sense, were
scary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a sense of
uneasiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never knowing what's going
to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially Reno, as compared
to Seattle … a much different vibe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I recently talked to Mike about
playing some shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've known those
guys for a very long time.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Gehenna played Gilman Street
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yes … they're also playing a fest
in Southern California; they're very active, they definitely play more shows
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway … a trip down memory lane …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yeah, sorry … kind of a giant diversion there …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: There's another statement on your
Bandcamp page: "See you in the dollar bin".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems that you could interpret that in a
couple of different ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all,
it's almost as if it's a statement claiming, "We'll see </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">your band<i> in
the dollar bin" … but the more common interpretation would be that so much
of this entire heavy music/aggressive music scene, as much cult status as it
achieves … so much of it is ultimately forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Years later, you're looking for a Fall Silent
CD, or whatever it is you're looking for — and you find it in the dollar bin.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Totally!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This form of music that we do, this
"niche" of music that we all do, is never going to be super-popular —
which is good, in a lot of ways, at least coming from a punk mentality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't want this stuff to be popular,
because then it would become watered down … it would become stupid, in my
opinion!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The simple answer about that
Bandcamp statement is that Jeffrey (drums) wrote that because he thought it was
funny!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And it is funny!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: It is, and what I like about it is
that it's a recognition: we're never going to be popular; this music itself
will never be popular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd rather have
it be genuine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genuine anger; something
that's a threat to the status quo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People can draw any conclusions as to what that means, but I don't want
this music to ever be safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't want
it to be something that's approved by everybody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason that I'm angry is because of the
society that we live in, and the things that I see and observe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That observation is where all of my lyrics
come from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of it is personal, in
that sense; it's an observation of the way things are around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, punk and hardcore were meant to be a
reaction to that society … I'm not saying, "If you have a job, then you're
not punk" — nothing like that, because there are ways that we have to
assimilate into common society, but at the same time, this is how I deal with
living in this society.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: It's your reaction to it.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: It's what keeps me functioning, in
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Cynarae are now signed to A389, and
that label does a lot of stuff with Scion-sponsored events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I happened to talk to your bassist at that
Black Lodge show, and he was saying that he didn't like Scion-related events …
would your band ever play a show like that?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I mean … I don't know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can't say definitively; there's not a
stance that we have about that … whereas some of the other ideologies that we
have, we have a very specific stance on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We'd really rather play all ages shows, if we can; obviously, tonight's
show with Kiss It Goodbye is an exception, but it's an exception we made
because this is a really good opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In general, however, we'd rather play all ages shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We definitely would not play a show if there
were certain ideologies that we disagree with — for instance, if there was any
sort of racism/sexism/homophobia, we wouldn't do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those problems are insidious, though, so
there's no real way to track that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
if it was something that was obvious, we wouldn't do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To get back to Scion, it's not something that
we've really talked about, but it's also something that … I guess I don't
really care about it, personally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scion
puts on shows for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted, you
could make the argument that they're leeching off of the punk and hardcore
community, to a degree … but I doubt that hardcore kids are going out and buying
Scion cars because of these shows!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don't really understand what their "angle" is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they're trying to "market" to
hardcore kids, I think it's a lost cause … because hardcore kids are not going
to run out and buy things like that.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: What I've heard is that someone at
Scion is supposedly a genuine fan of punk/hardcore/metal, and they've worked
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would be really hard to say "no" to an Integrity and Ringworm
show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was the last Scion thing, and those are
two bands that I've loved forever … I don't "get" why Scion's
involved, but at the same time, personally, I don't care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can't speak for the band, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Ryan (bassist) had a huge problem with it,
we wouldn't play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, it doesn't
really matter — if they were charging tons of money and then keeping all that
money, and bands weren't being paid, then that would be a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or something along those lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I don't really see how it's harmful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In general, people have such narrow
definitions of what punk and hardcore should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, I don't care about that (narrow
definitions).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it was Jagermeister, or
an animal testing company, then I would have a real fuckin' problem with that …
(Laughter)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: (Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On your newer material — such as your upcoming split with </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEVfMzTTVPSmWG7a71GQ6RPQwTndWC-d7tu3B3mxKxpzjaS6q46iShmbHTF0IxAVDTPZ8HfeHJd16JMjOHqy65TfrK3uJbgQgINTu-tn8XK6i9efOniW42LyGjQ-EgRGY63lnXoB2yd0k/s1600/cyanrae4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEVfMzTTVPSmWG7a71GQ6RPQwTndWC-d7tu3B3mxKxpzjaS6q46iShmbHTF0IxAVDTPZ8HfeHJd16JMjOHqy65TfrK3uJbgQgINTu-tn8XK6i9efOniW42LyGjQ-EgRGY63lnXoB2yd0k/s1600/cyanrae4.jpg" /></a>Ancient Shores
— does any of that material feature something like the "breakdown" section
of your song "Peasants" from the demo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the newer stuff that Cynarae's doing, are
you still working that element into the band?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I thought that was a really awesome opening musical statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of the demo doesn't quite sound like
that, in a way, but one thing that I enjoyed about that demo so much was that
each song shows a different side of the band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There's that slower, more song-based track; the opening song has that
breakdown part; other songs are more chaotic … is the newer material in the
vein of "Peasants"?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or are you
expanding on a different element of your sound?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I don't know … we never sit down
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — I'm just asking about songs that
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Right; there are definitely
elements of "Peasants" (in the newer songs), and to get back to the
demo, there's even what I would consider a full-on breakdown on "Prostrate
In Obeisance", which occurs later on in the demo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That has a full breakdown … it's actually
moshable, if you wanted to!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't really see
that happening at our shows, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That element pops up here and there, but we're probably not ever going
to be a band that kids go out and mosh for —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — You're not a "breakdown
hardcore band" —</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: — but I love heavy parts, whatever
those end up being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I'm a hardcore
kid, so I love breakdowns … at least to a degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that's not our goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just write what sounds good to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, I'm kind of dancing around the
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far as that breakdown
element, there are a couple songs that are faster and more straight-forward,
with a heavy aspect, and then we have … in the new stuff, we kind of
experimented a little bit with what we were doing, to check out different
aspects of our sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance,
there's a new song that's very long, with a clean guitar intro for a full
minute or minute-and-a-half …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Which is something that Cynarae
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah, we hadn't done anything like
that before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, experiments like
that are fun, although it's probably not a song we'd play live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it's interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We actually started working on that
"clean intro" song as a collaboration track with Ancient Shores; we
were going to write our parts, and then we were going to have them write parts
on top of that, then have two drummers, four guitar players …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That would have been awesome.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: It would have been really cool, but
when I envisioned it and we started writing for it, Geoff (one of Cynarae's
guitarists) had sort of a slower song … because, obviously, the song couldn't
be really fast; it would be really hard to keep it all together to do
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geoff started writing that slower
song, and he showed it to me, and I said, "This'd be perfect for that
collaboration", but ultimately, the logistical side of it didn't
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They live in West Virginia and we
live out here in the Seattle area, so in order to really effectively accomplish
it, all ten of us would probably have to practice together —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — And that's just not possible.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: It's just not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tried different things, such as posting
stuff online and asking them to write parts for it, but it ended up …
especially since we were recording at two different studios, the tones would
have been all over the map, and it wouldn't have sounded good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We've shelved that idea for awhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, we'd like to see if Ancient
Shores would do a whole record with us like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We've talked about it … but I don't know how
likely it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows; it might come
together organically.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That upcoming split is an
interesting pairing of bands, because Ancient Shores have a much more
"controlled" aspect to their sound; I don't want to say
"produced", but they have a much more "together" sound,
whereas your band is more grueling and chaotic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It makes for an interesting pairing of bands; why have two bands that
are exactly the same?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: From the outset, we've talked about
doing splits — and we have a couple other splits in the future that may or may
not happen — but from the beginning, we wanted it to be … I don't want to flip
a record over and be like, "Which band is this again!?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pairing with Ancient Shores came in
particular because Geoff, one of our guitar players, is from West Virginia, and
he grew up with those guys and has known them for a long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just so happened that we were going to be
on A389, and they were already on that label; their side of the split was going
to be with somebody else, but then they were like, "Hey, can we do this
instead with Cynarae?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We said
"yes" and it came together organically, because I really like doing
things with friends, more than I care about "people will buy this record
because such-and-such band is on the other side of the split"; I don't
really care about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to put
out a record with people that we're somehow related to … I always thought
Ancient Shores had a cool Botch or Coalesce "chaotic hardcore"
element —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — And they do!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah, and even the newer stuff is
heavy, and aggressive, but still has that feel to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love that style of hardcore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just sort of "worked"; it just
sort of happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, again, we could
do a split with a band that sounds closer to us … but I don't find that
interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would rather do a split
with a punk band, or a noise band, or a band that sounds like, I don't know, My
Bloody Valentine, or something!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved playing mixed
bills, even though that doesn't really happen anymore, but I grew up going to
mixed bills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, one of the first
hardcore shows I saw was an accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
went and saw Voodoo Glow Skulls, because I had a sort of ill-advised flirtation
with ska when I was about 13 … but I went to see Voodoo Glow Skulls, and Strife
was playing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Strife in Reno, in the
'90's, was <i>insane</i>, as you can imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was like, "Oh my God — these giant men are killing each other;
what is this band!?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, of
course, that was in the heyday of straight edge in Reno.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was blowing my mind!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that's how I got into hardcore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the first time that I saw Fall Silent, it
was because I was going to see a Reno ska band called Suckapunch; then I saw
Fall Silent, and it was similar to Strife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I didn't see Fall Silent on purpose until I saw them play with
Catharsis, Gehenna, and Unruh.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That would have been an amazing
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I didn't even know what I was
seeing, then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I'm like, "Oh my
God … that's insane!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was the
first purposeful hardcore show that I ever went to … I also saw Fall Silent on
the <i>Times Of Grace</i> tour that Neurosis did — which was around the same
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: We just talked about the Ancient
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just today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We're not working on layout
and cover art this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've outsourced
that now — thank God, because the last one took so long to get the finished
product out; I did it myself, but I don't really have any skill in that field,
so … (Laughter)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I designed it; Jeffrey (drums) did
the brown painting that's on the cover, then scratched our name into it with a
pencil!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The logo itself came from us
taking a photo; he had another sheet on the pad, and it was rubbed in a little
bit, so he traced over it and took a picture … and that's the logo that we're
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: It's pretty D.I.Y.!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which I love, of course … Jeffrey painted the
cover on the demo; we used a couple of stock photos that I found, and then we
used a photo from Jeff's tattoo artist for the back cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'll see it later tonight on the LP (which
is the demo pressed to vinyl).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's the
photo of the smokestacks, which used to be on the inside of the cassette demo
tape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The theme for the artwork on this
LP is, basically, civilization crumbling or falling apart, a sort of urban
decay … which I find really interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had the idea that capitalism — and the way things are going in this
country — that it's pushing everything through the roof …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ryan: Oh … is this a business meeting!?</span></div>
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interview!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk to you in a minute,
buddy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, anyway, it's the idea that
capitalism and the "American way" is infallible, and will keep growing
… and yet, time and time again, we see cities like Detroit, or other areas,
that are falling apart and crumbling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It's obvious that this American system is failing — in a lot of ways …
at least in my opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, I find it
a fascinating idea that it's not definitive that we'll keep progressing, or
that progress will even be able to still happen …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: On the subject of that, and politics
