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Contributors: G. Cataline, Shauna ODonnell, Jeanne Thomas (JET), Macavity, Slavewriter6,BC Blonde, R.L. Segarra, Karen Fader McBride, Yvonnes World, M Lazar, AngelDevil,

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ContentBIG BLACK NOVEL PG. 18

BURN HALO PG. 55

CANNIBAL CORPSE PG. 14

CD REVIEWS PG. 124

CHEVELLE PG. 36

CHIMAIRA PG. 68

CKY PG. 94

DEAD RAGE PG. 78

DIVINE HERESY PG. 90DYING FETUS PG. 69

ELECTRICA MIAMI PG. 34

EMBER PG. 110

GLASS WOLFE PG. 60

GODSMACK PG. 4

HEAVENS BASEMENT PG. 72

INDEX CASE PG. 44

JANUS PG. 24

KENELIS PG. 84

KINGDOM OF GLASS PG. 10

LIVE REVIEWS PG. 104

LOVE HATE HERO PG. 22

OF THE WRECKAGE PG. 87OPUS DAI PG. 114

QUEENSBURY PG. 107

SAMMY HAGAR PG. 76

SAVING ABEL PG. 52

SHAMANS HARVEST PG. 74

SHAOLIN TEMPLE OF BOOM P

SUICIDE SILENCE PG. 80

TERROR PG. 40

THE CASUALTIES PG. 98

THE COLOR TURNING PG. 100

THE CULPRIT PG. 119

THEORY OF A DEADMAN PG. 2TOXIC HOLOCAUST PG. 70

WAITING FOR DECAY PG. 64

YVONNES WORLD PG. 78

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effen recording artists,arbage from Madison, WIeased "Absolute

arbage" on July 24 2007.ne of the 90's most influen-l rock bands put together

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versal/Republic record-artists Godsmack are

ck!

annon Larkin (Drums)

ston, Massachusetts

space.com/godsmack

Shauna ODonnell

UEN: HI SHANNONOW ARE YOU

DAY?

Im great,thanks.

MUEN: YOU GUYS AREON THE ROAD WITHMOTLEY CRUE, THE-ORY OF A DEADMAN,

DROWNING POOL ANDCHARM CITY DEVILS.IT SOUNDS LIKE ABADASS LINE-UP TOME. HAVE YOUPLAYED WITH THESEBANDS BEFORE?

Godsmack hasnt, but inmy previous band Amen,

we toured with DrowningPool and their originalsinger. Its been a pleas-ure seeing those guys,hanging out and drinkingwith them. Their newsinger is great. Charm

City Devils,the

first band, Ive known thesinger John Allen since Iwas fifteen years old. Weboth came up in the Vir-

ginia, DC, Baltimorearea, so its been apleasure hanging outwith them too. Of course,Ive known Tommy Leefor a few years, so weveknocked a couple Jagershots back.

MUEN: SO YOURE

PARTYING WITH MOT-LEY CRUE AFTER THESHOW THEN?

Well Motley Crue doesntparty, but Tommy Leeparties!

MUEN:

THATS PRETTY CTHEN. YOU GUYSWORKING ON A NALBUM THAT IS T

RELEASED SOMEIN 2010. YOU RE-LEASED ONE NEWSONG TITLEDWHISKEY HANG-OVER FOR CRUEFEST RIGHT?

Thats right and its really well on radio.

fact, its # 2 or #1 rignow. We took two yoff, so you know thealways that thing whyou worry a little bit

people are goingremember

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f you are going to goof style. So its beenlly cool and its beentament to our fan

se. We love you guys!

EN: HOW FARONG ARE YOU INE PROCESS OF

RITING THE NEWBUM AND WHO AREU WORKING WITHA PRODUCER?

at is still up in the air. are talking to several

ys and Sully has al-ys self-produced ourords. We are thinking

having that fifth ear inre because we dontnt to keep making the

me record over ander again on the onend. On the other hand,cant change tooch. We are thinking of

nging someone in thise and let go of the

gns a little bit and seeat we can come uph that is fresh andginal. We have seven-n songs on the boardsically, we typicallyte the music first andn Sully goes andrks on the lyrics andlodies. So right now

ere we are at we prob-y have six songs fullwith lyrics andlodies and a bunch ofer ones that we thinkkick ass, but are not

mplete yet. We are ba-ally not even trying tomplete them until weeed get a producer so

can come in and help

in the pre-productionprocess.

MUEN: IS THERE A SETRELEASE DATE YET?

We are hoping to get itout in the first quarter,but if you want a set re-

lease date, I would saybefore summer becausewe want to be on tourduring summer. We willreally push to have it outby then.

MUEN: DO YOU STILLHAVE YOUR SIDEPROJECT ANOTHER

ANIMAL AND WHAT ISHAPPENING WITHTHAT BAND?

We had to come back toGodsmack. We did thatbecause we had a cou-ple years off from Gods-mack becauseeverybody wanted to

take a break after tenyears of touring andmaking records. Basi-cally, me, Tony and Rob-bie had a bunch of musicand so we did the An-other Animal thing. Whenwe had to come back toGodsmack full on, prettymuch Whit and Lee are

continuing on with An-other Animal with othermusicians filling in for us.Evidently, they have aEuropean, Australian andJapanese release. Thealbum was only releasedin the states and we onlydid one little tour for it. Itwasn t something we had

a lot of time for. Those

guys are going to runwith the Another Animalball and hopefully in thefuture we will do anotherrecord someday.

MUEN: LETS TALKABOUT THE IMV BE-HIND THE PLAYER

DVD. IT IS AN INTI-MATE BEHIND THESCENES LOOK ATYOUR LIFE AS A MUSI-CIAN. TELL US A LIT-TLE ABOUT THE DVD.

I was approached by agood friend of mine backin the day named Sean

Ian, he is part owner ofthis IMV Company. Its abrand new company.They had secured Munkyfrom Korn, its not justdrums. I had never donean instructional DVD be-fore because Im not re-ally a soloist, Im a bandguy. When he ap-

proached me the ideawas to take a coupleGodsmack songs andbreak them down slow toshow the kids how itsdone and how I playeach song. I got to pickthe two songs that Iwanted to represent. Ithought it was a wonder-

ful thing, it turned outgreat, the sound is awe-some and it has a bunchof cool features whereyou can go in and seethe footwork and hand-work. It will show youhow to play the songs athalf speed and then Iwork it up to speed. All

the kids that I have

talked to that are staout playing drums swas real helpful.

MUEN: YEAH I WAWATCHING PART ONOW YOU NEVERTOOK ANY DRUM SONS AND YOU

TAUGHT YOURSEHOW TO PLAY IS TRIGHT?

Thats right, well JohBonham and Neil Petaught me how to pl

MUEN: THATS RIGBECAUSE YOU WE

TO STORES ANDBOUGHT BOOKS ALEARNED THAT W

My sister was a couyears older than meone day she gave mRush Hemispheresrecord and said Yogot to listen to this

record. I wasnt a dmer yet, but that mame want to play druShe then gave me LZeppelin II and thatwhen I asked my pafor a drum set for Chmas.

MUEN: DO YOU TH

THAT BECAUSE YNEVER TOOK LESSONS YOU WEREABLE TO CREATEYOUR OWN STYLE

Well, that and the fathat I was playing baball and I jumped onbasketball and a gu

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nited Kingdom)

ww.myspace.com/kinomofglass

G. Cataline

O IT'S JUST THE

WO OF YOU IN THISAND? DAVIDACKMAN ANDRISTOPHER

OYD WHITE?

s, with a PC centrege as a passive

rd member - thank-y we dont have to

are any royalties

with it although itdoes eat any profits.

WHO PLAYS WHAT?

Ok youve got us - thecomputer plays mostof it and takes none of

the credit, LOL. How-ever, we have to pro-gram each and everynote. A key ambitionwas to make it soundas well produced aspossible with a mix ofreal and electronic in-struments whateverit needs, which has al-lowed us to explore a

wide spectrum ofmusic. Bring on thetuba!

HAS THERE EVERBEEN ANYONE ELSEIN THE BAND? ANDWHAT ABOUT LIVE

SHOWS?

Not in this band. Backin the 90s we bothformed an Industrialband call Neuronet,gigged around the UKand recorded analbum. However, thiswas in our salad daysand family life then got

the better of us.

During the last yeaweve focused on ploring our song wing abilities withouprejudice. Weve ahad to get up to sp

with the latest technologies (thats Dadepartment). Nextwell be forming a band to take on throad, however, creity will remain with

HOW LONG HAVYOU BEEN DOINTHIS?

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e been involved inusic for as long as I

an remember or atast since late teens.ollowing a familyeak to recover, Ianaged to traceavid down through

iends Reunited lastar. After a night ofeavy drinking (byave) and re-living ouruth (or what heuld remember!), we

ecided to stop remi-scing and get back tohat we love doing

ng writing, producingnd drinking.

OU HAVE SOMEATCHY SONGS.. IKE "SLOW DIVING"ND "TO GET BY"SPECIALLY... HOWO YOU GUYS GOBOUT THE SONG-RITING PROCESS?

he process usuallyarts by writing chordogression by what

ver means (some-mes even on a realano). However, we

ont limit ourselvesnd will use anythingn hand to keep theeative juices flowing.ven while on holidaythe US, Dave wroteme chords using hisOD (iShred), and via

mail we outlines theeas of the songs so I

uld write the lyrics.

This was our first at-tempt at writing re-motely acrosscontinents and timezones and borneMake Believe Angeland Killing Angel .Thats the way to com-

pose on a beach,drunk! Once thechords are in place Illlay down a rough vocalline so that Dave canbuild the productionaround. This allows usto build the songs iter-atively.

HOW DID YOUCHOOSE KINGDOMOF GLASS FOR ANAME?

We hated choosing aname. Initially we triedpicking song titles outof a hat and combiningthem, however, someof them spelled out asif by an Ouija board!So, scared witless, wedumped this idea andKingdom of Glass justpopped into my head.It seemed to describehow we felt about oursongs being a portalor looking glass intoanother reality or time.At the time we didntrealise it was a glassmaking region in Swe-den at least theymight by the album.

WHO IS DOING THE

BACKING VOCALSON "TO GET BY"?

