Band: Asko
From: Chicago, Illinois
Their formation story:
(Andy, vocals): "After my old band broke up, I had been listening to a shit ton of d-beat and punk bands, and during the previous bands break up I decided that my next band would be a d-beat band, so I took Sam with me because we always start bands together and he decided to play bass. I met this person I knew from old shows I used to go to and I knew they played drums so I was like hey I need a drummer right now can you play for me and after some thinking they were like, 'ya, I’ll join for a bit.'
"Then I found this mf Keith from school and I was like hey do you play guitar and I wanna be in a band, and he was like ‘ya lit’ and that’s when I knew he would be perfect to be in this band. I wrote a bunch of songs and then we jammed and played our first show."
Their sound in their own words:
"Brash, fast, and 2013."
Latest release info:
"I wanted to make d-beat so I made d-beat, simple as that. There are not a lot of punk bands that sound like the punk that I like in Chicago so I made one that scratched my itch. Some of the songs are political, some of the songs are negative, most of the songs are fast. That’s it."
Future plans:
Play more shows, put out another release, if I get lucky I will tour sometimes late this year or early next year
What other bands from their region should we check out?
Double Over, Missile Strategy, Necron 9, Flowering, Natural Abuse, Flesh Commodity, Glad, Brilliant Behemoth, Coronary, Canal Irreal, Zach and The Jackal from Akron and probably a shit ton more that I am too lazy to list."
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