in general, I personally find it so disappointing that — and without offending
anyone who feels differently — but I find it so depressing that Mitt Romney and
the Republicans have such a good chance of winning in November, because I feel
like we just got over the Bush years … and that memory is still way too fresh
to go down that road again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm not
saying that Obama has been this perfect President — because, obviously, that's
not true — but at the same time … come on!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yes, I lost faith a long time ago
in the political process … and I have to say that I don't know what to do with
all of that information, to be fair; I can't say, "Don't vote; it's a
waste of time" — I mean, it <i>is</i>, but it's at least good to vote with
local politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are people now in
Seattle who could hopefully get married, and that makes a lot of difference;
it's a big deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there's a lot of
social justice issues, civil rights stuff, that's being pushed through, as well
as the opposite, such as the war on women that's happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, North Carolina voting down gay
marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It goes both ways …</span></div>
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person in Washington state really influence the entire national spectrum —</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: — Exactly!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's really easy to say, "Fuck that —
don't vote; it's stupid".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I
mean, in a lot of ways, I would agree with that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, at the same time, people's lives are
being changed by local politics, or statewide politics; perhaps the electoral
college is a joke — and I agree … maybe it is!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And whoever becomes
our President is a figurehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The President
is just enacting legislation being driven by giant corporations; that's what
he's putting in …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Political party doesn't matter
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's class structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has nothing to do with
"Democrats", or any of that; I mean, Ron Paul is sketchy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of it's sketchy!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: (Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is<i> sketchy …</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: He is extremely sketchy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm sorry, but if somebody was editing a
journal with my name on it, I would check to make sure that none of it was
racist!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: One of the quotes that I heard
about that whole Ron Paul thing was, "How come every time we pick up a
white supremacist rock, Ron Paul's under it!?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: (Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's something to that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's something to that … but, personally,
I've lost a lot of faith in the way things are going. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I don't what the answer is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's a lot of what I interpret in my
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: They are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they're not political in the sense of,
"vote for this party", or "do this", or whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically, to me, my lyrics are a
documentation of horrible things that happen.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Is it at all related to that idea
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personal is political"?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is your
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I think one thing that I've had
some trepidation with, or an issue with, or something that I've been fighting
about, is that issue of being political in a personal way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lyrics are political in the strict sense
that I'm writing about a political topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For instance, "Peasants", the first track on the demo, is a
song about "dead peasant insurance policies", which is something that
many people aren't aware of, but those are insurance policies that big
companies take out on people, on rank-and-file workers, without their
knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In effect, those companies
are gambling on someone's life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's a
life insurance policy, so if that worker dies, the company is named as the
beneficiary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, Wal-Mart would
go in and take out a policy on a rank-and-file employee, and if or when that
person dies, Wal-Mart's named as the beneficiary.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And the employee's family is not?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: The family is not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It's really, horribly evil.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That is incredibly bad …</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Horribly evil!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But because of the confidentiality policies
that insurance companies have, it's nearly impossible to find out who took out
an insurance policy — on you, on me, or whoever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can't even really say … they have
examples of companies who've done it in the past, but it's hard to say who's
doing it now.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Do you believe that Wal-Mart would
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — They've had some issues with
properly paying overtime, for instance.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: And, of course, slave labor … child
labor, and all of these horrific things that have been going on for many
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, they haven't cleaned up their
act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd say that none of those
corporations have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They'll put on the
pretense of cleaning up their act, but in reality, how can a major corporation
ever have any good intentions … you know what I'm saying?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, why would they ever?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it costs them money to have good
intentions — and, ultimately, the bottom line is what matters to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But "Peasants" is an example of a
political topic, or a sociological topic … but it's more of an interest in,
"How are these people able to do these things!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And sleep at night?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How they justify it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the new record, there's a song that deals
with "the war on women" — which is a catch-all term — but dealing
with the fact that it's 2012, and women are still fighting for control over
their bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's insane!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has been going on for so long … why
shouldn't women be able to decide what happens to their bodies?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that's something that we as men will
never have to deal with, or worry about —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — But men have to deal with issues
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — But you're right: those two things
are totally different, in a way …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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"straight male privilege" … which I could go on about for months!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I'll never know what it's like to
walk down the street and be afraid that there's going to be an assault of some
kind on me; I'll never know what it's like to be yelled at and made to feel
that I'm less than somebody, just because I got hollered at on the street …
These are things that women deal with on a day-to-day basis, that I'll never
have to deal with — just because I'm a man … It's fucked up to think about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know, you feel that your life is hard,
and you're pushing a rock up a hill; you're fighting against whatever it is
that's keeping you down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then
imagine all that as a woman of color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or
a trans woman of color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, people
are still dying for the color of their fucking skin — that shit still happens,
and it happens regularly … Things really haven't gotten any better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, part of me feels that things are
becoming a lot worse … there's a pretense of things getting better, but they
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And the Conservative Right is still
just as rabid on their side, and it seems that they're impeding that progress —</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: And I feel like they're winning —
because they're able to fight dirty, whereas the left side won't fight dirty,
which I think is kind of a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to attack them on their grounds!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there was ever a left-wing protest, and
someone brought a gun, that person would still be in indefinite detention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the Tea Party can have a protest — and
everyone there can have a gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: To bring it back to the music: you
try to work that aspect into it, but not in a preachy way, or totally being
obvious … a relation, without being spelled out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess it's like you were saying earlier
with Fall Silent, and how if Levi had been older, he might have phrased those
words differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that's what
you're attempting.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: You know, Levi is one of the best
lyricists of all time … I love his lyrics, but at the same time, I want to be
very careful about my words — because it lives on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially now that our demo has been pressed
to vinyl, people will be able to pick it up and read it years from now — so I
have to be careful about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
thing, to me, that's really interesting about it, is that anything I write
comes from a personal perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ultimately, you see the world through your own little keyhole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's your own impression — whatever you have
to deal with is viewed through your own perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that sense, everything I write is
inherently personal — I would never say, "Do this", or "Think
this way" … I'm saying: Here's something that's happening … and this is my
wish to understand what's happening. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here's my desire to see "why".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: On the LP — the demo pressed to
vinyl — do you have song explanations?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's a big thing.</span></div>
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of this may become clearer to them …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Totally, and that's something that
I hope to make part of every release; it's something I'd really like to try to
do … again, in the '90's, when I was just starting to go to shows, it was like,
"Here's what we're singing about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here's why we're pissed".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I love that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's what I
want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, you can't understand
what I'm saying when we're playing; it's loud, and nobody knows what the words
are about … I sometimes try to clarify between songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even at that Black Lodge show, I was trying to
talk a little bit about some issues … but the sound was kinda off, and I don't
think anybody could really hear what I was trying to say.</span></div>
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night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it might have something
to do with the concrete floors in that venue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah, there was a lot of feedback …
I don't know why it sounded like that on that night; in general, our sound at
live shows is pretty good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same
time, we play a lot at D.I.Y. venues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: And to me, it's more about that —
how it feels, rather than whether you can understand what I'm saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because, to be honest, you can't understand
what I'm saying when I'm singing, anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: We are!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We played last year, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a cool experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the idea of where the New Direction
Fest is coming from, because I think it's something that's been divorced from
hardcore and punk for so long — the reason why we do this: the political aspect
… It's not that every band has to be political, or anything like that, but I
like bands that say something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if
it's something I disagree with, I would rather hear it …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: For people who may not know about
that fest, it's more in the '90's sense — at least some of the better aspects
of those '90's fests — where they're going to have tabling, workshops … and the
phrase of the fest is, "From Anger To Action".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems like a really cool thing to be
involved with, so I'm glad you guys are doing that.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: And again, it's our second time in
a row — it's been going on for two years, and we've played both years, which is
great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A big part of what New Direction
wants is people who are doing activism; rather than bands just singing about
stuff, it's about bands that actually go out and try to do stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that's the connection with us, because
I've done a lot of activism, as well as the other members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even something as simple as working at or
helping to run a D.I.Y. venue; our drummer, Jeffrey, helps out at Fusion Cafe,
which is a downtown D.I.Y. space …</span></div>
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ties into D.I.Y.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Right, which is another
aspect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm really interested to see
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has a really cool perspective on
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never likes doing inherently
political things in hardcore — which is something that I love; but, honestly,
both approaches are cool, and important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For me, I just feel that if I have a microphone, and I'm saying
something … I have an obligation to write about something that fucking matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least, something that matters to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should say something that I find
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: To make the experience count for
something.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those are the bands that stuck out for me,
the bands that said something — and it changed me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, I'm vegan because I picked up a
pamphlet at an Earth Crisis show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those
things made an impact on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And not
that I'm under any illusion that we're in the same realm as a lot of those
bands — as far as how hugely popular they were …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: But you have the opportunity …</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: You can talk about things, and
trigger something in somebody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's
great!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hardcore is what got me into
radical politics; it's what got me interested in animal rights activism, or
something like the May Day Protests, and the West Coast Port Shutdowns … all of
that comes out of (my being interested in) hardcore; that base point of
hardcore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think these things are
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Do you feel like that aspect of
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I hope so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm hopeful about that.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I mean, look at the New Direction
Fest; it's only existed for two years, but just the fact that NDF could exist
now … whereas things like that hadn't been happening since the '90's.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Like the More Than Music Fest; that
was along similar lines … stuff like that was happening then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I remember going to shows, and everyone
had a table with literature — which is something that we try to do; every time
we have a show, we try to have lit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
everyone in the band agrees on everything, but we definitely agree on some
things — such as consent, or sexual assault, that we can talk about (at shows)
… we can all agree on feminism, to a degree, even though that term can have
negative connotations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we can all
agree: Why are people still being sexually assaulted, and why do we still
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I saw another aspect of the band,
too, that relates more to the physical aspect of hardcore — something that's
always existed in aggressive music … when you played at The Black Lodge, and
that one guy tried to do a backflip — but hit his head on the concrete
instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you guys stopped, and you
asked him, specifically, "Are you okay?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, "Do you need medical attention?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of barreling through: "just keep
playing", and the guy is going to die, or something!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you guys did make sure he was okay, and I
thought it was really cool that you did that, because it kept it at a human
level of concern.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I don't know that guy from Adam —
he's … "whatever" — but there are a lot of reasons why I didn't want
him to be injured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just don't want him to be injured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>B).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don't want him to be injured at The Black Lodge, which is an underground D.I.Y.