Id like to say we em-ployed a 30 strongchoir. However, acheaper solution wasto use a virtual choirapplication on the PC.You program the pho-netics and after many

boring hours (andbeers) fine tuning iteventually sings. Well,sort of.


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Jeanne Thomas

UEN: You are out Mayhem tour

ght?

s. Yes thats right

UEN: Hows iting for you?

h its been the bestur ever! The crowdsve been huge and

e are making a lot ofw fans. It's the best

ur we ever did. Iean I can tell you fore its the most funur I've ever done forre. I mean its a lotferent than playing

e clubs.The smallerubs interaction withe fans is a lot closer.ere at Mayhem theage is so high andu are farther awaym the people.

UEN: Yeah its likeing God up there.

Ohyeah,

hehe Its definitely dif-ferent than being atthe smaller venues.

MUEN: Lets talkabout your latest cdthat came out earlierthis year... Eviscer-ation Plague". Howdoes it differ fromthe past cds thatyou've done?

Well as a band, whenyou do new cds youalways strive to makea better one. We hadEric Rutan producingagain. We know himand he is also a musi-cian. So with both ofthese factors it makesit easier for us to have

him -plus working

with him on the last cdis also a bonus. We

know what to expectfrom him and he of-course pushes us tothe limit. Its hard forme to describe how allthe cds differ. Therecording process isdifferent I think. I don'tknow if this is an evil

word in the metalworld, but this cd hasgroove. It has thisdoom approachingsound.

MUEN: Well I amsure as a band youtry to evolve with

every cd...

Yes. Eric isan incredible

guitar player andsinger. So whenhe produces he

has more of an inside track than som

of these other guysHes been in the studio and hes been onstage and he knows

He understands morwhen I am talkingabout singing a certatrack. Hes been theand that definitelyplays a big part. Allour other producerswere great too, butErics lived this like w

are do. Hes beenhere done that. We ajust have a better understanding of ea-chother.

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the highest grossingone you ever had soyou must be doingsomething right.

Oh yeah sure. hehhat never hurts.

MUEN: Is this last cda concept cd?

Na na na. The titlerack is obviously a

story, but the rest ofhe songs aren't fol-owing that story of

Evisceration Plague.

They are all separatestories.

MUEN: So this cd isunique in the factthat you can get acomic book with thecd that follows alongwith all the songs.

Have you seen it?

Oh yeah we havebeen doing book sign-ngs everyday. And

you can get both for apretty good price Ihink.

MUEN: Has therebeen any talk ofdoing a series ofcomic books for CC?

We thought about itand maybe some-where along the linewe will make that deci-

sion, but right now we

are only concentratingon Mayhem. The bookis out and its doing re-ally well. Its awesomethat our music andlyrics are actually inone. I grew up collect-ing comics. So yeah

its really cool. Theartist has done all ourcd covers so hes likeanother person in theband.

MUEN: And speak-ing of artwork. In thepast your artwork

has prohibited youfrom playing in manycountries. How arethings now?

Well a lot of the cen-sorship we encoun-tered earlier on hasbeen lifted. Countries

that have banned usin the past, we can goto now. Like Germanybanned us because ofour first 3 albums - wecan play there nowthough. There was aproblem in NewZealand and Korea,

but all that has beencleared up now. Cen-sorship sucks. I meananybody in any bandcan tell you its b.s. Itsa problem thats apain to deal with. Es-pecially here in Amer-ica because people

don't want to put your

record in their stores.They are saying thatyour listeners are thepart of America theydo not want to caterto. But if that part ofthe public became themajority, those moth-

erfuckers wouldchange their minds sofast. Its all aboutmoney. And thats dis-gusting to me andabout everything that Iam against. It is whatit is. Censorship willalways be there. Now

we just ignore it. Itsbarely even a topicanymore.

MUEN: Have youever had to pay anyfines or have some-one try to arrest youat any one of your

concerts?

Oh no no. it suckswhen we can't playsongs people want tosee and hear though.But its time to moveon I guess

MUEN: Do you re-member the firsttime you set foot onstage? What was itlike?

The first show I didwith CC was in Floridawith Kreator. It was

definitely a little scary

at first, but it was asome. I was like Othis is really happeing it was so awesand now its been 15 years since the

MUEN: Do you re

member the crowreaction?

Yeah they were almiliar with the oldsongs we did, but with the new stuff.reaction was greaand people immed

ately accepted methe new singer. A15 years later yaknow? I am still h

MUEN: Yep peopstill love ya GeorWhat are the typicc fans like?

They are metal heya know? They alllook different somally clean cut somnot so much so. Bthey all extreme mheads. This tour iscrazy so many diff

ent people. We areven surprised bysome of our fans.

MUEN: Do you sethe crowds as bemore diverse tod

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st being born when Iarted out. And thene have fans fromack in 88 too. And weve them all.

UEN: What do youttribute to your

ongevity?

Well our fans. We allork hard to performell, to play well, prac-

ce, and we have alotf dedication. We bustur ass, but in the ende dedication of the

ans is what keepsands on top. Theresat drive to play goodat elevates us. Our

ans have been withs through memberhanges and every-ing. They're loyal

nd we are to them as

ell.

UEN: Are your fam-es supportive of

ou?

h yeah yeah.

UEN: Even from

he start?

Well yeah. Everyonesamilies are behind us.

they were not, wedill be doing it... But

eah they are all sup-ortive.

UEN: Is there any

particular song thatyou do that is yourfavorite to play onstage?

Hammarsmash face.The reaction of thecrowd to that is unbe-

lievable.

MUEN: Do you thinkwith the introductionof internet radio andsatellite that it helpsget you heard andattracts new fans?

Oh Sure without adoubt. The internethas made things somuch easier forbands. Now instead ofshopping a demo youcan just put it on My-space. And so manypeople can hear it

there.

MUEN: So what di-rection do you seedeath metal going innow?

Brutal! The way itshould always be.

MUEN: Theres lotsof bands incorporat-ing newer soundsinto their music now.Do you think thatscool, or do you missold school stuff?

There are lots of

bands doing oldschool death metal.There are the hybrids,and there are themore technical bandsnow. I think its allgreat. It keeps it di-versified.

MUEN: Do any ofyou have side proj-ects?

We have a few thingskicking around hereand there. All thethings we have are

back seat to CC. Ihave a few things, andAlex did a cd with adifferent band too, butlike I said, it all takes abackseat to CC.

MUEN: So what areyou doing in your

downtime?

We all have differenthobbies. I play War-craft.

MUEN: Any plans onmaking a CC movie?

Well the idea hasbeen thrown around.We would definitely beinto it. Its just gettingaround to it.

MUEN: Well thatsmore stuff you cando on your down-

time.

Yup.

MUEN: Did you really play ElijahBlues birthdayparty?

Yes we did. It was

awesome. It was aThe Viper Room wJohnny Depp owneit. Cher invited us ther place the day bfore, we had a littleparty and she treatus really well. Shewas an awesome

hostess. Elijah is agreat person and hhas a band that reakicks ass too.

MUEN: Youve bewith Metal Blade fa long time now,whats it like to ha

a label stick with like that eventhrough all the sh

Its awesome. Our album was with theThey take good caof us we have no cplaints :)

MUEN: Ok.. Whatlast words do youhave for your fans

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s Angeles, CA

erview by: Macavity

hough they haveen around the L.A.sic scene a shorte, they have already

ade quite an impres-n on their fans.er listening to them,anted to catch up to

e band to ask moreout them. We foundvon, Javier, Migueld Steve to chat withd saw that Devond Javier were quickanswer about thession they have for

e band.

UEN: Hi guys!

Thanks for talking tous about Big BlackNovel. Ive heard one

version already, buthave to ask where didthe name come fromand does it have areal meaning for theband?

Devon: We had beentossing around names

like Ginger Fox,which was a commenta boy passing by at areggae fest had calledme and Crimson Fox,but people kept tellingus those names werelame. After frettingabout a name, my

mom said hastily, Whydont you just call the

band Big Black Novel?It stuck! Big BlackNovel is one of the

songs that I wrote.

MUEN: You have onlybeen together as aband for a short time.Can you explain thefunny way that thetwo of you met andthen how all four

came together tomake this lineup?

Devon: I had miserablystumbled into a dingydive bar after a reallyconfusing break up onValentines Day. Thisyoung energetic, very

enthusiastic kid namedBenny came up to me

attempting to get ac-quainted. I really waNOT in the mood.

After he realized thatmy only topic of inter-est was musical, he rtreated to his bestfriend Javier, who satquietly in the shadownear the pool table.Javier approached,and we immediately

seemed completelycompatible on a muslevel.

Javier: She kept talk-ing, and I was afraid interrupt because I RALLY HAD TO PEE!!

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came the first en-counter when we hadour acoustic guitars inhand in the back roomof my house and it wasmusical magic!

MUEN: How did youknow this was theright lineup?

Devon: I had been try-ng out different combi-

nations of the perfectband with guitaristsand bassists, drum-mers etc., but withJavier it was different!

We seemed to be onhe same page stylisti-

cally, musically, men-ally, etc!

MUEN: So manybands that are full onrock dont alwayshave such a strong

ead singer to keepup with the music,but you do. Have youhad any grief fromnew fans, venues orhe music business

when they see a fe-male lead vocalist?

Devon: Even if we aren the most obscure

piece of shit hole in thewall place and not onesoul is paying atten-ion. We walk up to the

stage and upon theirst chord struck all

eyes and ears are

upon us! It is a phe-nomenon that is quite

intriguing for us. Thecrowd hushes and isalmost lulled by ourmusic! It no longermatters male or fe-male. It is the music,the voice, the song, thesolo, the emotion. It al-

ways seems that it car-ries through.

MUEN: Do you stillget pegged as a fe-male fronted rockband though?

Devon: We indulge inthe fact that we are afemale fronted bandand use it to our ad-vantage. Though thereare not many femalefronted bands that Idraw inspiration from,the ones that I do areincredible. I would loveto one day play on the

same stage as my fe-male counterparts,Heart, Lacuna Coil, orIn This Moment.(Laughs) ArethaFranklin!

Javier: We do not see itas a negative aspect.

MUEN: How wouldyou best describe yourmusic to someone thathas not heard you liveat your gigs in Califor-nia or on MySpace?

