Interviews

Interviews

Bassist Spotlight: Pat McClimans (Endpoint, Metroschifter, Falling Forward, Tramlaw)

By Jeremy Holehan |

"If you’re doing it for any reason other than facilitating the expression of something inside of you, quit now!"

Interviews

Jacob Bannon on Umbra Vitae, Working During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Death Metal + More

By Adam Yoe |

"Many artists will play dress up in sub-genres for better or worse. We are not interested in that."

Interviews

Drummer Andy “Outbreak” Granelli (The Distillers, The Nerve Agents, Model American)

By Darren Nanos |

"I always had this drive to do music, I never thought of anything else. Fucking laser focus on that. That was it."

Interviews

Mainstrike Vocalist Roland Roller Looks Back on the Dutch Hardcore Band’s ‘90s Run

By Carlos Ramirez |

"It was a great time as we stood at the beginning of a birth of a scene Europe had never seen before."

Interviews

Thirty Nights of Violence Singer Zach Wilbourn on Their New EP, the Nashville Hardcore Scene

By Connor Atkinson |

"We want to test the confines of our genre.”

Interviews

Antidote Guitarist Robb “Nunzio” Ortiz on Early NYHC, Thou Shalt Not Kill + More

By Anthony Allen Begnal |

"I had to literally fight for what I believed in more than once."

Interviews

Oh, Yeah! That Time I Interviewed Henry Rollins!

By Kevin Egan |

Kevin Egan (Beyond, 1.6 Band, The Last Crime) hooks us up with a previously unpublished piece from 2005.

Interviews

Bassist Spotlight: Carlos Ramirez (No Echo, Black Army Jacket, Lakota, Deny the Cross)

By Jeremy Holehan |

"KISS was the first band I fell head over heels in love with as a young kid."

Interviews

Subzero Frontman Lou Di Bella on Their Upcoming Record, Beating Cancer + More

By Carlos Ramirez |

"Nostalgia is cool, but not when it’s just copied and repeated over and over again."

Interviews

Conviction: Guitarist Jim Winters Reminisces on His Days in the ‘90s Hardcore Band

By Justin Moulder |

Throughout the years, he's also been a member of Earth Crisis, Believer, and The Promise.

Interviews

John Yates (Graphic Designer, Founder of Allied Recordings) Discusses His Career

By Carlos Ramirez |

He's worked on releases by such bands as Spitboy, Lifetime, and Buzzov•en.

Interviews

Turbonegro Frontman Tony Sylvester on Style, His Early Hardcore Years + More

By Carlos Ramirez |

"I collect a lot of everything, much to my wife’s chagrin and the limits of my apartment’s structural integrity."

Interviews

Former Pulling Teeth Singer Mike Riley on His Hardcore Archival Projects

By Adam Yoe |

"I love the comments the flyers get that fill in gaps in my memory."

Interviews

Nihilistics Frontman Ron Rancid: The Man, The Music, and the Madness

By Anthony Allen Begnal |

"Can you also please add, if possible, that I am not the Long Island Serial Killer?"

Interviews

Author Chris L. Terry’s Times in the ‘90s/‘00s Hardcore Scenes Influenced His Latest Novel

By Carlos Ramirez |

The Black Card writer was a member of Level Plane Records artists Light the Fuse and Run.

Interviews

Rule Them All Vocalist Jon Gusman on His Other Life as a Visual Artist

By Mike Musilli |

His artwork can go from deeply personal introspection to mega-zany surreal absurdism.

Interviews

Chokehold: Vocalist Chris Logan on the Making of the ‘Prison of Hope’ Album

By Carlos Ramirez |

'90s Hardcore Week closes out with a Canadian beast of a record.

Interviews

Trustkill Records: Revisiting the Label’s ‘90s Era with Founder Josh Grabelle

By Carlos Ramirez |

Including stories about Harvest, Brother's Keeper, Earth Crisis, Poison the Well, and many other bands.

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