space where if someone brought a lawsuit, they are finished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, it's dubious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of people go so far to protect people
that they insist that no one run around, or no one move, and everyone stays in
their bubble … I think that's taking it a little far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't agree with that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think there's a way that we can go off, and
have fun, bump into each other, and run around …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: At every show I've been to at The
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: And that's a release!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's a physical release; that's why I do
this, at least to some degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: … in a relatively safe way.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — that you're just going to beat on
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah, behavior like that doesn't
make any sense — but I also don't like it when people are watching a band,
standing there like this (crosses arms in front of his chest).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, it's angry music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know, let's see a little animation
here!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can go off and be aggressive
without being violent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There can be
physical running into each other and physical contact without violence.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And that's always existed in
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I feel like people take it really far
on the other side … and, to be fair, pretty far on both sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are definitely meatheads who go out and
just want to fight people — and that's bullshit, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think there's a medium to be found … and I
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: (Laughter) Yeah, that's right!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was fine, though; I even joked with your
bassist, and said, "In a contest between Kyle and somebody else … Kyle is
going to win!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can I do!?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: (Laughter) And I didn't even know
who I ran into!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, running into the
crowd like that is a sort of physical manifestation of the anger going on.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: The very first hardcore show I went
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: It's always been an element, but
it's about, like, doing it together … and if somebody doesn't want to be
involved in that, then recognizing that, and not going after them.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have always been people who've done it
in sort of a conscious way; when I saw Narrows play at The Comet Tavern, Dave
Verellen (vocals) made a speech, like, "For those people who don't know,
here are the rules of the pit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somebody
falls down, you help them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And tie
your shoes!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Be careful out there — but have
fun."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Dave was in the crowd for
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: And I love that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to get back to that Black Lodge show,
people were getting me just as good as I was getting them … and, actually, even
worse — some dude ran into me while my back was turned, and I sprained my ankle
really bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's still not doing
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, you know … it's just what
happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's what goes into it — and
you know that going in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've been to a
million punk and hardcore shows, and every time, there's that chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't know … it is what it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: (Laughter) So … the Ancient Shores
split will be out soon; you just have to finalize the artwork, and things like
that …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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Friday.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And you guys are going to be touring
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah, we have plans for an East
Coast tour in October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We're going to do
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really want to work in a West
Coast tour "soon-ish" — I don't really know what that means, because
we all have jobs, or school … so we'll have to figure it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Definitely, touring is an aspect that I like
about being in a band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want to play
to people who haven't seen us before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our first tour was really great; it was a great experience, and we met a
lot of really cool people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me,
hardcore is a live experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
something you listen to on computer speakers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughter)</span></div>
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never been stronger, in a sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
find shows and play with rad bands almost anywhere in the country — and you can
do it almost instantly, with the Internet being what it is.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Which I like — but there's also a
trade-off, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At certain times, bands
go out that shouldn't be touring; they're simply not ready yet … things have
been over-saturated to the point where, if there's a show in your town every
night … and I hate to keep going back to this, but the way things were in the
'90's, you wrote good songs first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know what I
mean!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You wrote good songs, you had
something to say — and then you went out and brought it to people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see a lot of bands that tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I booked shows for a number of years in Reno
— probably the better part of a decade — and so many people would hit me up for
a show, and it was just like, "Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don't understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are you
bringing to the table?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are you
offering here?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, you want
people to show up and pay the cover … but, why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What are you saying in your songs … (shakes head) I don't know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: It might be a brutal way to look at
it, but at the same time, it's reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you're not ready to play live, or go on tour — don't do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'll leave a bad impression with everyone
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shows to the point that people don't want to go out anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If five shows are happening in your town, and
one of them is really good, it'll be overshadowed by all the other ones.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And someone doesn't really know
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I guess that people think that
touring is super-cool, which it is … but it's a trade-off — it is a sacrifice,
you know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I think that this
over-saturation has died down a little bit … maybe four or five years ago, it
was way worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every band was trying to
tour, all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, very few bands
are touring, which I think is kind of a good thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I don't mean "package tours"
and "big venues", but D.I.Y. touring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyway, we're doing the East Coast tour, and we're talking about the
West Coast, and possibly going to Europe — which I hope comes through in the
next six months or so.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Now, Cynarae possibly have some
splits lined up — and you don't have to tell me who those bands are, because
it's theoretical — but would those come before a debut full-length that you
guys would write?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As in, you'd put out a
full LP and do the splits later …</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: I'm not really sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that we have songs ready for a 7-inch,
so that will probably happen first — before any splits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that, we've been talking about three
releases that we have down, so who the hell knows where we're going to be at
that point … I suppose someone could combine all those in a stand-alone release
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Like a discography LP.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like the idea of an LP, but at the same
time, it's not really on my radar to do that right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would rather do splits and 7-inches.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That's interesting; it would work
well, because the 7-inch format is so brief and biting, and explosive … and if
you could put that sort of energy into that format, then why do an LP?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'd just be diluting the effect of it.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Totally — and I can see doing a
live LP; that would be fun!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like different formats and
different experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm not saying
that we'll never do an LP, because we probably will … but it's a matter of
figuring out the right time for that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
just got done getting this last split together, and as that was happening, I
was re-formatting the design for the self-titled LP that we have out now … so,
to me, talk about a full-length is a little ways out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd love to see it happen, but we'll see when
we get there.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Do you have any thoughts in
closing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything to add?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we definitely covered almost
everything!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kyle: Yeah, definitely!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In closing, I'm just really excited to be in
a band with people who are very capable musicians — but who are also really
cool people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our relationship with A389
has been great so far; they're like a "musician's label" — they get
it, they've been great to work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
feel good about what Cynarae has done … and I want to do more!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm just excited about it.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Awesome!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks a lot for your time!</span></i><br />
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what's the background on Water Torture (band member names, how did you form,
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
started off as me and Moezes around the fall of 2011. Ian joined as 2nd
bass probably 6 months after that. Moezes and I have been playing
together for a while now. We wanted to start a band that we knew would be able
to go on tour. We have tried with other bands we had been in and there was one
reason or another why we could not do it. We just Water Torture as the two of
us so we did not have to worry about anyone else other then the two of us.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
guys recently finished up a tour with The Downgoing from Australia. How was it?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">It was the best tour we have done so far. It was our
first time outside of the northeast. We met a lot of awesome people, played
with some great bands and got to see some of our old friends as well. We really
did not know the boys in The Downgoing other then the emails between me and the
guitarist. When we picked them up from the bus station the week before we left
for tour, we would have a good old time with them. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">The only tour that we have done with one bass was the
first. Ian was in another band with us and was the only other person we had
played with that wanted to go on tour so I asked him if he wanted to play with
us. I mean, we have one bass, why not add one more? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">One of the bands Moezes and I were in prior to Inerds
was also just bass and drums. We are comfortable with working like that. As for
water torture, we wanted it to be just the two of us at first and i dont play
guitar anyway. Truly i cant. The strings are to small. I need a big old bass
for my power chords haha. That's kind of how it had to be even if we did not
want to. Honestly, I love bass and drums bands. However, I feel some of them
just are not full sounding, so i decided I am going to play my bass kind of
like a guitar. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">When i first got into punk, I came from listening to
stuff like Deicide, Cannibal Corpse and stuff like that. I really liked the
fast parts way more then the metal parts. Then i moved out of my home town and
started going to shows and doing shows in my basement. From there, I found out
about so many bands. Also, the main band that got me into PV was Man is the
Bastard. Who would have thought that lol. After that, every band I heard that
was just bass that brutal but weird and noisey, I was hooked. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How
is the song writing process for you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">There really is not much to it. We dont really jam or
anything like that. We like to come to practice with a whole song already
written. sometime we tweak it a bit at we practice, but all i do is smoke weed,
start writing, and see what comes out of it. Mostly in the early morning, when
i get home from my overnights is when i want to work on writing songs. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What/who
has influenced your playing style the most?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">It was mostly local bands that i looked up too and
always wanted to be like lol. The biggest would have to be Running For Cover
from Buffalo. Go check them out right now and listen to the sickest riffs with
the best basslines ever! </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is a techy/nerd question, but what set up do you use for noise?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">Oh man, there are so many different ways i set up stuff.
It depends on what kind of sound we want. If i want HNW, I have a soothing
sounds machine that has different setting like rain, waterfall, etc. White
noise stuff<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for helping you sleep. I put
that into a few distortions and you have a wall of harsh noise for days. For
the last track on the sea of shit split I used a synth program on my ipad and
programmed a loop into it and bit crushed it a little bit. The wacky ossilation
in the mix is Moezes messing with Trogotronic noise makers. Actually, all the
weird sounds in between songs on that albums are make from Moezes Trogotronic
gear.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Do
you guys split time in other bands or projects?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">Moezes does not really do anything other then Water
Torture. He does solo noise stuff every once in a while. Also does, Pacing,
with me which is the two of us doing noise. As for me, I do a million other
projects. I do breached hull which is a loop heavy kind of industrial sound.