Devon: This is one of

those questions that Iwould go out on a limb

to say that most bandsdread answering. I cantell you who our influ-ences are but to de-scribe a sound that hasyet to be defined isnearly impossible forme. The best analogy I

used to use was JanisJoplin is making love toChris Cornell, musi-cally of course, andthey are suddenly in-terrupted by ZakkWylde.

Javier: I dont like thatanalogy, because I findit pompous to comparemyself to the greatZakk Wylde.

MUEN: I understandsome of you playmostly shows in Cali-fornia. Do you haveany plans to tour any

other states any timesoon?

Devon: We wouldeventually like to buildup such a followingthat we could tour theworld!! We are cur-rently in talks with one

of our dear friends toventure all the way outto Sacramento yes!Still California, but it isone heck of a drive.

MUEN: Speaking ofshows, what hasbeen the most un-

usual or odd thing tohappen at a show or

while on the road

Devon: We onceplayed a show whethere were stripperdancing during oursongs, which was kof cool because we

had deemed our soGive it Up as an iside joke StripperSong because of tsexy guitar lick. It wthe after party for aplay called Strip. Tother unusual encoters come to mind both were wardrobmalfunctions. Oncewas a split down thback of my pants (hbutt cheeks) and thother was down thefront of my blouse.Lucky for me, I knohow to hide things fore they show to th

crowd!

MUEN: Good thinyou do! You havesamples up on MySpace from work have been performing live. When canexpect to see the

three or six song

Javier: Our six sonis available but onlour live shows. Wecurrently working omerchandise pagerelease date foriTunes.

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o in the back.

UEN: I WAS NOTICINGHAT ALL THREE OFOUR ALBUM COVERSRE BEAUTIFUL. HOWO YOU DECIDE WHATOES ON THERE?

ell, that takes forever; west go back and forth withe artist. We tell him whate are trying to convey andr ideas. They usually sendsomething and it goesck and forth for a few

eeks until we are happy.

UEN: I REALLY LIKE THEONG ECHOES.

ank you

UEN: TELL ME WHATHE SONG IS ABOUT.

at song is about the recordd how we are trying toange it up a little bit.

UEN: WHAT DO YOUHINK MAKES YOURAND UNIQUE?

e are very talented musi-ans and I like to think myice is unique. I try to keep

y unique aspects in thecording and not sing soaight forward. Its veryp, but its got an edge to it.

s a little bit heavy at times.

UEN: YOU HAVE HADOME LINE-UP CHANGES

NCE YOU FIRSTTARTED OUT. DO YOUHINK THE LINE-UP YOUAVE NOW IS PRETTYOLID?

eah, this line-up that weve now has been for threears. All the changes hap-ned right away pretty

uch; we had never toureddone anything. We got

gned, we started touring

and one would drop off. Theycouldnt handle having nomoney or their girlfriendswouldnt put up with it. Its notan easy life.

MUEN: RECENTLY YOUSHOT A VIDEO FOR THETITLE TRACK. CAN YOUTELL US ABOUT IT?

The video is amazing. Wespent three days at Lake Mo-jave in Arizona on a houseboat. Its about a band com-ing together type of video.That is the theme of thesong, coming together, so weare just out there being bros.Our girlfriends are there andthere are just epic shots. Theshots are incredible and I

cant wait to see it. I stillhavent seen it. I saw itthrough the lens of the cam-era.

MUEN: WHEN IS IT GOINGTO RELEASE?

I hope pretty soon. It will beright around the same timeas the record or right before.

MUEN: YOU RECENTLYJOINED THE WARPEDTOUR ON THE SMART-PUNK STAGE. HOW IS ITGOING AND HOW ARETHE CROWDS?

Awesome, we are doingmuch better than we thoughtwed be doing. There are bigcrowds and we are about

right in the middle in thedraw. There are some largeracts that are drawing a lotmore obviously, but we aredoing very well.

MUEN: IT SEEMS LIKEYOU ARE ALWAYS ON THEROAD. ONCE WARPED ISOVER WILL YOU CON-TINUE TOURING?

After Warped, we are doing a

tour in Mexico. The followingmonth we are going to SouthAmerica for a tour.

MUEN: WHO WILL YOU BEGOING OUT WITH?

We dont know yet, we are inthe process of figuring it out.In Mexico and South Americawe are going by ourselves.

We went to South Americaonce, to Brazil and the tourwas amazing. We were somuch bigger down there justbecause we were an Ameri-can band.

MUEN: WHAT CAN SOME-ONE EXPECT FROM ONEOF YOUR LIVE SHOWS? ISIT HIGH ENERGY?

Yeah, we try and get a lot ofcrowd participation. Its prettyhigh energy with sing-alongsand stuff like that. Its prettycool.

MUEN: DO YOU GUYSPLAY AT CHAIN REACTIONIN ANAHEIM?

We have played there a

thousand times. You shouldcome out next time. Yeah,that is pretty much our home-town venue. We live in LosAngeles and Inland Empireso its like in the middle.

MUEN: WHAT IS YOUR FA-VORITE THING ABOUTBEING ON TOUR?

On this tour, playing for sure,the kids come out and singalong.

MUEN: HOW OLD WEREYOU WHEN YOU FIRSTGOT INTO MUSIC?

I was fourteen when I firststarted learning guitar frommy friends and coveringsongs by myself. I would play

acoustic and sing. I was inlocal bands all the way up

until I was eighteen, whwhen we started this baThats when I dropped guitar and started justsinging.

MUEN: YOU HAVE A GTAR PLAYER WHO GON TOUR WITH YOU FIFTH MEMBER RIGH

Right and I play guitar sone song and thats it.

MUEN: DO YOU REMBER YOUR VERY FIRCONCERT?

I think it was Korn and eight years old. My oldebrother was like a big hian and Korn was the h

new band. I was freakinbecause I was so younit was insane.

MUEN: WERE YOUR PENTS ALWAYS SUPPIVE OF YOU WANTINGBE IN A BAND?

Yeah, totally, still to thisThey support me in evething I do, not with mon

but with love and suppo

MUEN: THANK YOU SMUCH FOR THE INTEVIEW. I WISH YOU THVERY BEST OF LUCKFORE I LET YOU GOWOULD YOU LIKE TOOR SAY ANYTHING?

Look out for the new reits pretty awesome. Prorder it now atSmartpunk.com and thfor the support to every


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ANUS

y G. Cataline

O HOW WAS THEHOW AT POINTFEST?RETTY AWESOMEOU GOT TO SHARE

HE STAGE WITHHINEDOWN, STAIND,ND CHEVELLE...

ointfest was amazing!!!05.7 KPNT (The Point)as been giving the singlelot of love so it was

reat to come down anday for all the listeners

nd show them what

e're about. I'm always

leery of daytime outdoorshows because I preferthe whole dark rock clubvibe, but these daytimegigs turn out to be someof our best shows! After-wards we got to hang outwith Shinedown, Chevelleand Aaron Lewis from

Staind. Very cool people.Everyone was really ap-proachable and modest.

YOUR SONG, "EYE-SORE" IS VERY WELLDONE, AND THE VIDEOIS OUTSTANDING! WEPUT IT ON OURPLAYER AT MYSPACESOON AS WE HEARDIT, ALSO WE NOTICED

DAVE NAVARROADDED IT TO HIS POD-CAST "DARK MATTER"RECENTLY... WHOWOULD YOU CREDITFOR ALL THE GREATPRODUCTION ON THEVIDEO?

Noah Shulman di-rected/edited the video.He did something like300+ hours of post pro-duction work on it. He'ssuch a great guy to workwith and easy to getalong with. We knewgoing into it he was goingto step up and hit it out ofthe park.

WHAT INSPIRED YOTO WRITE THE SONAND WHO IS THE MALYRICIST AND SONGWRITER OF THEBAND?

David is the sole voicethe band as far as lyri

go. The song is aboubeing yourself and theperson you become wyou allow others to infence your life. It was spired by our experienwithin the music indusand the long journey tget to this point. It acally reinforces our whodrive for making thisrecord.


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WHEN DID YOU GUYSIRST FORM, AND

WOULD YOU SAY IT'S

EEN A LONG HARDOAD TO WHERE YOURE NOW, OR DIDHINGS SEEM TOOME EASY?he current lineup haseen together a coupleears now, but David and(Mike) have been mak-g music together for

much longer than that.s been a very long hard

oad of not only self dis-overy, but insight into theternal workings of thedustry. It's been years the making, but things

re really starting to pickp for us.

WHERE WAS THELBUM RECORDED,

AND WHERE DO YOUDIRECT PEOPLE TOPURCHASE IT?

We tracked drums and allthe heavier guitar parts ata studio called I.V. LabStudios in Chicago withManny Sanchez. Thenwe finished the recording,mixing, and mastering atour own studio. Therecord "Red Right Return"

will be available online oniTunes and in stores on9/22. The single andvideo for "Eyesore" areavailable on iTunes rightnow!

WHY THE NAMEJANUS?

Janus is the Roman Godof gates and beginnings

and is depicted as a headwith 2 faces, one lookingforward to the future and

the other looking back tothe past. It really encap-sulates our approach towriting music. We're al-ways looking forward tothe future to do some-thing different, but alsolooking at what we'vedone in the past to learnfrom ourselves and build

on what we've done be-fore.WHAT DO YOU LIKEAND/OR DISLIKEABOUT YOUR LOCALMUSIC ENVIRONMENT?

I really like that there areso many local clubs toplay at that have such a

long history attached tothem. They're truly leg-

endary.

WHAT IS THE NEXT

STEP FOR JANUS?

We're hitting the road the next 3 to 4 monthsSo far we've secured few dates with FraminHanley, Chevelle, andPop Evil for Septembeand should be jumpinsome longer tours in O

tober to finish out theyear. We can't wait toout in front of all thesepeople and rock! It'sgoing to be great!

www.janusmusic.comwww.myspace.com/jawww.facebook.com/jaband

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yler Connollyocals, Lead Guitar)

ANADAyspace.com/theory-adeadman

: Shauna ODonnell

UEN: I AM SO EX-TED TO FINALLYEET YOU GUYS.

es! Im very excited toeet you too.

UEN: HOW DOES ITEEL TO BE ON CRUE-EST2?

nbelievable, I remem-r Cruefest1 was such

huge ordeal. Being onuefest2 is pretty rad.

