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Smash Your Enemies is a hardcore band from Detroit, Michigan. With songs about real life situations and experiences. Fast, heavy,with plenty of nice beatdown parts to get ya dancing. I really like this band, & the cd is one of those kinda ones you can play over & over without getting bored. if you like Tuff guy Hardcore you should check out this band. you won't be disapointed.. 10 songs on this first full length thats out on On the Attack Records. Love the album title too :)
I wrote drummer Morgon for an interview to see what HBA was up too.
1, Bonjour So who’s in hell burns away & what do they play?
Hi!So, we’re currently five in HBA…
Thomas: Throat, Simon: Bass, Pierre and Benoist: Guitar And I (Morgan): Drums
2, I know you guys are from france, where abouts in france?
We all live in Caen, Normandy!
3, How did you guys all meet?
The classical stuff! Simon and I are friends since a long time! Maybe 13 years! We were at school together. Thomas was the singer of “my” first hardcore band Bazooka! Simon met Thomas at the same period by moving at our shows! At last, we met Pierre and Benoist thanks to common friends!
4, How long has the band been going?
We’ve started practicing on summer 2004 but Hellburnsaway was really born at the end of the year 2004 around Thomas, Simon, Romain, Cédric and I (Morgan)!
Romain and Cédric left the band on September 2007 and December 2009 for several personnal reasons! Benoist joined us in 2009, during the summer, just before our Euro Tour and Pierre arrived this year, in January, to replace Cédric!
The current line up is well good and we’re really confident about the future of the band!
5, Are any of you guys in other bands? Or been in other bands?
So, Thomas and I were playing in Bazooka (2002 – 2005), which was influenced by bands such as Shockwave, Disciple A Death For Everything…, still as singer and drummer!
6, how is the Hardcore scene in France right now, is there a lot of new bands coming out?
I think that the french hardcore scene feels quite good!
There’re lots of great bands in different kind of styles, such as Nine Eleven, Black Page, Providence, Deflectime, Black Spirals, Aussitôt Mort, Lazare, Kill For Peace, Alea Jacta Est, Golden District (RIP), No Guts No Glory, Call To Victory, Fierce and many many others! I can’t name ‘em all!
We also have a few great promoters who always try to organize gigs and to keep the scene alive…
Here are some of them: United Stages, This Is Your Scene, Caen Hardcore United, Free Edge Conspiracy, The Grass Was Never Green, Let’s Do It Kidz… and a few guys who book without a “crew name”…
But that’s not really easy to organize shows here! The venues are quite rare and, even if there are still hardcore kids/fans all around the country, some persons prefer worry about shit like dress codes than music and moving to the shows… But I don’t think it’s only in France…
7, What bands would you say influence your music?
We’re all fans of hardcore/punk/metal music in HBA so our influences are quite large… I can name, with no particularly order: Madball, Metallica, Terror, Guns Up!, Down To Nothing, Cruel Hand, S.O.D., Black Flag, Cro Mags, No Turning Back, Buried Alive and so, so much more!
8, if someone never heard your band who would you say you sound like?
I think that Hellburnsaway is currently a mix between the old Terror stuffs and Guns Up!… But it’s not really easy to compare ourselves to other bands. We always try to make our sound more and more personnal and I think it works song after song! Hope so!
9, You guys just did your first cd are you happy with how it turned out?
For sure we are… It’s always a good feeling when you have the final stuff in your hands!
The result is better than what we were expecting even if we know that there’re a few things which could be really increased in the next one!
10, the artwork really stands out, how did you get Mike Bukowski involed in that?
Thank you! I think it does!
We were thinking about the layout of the album and searching for someone who could draw our ideas! Mike B. was the guy we wanted for this job! His work is really personal and looks like no other! We simply mailed him to explain what we were looking for and he was immediately motived!
11, whats your plans for the rest of the year?
As we really like to move around, to share the stage with bands and meet people, we’re always looking for more and more gigs (in France and abroad)!
We’re also working on new songs for the next album and we’re already satisfied with how it sounds!
I think the recording session will be in March/April 2011…
At last, we’re thinking about a new tour… maybe for the release of this next CD…
Stay tuned!
13, Any last works & shout outs?
Thank you for this interview and for supporting Hellburnsaway!
Keep on moving to shows and making the/your (local) scene alive!