All of the sounds i get to make the noise are from scifi movies. The first
release we did was all based on the movie Event Horizon. I also do solo stuff
under the name Deceiver which is mostly HNW. I also do some noisecore stuff
under Deceiver. I also do a noisecore thing called Sifting Through Dropping for
Nuitrients. There are also a few other verious collaberations and whatnot. I
like to keep busy haha. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How
important is the DIY scene and what does it mean to Water Torture?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">We would not be able to go on tour if it was not for the
DIY scene. We have met so many people and promoters from all over the world
because of the DIY scene. There is nothing better then playing someone's house
or a sweet DIY run venue. When you work with people that are not trying help
out out of town band instead of making tons of money, there is nothing better
than that. The people are just way more real and down to earth.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">PROS: the internet is a great way to get your music out
to people without going on tour. When we put up our stuff on Grindcore Karaoke,
it helped us so much. We made a bunch of new contacts and we have people come
up to us at shows telling us that they saw our stuff on Grindcore Karaoke. It
doesn't hurt us on our record sales. If anything, it helps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">CONS: Ss for the cons you get so many people uploading
their music that it over saturates everything with crap. If you do some
searching, you can find the good stuff within the garbage.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What's
next for you guys?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">We have so much stuff coming up right now:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seriously,
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">We love that thing so much. It makes my life so much
easier when I am loading the gear after a show by myself. Everyone can bring
all the stuff out to me and I can just load it in the back by myself. Also, if
someone ever runs into the back of us, we will be fine.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anything
you would like to add?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT;">Thanks for asking us to do this interveiw and thanks to
everyone that have helped us out. Also, thanks to everyone that have supported
us by going to a show, buying stuff from us, or just giving our music a
listen. </span></div>
Will Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-90567848181625957722012-12-30T11:33:00.000-05:002013-01-01T09:48:34.678-05:00Integrity Interview<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Questions by Jim Walkley</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Interview conducted in a basement
dressing room at the Neumo's venue in Seattle, the site of the last-ever
Undertow show on June 30th, 2012, which featured Integrity as a supporting
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: What's cool about that S.O.B. album
is that it's a classic example of a Japanese band that doesn't really speak
English that well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of their songs is
called "Let's Go Beach".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
could have called the zine that … but we decided to go with another song title:
"Don't Be Swindle". </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: That's what I like about a lot of
the Japanese stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>G.I.S.M. have a lot
of that going on, too — that "mixed-up talk" … I like that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zouo does, too, with all of their
recordings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you like those groups as
well, or do you mainly like the more thrashy stuff?</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I do!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I liked your cover of "No
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: That was a pain in the ass, to get
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: It's true!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Laughter)<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Musically, I suppose it wasn't much of a
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: I played all of the instruments on
that, so I did it the same way that they did it — just one microphone on the
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: I didn't have the right echo for
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: I saw that Shure now makes a trucker
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you know, exactly as the truck drivers use … and I modified the tip on it, so
it wasn't a C.B. tip — not an XLR; still a trucker format … well, actually, I
think I did re-solder on an XLR …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Come on mighty convoy" … but this
one is special C.B., because now the C.B. truckers are trying to get
experimental with those rigs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I have
a dial on it for echo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sounds just
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And that's how you recorded the
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kind of echo — I suppose you could say, "wrong" echo … I don't know
how to explain it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only way I could
find to duplicate it was with that C.B. echo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That worked, because it is that echo — it sounded similar … I was using
an old-style one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had an old rack, at
one point, that had that feature on it — but that was a long time ago, so I had
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Do you know if there's much of a
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Well, I bought it on eBay, and I
guess truckers still use it … maybe that's why they do it, to spice it up — so
they throw echo on there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the
"Monster Truckers" … but I don't have that particular one …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jon (Second Guitarist): After 9/11, the
FCC really cut down on the bandwidth, so there's now a lot of noise on all of
the channels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's really hard to get
through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truckers now don't use C.B.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: What do they use now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jon: Cellphones …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah, I guess C.B. radio was more
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jon: That's Channel 9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Channel 9 was the emergency channel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to get on there with a handheld —</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Channel 19 was the emergency
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jon: That's right —
Channel 19; I'm sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to get on
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: See, that's the one they use with
mine — all of that echo …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: When I was a kid, and they had
college radio on, they allowed anyone to call the station during a certain
program, and then they'd run your call through all of these effects … and then
they'd put two or three callers with those effects on there, to make it noisy
and weird — it was cool!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take acid and
call that up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you recorded it and listened to it the
next day, it'd be sweet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I still
had that tape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe my son still has
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jon: I had a handheld
C.B., and in my car — for awhile — I had a rotary dial that had thirty channels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of digital, you would just turn the
dial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a pretty powerful antenna,
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was loud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: You had it at your house?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jon: I had it in my
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I always wanted to learn some of the
lingo that they had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's like in that
movie, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Convoy
<i>— the "bear in the air"; that was when there was a police
helicopter in the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a
bunch of them, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a
whole ton of them.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jon: I had this
record called something like <i>C.B. Radio Talk</i>, and it had all these old
country songs that were about C.B. radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the insert, it had the different codes; for instance, 73, 86 — what
all of those different codes mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: — a "bear in the air" is
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: "Steak on the grill" was
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: So, you guys played here — different
line-up, obviously — in 1993?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe
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Jon's house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ground Zero … (attempts to
recall) … perhaps we stayed at Big John's house after we played there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the Snappers played there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[A reference to the band Snapcase].</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I talked to one of the guitarists in
Heiress, Wes Reed, and he told me that he'd seen Integrity at Ground Zero in
about 1993 with Botch — in their demo period … last night I went to The Black
Lodge and saw the Undertow secret performance there, which was where Wes told
me that he'd seen Integrity play in Bellevue back in '93.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you remember that at all?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: No!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: He also told me that Integrity had
never played Seattle proper before, ever, in the history of the band.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: We did … it was something to do
with a guy named Big John — he was the promoter — and we either played at his
house, or stayed at his house; in his backyard, he had a stage …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Do you remember when that was?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Weird that they were out here,
because weren't they from Syracuse?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Correction:
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: The tours just happened to cross
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snapcase happened to be around here
at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Same record company,
too — but we don't talk about them!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
Snapcase were more of an "emo" band … you know, maybe that all-girl
band played with us as well … [A reference to the all-female hardcore band The
Doughnuts].</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: The Doughnuts played that show as
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: It's funny … I did a zine in the
'90's, and one of the bands that I interviewed was Fall Silent, who were from
Reno, and their vocalist, Levi Watson, disparaged Victory Records in the
interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never sent it to him, but
somehow, Tony Brummel got ahold of that, and wrote Levi a personal letter
through the mail, asking him why he had all those negative things to say … And
I thought, "Who the hell</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is <i>this guy, to write some letter
like this!?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>[Tony Brummel is
the founder and owner of Victory Records, who at one point released Integrity
recordings].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: He's a goddamn pirate — that
motherfucker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know …. when iTunes
asked Victory to be on there, and he accused them of stealing — that is the pot
callin' the fuckin' kettle black, right there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: All of your records from that era
are available for free download on Holy Terror.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah, because he was effectively
stealing those records from us, and putting them up on iTunes —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Did he try to stop you from putting
those up for download on Holy Terror?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: He can't, because he doesn't own
the rights to those songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, you
know, it was like he was tryin' to pull an O.J. on us — he had the lawyers, so
he could fight against us … and still refuse to pay us!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Let's talk about the new Integrity
song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've heard a digital version of
your new track from the Gehenna split, and I really, really liked it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't yet own a physical copy —</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Cool!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'll have to pick one up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard that the 7-inch sold out at Holy
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: That was the pre-order …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: On red?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: It was on pink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow, the labels were messed up on the
regular ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that same time, we went
on a European tour — which we recently completed, just this past Sunday …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: How did that go?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: It went great!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a great time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was it, three weeks?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, I believe it was three weeks over there
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Playing shows pretty constantly
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Every day!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Awesome!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: It was a lot of fun.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That was one question that I had for
you, Rob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's so much talk with
Integrity that revolves around "the classic line-up" — I seem to find
it whenever I read something about the band, whether it's the Melnick brothers,
or Frank Novinec … and I guess the typical response to a question like that is:
Well, we don't really pay attention to what people say about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time, is it ever frustrating — or
annoying — that people focus so intently on that "classic" era of the
band, when the band is in fact still going, and when your contributions to it,
judging from that Gehenna split —</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: — Well, we're all still friends with
those guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, Rob gave Aaron a
guitar a little while back, because Aaron broke his guitar —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: So, then, it doesn't frustrate you?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: — I've been listening to Integrity
since I was, like, thirteen years old!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And those former members don't care about that issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is more important than someone outside
of the band, commenting on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's
like, if someone doesn't want to listen to something that I'm doing because of
a pre-conceived notion of … "whatever" … you know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's not going to upset me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do it because we want to, not because
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That's not to take anything away
from the Melnicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great guitarist,
great bassist — and great songwriters … at a very important time for the
band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was awesome to have them in the
band.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: But didn't they create that
template, that the band has somewhat followed ever since?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know — I don't know how to describe it,
but that combination of mournful lead melodies with almost Japanese-sounding
chord progressions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The "Integrity
sound".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it fair to say that they
had a role in creating that?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: — Well, yeah… some of it,
definitely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, it's hard to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, the song "Judgment
Day" was written by our friend Scott Stearns, from the band that Aaron and
I had before Integrity, called Die Hard — that was the first Integrity song
that we ever wrote … but Scott wrote that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We then played as Integrity later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And the song "Jagged Visions Of My True Destiny," our friend
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: He was in the band for three shows?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah … that was when we played with
Pantera, and … fuck, I don't remember …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Didn't you tour Europe early on with
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those were our first European shows …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I bet those were good shows …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of those guys — they were a great bunch
of guys, and it was an incredible tour …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: So, it doesn't really affect you at
all?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just to compare it to something
from my own life, it would be as if I was constantly judged as a creative
person — or as an individual — against something that had occurred fifteen
years ago … what about everything that's happened since that time?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: Yes … if I were looking at it
through that lens, then — sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if
you knew anything about the band, or cared about the band, you would know that
it's a collaboration — beyond two people who haven't even been in the band for
some twenty-odd years.</span></div>
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the "classic" line-up defines the band, and that today's Integrity
just can't measure up against that?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: Well … what I'd say is this: for me
to try and sway someone's opinion — it would just be so … — well, something I
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: We don't give a fuck what anybody
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: Yeah — to flail around and be, like,
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah — we can't get up there on
stage and say, like, "Hey, www.check this out" — and, "Find us
on Facebook" … (Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We play
the songs we like to play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a
good time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sing about the things that
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: It is what it is.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Everyone else can fuck off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: Yes — it might be said: "that
answer is the veil we hide behind" … but it's the honest truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"1993" … or "2003" — it
is always the same; people hated us then, people hate us now — they always hated
us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to hear old people say, "Oh
yes … back then, we loved Integrity" — but everybody hated us back
then!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always the same.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: "Hated" you!?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yes, every record we've come out
with … they hated it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And people always
try to lie and say they loved it back then — but they didn't like it.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Laughter)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: That's what I mean!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's funny to go back and look at that stuff
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Well, how do you think the material
has changed over the years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listening to
the current records, it seems that the production is the main difference —
since all of those past records were mainly done at the Mars Compound, with
Bill Korecky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I think is so cool
about the records today, is that it's sort of the ultimate punk rock vision —
you're producing it yourself, you're recording it yourselves, and you're
putting it out there yourselves … all at a cost that is fractional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it seems like the ultimate realization of
the D.I.Y. ethic.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing that we did was have someone
master it — to louden it up a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I guess another influence that's
come into the records is black metal.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Probably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not, like, "arena black metal"
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: — Much more obscure than that stuff
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: More of a black metal
"feeling", I guess I would say ...</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: Yeah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, of course, "black metal" is
too vague of a concept, anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have
these groups that are "black metal", but they sound very polished,
produced with just that screechy voice … And I'm not into that style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I do like the weirder, more obscure
groups out of that genre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bands making
tapes out in the woods; things like that … some of the French black metal
groups, the modern Portugal scene, Australia as well and some bands of that raw
nature …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Are you talking about records like
that one by Ulver that was recorded in a forest?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[A reference to the <i>Nattens Madrigal</i>
LP by Ulver, a black metal-inspired band from Norway; the album was released in
1997].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: No — well, I think Rob might like
Ulver; I don't like Ulver, so much … what I mean is more like that band Black
Legions, from France …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Did you like Deathspell Omega?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[A progressive black metal band from
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: I like some of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other parts of it I just found to be too …
experimental, I guess?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe too
"psychedelic" — at times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do
like some of their records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, my
friend Tyler Davis put out some of their records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He does Ajna Offensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grew up with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a child, he lived next to my mother's
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he was selling records back
then, even when we were fifteen years old! haha And listening to Charles Manson
music!</span></div>
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released so many obscure French bands, and things like that — yet he lives in
Oregon.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even back then, he sought out wild
stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Different stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess you could say: stuff that people
wouldn't have known about … of course, back then, he was more into
hardcore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember, he had a distro
back then with the Project X 7-inch that came with that magazine … Wishing Well
records; stuff like that … this was around the time period of the later '80's …
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: So, like you, he came from more of a
hardcore background, but graduated into listening to more —</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: — Well, we were punk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because, back then … you see, punk and metal: that is hardcore, the
fusion of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, hardcore has
become something of its own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back then,
though, it was a blend of those two genres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It's like this … punk became popular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Metal became popular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
combined those, then both of those groups hated you — it became fashionable
later on … but back in the late '80's, it was definitely not popular.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And speaking of more obscure
hardcore, I heard that one of the first metallic hardcore bands you ever heard
was G.I.S.M.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And that was a band without
boundaries, in a sense, because they played a form of hardcore, but dressed up
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: G.I.S.M. are just fascinating, in
that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first metallic hardcore
you heard was the V/A </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Peace/War<i> double album?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yes, that was the first — but I had
some metal stuff before that, and I had some punk stuff on tape … but, I went
to buy a record with my allowance — I was thirteen years old? … This was the
time that Dead Kennedys had released <i>Frankenchrist</i>, and the cops were
cutting out — they were opening up the records and destroying that poster that
H.R. Giger had made for them … I was going to buy <i>Frankenchrist </i>—
really, only because the cops didn't want you to buy it … but, the record clerk
said I couldn't have it with the poster included, so I thought, "Well,
I'll buy something else" … The clerk suggested the <i>Peace/War</i>
album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it came with a big book — it
was roughly the size of <i>Maximumrocknroll</i>, with the same printing style …
and it had G.I.S.M., and Septic Death — as well as all of the Pushead drawings
… and all of the bands on that comp, it was just an eye-opener …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Pushead was a big influence as well,
would you say?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Pushead, whose
real name is Brian Schroeder, was the vocalist of the legendary '80's hardcore
band Septic Death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is also an
acclaimed artist who has created many well-known album covers and contributed
art for skate decks, among other things.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Of course!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Pushead had a big influence on
everybody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People have never given him
enough credit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, Pushead was the
reason that G.I.S.M. was on that comp! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He helped push G.I.S.M. to people who never
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: — Pushead was a reviewer for <i>Thrasher</i>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yes, Pushead wrote for <i>Thrasher</i>
… he had a section in that magazine called Puszone; he promoted G.I.S.M. there
— the only downside was, it was impossible to get those records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was the only downside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, you know, there was the second G.I.S.M.