UEN: DO YOU GUYS

VER GET NERVOUSEFORE TAKING THETAGE?

mmm.. there is defi-ely a lot of nervous en-

gy. We did a tourrlier this year with Mot-

y Crue, The Saints ofs Angeles Tour. It was

arena tour and so itt really different. Thise is an outdoor am-itheatre, theres anch of bands and

ere is a second stageeveryday feels like a

stival. For some reasonere is a lot more nerv-s energy, you get on

age and you are reallymped. Yesterday I was

playing so hard that I cutmy hand and I wasbleeding all over my gui-tar. It was rad.

MUEN: OH! THAT ISCOOL. HOW MANY

PEOPLE ARE WE EX-PECTING HERETODAY?

Like a million, I dontknow. There is definitelygoing to be like 12,000 orsomething.

MUEN: DO YOU PRE-

FER PLAYING AT FES-TIVALS OR MOREINTIMATE CLUBS?

I guess I would sayboth. At festivals youget to play in front of alot more people andyou get to winover a lot of new

fans. There are alot of people whoare coming here

just to see MotleyCrue and will probablyeven miss our set,but there will be a lotof people who willcome to check usout who dont

know that muchabout us. On theother side, the in-timate stuff israd because youcan see thefaces and reallyget up closeand personal.

MUEN: IS

THERE ANY PARTICU-LAR CITY YOU ARELOOKING FORWARDTO MORE THAN OTH-ERS?

I dont think so, we reallylove coming to the westcoast because we neverget to. We played SanJose last night and it wasthe first time we everplayed San Jose. Thecrowd was great. It wasone of those thingswhere you are very ex-cited to be in a town that

you have neverplayed in be-

fore.

MUEN: DO YOU PAWITH MOTLEY CRUAFTER THE SHOW

Yes! Every night Nthose guys keep to thselves. We see thembackstage all the timTommy has his partyroom with a massiverunning with subs. Hhas his party and hehangs out. The otherguys kind of lay low.They have been dointhis for thirty years.

MUEN: APRE-

SHOW UALS Y

WANT TOSHARE W

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oey our drummer getsaked and dancesound. Its really

crewed up and crazy.

UEN: NAKEDSOOD.

eah, we just listen to

usic and get pumpedp.

UEN: I WANTED TOAY CONGRATULA-ONS ON SCARS &

OUVENIRS BEINGERTIFIED GOLD RE-ENTLY.

eah, thank you veryuch. Its unbelievable.

UEN: IM SO HAPPYOURE ALBUM ISOING WELL!

haaa!! No pun in-nded.

UEN: NONE AT ALL,OU GUYS GREW UPOGETHER AND HAVEEEN TOGETHER IN AAND FOR A WHILEOW. WHAT IS THEEY TO KEEPINGHINGS FRESH ANDEW?

hh! Picking on ourummer. We are humor-us guys and we are re-ly low key. I really dontink we are a bunch ofpha males so we reallyst kind of goof around.here are a lot of bandsat takes things too seri-

usly. We really dont

ke things too seriously.

MUEN: WHO WASBAD GIRLFRIENDWRITTEN ABOUT?

Thats about my nowwife, who is probablycalling me on the phone.That is when I met her; Imet her at a bar. She

was like this bar star.Every time I would go tothis club in Vancouver,she was there hangingout with her friends.Shed be doing shots anddancing on chairs. Its atrue story.

MUEN: WHICH SONG

OFF THE ALBUM ISCLOSEST TO YOURHEART?

I dont know if there isone, I mean, All or Noth-ing is a song about howI met my wife and howwe got married. Thats agood wedding song. We

are getting some com-ments from people onour MySpace saying howthey chose that song fora wedding song. So itspretty personal.

MUEN: ARE YOU GUYSWORKING ON A NEWALBUM?

No, were not. Wevebeen touring so muchand we have toursbooked until the end ofthe year. They are al-ready talking about nextyears tours. Im sure wewill start working on stuffnext year in 2010.

MUEN: THAT SONG IS

NOW BEING FEA-TURED ON TRANS-FORMERS: REVENGEOF THE FALLEN-THEALBUM RIGHT?

Yes

MUEN: DID YOU SEE

THE MOVIE?

I have seen the movie.

MUEN: DID YOU LIKEIT?

I thought it was great. Itwas about 2 hours toolong though. Nah, they

make movies 3 hourslong now, its insane. Itsimpossible to not have togo to the restroom whileyoure watching themovie. It was good withlots of explosions and thechick in slow-mo with herboobs bouncing up anddown, so it was good.

MUEN: I LOVE THEVIDEO FOR IT ASWELL, HOW EVERY-THING MOVES FOR-WARD AND THENBACKWARDS. WHOSEIDEA WAS IT FOR THEVIDEO?

That was the director, hewrote that treatment forus a year ago for thatsong. It took forever be-fore we made it. I dontknow why. When we firstread the treatment wewere like Okay, it couldbe cool, but you justdont know. After it was

shot and we saw it wethought it looked awe-

some.

MUEN: LETS TALKABOUTTELLTYLER.COM.WHAT IS IT?

The label set up thisthing about how if yo

have any kind of prolems you could emaand ask What do I dand then I would givyou advice. They hasent me any new onlately. I think its kindwrapped up.

MUEN: WERE YOU

ING OUT BAD ADV

No, I was giving out some advice.

MUEN: DO YOU HAANY SIDE-PROJECFOR INSTANCE DAMANAGES BANDS

No, Ive got nothing going on. I write sonfor the bands here athere, but I really ha

just been so busy. Don the other hand, isas busy; he just goebed all day. He doesnothing, hes lazy.

MUEN: HE PLAYSGOLF.

He plays golf and vidgames, thats about Hes a ladies man.

MUEN: WHAT DO YTHINK YOU WOULDOING IF YOU

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d probably be dead.Hes kidding) Ive alwayseen into music so Idill be into music. If I wasa band Id be recording

r producing.

UEN: WHAT IS THEIFFERENCE BE-

WEEN CANADIANEER AND THE BEERERE IN THE STATES?

anadian beer gets yourunker faster. A lot ofmericans cant keep upith the Canadian beer.hats why if you live inichigan and sneak

cross the border (therinking age is like nine-en and in some placesghteen) some kids

ant handle it.

UEN: IM SURE YOUAVE A LONG ANDUCCESSFUL CAREERHEAD OF YOU, BUT

WHEN ALL IS SAIDND DONE, WHAT DOOU WANT TO BE RE-EMBERED FOR?

three inch..Uh what?Laughing) I dont know.

UEN: MUSICALLY.

usically? I guess thate have affected peo-es lives in a positiveay. Thats what music isl about. Even thoughe have songs like Hatey Life I think music iserapy in a way. Weok at Motley Crue ande greatest thing about

uring with them is the

fact that they have been

a part of peoples livesfor thirty years. Thatspretty amazing, so thatswhat we want to be re-membered for.

MUEN: THANKS SOMUCH FOR THE INTER-VIEW. IT WAS GREATTALKING WITH YOU. I

CANNOT WAIT TO SEE

YOU ON STAGE. ANY-

THING YOUD LIKE TOADD OR SAY?

Its not really threeinches.

MUEN: TYLER HAS ANAMAZING SENSE OFHUMOR AND MADE MELAUGH THROUGHOUT

THE INTERVIEW. THIS

IS ONE OF THOSE

CASES WHERE ITSO MUCH BETTERLISTEN TO IT RATTHAN READ IT. BESURE TO CATCH TON TOUR AT SOMPOINT, THEY AREAMAZING LIVE.


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Jessica Shroy (Model / Actres

www.myspace.com/jessangel2


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DAVID ALVAREZ of

SHAOLIN TEMPLE OF

BOOMos Angeles, CA

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UEN: WE HAVEAVID ALVAREZ OFHAOLIN TEMPLE OFOOM TODAY. HIAVID! HOW AREOU TODAY?

TOB: Hey Shauna!ow are you doing?

UEN: IM DOING OKND FEELING BET-ER.

TOB: Thats good!ou sound a lot better.

UEN: SO TELL US

OW DID IT FEEL TOIN THE WONKA

ATTLE?

TOB: It was twoonths of night and

ay talking to streetamers and organizingngs. When it was

one it was definitely ag help for me to beble to create moreusic. It feels great be-use there were a lotbands that were ac-

ally on the Warpedour and have manage-ent and record labelsd it was just SToB

ainst some of the la-els out there so it feltetty good to win that.

UEN: GREAT! FIF-EEN THOUSANDOLLARS CAN RE-LLY HELP OUT AOT! THATS COOL

ND CONGRATULA-

TIONS ON THAT!NOW LETS TALKABOUT YOUR MUSIC.WHAT ARE SOME OFTHE NEWEST SONGSYOU HAVE WRITTEN?

STOB: Im going to bedoing vocals for a songcalled Always, Every-thing which will be thefirst time I release any-thing that is just piano,vocals and orchestra.It's really kind of a de-parture in some waysbut on the same vein ofstuff I have done be-

fore. Im really excitedabout that track actuallybecause it just flowedout of me. I just want toget it out there, thatshow much I feel aboutit.

MUEN: SO IT JUST

FLOWED OUT OFYOU EASIER THANSOME OTHER ONES?

STOB: In some waysyeah, because a lot oftimes Ill start a song bycreating a beat or elec-tronics or somethingand it kind of develops

over time but this onecame out without meeven thinking about it.The piano and thewords and the melody

just flowed out of me.Then there are someother tracks which willbe full band. There is

one called Last day of

the sun Its a verygrungy heavy rock trackand there is a very ex-perimental track calledAfter the Fall which isa very electronic eight-ies sounding song. Ithink I am going to sur-prise a lot of people be-cause it sounds like it isstraight out of the eight-ies hip hop genre butits mixed with rock andwhen the chorus comesin it has this horrormovie metal type feel.

MUEN: HOW DO YOU

THINK YOUR FANSWILL REACT?

STOB: I think my fansare used to SToB musicbeing eclectic so Impretty sure they aregoing to enjoy this one.The way I look at it is

that I have always writ-ten songs for myself soif I enjoy it then I amhoping people out therewill enjoy it too. TheMain thing is to pleasemyself.

MUEN: YEAH, I UN-DERSTAND WHAT

YOU ARE SAYING.NOW WHERE IS THEBEST PLACE TODOWNLOAD YOURSONGS?

STOB: Right now thebest place is through uson our trueAnthem

player

(www.myspace.comaolintempleofboomwww.trueAnthem.ctob). Its free and hquality Mp3, you juyour name in and fthe little questionnaand youre good to

The great thing is ydont just have to dload Shaolin. Therewide range of artistavailable. Once yohave an account yo

just go and see whartists have put outtheir music for freeyour iPod up with.

MUEN: WELL THACOOL AND YOU GAN AVERAGE OFTWO HUNDREDTHOUSAND PLAYDAY.

STOB: Yeah. That

throughout the inteIts pretty amazing cause one of the mbenefits of this conis the music is spreeverywhere so its tbest type of promoI cant really think oother company thaa player that lets yospread your music this way. You can gthe music directly fthe widget, I think ipretty powerful piectechnology.

MUEN: NOW I UNDERSTAND YOU A

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GNED ARTIST TOE ENDORSED BYNGL AMPS. THAT ISWESOME!TOB: Yeah. That wasetty amazing. I wasntacted by Michaelo is A & R for Engld I looked on their

ebsite and they pute in the professionalers section backen it was only bands

e Cradle of Filth andgger signed acts inat section. But I thinke best part ofchaels philosophy is

at they look at theists that have a lot oftential. But when I

as first endorsed Ias the only one thatas unsigned and un-anaged. What reallyew me away was thatey put me in maga-

es all across Europe.e main one was

ock Hard, which isd of the Rolling

one of Germany.hen I actually saw thel page ad, I felt like Ially need to live up tos. It was a huge signfaith and their amps

e absolutely amazing!lay the Powerball.eyre really huge inrope and they are

arting to make theiray here.

UEN: ARE THEHOWS GOING TO

E LOCAL?

STOB: Starting out inCalifornia. I dont wantto say L.A. but insteadCalifornia and branch-ing out from there. Butalso looking for spon-sorships and there aresome possibilities thatmight be happening

soon.

MUEN: THAT WILL BEGREAT SO MAKESURE YOU LET USKNOW. NOW, DO YOUHAVE ANY LICENS-ING DEALS?

STOB: One thing aboutmy music is that I getasked all the time byfilm studios or directorswho are starting out.There is one film in theUK actually that isusing Evil and a cou-ple here in the states.Lately, there has beeninterest in taking thingsto the next level so Idont want to say any-thing yet since nothingis concrete. There isdefinite licensing possi-bilities real soon.

MUEN: VERY COOL!

SPEAKING OF FILMSTUDENTS, THEREARE A LOT OFBANDS STARTING TOUSE THEM FORMUSIC VIDEOS. THEYHAVE FRESH MINDSAND ALL THESEFRESH IDEAS SO I

THINK THAT IS COOL.

STOB: Yeah, timeshave changed so muchthat film directors havemore access to musicyou may never haveheard of before be-cause you can go on-line and get introducedto a lot of bands that

are unsigned. And thereis a lot of great musicout there that is un-signed. Part of the win-nings that I just got isgoing to go to a videoeven though it is lim-ited. But I think it is im-portant because it is an

artform you know and Ireally appreciate it. Idont care that it doesntbring cash flow or thereis not as many venuesbecause for me it isabout creating some-thing that is visuallybeautiful and interestingand it is a piece of art.

MUEN: I COM-PLETELY AGREEWITH YOU AND I LIKEWATCHING THEMCAUSE I WANT TOSEE WHAT THE BANDLOOKS LIKE WHENTHEYRE PERFORM-

ING. SPEAKING OFVIDEOS, ARE YOUGOING TO BE DOINGA VIDEO FOR IWOULD DESTROY?

STOB: Yes, its plannedto start filming in themiddle of August I think

with a very talented di-rector by the name of

Tim Thompson thata lot of really cool videas. I want to dosomething that is atension of the music

MUEN: DO YOU HASOMETHING INMIND?

STOB: I have a couof things in mind. Twhole thing deals wmetaphorical apocalypse thing. I kind owant to have some ics to showcase in tvideo. And it will be

too since we are onreally serious budgewell have to be vercreative.

MUEN: NOW CHRVRENNA, HE MIXEBOTH I WILL DE-STROY AND ENTWINED. TELL MLITTLE BIT ABOUWORKING WITH H

STOB: Well I havenever heard anyonelike him who mixesdrums and music thway he does. I meawhen I hear his mu

have this thing whecolors come into mymind and every timhear one of his mixeither his own musilike Marilyn Mansontheres always certacolors that come tomind. I mean it is ju

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ng was mixed in theast, I have had com-aints but the first timeeard I Would De-

roy, which was thest song Vrenna mixedr SToB, it was perfect!e has a long history inusic and was one ofe founding membersNine Inch Nails and

e had a lot to do withe early records. Out-de of that he haseen in Marilyn Manson

d his own musicrough Tweaker.

UEN: SO I ALSOANT TO TALK TO

OU ABOUT YOURLOTHING LINE.

TOB: Its very earlyll. Its still a baby. Itsol for me though. I

m visual artist as well

nd I like to expressyself that way and Ind of feel like it is timer me to do stuff withirts and whatever. I

mean we have a firstshirt that is up rightnow. The I Will De-stroy shirt. its on mywebsite. So far peoplelike that design a lot.Im going to do thingsthat are both musicaland not. So if I do apiece of art that will goon and that is some-thing that is going tohappen in the very nearfuture.

MUEN: I NOTICEDTHERE IS A LOT OFFAN ART BEING

DONE ON YOURPAGE AS WELL. WHOARE SOME OF THEGRAPHIC DESIGN-ERS YOU WORKWITH?

STOB: The main one isMikio from Silent Q De-

sign. He is a greatartist and does a lot ofCD artwork.

MUEN: I WOULD RE-

ALLY LIKE TO DI-RECT PEOPLE TOWWW.SHAOLINTEM-PLEOFBOOM.COM.TELL US A LITTLE BITABOUT YOUR WEB-SITE.

STOB: It's the first bandwebsite of its kind. Its aband website but it is awebsite that isnt justdevoted to the band.Its also devoted to fansthat make up the com-munity that is shaolin-templeofboom.com.This is about a community

type of movement orlifestyle and not just theband.

MUEN: PEOPLENEED TO DEFINITELYCHECK IT OUT ANDYOUR MYSPACEPAGE TOO!

STOB: MTV justbought Flux, if you joinshaolintempleof-boom.com you can join

other communities MTV.com and yourfile changes with eadifferent communityou join. You can ashare your blogs wall the communitiesbe featured. And yocan upload videos Artwork can also beloaded and feature

MUEN: ITS BEENAWESOME TALKIWITH AND I WANTTHANK YOU SOMUCH FOR THE ITERVIEW AND I H

ESTLY THINK YOUARE A VERY VERTALENTED GUY!

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UEN: HOLA ELEC-RICA MIAMI! IT'SEEN A LONG TIMENCE WE INTER-EWED AN ARTIST

ROM MEXICO, ANDESIDES YOURUSIC BEING AWE-OME, IT'S VERY

OOL YOU POP IN

TO SEE US OFTEN!YOU DO HAVE BOTHLOS ANGELES ANDMEXICO LISTED ONYOUR MYSPACEPAGE... WHERE AREYOU BASED OUTOF? WHAT CITY AREYOU FROM?

Thanks for the inter-

view, we are very

pleased for this, and forthe attention you gaveto us.We are from Tamauli-pas, Mexico. It is a verynice part in northernMexico, very close tothe gulf, and just threehours from Texas.Sometimes we spentsome seasons in Mex-

ico City for some gigs

or to record stuff at studio.

MUEN: WHO ARETHE BAND MEM-BERS, AND I SEETHE FEMALE OF TBAND HAS LEFT?

At the present momwe are only three. I

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r). For this moment,aren is doing someJ set around Mexico,t we think we areing to have her backa while.

UEN: DO YOU USU-LLY SING IN SPAN-H OR ENGLISH?

e have songs in both,glish and spanish,t generally, it de-nds on the moment,pends on how itund, if it sounds bet-

r in english we don't

sitate to sing it inglish, or vice versa.

UEN: HOW AREOU RECEIVED INEXICO AS COM-ARED TO THE U.S.?

Mexico we have a

ry good acceptance,t we do consider thatmetimes is better in

e US, as in Mexico isry hard when you

ay something that ist rock. This genre isll the most importantthe country.

UEN: YOU SEEM TOAVE A REAL TAL-NT FOR WRITINGATCHY SONGS.HAT INSPIRES YOU

O WRITE A SONG?

ell, thanks for thatmment, I really try to

my best and to find

the best moments towrite. The first material,I wrote it for an ex girl-friend, that inspired mea lot, you know, themoment, the nostalgicfeelings. Now I writeand I find inspiration on

my friends, and for thatpeople that has some-thing in common withus, I mean, people likeus, nerds, geeks orfreaks.

MUEN: WHO AREYOUR BIGGEST IN-FLUENCES?

Is hard to say, youknow, you find somemusic very good foryou, and the next yearyou prefer other kind ofmusic. Still, at this mo-ment I'm very into tele-popmusik, fedde le

grand, pornois, Yveslarock, Cassius, amongothers, but is the kindof music I hear themost right now.

MUEN: JUST AN OB-SERVATION HERE ONMYSPACE.. BUT

MEXICANS SEEM TOGIVE WAY MORESUPPORT, ANDSHOW WAY MOREENTHUSIASM TO-WARDS THEIR OWN,THAN AMERICANSDO TOWARDS AMER-ICAN BANDS... I'VENOTICED THIS INOTHER COUNTRIES

AS WELL ON MY-SPACE. IF YOUAGREE WITH THIS,WHY DO YOU THINKTHAT IS?

I don't know if it is thesame in every country,

but sometimes I feelexactly the same inMexico, I mean, as anartist, you most have tobuild a name in otherplaces to have a betterpromotion in Mexico,moreover on massmedia, such as radioand TV. Nevertheless,

we have been doing re-ally good, we have hadvery good experiences.

MUEN: WHAT DOYOU CLASSIFYYOUR MUSIC AS?

I should say electro

pop, even thoughsometimes depends onmy mood.

MUEN: WHAT ARESOME OF THE BESTTHINGS THAT HAVEHAPPENED FOR THEBAND LATELY?

As I told you before,many things have hap-pened, but I think thatwhat I like the most, isto be traveling, meetingpeople and placeswhere ever we give ashow.