record, <i>M.A.N.</i>, which came with a special poster insert that you could
only get at certain stores in Tokyo — Pushead drew that poster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[G.I.S.M.'s <i>Militaly Affairs Neurotic</i>
LP from 1987 is sometimes abbreviated as <i>M.A.N.</i>].</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And speaking of Septic Death — they
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Septic Death released a lot of stuff, just
them alone — but then it's compounded by the fact that Pushead is a great
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And Pushead's record label, as well
… Would you say that his example of record labels was an influence on what
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yes, I would say so — the attention
to details; not following what's necessarily the "selling angle" …
just doing what you like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, you see,
also … not to take credit away from him, but that had something to do with the
'80's — in a way, that was how everyone had to think … you know, I
"only" like this, or I "only" like that … no, you liked a
lot of different things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least, most
people did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there were spectrums of
things you liked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I've said before:
the metal people hated the punks, the punk people hated the metal people — so,
if you liked them both, then everyone hated you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was that element to it — although,
maybe that was more true in the place where I grew up … because, obviously,
Pushead liked metal — he worked with the Metallica guys …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: That was a little bit later, though,
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: — Well, there are Septic Death
records that the Metallica guys are playing on!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Did you know that!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where
Metallica is his band, and he's singing!</span></div>
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which means "crazy boy"!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Laughter)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>["Kichigai"
is a Septic Death 7-inch from 1988 that was released on Pushead's own Pusmort
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interview I read where Pushead is interviewing Metallica before they did <i>Master
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fact … but, yeah, it would seem like it … at that time, I believe both Pushead
and Metallica were living in the same area of San Francisco …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: About the U.S.: do you think you'll
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: It's hard to say — I mean, the beer
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: (Laughter) I drink Duvel, Leffe …
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And your wife is from there …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She's from Belgium; however, it's much
cheaper to live over here in the USA … </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Yes, but I remember what you said
about the landscape over there, and how it's so much more inspiring than
something you would see in, say, Cleveland …</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: It's always great to see a fuckin'
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: But, you think you'll be there for
the time being.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah; I'm not going to move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I built a house over there. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: On a different subject, I always
wondered who that was, who's talking throughout "Drowning In Envy"
—<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">["Drowning In Envy" is a
track from <i>Humanity Is The Devil</i>, a lauded mini-album by Integrity
originally released in 1995 by Victory Records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The "song" features a long sample of conversation from a
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I don't know if you can reveal that,
but I've always wondered that.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: It was our ex-drummer — and he is a
jealous, spiteful guy, but … we had fired him for stealing, and he did an
interview with a friend of ours, who did a zine —</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: — Was it an interview with Brian
Dingledine?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Frontman of the '90's anarchist metallic
hardcore band Catharsis and former editor of the now-defunct <i>Inside Front</i>
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guy … he interviewed him with good intentions, but he ended up saying,
"You know, I can't print this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
just talk shit about all these bands; that's stupid."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, he called me up and described how this
former member had been talking shit, and I was like, "Let me hear
it!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And me and Aaron just laughed
at that interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then took it and
put it on my computer; chopped it up, and added sounds of, like, toilets
flushing (Laughter) — and different stuff …</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: And you put that into a loop at the
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: You did a zine yourself in the
'90's, didn't you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Blood Book<i>?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Yeah! … like a <i>National Lampoon</i>,
or a <i>Mad Magazine</i> …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: Yeah — seriously!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you ever read it!?</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: I was researching the band Gehenna,
and there was a Gehenna interview in </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Blood Book<i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a really good interview.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Yeah, you were talking to Mike
Cheese, and saying, "You seem rather composed today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is something wrong!?"</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: If you know the Gehenna guys … that
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob: Yeah … that's always remarkable …
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: How many issues of </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Blood Book <i>did
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim: Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When did you stop?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: I just kinda ran out of steam on it
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Productions, appears at the dressing room door along with her adorably cute pet
dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Infinite was the promoter of this
show, which — once again — was the final performance by Undertow that also
featured Integrity as a supporting band).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dwid: Let's pause the interview for a
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Will Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-56276702699972196102012-12-11T15:23:00.001-05:002012-12-11T15:23:10.535-05:00Krupskaya Interview<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">by Eric Beasley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">When thinking of Stoke-on-Trent, UK, a grindcore band with a
Russian name is the last thing that will come to mind. But trust me, they are
there. I was able to catch up with them via e-mail over the last week and after
a three year hiatus, Krupskaya are looking to pick up where they left off:
Playing fast, writing interesting songs, touring, and Ed laughing at Alex...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">First off, could you introduce the band
and it's members? How did you guys form? </span></b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Ok well the current line up for
2013 is Alex - vocals, Tim - guitar, Matt - bass & Ed - drums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ed is our original drummer and founding
member who quit the band late '08 to work on a shark conservation project in
South Africa and for various reasons is now returning to the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matt has been playing guitar in After The
Last Sky for 15 years, they just split the band up so we got him in on bass
straight away, (he did actually play half a gig with us a few years ago!) he
was also playing bass in a band called Fuck Hate Propaganda with Alex some
years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also Skulda from Sheeva Yoga
and about 9 other bands out in the Czech Rebublic, who was with us on bass for
'09 is still kind of in the band and might do some more touring with us
someday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">As for how we formed, I moved back to
the Stoke area early '05 with 2 other musicians as all we were doing in London
was working and it is expensive to rehearse there, that project folded after
about a month of being up here - nothing was really happening for me at all, I
knew Matt from college in '96 after I left school, After The Last Sky had a
track on the Terrorizer magazine CD. I recognised Matt on the picture so I
looked him up for old times sake. He was doing ATLS and also FHP with Alex
-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we met up and jammed with a few other
local guys, one song led to another. We made a power violence band called Kzzch
for a bit and that folded. Alex knew Ed from playing locally and we all just
wanted to play and were a bit tired of flakey musicians, so we got together and
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">How excited are you guys to be back at
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Looking forward to it, we'll see
when we start practicing, I can't wait for a taunting off Ed, not exactly back
at it yet, i've only seen Tim 3 times in the last 3 years haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - Real exited that Krupskaya is
getting back together, and looking forward to playing fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - I'm exited to be making some
noise again and be playing my guitar loud, will be nice to jam with these guys
again and the line up this time round is overall, the strongest ever.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Was it beneficial to take a break?</span></b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Not really no, it was for a
little bit but 3 years is a bit excessive, closer to splitting up then taking a
break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - I agree really, we needed a
little break,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>financially we were all
broke after a lot of touring in '09 and owed each other money, things were all
over the place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Six months probably
would have been sufficient to rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had a lot of problems, our rehersal space & Alex's studio was wiped out by
a flood while we were away, and due to that and shit going on in peoples lifes
the band just ground to halt by default we never really chose a hiatus or fell
out and split up, just it was impossible to really make anything else happen at
that point.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">How has the process of reforming been
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Arduos, hard to say, nothing has
really happened, we have all kept in touch with each other as we always did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Painful, I have been working in
London for most of the time apart - I did try to get Krupskaya material learnt
and rehearsed with some good players I knew from down there but nothing came of
it, a waste of energy really, we had a few things booked but we had to cancel
which was a real bummer, it became clear to me that if I didn't base myself in
the Stoke area again with Alex around, the band would finish for good - we both
knew if we were still into it something would happen, so it has been a long
road.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">December 15th is the day you have
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Death! Some touring, lots of
recording, more song based craziness - I don't know we haven't played a note
yet, we have quite a lot of splits lined up, probably a new album, maybe some
lyrics, maybe not!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Musical direction
wise probably a combination of all the releases we have out so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - Me hopefully being able to learn
the songs, some world class bass playing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Some strong Krupskaya material I
hope, playing some new places and re-visiting some of the cool towns &
cities we made it to before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ed landing
on a fucking plane in the UK on the 15th as planned!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The band seemed to have moved toward a
more techy approach in later releases. What brought that out in your music?</span></b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Using the technology that was
available to us, writing in the studio as opposed to writing as band, writing
the songs on the drums to make them sound interesting however finding them hard
to learn together and play, it ended up being a lot more straight because we
started using a metronome as opposed to the earlier stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Just the development of us as a band
and doing a lot of gigs made us more able, we learnt to communicate with each
other in a productive, fun way well fun for us not fun for Ed haha - Alex is a
good engineer with his own studio set up so it meant we had time to work on the
stuff, although as he was involved with each recording in a blow by blow kind
of way I think by the end of each one he had had enough!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The metronome really helped pull it together
on the last 12" less punk more metal approach perhaps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - I was involved in putting out
the early stuff, I was really suprised how quickly things moved on for them and
developed but I loved all of it for different reasons.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">It seems like you guys touch on some
pretty dark topics lyrically. What do you think causes people to view the world
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - I dunno why people see the world
that way, for us it was never really about seeing anything in a dark way it was
looking at more obscure historical events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was more about being aware of the way our supposed civilised society
treats human beings and for that same society to stop it ever happening
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also a bit about
culpabilty and being responsible for your actions, that was what Clouds Over
Pripyat was about - human beings created nuclear power and as whole race we
should be responsible for the product we create, and if what we create is a
nuclear disaster poisining children for the next 50 years the the human race
should take responsibilty not just the Ukrainian government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We covered a very wide subject matter, the
three tracks on the Teriak Records compilation were more about breaking
programming, the split with Trendy Bastard was more about war or the self
imposed boundaries between nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
are all human at the end of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Symbisois Through Decay was about environmental issues - sort of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happens when big industry moves out of
an area - partly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The split with Kill A
Celebrity was loosely based on the Gulags in Russia, it' all very difficult to
explain - mostly going back to what human beings will actually do to each
other. The split with Sandokan was much more on the covert & overt chemical
weapon testing theme.. It's getting to be 4 years ago since any of this stuff
was written so it's hard to remember it all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - Some people will see the world
like that because of the way it is presented by the media, others who look into
it deeper past that presentation - will see the world at large probably even
darker and more fucked up as they discover corruption, contol etc - it is to
some degree a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Maybe people see the world that
way because it is, dark and fucked up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - I couldn't comment too much on
peoples own perception I guess that depends on your past and present life
experience, and geographical location on the planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for the bands topics Alex led the way so
his words are the most precise on that, we never dramatised anything with
emotive lyrics or attempted to put ourselves in the shoes of anyone, I'm proud
of the subjects we have covered, it is up to the listener - enjoy the music for
what it is or isn't, or if you are intrigued by the subject matter, type the
song titles into a search engine and perhaps you will find something that
interests you and lead to further thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In some ways I think it is also an alternative to punk politics, acab,
witches and wizards, demons, the night, serial killers, hate, murder and some
of the usual topics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not that there is
anything wrong with any of that stuff, there is just plenty of it.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Do you think music can bring these
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Music is not a forum to bring
these issues to the front is it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not if
you want to seriously<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>talk about
something or try and instigate change, it's a difficult one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think as a band or a musician your songs
are at most a medium for introducing subjects - not a medium for seriously
discussing subjects<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If people get
involved in stuff because they found out the basic information from a band then
thats cool, but I dont think any band is about serious political activism, if
you want to get into that it's not really going to be through music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can be introduced to it<i> </i>- as far
as i'm concerned I dont stand on stage sermonizing, I present what we say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all responsible enough of our own
lives to take things further if we choose to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Having said that, through music we have seen and met some inspirational
people, seen some amzaing places and experienced things beyond certainly what I
would have ever considered achievable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - I agree more or less, serious
political or social activists, who achieve results, resist attempts to be
silenced and dedicate their life to a cause at a local or international level
are rarely active musicians, I cannot see how you would have time to do
both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grew up feeling inspired mostly
by the bands that had something to say other than songs about girls and
partying, or the common subjects I mentioned earlier, I was interested by
social comment and still am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
something to be said for artisic license and a good musician, band or
songwriter may be able to use their talents in a respectful way to throw light
on something they care strongly about, and in turn raise awareness to a larger
audience, but you need to have a larger audience in the first place to do that
and would be risking commercial suicide by touching on anything too
contraversial or provocative, so few bother, and I am sceptical of those that
do, Bono for example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than that I
would refer to the point Alex makes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - It's kind of down to the
individual as to whether they are going to be receptive to what a band is
saying, if a person is interested in what a band has to say it could open a
door to more exploration on the subject.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">What bands influenced you to play?</span></b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - The reason I ever wanted to be
in a band was because of my VHS copies of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>'Another State Of Mind' (social distortion & youth brigade touring)
and 'Decline Of Western Civilisation', before that when I was just into metal
being in a band was something that seemed unattainable but when I heard Minor
Threat, Void, Articles Of Faith, Agnostic Front etc -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all those hardcore bands, it became
achievable by yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Krupskaya was
the four of us without any agenda at all, four guys into totally different
stuff, what came out came out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - No specific bands influenced me
to play, I just wanted to be able write my own songs really, a little bit later
on the whole DIY thing inspired me to take it into doing gigs and tours and
doing records and stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When i was
13,14 i just wanted to do songs like Carcass, My Dying Bride, Obituary and all
the other bands I was into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn't
know there was death metal or black metal or grindcore or whatever, it was all
just metal!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Iron Maiden changed my ears
totally, probably for the worse haha when I heard that at 11 or 12 years old
and thats why I started playing the guitar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was a diehard metalhead as a kid, really into Pantera, Sepultura, Fear
Factory, Slayer, Anthrax, Carcass, Entombed, Napalm Death, I liked the black
metal that bands that were around then, that was pretty exciting for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was into some more obscure stuff - Fudge
Tunnel really opened up an alternative world for me and I loved the guitar
playing on that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for Krupskaya at
that time I was really into death metal and the more metal end of grindcore and
hardcore - Alex as I got to know him, suprised me by saying most of that stuff
was 'too slow' - I thought that what I was into was the pinnacle of speed and
brutality, he played me some fucking awesome records all night a few times
while I sat in his living room chair smoking joints to myself taking it all
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that I just wanted to do
something fast by those standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
never once name checked bands we wanted to sound like with each other or drew
up a plan, we just wanted to play and started throwing things together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Gamma Ray, Helloween, Running
Wild, Human Error, Paradox, Death, Proletar, Die Kruzen, Nile, Ackercoke,
Active Minds, Sheeva Yoga, Sete Star Sept, Despise You, Hiatus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loads of Russian stuff - Turbolax, Bagna,
Iknow, E123, Third World Planet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - Column of Heaven (Endless
Blockade guys new thing), Swans, Corrupted, Hellnation, Leonard Cohen (first
album) Fubar, Crass, Despise you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - A general mix of metal, thrash,
death metal & grindcore from across the board, loads of black metal lately,
some hip hop and techno stuff - some artists like Bryan Ferry, Nick Lowe and
Adam Ant plus loads of pop & rock stuff from the 70's and 80's, some prog -
could go on forever, too much!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Top 5 albums of all time for each
member. GO!</span></b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">1. Naked City - Grand Guignol</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">2. Lajko Felix - Vox Naturalis</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">3. Catharsis - Passion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">4. Gamma Ray - No World Order</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">5. Articles Of Faith - Any/all albums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">2. Neurosis - Anything really depends
what day it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">3. Nasum - Human 2.0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">4. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern
Sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">5. Crass - Penis Envy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Nas - Illmatic</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">What is the DIY scene like in England?</span></b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - We used to have a good scene in
Stoke but it's kind of died a death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - When ATLS played in Leeds the
other week it was based on the european model i.e. we got fed, the gig was
great and packed with people, Manchester the other week was really good but it
was more on the metal end of things, but still DIY, there are pockets of very
enthusiastic and well organised people here, but overall not as strong as on
the continent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is some cool places
in Leeds, Brighton/London and Nottingham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It would be nice to see more cities available for DIY gigs and touring
bands, there are lots of cool labels and distros here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - I'm a bit out of touch really, over
the years we have played some good DIY shows in the places Matt mentioned for
sure, also in Sheffield, Leicester, Newcastle, Scotland was always cool,
Dublin, Liverpool and more I can't remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is a network here that is worth checking out and any bands from
abroad getting in touch with for gigs here.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">You've played many places outside
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - All of them, it's not possible
to answer, it wouldn't be fair to have any favourites or to pick one place over
the other because of all the effort people have put in to support us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Playing Borneo was way beyond anything I
could ever imagine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Yeh I could not pick one
favourite, I enjoyed different places for different reasons and value them all
equally really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have played a gig
where only 4 people turned up but those 4 people travelled 150-200km to see us
play and whose attendance made the gig possible - and then we sat together
after, talked and became friends, that is just as awesome an experience for me
as when the gig is packed with crazy people and it is super high energy with
lots of pits and moshing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Touring S.E.
Asia was pretty mind blowing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - We could write a book on it, the
problem is after the event and the beers gone flat it is not always as funny to
recall - it depends how you tell them, if you try and write them down they are
not funny, so we won't!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Yeh I won't attempt any comedy -
the usual highs and lows of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DIY touring
- border guards and their brilliant humour, numerous stories from our revolving
door bass player saga, Alex hurting himself always gave Ed hours of side
splitting laughter, things that were not so funny at the time but looking
back... you name it really!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">What was your favorite band you played
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Od Vratot Nadolu, Wojczech,
Idiots Parade, Vocatio Interna, Mumakil, Keitzer, Flesh Disgorged, Nashgul,
Hydro Acid, Hantamrata, Proletar, Human Error</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Along with the above bands -
Daighila, PLF, Infinite Delay, Wormrot, Blood I Bleed, Lycanthropy, To Die</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">What's the future look like for
Krupskaya?</span></b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - Bleak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - It looks more or less the same
as the past, but in reverse, 1000's of miles playing to hardly anyone, same
shit, another bass player!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Yeh same shitty clubs and long
drives, no more 3 year breaks, it's till death this time!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Lastly, anything you would like to say?</span></b><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Alex - Thanks for the interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Matt - Yeh, thanks for the interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tim - Thanks for the interest and
support Eric, was cool getting to know you a little with the communication
around this and talking about noise music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cheers! </span></div>
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<span lang="PL">Hello</span></div>
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<span lang="PL">My name is Karol and I am running a facebook
Warsaw Grindcore fanpage. I was asked to write a Warsaw scene report for Don't
Be Swindle so I thought </span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span>why not?</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span>. In the following article You will find some
information on a bunch of bands from the capital city of Poland and hopefully
that is going to make You curious enough to listen to their tracks, follow the
links, buy their music or possibly go to their gigs. </span></div>
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<span lang="PL">Obviously there is only one band such a report
should start from and this is the one and only:</span></div>
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<u><b><span lang="PL">Antigama</span></b></u></div>
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<span lang="PL">Do I really have to introduce these guys to
anyone? After their Relapse releases their latest "Stop the Chaos</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span> EP was
released by Poland-based SelfMadeGod Records (enjoy it via their label's
bandcamp). As far as I know they are supposed to hit the studio in the
beginning of 2013 to again record that world class grindcore of their own
unique kind. The last time I saw them live was when they were supporting Nasum
during the recent Swedes' farewell tour. The first time I saw them seems ages
ago: with a half different line-up, right after they released their first Sweet
Little Single, in a little club located in one of Warsaw's former fortresses.