MUEN: WHAT DO

YOU FIND DIFFICUTO DO?

Waking up early!!! hhaha. No, well, inmusic I wouldn't saythere's something dcult, because is thething I like the best,really enjoy it and thmakes everything e

MUEN: SO YOU HAAN EVENT COMINUP ON SEPT 19THSAN LUIS, MEXICO

Yes the show this 1of September! It wgreat!

MUEN: WELLTHANKS FOR THETERVIEW AND KEIN TOUCH!

Well, thanks a lot fothis interview, We reappreciate the time

spent and interest, we hope you like oumusic and everythinabout Electrica MiaTalk to you soon.


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pic recording artistshevelle

Sam Loefflerrums)

rayslake, Illinois

yspace.com/chevelle

y: Shauna ODonnell

UEN: HI SAM ANDHANKS FOR CALLINGODAY HOW ARE YOU?

m great, no problem.

UEN: YOUR LATEST

LBUM SCI-FI CRIMESNT OUT UNTIL SEP-

EMBER 1ST BUT AL-EADY YOUR SINGLEARS IS A HIT. IT EN-

ERED THE TOP 20FTER TWO WEEKS SOONGRATS ON THAT.

hank you, yeah its aetty big deal to thinkat people keep coming

ack to hear more music.

UEN: YEAH, THAT ISOOL. NOW, CUR-ENTLY YOU GUYSRE ON THE ROADITH SHINEDOWN AND

TAIND ON THE STIM-LATE THIS TOUR

ND IM SURE YOU ARELAYING SOME OF THEEW SONGS. WHATAS BEEN THE RE-PONSE TO THEM?

s been pretty good, youow, the more Jars

ets played on the radio,e more people get famil-

r with it and the better itoes over. We also have

a song called SleepApnea which is the firstsong on Sci-Fi Crimesand it has been goingover even better. I wonderif at some point that willbecome a single.

MUEN: THIS TOUR ISREALLY SPECIAL BE-CAUSE YOU WORKEDHARD TO GIVE PEOPLEA LOT OF SHOW FORTHEIR MONEY. I THINKTHAT IS REALLY COOLOF YOU GUYS.

Yeah, its definitely a coolthing, but I wonder if it isworking or not. I guess I

would have to go out andtalk to some people.Some people are still pay-ing $50 for a ticket.Granted you are going topay more if you want to situp front, I get that, but Idont think every venuewas cool with sellingcheaper tickets. Some

venues were not cool withit, so it only happened insome places. You do whatyou can I guess.

MUEN: THATS UNFOR-TUNATE, TELL USWHAT INSPIRED THENAME SCI-FI CRIMES.

Its hard to title a bunch ofsongs as one thing be-cause each song dealswith something separate,so it was basically an arti-cle that Pete read aboutthis woman whose handswere badly burnt by whatshe claimed to be a spacecraft taking off from herbackyard. She had

shielded her face with herhands and got third de-

gree burns. It was a reallyinteresting article so thatkind of encompassed thatwhole thing, like a sci-ficrime. It doesnt neces-sarily have to do withaliens or anything, justanything unexplained. Iguess we just thought itwas an interesting title tosort of sum up what is es-sentially eleven or twelvetracks.

MUEN: HAVE YOU EVERMET ANYONE THATHAS HAD A CLOSE EN-COUNTER LIKE THAT?

Oh sure, I think we have

all met people who havehad experiences of beingover tired and driving ordrug induced, whatever itis.

MUEN: WHO DESIGNEDTHE CD JACKET?

Dean, our bass player, he

actually did an oil paintingwhich is essentially theartwork. It turned into abackdrop and t-shirt. Itsnice to have somebodywho really appreciatesbeing able to add someart to what is our art.

MUEN: ROSWELLSSPELL WAS INSPIREDBY A VISIT TO THEROSWELL UFO MU-SEUM RIGHT?

Yeah, we were there. Wewere out on the road andwe stopped by there toget a glimpse of some-thing funny. The real pointwas that by going to

Roswell, it confirmed theidea that if there had been

alien life on this planedid not come to Rosw

MUEN: WHAT KINDSTUFF IS IN THE MUSEUM?

There were pieces ofweather balloons. Itsally, really lame.

MUEN: AND HIGH-LANDS APPARITIONWAS INSPIRED BY ALLEGED HAUNTEHOUSE. TELL USABOUT THE EXPERENCE YOU HAD TH

We lived there, thats

of a joke too. Everyonslept in the same bedroom and we all had lar nightmares. It felt people were touchingthem at night while thwere sleeping. It wascreepy. This woman cto the house, we werlooking at her throug

window and she wasdancing in the front yWe went out there anshe said I grew up hmy dads buried in thbackyard. Are you alowed to bury peoplethe yard?

MUEN: I DONT KNOEVERY STATE PROBLY HAS THEIR OWLAWS.

Its definitely not legaus.

MUEN: ITS NOT LEHERE EITHER. I DOTHINK ITS LEGAL TBURY YOUR PET. O

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TOLEN. I REMEMBERHAT DAY LIKE IT WASESTERDAY. SOME OFHE BANDS I KNEWERE TRYING TO HELP

OU GUYS GET YOURTUFF BACK. BUL-

TINS WERE BEINGOSTED, IT WAS COOLO SEE PEOPLE HELP-G LIKE THAT. WHATAS THE OUTCOME OF

HAT? DID YOU RE-OVER YOUR STUFF?

ah, we recovered aboutlf of it or maybe a littlemore. The stuff that

me through was fromople who said Hey, I

ow who this belongs and they called some-dy and let them know. Itrked out really well.ere are two sides to it.ere were a lot of peopleo wrote to us and said

ou guys are a bunch ofnsies. Open up your

allets and buy some

w gear. You guys arelionaires. That is note and even if it weree, it is still personalms that we have donethese records with.ey have sentimentalue and no matter how

uch money someones, it doesnt give people

e right to steal fromem. Thats ignorant andats how people hide be-nd the internet. Theod news is that somengs did show up inwn shops, eBay andople let us know. Were able to either get theps to get it back for uswe were able to buy it

ck, which is fine too.e are an established

rock band; we have insur-ance to help us pay forthose things. We lost$130,000, its a lot ofmoney, its a lot of moneyto me thats for sure. Evenstill, we were grateful toget back the pieces thatwe got back. There werea couple of pieces thatwere really important tous. One of them was thisoriginal red Paul ReedSmith guitar that we didPoint #1 and Wonderwhats Next with it and wehad, had it on the road. Itwas the first nice guitarthat Pete had ever boughtand we bought it used for

$900. We had gone in halfon it and it was a reallyimportant piece to us. Wegot it back and a coupleother guitars that were re-ally important to us. It wasreally cool.

MUEN: I KNOW THEREIS A LOT OF BAD

THINGS ON THE INTER-NET, BUT THERE IS ALOT OF GOOD TOO. ITIS GOOD TO SEE WHENPEOPLE COME TO-GETHER AND TRY ANDHELP EACH OTHER.

Oh yeah, I thought thatwas amazing, I agree withyou.

MUEN: IM REALLYHAPPY YOU GOT MOSTOF YOUR STUFF BACK.SOME THINGS AREPRICELESS.

Coincidentally, we gotback the things that werereally important to us.

MUEN: YOU WROTE A

SONG ABOUT ITCALLED LETTERFROM A THIEF. YOUGUYS WORKED WITHBRIAN VIRTUE ON THISALBUM. HOW WAS ITWORKING WITH HIMAND WAS IT YOURFIRST TIME?

Yeah, it was the first time.Brian is great; he is a veryestablished in his ideaskind of guy. He hasworked with Janes Addic-tion, Deftones and 30Seconds to Mars. He hasdone so much cool stuffand we were really happyto work with him. It was

really nice to do some-thing different, we loveElvis, he has done all ofour other records with us.

MUEN: ONE THINGTHAT PEOPLE MAY NOTKNOW ABOUT THEBAND IS THAT YOUARE ALL FAMILY. PETE

IS YOUR BROTHERAND DEAN IS YOURBROTHER-IN-LAW.WERE YOUR PARENTSSUPPORTIVE OF YOURCAREER CHOICE?

I wouldnt say it was a ca-reer choice because hadwe come out of the box atfourteen or fifteen years

old and said Hey, weregoing to be in a rockband, I would imaginemost parents would beYeeeaaahhh. It hap-pened gradually and bythe time we decided tomake a run for the careerin vision we had estab-lished ourselves as hav-

ing the ability to play andwrite songs. I think every-

one was in agreemenWe kept working towait and eventually it connected.

MUEN: THEY CAMEYOUR SHOWS ANDSUPPORTED YOURIGHT?

Without a doubt, mantimes there wasnt anat our shows except fily and friends.

MUEN: AT WHAT AGDID YOU START PLAING DRUMS?

I was fourteen when I

started playing drums

MUEN: HAVE YOU ETHOUGHT ABOUTADDING MORE MEMBERS TO THE BAND

Not for any real reasoonce in a while wethought it would be ni

be able to mix it up angive Pete a little morefreedom on stage. Whyou are recording youdo whatever you wantheres no reason for other musician.

MUEN: TELL US ABYOUR NEW MUSICVIDEO FOR JARS.

Its finished, we did it couple weeks ago anthink we got the finishedit a few days ago. Ian interesting concepdidnt know if it wouldwork. It is basically antion video. It was fun;shot it out in the dese

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aredevil.

UEN: WERE YOU THEAREDEVIL?

wish

UEN: WHEN IS ITOING TO RELEASE?

would imagine now. Iope so.

UEN: YOU HAD ARUELING TOURINGCHEDULE AFTERENA SERA. WILL YOUE DOING THE SAMEITH THIS RECORD?

eah, we will take breaksere and there, but weefinitely plan on stayingut for a while. We love toay, its what we do.hat else are we going to

o? We could go homend sit around.

UEN: DO YOU HAVE

NYTHING DIFFERENT MIND FOR THIS

OUR THAT YOUAVENT DONE ONREVIOUS ONES?

e brought out full pro-uction on it with a light

ow and everything. Itdds to the music, I think,hen you have lights andle things like that. We

ave ideas for our head-e shows, but right now

e are doing a supportow so we dont really

ave a lot of freedom.

UEN: WHAT DO YOUO TO KILL TIMEHILE YOURE ON THE

OAD?