If somehow You still do not know Antigama it means You lived under a stone in
Siberia for the past ten years – crawl out and catch up! My favourite band.<br />
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</span><u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Antigama"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">https://www.facebook.com/Antigama</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"><br />
</span><u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://antigamablog.blogspot.com/"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://antigamablog.blogspot.com/</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://selfmadegod.bandcamp.com/album/stop-the-chaos"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://selfmadegod.bandcamp.com/album/stop-the-chaos</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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<u><b><span lang="PL">Łeb Prosiaka</span></b></u></div>
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<span lang="PL">Legendary and most obscene Warsaw unit
delivering heavy grindcore crust madness (Łeb Prosiaka means Piglet's Head).
Their charismatic vocalist makes every gig a show of its own kind using his
special skills at achieving extremely hilarious levels of vulgarity combined
with crushing grinding sounds performed by the rest of the masked-up orchestra.
I fell in love with Łeb Prosiaka the first time I saw them. Everyone does. They
do have some difficult to get releases and even more difficult to get T-shirts.
Obviously the recordings do not express the sheer insanity of the experience
called Łeb Prosiaka live on stage but they are absolutely worth checking out.
Definitely my favorite band.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lebprosiaka"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">https://www.facebook.com/lebprosiaka</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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<u><b><span lang="PL">Anus Magulo</span></b></u></div>
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<span lang="PL">Formed in 2007 and representing the gore side
of grind Anus Magulo lets You taste their vomit on 2011 "Chain Erection</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span> CD
containing 19 fast and heavy tunes (incl. 3 covers and a remix). Currently
recording their soon to be released EP but also focusing on playing live as
much as they can so slowly but surely they get more and more attention and
recognition they deserve. My favorite Warsaw grindcore band as they have lots
of good energy and a female bass player.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AnusMagulo"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">https://www.facebook.com/AnusMagulo</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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<span lang="PL">While not being really 100% grind band
Hesbollah definitely fits in the grindcore scene. Formed by an ex-Antigama
drummer this three piece, instrumental band delivers music that is quite
difficult to label while at the same time it definitely can be called "extreme". Existing for about a year now somewhere between grind, jazz and math
core Hesbollah keeps rehearsing and recording new tracks. I am pretty sure You
can expect some new tunes from them soon. Insane drumming and the freshness
they bring makes them my favourite band.</span></div>
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activity. They were more of a hardcore/punk/grind band than pure grindcore squad
but anyway it quite sucks that the decision was made just three days before
they were supposed to play a concert really close to where I live. Hopefully
they will overcome their problems and will be back even more powerful quite
soon. They would be my favourite Grind band if they still existed.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/LUES/149608415106430"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">https://www.facebook.com/pages/LUES/149608415106430</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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<span lang="PL">While we are at bands that exist no more we
absolutely must speak of Grossmember. Since death of their leader Jerzy in
december 2002 (which makes it 10 fucking years now, wow!) the band ceased to
continue. There are numerous split 7inch records to be found here and there -
in various distros and internet auctions - their full length 2002 </span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"L</span>eave Us
Alone" CD and a Tribute to Grossmember CD as well. One of the basic bands when
it comes to Warsaw grindcore and underground scene in general, well known at
the peak of their active period not only in the rest of Poland but abroad as
well. My favourite grindcore band of those days. Jerzy was also writing a
grindcore zine called Analphabetic Journal and some of the issues were
available in English so I am pretty sure older grinders may remember this guy.<br />
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</span><u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/artist/Grossmember"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://www.discogs.com/artist/Grossmember</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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Another quality band that I do not think will record anything anymore – Herman
Rarebell was a bonecrushing side project of Antigama and Third Degree
musicians. Find them on a 3 way split with the mentioned bands called </span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span>The
world will fall soon and we all will die</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span> or on their own MCD called </span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span>Too late
for peace...</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span>. Very good, intense grindcore. Herman Rarebell was a great
project, my favourite I must admit.<br />
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</span><u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://youtu.be/JOhZH86Vlb0"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://youtu.be/JOhZH86Vlb0</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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be nice to mention some more bands that are quite close when it somes to style,
sound, attitude or even band members. From one side grindcore influences those
involved more in Punk/HC scene on the other hand many Death Metal fans listen
to grindcore on a regular basis. I personaly believe the following guys
definitely deserve some of Your attention as they also create and influence
Warsaw Grindcore scene in more or less direct way:</span></div>
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<u><b><span lang="PL">Drip of Lies</span></b></u></div>
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<span lang="PL">Heavy, crusty, metallic hardcore. I am afraid
they are one of these bands that are better known outside Poland than in their
motherland as they regularly tour Europe. They have recently released an album
called </span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span>Failure</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span> and had a number of records before. Drip of Lies is killer
live band – playing hypnotic and intense tracks filled with heaviness that's
very difficult to capture on studio recordings. As their drummer is a friend of
mine and I really enjoy their live sound I must say they are my favorite band. </span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://dripoflies.bandcamp.com/"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://dripoflies.bandcamp.com/</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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<u><b><span lang="PL">Wóda i Pety</span></b></u></div>
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can guess this band is a d-beat/crust unit. They haven't been around for too
long although they have a really good demo (with maybe a little too long intro)
released already and I am pretty sure that there is more great stuff to come
from them. The members are former musicians of a number of Warsaw bands.</span></div>
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of classic old-school Hardcore bands, Government Flu have released a few 7</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">"</span> EP's,
a CD/LP and a 12</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">" </span>vinyl with their singles collected. Their drummer used to play
in Vitamin X (if that may be any kind of a reference) and other members
are/were in various HC/Punk bands from Warsaw. They remind me of what's best in
good old fashined hardcore therefore they're my favourite.<br />
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</span><u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://governmentflu.pl/"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://governmentflu.pl/</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"><br />
</span><u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/governmentflu"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">https://www.facebook.com/governmentflu</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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delivers their tracks of definitely heavier than Government Flu's hardcore with
additional power violence flavoring to it. I totally dig it. It sounds angry
and raw and loud and that's the way it should be! They are my favorite since I
have discovered them recently so their latest 7</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">" </span>EP (the one with a terrorist on
the cover) gets a lot of spins.</span></div>
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Records is a DIY Straight Edge label. Robert, who's the main force behind it is
also organizing gigs and does not limit himself (as one might have thought) to
pure hardcore bands only. For example last summer I went to an absolutely
insane show of Vaccine supported by Suffering Mind. As some of You might
realize Refuse has recently released ass kicking Vaccine / Coke Bust split 7</span><span lang="PL"><span lang="PL">" </span>EP.
Generally speaking: Refuse's impressive catalogue and Robert's concerts are
well worth checking out as he is really dedicated and hardworking dude.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://refuserecords.bandcamp.com/"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://refuserecords.bandcamp.com/</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
</span><u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Refuse-Records/183267901719633"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Refuse-Records/183267901719633</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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<span lang="PL">Not really from Warsaw but from the nearby
town of Puławy. Formed in 1994/1995, released a couple of demos to finally
greet the world with their 2010 "Beloved in Killing" full-length. As a metal
band they mention Terrorizer, Carcass and Napalm Death among their influences
which makes them worth a listen for every grind freak. They are my favourite
band as their brutal death metal sounds really heavy and contains enough grind
references to keep me enthustastic about them.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cicatrix666"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://www.myspace.com/cicatrix666</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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brutal. Musically Centurion would perfectly fit any grindcore show although as
far as I know they usually perform with metal bands that are slower and softer
than these guys (which on the other hand is nothing difficult to achieve as
they are heavy as fuck). Having been around since 1998 they really know how to
put things together. Yes, they do sometimes slow down or play some melodic
parts but generally one should expect fast and brutal tracks. My favorite
death metal band of all mentioned here.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: navy; mso-ansi-language: #00FF;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/centuriondeathmetal"><span class="Internetlink1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">http://www.myspace.com/centuriondeathmetal</span></span></a></span></u><span lang="PL"></span></div>
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<span lang="PL">These were the bands I wanted to introduce to
You in this report dear reader. I really hope You are interested enough to
listen to them at least once. Obviously anyone who is interested can and will
look further and find more, that's how it works.</span></div>
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words. Local scene in Warsaw, Poland is really wide and strong so anyone can
find something for themselves from stoner/doom, through hardcore punk to death
metal and grindcore. There is a huge variety of bands and some of them are
absolutely great (reggae and hip hop underground are also very strong!). </span></div>
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The only thing that I complain about is not the highest number of live shows as
many bands who tour Europe simply do not come to Warsaw. Travelling here from
abroad (especially if You have no other gigs planned in Poland and You drive)
is usually pain in the ass. Of course sometimes we are lucky to see some bands
live on stage. I must admit that it happens more and more often and once they
build these damn roads I hope there will be even more people coming here so we
could hear and see them delivering their tunes. Recently except for the already
mentioned Vaccine, we had for example Iskra or Full of Hell giving absolutely
great shows. I also was told Terror's concert was very succesful too but I had
no chance of going there. Each of the gigs I am mentioning now took place in a
different venue, which simply means there are clubs or squats where underground
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<span lang="PL">Obviously if You happen to be in Warsaw or simply
wish to follow what's going on here, check facebook.com/warsawgrindcore for
updates on music, concerts, releases or any other grindcore-related information
(that includes screenings of independent, psychedelic films or B-class horror
movies delivered by one of the Warsaw crews whose aim is to present these
underground classics to people). <br />
To make everything even more interesting we are planning on releasing some of
the world's coolest grindcore-themed t-shirts pretty soon so feel free to keep
an eye on that too.</span></div>
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An ill prepared podcast for your listening pleasure. Hope you enjoy.
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1. Vile Intent - Muzzle<br />
2. Archagathus - Real Fancy<br />
3. Artimus Pyle - Bloodless War<br />
4. Liberate - Amigo Imaginario<br />
5. GAZA - Am I Mad<br />
6. Gyga - Butcher<br />
7. Mukeka Di Rato - Moldar<br />
8. Malpractice Insurance - Surgical Sabotage<br />
9. Worlds - Nomadic Exile<br />
10. Bastard Noise - Seeing The Same Fate<br />
11. Exit Wounds - Concrete Childhood<br />
12. Water Torture - Syntheic Waste<br />
13. Lost Tribe - The Laughter<br />
14. Mellakka - Tuhoon Tuomittu<br />
15. Heresy - Dedication From Inspiration<br />
16. DeathToll - Prophecy Of Death<br />
17. God Harvest - Crucifacial<br />
18. Last Words - Human Trainwreck<br />
19. Permanent Ruin - White Wash<br />
20. N.E.K. - O Lema E<br />
21. Mau Maus - Unforogtten<br />
22. Pull Out An Eye - Olympic Village<br />
23. Psychic Limb - Track 3<br />
24. No Statik - Surrogate<br />
25. Beyond Pink - I-Landssproblem<br />
26. Sea Of Shit - Worst Enemey <br />Will Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-27228862669174124882012-11-16T07:27:00.001-05:002012-11-16T15:22:18.266-05:00Your Top 5 Active BandsI asked this question last night on the DBS Facebook page. Here are the responses, with mine first:<br />
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Juan Butts<br />
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- Death Toll 80k, War Master, Misanthropic Noise, Gowl, (my two local faves) and Ilsa. <br />
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Connor Donegan<br />
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- No Tolerance, The Rival Mob, Coke Bust, Double Negative, and No Tomorrow.<br />
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Bartholomew Howitzer<br />
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- Curmudgeon, Iron Lung, Iselia, Dogbite, Grudges. <br />
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Jacob Bennett<br />
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Iron Lung, Water Torture, Cogs And Sprockets, Ordstro, and +HIRS+<br />
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Halli Doe<br />
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Water Torture, Magrudergrind, Nihil Baxter, Despise You, Vitamin X<br />
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Ern Chaosound<br />
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Swamp Gas, Slough, Pig Chicken Suicide, Rottred, The Kill<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-51819534486066823032012-11-15T17:16:00.000-05:002012-11-16T14:59:14.739-05:00Sore Throat vs. S.O.B. vs. Disrupt vs. Septic DeathI personally have listened to Disrupt the most out of these bands because their music is easier to come by. I love their politics. S.O.B. has an obvious special place in my heart, see the name of this blog. Septic Death I love and had the luck to find some of their stuff on Discogs for a decent price. Sore Throat has always been a bit hard to come by, and their blurred out noisecore stuff is a bit on the strange side but when they do it up, they do it uppp!
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Which band just does it for you? All four are noisy/grindy/and began in the early to late nineties. Decide for yourself and let us know!
Will Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-40957685948117228602012-11-14T16:14:00.000-05:002012-11-15T12:39:59.678-05:00TTT - Top Three Tapes - Fun for all ages<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Aaron Screwface, 30</b><br />
Napalm Raid/System Shit - Split<br />
Obacha - Demo<br />
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<b>John Alberty, 17</b><br />
Triangulum/Tzalemoth - Split<br />
Black Murder - Promo '94<br />
Bologna Gang - Demo<br />
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<b>Nick Keller, 16</b><br />
V/A - There's No Way Out Vol.3<br />
Wehrmacht - Shark Attack <br />
Siege - Drop Dead<br />
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<b>Robert Avery, 33</b> <br />
St. Vitus - Heavier Than Thou<br />
Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs In E Minor<br />
Dismember - Pieces <br />
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<b>Halli, 25</b><br />
Dahmer - Demo 1 '96<br />
Warvictims - Until Man Exists No More<br />
Shitstorm - Paranoid Existence 2004-2008<br />
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<b>Aaron Hovey, 17</b><br />
ACxDC - The Second Coming<br />
Youth of Today - Break Down the Walls<br />
Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon<br />
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<b>Chris Layhee, 17</b><br />
Skuff - Demo <br />
Sordo - Collection <br />
Obacha/Chestwrecker - Split<br />
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<b>Frank Mendez, 43</b><br />
Archagathus/Goner - Split<br />
Bone Sickness - 2010 Demo <br />
Endless Demise - Demo <br />
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<b>Vicky Morales, 23</b><br />
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks<br />
In Disgust - Reality Choke<br />
Exhumed - Horrific Expulsion Of Gore Demo 94<br />
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<b>George Moore, 31</b><br />
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+HIRS+ - Nunmilk<br />
Priapus - Air Loom<br />
Gripe - Pig Servant<br />
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<b>Justin Abare, 32</b><br />
Assholeparade - 1st Demo<br />
Three Wheel Motion - Full Length<br />
V/A - Ham Slapppin' Hits - ”Christmas Compilation/1998” (ltd. Slap A Ham comp)
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Comment and leave me your top three!Will Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-5233078122900037052012-11-13T22:21:00.001-05:002012-11-13T22:25:11.596-05:002012 and Beyond!After about a year long hiatus of posting and gathering print material for issue #2, DBS has been reawakened. Dontbeswindle.com is the new location and now contributors to issue #1 have access rights to post here. I'd like to welcome James Walkley, Ralph Haunted Hotel, Vii Caos, and hopefully soon Paul Praise and Pat Backslider.
Anyone with exclusive guest columns, scene reports, band recordings, etc... can be emailed to tolivealie@gmail.com, just put DBS in the subject.Will Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882867257860586577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-4372784779954450022011-12-22T18:36:00.002-05:002011-12-22T18:39:44.878-05:00Don't Be Swindle - Issue #1 digital edition<div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" style="width:420px;height:325px" id="c75e3371-ce8b-d503-0088-7d74c6fae30e" ><param name="movie" value="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf?mode=mini&backgroundColor=%23222222&documentId=111222231332-49b149bd7d434ce08d678a4f11a3bd4f" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><embed src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" menu="false" wmode="transparent" style="width:420px;height:325px" flashvars="mode=mini&backgroundColor=%23222222&documentId=111222231332-49b149bd7d434ce08d678a4f11a3bd4f" /></object><div style="width:420px;text-align:left;"></div><br /></div><br />Or download: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeSwindle-Issue1" target="_new">http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeSwindle-Issue1</a>To Live A Liehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17944336824220972520noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-80337566344848879322011-11-22T22:02:00.003-05:002011-11-22T22:07:36.952-05:00Don't Be Swindle - Issue #1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9f_98jZ1NIqJTEE3ftUHmxTAA1hQqUrpgWl0nMmbcmLOm6TfUmUO7jQFuM0w9ynJ1qEgyXKpHCX-rupHySvIf1-WvOVrTa1I587ywtgqhKWyreLTBVZM3z27eOek_-UAdqxo9eEVaODJL/s1600/dbs1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9f_98jZ1NIqJTEE3ftUHmxTAA1hQqUrpgWl0nMmbcmLOm6TfUmUO7jQFuM0w9ynJ1qEgyXKpHCX-rupHySvIf1-WvOVrTa1I587ywtgqhKWyreLTBVZM3z27eOek_-UAdqxo9eEVaODJL/s320/dbs1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678021572541936146" /></a>Debut issue of this new half-sized zine compiled by Will Butler himself (To Live A Lie Records). Issue #1 features interviews that highlight a variety of heavy music genres, from the devastating grind of Looking For An Answer, to Idaho's fastcore maniacs Hummingbird Of Death, up-and-coming powerviolence wrecking crew ACxDC, and the legendary Eric Wood of The Bastard Noise. Among the columnists for this debut issue are Ralph Ferrara of Haunted Hotel Records, Will Toftness of the grind-violence band Hip Cops, and To Live A Lie label artist Matt Gauck, as well as Will Butler's own musings on life as a label head juggling a full-time job. Don't Be Swindle is chock full of record reviews that are refreshingly in-depth (when you need them to be) and nicely concise at other times (so you don't get bored!) There's even some non-typical show reviews that you'll have to read yourself to believe. Picking up on his previous zine endeavor in Fastcore Photos, Will displays some of your favorite grinders (hello, Disciples Of Christ) in a fancy spread of photos he took himself at shows. All in all, issue #1 of Don't Be Swindle is pretty sweet, and definitely recommended for anyone who enjoys fastcore, grind, and powerviolence, and appreciates an MRR-style approach to a music zine.<br /><br />Available from (updated with links as soon as I verify):<br />To Live A Lie Records - <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/DONT-SWINDLE-Issue-1-Zine-bastard-noise-mitb-acxdc-lfaa-grindcore-hxc-/140647007277?pt=Magazines&hash=item20bf37042d" target="_new">eBay</a><br />Haunted Hotel Records<br />BSP Records<br />Blastcat Records<br />Karasu Killer Records (Japan)<br />Bastard Noise<br />ACxDC<br />Hummingbird of Death<br />Looking For An Answer<br />Total Hipster Crusher<br />Jim Walkley<br />Vii Caso<br />Jace KuhnTo Live A Liehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17944336824220972520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1871861522342963034.post-24288714975200077332011-11-14T20:36:00.004-05:002011-11-14T20:40:14.993-05:00Don’t Be Swindle – Episode #6 Podcast<div><object height="300" width="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Ftolivealie%2Fdont-be-swindle-episode-6%2F&embed_uuid=e84f3980-7ff0-425d-b7bc-46e06684455e&embed_type=widget_standard"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Ftolivealie%2Fdont-be-swindle-episode-6%2F&embed_uuid=e84f3980-7ff0-425d-b7bc-46e06684455e&embed_type=widget_standard" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="300" width="300"></object></div><br /><br />Sixth episode is a To Live A Lie Records-centric episode, in fact all songs are from TLAL. Self promotion to inspire me to do more podcasts.<br /><br />1. Sex Prisoner - Piss When I Cum (0:50)<br />2. Sick/Tired - Last Stand for a Deadman (1:21)<br />3. Shitstorm - Nevernding Genocide (0:15)<br />4. XBRAINIAX - Fuck the Swindlers (0:32)<br />5. Magnum Force - Distort (0:34)<br />6. Backslider - Some Kind of Moron (0:29)<br />7. Disciples Of Christ - 12 (0:56)<br />8. Dos Amigos - Snitch Bitch Eyesore (0:24)<br />9. Sissy Spacek - Look Alive (0:35)<br />10. Assholeparade - Bury You (1:01)<br />11. Beartrap - Nailed Shut (0:22)<br />12. Suffering Luna - Go Ask Alice (4:12)<br />13. Archagathus - Intoxicating Aroma (1:33)<br />14. Sidetracked - Runaway (0:23)<br />15. Mehkago N.T. - Crustfund Youth (1:55)<br />16. Capitalist Casualties - Atomic Energy Commission (Live) (0:48)<br />17. Sakatat - Bu Düzen Hepimizi Bir Gecede Harcayabilir + Kayñp (1:18)<br />18. Deathrats - Please (1:09)<br />19. Get Destroyed! - Shut In (0:31)<br />20. ACxDC - Milk Was A Bad Choice (0:48)<br />21. Lapse - Trend (0:46)<br />22. Eddie Brock - Pointer Thumb Pinky (1:56)<br />23. PLF - Veteran Of Looserhood (1:04)<br />24. Fatal Nunchaku - Track 11 (0:33)<br />25. Curmudgeon - Infallible (0:54)<br />26. Osk - Knowingly Ignorant (0:45)<br />27. Mind As Prison - Ramifications (2:43)To Live A Liehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17944336824220972520noreply@blogger.com0