It depends, on show dayswe usually have quite afew interviews and thingsto do. We run our ownmerch company and sothe business part of thingstakes up a lot of our time.We get our long boardsout and go skateboarding.We go to dinner and try toexperience local cuisine,things like that. We do thebest we can to have a lifewhen we can.

MUEN: I BET YOU HAVESEEN SOME REALLYNICE BACKSTAGEAREAS.

They are pretty dingy ac-tually. There is nothingglamorous about beingparked next to the dump-ster.

MUEN: I KNOW YOUSTOPPED BY THE NEWYORK BALLET.

Yeah, that was backstage.The ballerinas dressingroom was next to ours sowe went in there. Wewere going through therestuff.

MUEN: DO YOU HAVEANY WORDS OF WIS-DOM FOR YOUNGDRUMMERS OUTTHERE?

Well I can tell you thatlearning to be a gooddrummer is easily thehardest instrument youcan choose. You spend awhole lifetime learningeverything and then an-other lifetime learning it

backwards. Id say for

drummers, every single

day, practice somethingnew. As a band, Id saythe only thing that hasworked for us is play liter-ally every show you areoffered. It doesnt matter ifits a backyard party orwhat it is. The other thingis, write original music.

MUEN: THANKS SOMUCH FOR TALKING

WITH ME TODAY. IT

WAS AWESOME. GLUCK WITH YOUR RLEASE AND HOPE-FULLY WE WILL TAAGAIN ONE DAY.

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terview with Hardcoreegends Terror

y Morbid Milleryspace.com/morbidmiller

error has been kickingme hardcore ass for al-

ost ten years. Scottoegel formed the bandon after leaving his for-

er Buffalo, New Yorkand Buried Alive andaking Los Angeles his

ome. Terror has touredound the world several

mes, playing with almostery band underneath

e sun. This is a bandat will continue to put out

bums despite what isoing on in the music busi-ess. They have a grassots following that crownsem the kings of the un-

erground. The followingerview is with Martinewart the bands currentitarist.

ow Did Terror Form?

rror: Well I wasn't in theand when it first formed

t I know it started with 5des that just wanted to

ay hardcore music. Not aal spectacular begin-ng, but definitely aEAL" beginning.

ow has Buried Alive in-uenced or inspired Ter-r?

rror: I would have toy not at all. That's

cott's old band and it'sst history just like anyher previous bands any-e in Terror has had.

ow has Los Angeles in-

spired your music?

Terror: I guess just thewhole vibe that Los Ange-les has comes out in ourmusic and attitudes. Kindof like Suicidal Tendenciesin the 80's; Hard, aggres-sive, pissed and all thewhile fun. That's exactlywhat our city is like.

Whats your most mem-orable show so far?

Terror: Man, that's atough one. We've beenfortunate enough to play inall corners of the world soit's hard to say. Being able

to play in Moscow, SouthKorea, being the first"hardcore" band to everplay in Venezuela. Everyshow brings about a goodmemory with us.

How did TrustkillRecords help bolsteryour career?

Terror: Well we're workingwith Century Media now,but we had a good runwith Trustkill. Threerecords and 1 DVD ispretty damn good accom-plishment, that wouldn'thave happened withoutthem I guess. I think thatlabel has a niche following

as well that maybe would-n't have heard this band ifsomeone else had beenreleasing the record whichis always good. We're al-ways trying to spread whatwe believe to new people.

What is Terror's purposeor goal as a band?

Terror: Ultimately to have

fun and share that fun withanyone and everyonearound the world that iswilling to participate withus. For us, if there's no funthen there's no band.

Whats your message tothe world?

Terror: It's very simple:You do you, we'll do usand if all goes well we'llmeet right in the middleand have some real fun.Hardcore is a place of ac-ceptance especially forthose that don't feel ac-cepted anywhere else inthe world. If you've ever

seen us live then you'veheard Scott say it beforeand that's genuinely howwe all feel as a band. Ourshows should be a placeof release and solace.Somewhere you can gowhere you're away fromthe outside world and trulybe yourself. You can re-lease all that anger andaggression that has builtup throughout your weekin a positive way bythrashing around like ananimal or doing somesweet stage dives. It's allabout stage diving man.

Give me your take onStraight Edge Hardcore?

Terror: I'm personally notstraight edge so I feel likemy take on the mattershouldn't exactly matter tosomeone who is. I see itserve a purpose to friendsof mine who come from al-coholic families or from ahistory of drug abuse. Inmy opinion it's a complete

personal choice and

shouldn't be forced upanyone. All that clichstuff, you know?

Are any of you guysStraight Edge?

Terror: Our drummerand bass player Daviboth straight edge. Thparty harder and crazthan anyone you'll evmeet though (A couplanimals).

When Terror first staout did you think thayou guys would hav

much success as yohave?

Terror: I don't think thpopular idea of "succwas on anyone's minthis band when it wasstarted or even currenOur idea of success ireaching as many plain the world as possiband having fun and I stress that enough. Wfind ourselves blessebe able to do what wedone and have the plthat we have for the fWe've had the opportto tour with bands thadon't think any of us hever even dreamt of t

ing with. Behemoth?Come on! I've sharedtiple stages around thwith one of my favoritbands of all time. It's man.

If it was all over tomrow would you be safied?

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l places I want to go, Iould absolutely be satis-d if it all came to andd.

hat bands are some ofur influences?

rror: For me personallyy influences are alwaysanging. I listen to such ade variety of music thatwould be impossible tost stick to one thing. Oney it might be Otis Red-

ng and the next maybestament or Warzone. Ien to tons of hip-hopd R&B music and pretty

uch everything else

her than country. I wouldy that as a band as aole there's a lot ofnice style thrash and

YHC in our overall influ-ce though.

hat do you think aboutatebreed? Did theyake Hardcore main-ream?

rror: Hatebreed can dowrong in my eyes as a

nd. I love everythingey've released and I wasen really excited about

e new cover album theyt out. I don't think they

ade hardcore main-

eam in any bad sense.ey just took their gamea whole new level and In respect what they'vene.

ow has the music in-stry changed sinceu guys started out in01?

Terror: 2 words: internetexplosion. It's like where Iused to buy a record andcheck a thanks list to findnew bands, now peopledownload the record,check the MySpace andlisten the bands in theirtop friends. It's just a newgeneration. I don't neces-sarily like or dislike it, it's

just so foreign to me I justhave a hard time keepingup.

What does the futurehave in store for themusic industry?

Terror: I don't know my-

self but I know it's going tobe something very differ-ent than we're used to.Time's have definitelychanged and are still inthe process of changing.Those "360 Deals" seemto be happening a lot nowwith mainstream musicwhere a company not onlycontrols your music buteverything else involvedwith you as an artist.That's probably going tobe the new thing.

Tell me about the AtticusTour that you did awhileback?

Terror: Atticus Tour wassweet. We were a lot dif-ferent than all the otherbands on that tour but thatdidn't matter at all. It was agood experience and itwas nice to significantlysee that most people therehad never heard of us be-fore but in the end appre-ciated what we did and

had fun with us. Hopefullythose people will comeback around next time wehave tour through their cityand maybe we'll be able toopen them up to a newway of life.

Any sold out shows onthat tour?(if you remem-ber)

Terror: From what I re-member a lot of the showswere if not sold out thencompletely packed. It wasa very good tour as far asattendance goes. Everyband being so differentfrom each other made for

a large good mix of peoplecoming to the shows withminimal problems. It wasreally awesome.

What do you think ofEmmure? Are they help-ing to save the integrityof Metalcore?

Terror: Emmure is not aband that I personally lis-ten to. I can't speak on be-half of the "metalcore"scene because it's notsomething that I know toomuch about. There's a lotof new music going onthese days that I'm not re-ally familiar with.

Whats your favorite cityor venue to play at whenyou go on tour and why?

Terror: Any venue in LosAngeles because then Iget to go home after theshow and sleep in my ownwonderful bed. But really,there are cities and certainvenues all over the world

that we've become so fa-

miliar with these daysit feels like a home awfrom home.

Would you rather touoverseas or in thestates?

Terror: At this point I touring overseas a bitmore since I've seen smuch of the US so matimes now. I'm all abonew places and new eriences. Also, this banseems to get more recnition overseas so oushows are more appreated. That's a good feing.

Who twosteps/moshs/stage dbetter, the Europeanthe Americans?

Terror: Ha! moshing itaboo. We all do it butso damn goofy at thesame time. I think eveone looks weird whiledoing it so no one canally be "better" than aone else.

How come you guysnot on the Bamboozfestival? What do yothink of the Bamboofestival?

Terror: The word is thBamboozled was afrathe "reputation" that thband has. This is somthing that I don't undestand since a band likTrash Talk who is knofor pushing limits andgoing overboard is asto play. I would ratherthem just tell us they t

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at's why we can't playther than that bullshit. Ient to the festival forbout 40 minutes the daye would have played andatched my friends bandye Alaska and then im-ediately left. I couldn't

et down with the wholebe. Maybe I was justssed about the whole sit-

ation, but whatever. Well had our own show that

ght with tons of ourends and I couldn't have

sked for a better night.though it would have

een cool to play, we don'teed that bamboozled shit

the end.

ow was the New Eng-nd Metalcore festival?

rror: It was a great time.l day festivals can be at hectic because thehole atmosphere is sonse and crazy but it'sll such a good time be-

ause all these bands thatou've come to know fromuring with or playingows with in the past all

ome together in oneght. It makes for a good

arty. There was a Grate-l Dead gig going on

cross the street so thereas like a hippy village set

p in the same parking lots all the bands. Don't letppies fool you. They're

ot the peaceful fun lovingeople they want you to

nk they are. They wereome of the rudest people

e ever come across iny life.

hats the Terror songAlways the Hard Way"

about?

Terror: I think the lyrics ofthat song are pretty up-front and bold, kind of selfexplanatory. It's spoken inthe words of someone thatwas never handed any-thing ever in life, telling astory of climbing out fromthe bottom and survivingwithout any help. Some-one that lives like that waywithout anyone guidingthem is going to learn allof life's lessons the hardway.

If you could only listento one album for the rest

of your life which albumwould that be? andwhy?

Terror: Infest "Slave".They're my favorite bandof all time and that was thefirst record I heard bythem. It's completely nos-talgic yet still so hard andaggressive and good atthe same time. A lot ofrecords that I used to loveas a kid didn't really standthe test of time and when Ihear them now I almostquestion how I ever likedit.

When can we expect anew Terror album?

Terror: There's alreadymaterial that has beenwritten and record asdemo versions but there'sno rush. We have a lot oftouring to do before we getback in the studio. Thereare a lot of new places inthe world that we're goingto play coming up soon.South Africa, Southeast

Asia, Eastern Europe,Alaska, and the list goeson. Once we get to allthose places then we'll getback in the studio.

Do you have a producerfor the new album?

Terror: There's no onelined up now but I'd saywe're open to ideas.

How would you describeyour band if you weretalking to someone thathas never heard Terror?

Terror: You'd be surprisedon how often I have to do

that. When you're on tourand stop at a gas stationand the cashier sees yourvan and trailer and asks"you guys a band orsomething?", "What's thename of your band?","What kind of music doy'all play?". Now I just tellthem "Loud, aggressiveand obnoxious music" andthen laugh.

What is the Correlationwith stage diving andhardcore shows?

Terror: Stage dives take agood show to a whole newlevel. It's like that ultimaterush at a gig. It shows that

people are going so wildthat they're willing to dosomething crazy. Some-times people think that it'sonly a hardcore thing but ifyou look at old punkvideos, metal videos andeven the Pantera DVDpeople have been doing itthroughout all genres ofmusic. Even Pearl Jam.It's crazy and it looks

sweet.

What is Vogelism?

Terror: Hahahahahawell...Scott just says wever he feels on stagguess. Like in this bawe all talk to each othlike idiots because weall friends. We joke nostop and say the weirstuff to each other. Wyour friends and peerfeel comfortable sayinanything and making or just letting loose wyou're having a good and saying whateveryou're feeling. That's

it is at our shows. Welook at people in the cas anything else butfriends and peers so brings a natural level comfort for us. So somone had the great idekeep track of some ofunny shit Scott has son stage and compilethem onto a website.www.vogelisms.com.ple should check it outhey haven't yet.

What advice so youfor up and comingbands looking for thbig break?

Terror: Quit looking f

big break and just docause you love musicyou want to have funyou're supposed to subecause you're a gooband and have the hethen it will happen for


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dex Case: 10ong Fuckingears

: Morbid Millerspace.com/morbidmiller

a place and time whereost music endeavors noatter how unique orraculous that might bee left unseen. Fromeat local bands as what Iuld like to think as

was version of Systema down we had Heroicse, 35 Inch Mudder was

e our very own Limpzkit, Deadfront sounded

he likes of Korn,meshot was compara- to Tool, Painface was

r Sepultura andmakdab was our Kittie. Ine midst of all this raw tal-

t, only one band wasned (Slipnot). The rest

were lost only to be foundin the memories of thosewho were there in the timeand place that I like torefer to as the Midwest

Movement. I rememberthinking that every one ofthose bands would someday be touring around theworld signed to major la-bels and I would be apartof that. It was the greatesttime in my life and itseems as if it was all adream. In the same statewhere one of the most in-

fluential and successfulbands in the world wasspawned, many were leftbehind. The band that hadthe most impact on my lifewas the band were aboutto explore. Index Case istruly one of the mostunique and original bandsin the world.

When and how did Index

Case form?

Dirt Joe: Index Caseformed in 1998. We allwent to Indianola High

School in Iowa. JoshParker (Guitar) and Koreythe original bass playerwere two years older thanme and Jordan Spence(Original drummer). Noneof us really hung out inhigh school. Once I was asenior in High school Joshand Korey had alreadygraduated. I hung out with

Jordon a lot and he waslike Hey you need tocome over to my housesometime, Im jammingwith this guy that we wentto high school with andhes really good. So Iused to go over to Jor-dans house after schooland watch Jordan and

Josh jam. They would im-prove and shit like that. Fi-

nally one day I justgrabbed the microphoand started free stylingBefore I knew it, like alion people were comi

over after school, watcus play and hanging owith us. Eventually wwere like lets start a band we started writingsongs. It kind of wentfrom there, on weekenwe would have 20 peoover at Jordans housewatching us play.

What was the first InCase song written?

Dirt Joe: The very firscomplete song was DYour Neighbor off ouralbum Birth.

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etty hard for me to talkout. I know a lot of peo-

e like it, but its nothinge what we are like now.nd of like the Beastie

oys never claimed thatey did the album Licenseill and that was theirolest record.

d you ever want to bea rock band? You lis-

n to a lot of Rap Music.asically Index Caseas formed under the in-nt that starting a bandould be something fun

do right?

rt Joe: It was something

do. It occupied my timed it was fun. I was on acrophone and people

ere taking interest inhat we were doing. Iasnt just stuck on hip

p. I listened to a lot ofck music. I liked what-er lyrically inspired me.hat Josh was doing onitar was inspiring me.en when Jordonowed me the Deftones

bum Adrenalin for thest time, I remember Ias like man I have to geto a band, this is what

m supposed to be doing.at album Adrenaline by

e Deftones woke me up.

hats so weird that youy that, Mitch from sui-

de Silence said thatact same thing.

rt Joe: Yea, Adrenalinewhat made me want to in a band as a vocalist

arly on in your career,ow did the local Desoines legends 35 Inch

Mudder help Index Caseout? Check these guysout(www.myspace.com/35inchmudder)

Dirt Joe: At the time I did-nt know anybody in theband. When Index Casewas first jamming, wethought 35 Inch Mudderwas like Metallica. Theywere the biggest thing inIowa for sure. We wouldgo to all of their shows.We were the little punkkids in the front row andafter the show we wouldgo back and jam and saywe want to be like Mudder.

I found out that the singerC-Bone worked at a CDshop on the south side ofDes Moines. I went to thestore and applied for a job.I wanted to work there be-cause I knew C-Bone (Vo-cals for 35 Inch Mudder)worked there. I got the joband he trained me. Heworked for Lazer 103.3 therock radio station here inDes Moines and he waslike Im hosting this bigevent and I dont have anyopening bands and I waslike dude, Im in a bandand I still remember theway that he looked at me,it was like Oh god, I dontwant to say no to this kid,

but Im sure this bandsucks. So he put us onand we opened the show.We played like at 11 amfor like 20 people, but afterthat man he dug us andtook an interest in IndexCase. Eventually we be-came really good friendswith the guys in 35 InchMudder. Their bass playerChad Calek moved out to

Los Angeles to pursueother careers. He endedup getting some good con-nections in the music andfilm industry. Ultimately hestarted managing us andfrom there we have beenworking with Chad for thelast 10 years. 35 InchMudder put our foot in thedoor for sure.

I know that you dontwant to talk about yourfirst album Birth but itssuch a great album. Willyou tell me about howBirth came together andwhy you think that it wasso popular?

Dirt Joe: Yea, its hard totalk about, but it is who wewere. It was so long ago,we were so young. I wish Icould go back and do it allover again.

What about the trackBoredom on the BirthAlbum, have you everthought about re-record-ing it and putting it on anew album? Its such akick ass song!

Dirt Joe: We have it. Wewant to keep Boredomhow it was. Thats howpeople remember it, sothats how we are going to

keep it. We dont want togo back and re do it orsomething like that.

How did you get thenickname Dirt Joe?

Dirt Joe: Oh, Dirt Joe(Laughs). I was in 8thgrade and I used to wait inline to go to lunch at thehigh school. I would al-

ways be the first one wing in line just standinthere watching all thesophomores, juniors aseniors eat. Eventuall

just went in and startetalking to people, hanout and I made friendwith one of my best frto this day Paxton. Imsure you know P-Tate

Oh yea, hes a talentrapper!

Yup, he was one of thin the cafeteria that I uto hang out with. I stahanging out with thesguys. All we would do

listen to the Wu-Tangall day long. I lovedOlDirty Bastards firstalbum. Paxton aka P-Tates started to jokearound and call meOlDirty Joe. Eventuaturned into Dirt Joe annow its just Dirt. To thday I answer when soone says Dirt; I turn mhead they talking to m

So was this before JDirt the movie cameout?

Dirt Joe: Way, way be(Laughs).

After you recorded t

Birth album Index Cgained a solid followOn your follow up toBirth you record analbum that doesntsound like your formalbum at all. You moaway from the rapcostuff, into somethingthat I cant even begexplain. One thing aIndex Case is that yo


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ve always been origi-l. Tell me about yourphomore albumass.

rt Joe: Birth became ametown favorite. We

ew up in a small townuth of Des Moinesled Indianola. Birth wasthat town had, the

cord was huge to them.sh came up to me oney and said Hey man,s record a new album.e never even thought ofcording a new album.e were like Yea, whyt we are a band youow, so lets do a new

bum. Josh came to meh all this new material.

was all the stuff onass and I was like Wowde, this sounds like we

ew up real fast in onears time. I didnt even

an on changing ourund; what happened,ppened. Thats justat he wrote and what

wrote inspired me vo-ly to do what I did on

at record. At the end ofe album I remember lis-ning to it and thinking,s isnt even the samend. This isnt even closebeing the same band at We originally thought

at everyone was going

hate us.

id at first. I was sossed when you guyst out the Glass album.

ompletely changingur style but I later ap-eciated it.

t Joe: Yea, you knowats how it is still to this

y. New index case fans

hate us right out of thegate, but then eventuallythey will be like I get itnow. We are one of thosebands you know. Still tothis day we are working onour 5th album right nowand I have people comingup to me from all over thecountry telling me that theGlass album is there fa-vorite album.

How did things changefor the band after yourreleased the Glassalbum? Didnt you guysget some sponsorshipwith Amp Energy Drinkand play some shows in

Hollywood?

Dirt Joe: After Glass wecame out to L.A. and didsome touring with AmpEnergy Drink sponsoringus. We actually showcased the Glass album forCaptial Records out in L.A.and Capital was digging it,they really liked the song

Living so Muster. We dida lot of stuff after theGlass dropped. A lot ofpeople couldnt under-stand it. They couldntcompare it to anythingelse that was out at thetime. It was totally originaland I think thats whatpeople liked about it the

most.

Glass defiantly openedthe doors for you andyou started playing out-side of Iowa. Catchingthe attention of CapitalRecords and picked up asponsorship from AmpEnergy Drink as well asrecording a couple of

music videos for t

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