SIMON ERL - interview.

The first time I met Simon Erl was outside the Crowbar in London before a 12 bar show. He with stood with a group of people that I also knew, I don't know how it started but we suddenly realised with both had a love of The Manson Family, he told me he had made some Manson prints & that he would send me some if I gave him my address. So A few weeks later they came, I never thought he would actually have sent them. So from that chance encounter I have stayed in contact with him for the last 3 years.


I think his art is so amazing I love everything about it, he really has his own style, So as well as just interviewing hardcore bands on here I thought I would think out the box & ask him for an interview, which he agreed & here we go.

1, THE BEGINING SEEMS A GOOD PLACE TO START, WHERE ARE YOU FROM ORIGINALLY?I was born in Germany, got carried around as a toddler all over the world and then spent my teens in New Zealand.

2, WHEN DID YOU DO YOUR FIRST TATTOO & HOW DID YOU GET INTO IT?I got an apprenticeship in New Zealand and a shop called Ataia Tattoo i think it was 2005. They had just opened and it was on the way from my house to my day job so I just went in on the off chance. They already had an apprentice but they fired him as they saw more potential in me, which is funny because my paintings and drawings were dreadfull at that point.

3, ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE FIRST TATT YOU DID?
Hell no. It was a foetus in a whiskey bottle. I'd love to see how it looks now hahaha
4, YOU HAVE BEEN DOING TATTS IN A FEW COUNTRIES, DOES IT DIFFER FROM COUNTRY TO
COUNTRY, WHERE HAS BEEN SOME OF THE BEST PLACES & WHY?
I guess the tattoo I did are more affected by time than graphic location, like fashion, the subject matter of tattoos changes like the weather. The best place would be where I am now because before that I was pretty shit at tattooing.

5, WHAT TATTOO'S DO YOU HATE TO DO, OR DO YOU JUST REFUSE?
I still do whatever comes in, I'm far from being too good for a certain tattoo. I still do tribal, stars, baby momma's names etc. However it feels somewhat good to refuse tattooing some kids face or hands who doesnt have enough other tattoos to warrant it.

6, WHERE DO YOU WORK AT THE MOMENT?
At Jayne Doe in Essex. The nicest shop I've worked in and with great people, Sam Ricketts and Tiny Miss Becca.

7, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING THERE?
Just a little over a year

8, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STYLE, WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INSPIRATION FROM?
Hmmmm its taken my quite some time to get a style i feel comfortable with....I hope I'm slowly getting there. Inspiration I've recently started taking from other things than tattooers. European folk lore, music, occultism, alchemy, old childrens books.
9, I KNOW YOU DO ARTWORK TOO, YOU DID HONOR AMONG THEVIES DESIGN, IS THERE ANY
OTHER BANDS YOU WORKED WITH?hahah notice those hands have one too many fingers? woops. I did a lot of artwork for some bad hardcore bands I dont care to remember. I did the artwork for the Length of Time/Santa Karla split 7" that recently came out. I loved LOT in my younger days so it was great to be asked to do that. I have a few projects coming up with Aurora Borealis records....that guy is putting out some of the best and most interesting music out.

10, WHAT BANDS ARE YOU LISTENING TO AT THE MOMENT & WHAT BANDS WOULD YOU SAY ARE
YOUR ALL TIME FAVS?
i'm going to answer this in hardcore bands seeing as this is what this blog is about... currently listening to: Low Places, Annihilation time, Raw Deal, Wayfarer....shit this is hard.... All time favourites: riff raff, crunch time, violent minds, think i care, crown of thornz, warzone

11,SO WHAT NON HARDCORE BANDS YOU LISTEN TOO & ALL TIME FAVORITES?
current: white ring- suffocation, anything by chelsea wolfe, Katharsis- fourth reich, burzum- fallen, US christmas- run thick in the night, Conan- horseback battle hammer.
all time: nick cave, Tom Waits, The veils, black mountain, marianne faithful.....



12, YOUR SXE, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN SXE FOR?
Eleven years.

13, WHAT MADE YOU BECOME STRAIGHT EDGE?
I wanted to distance myself as far as possible from jocks at my school. I always despised drinking culture and the general bullshit things that are drilled into us about being a "man".

14,WHAT DO YOU LIKE DOING BEST ARTWORK OR TATTOO'S?
Both haha I love tattooing but Im limited with it so I also like to paint.

15, FINISH THIS LINE.. NO RETREAT??
No Surrender!!!! Best martial arts film ever!

16,YOU STARTED DOING A BLOG, WHATS THE WEBLINK FOR THAT??
It's the esoteric gents blog www.esotericgentlemensblog.com it's about old motorcycles, interesting viny, bad tattoos, rare books and satan! I've been lazy on it lately but I plan on writting more stuff on it soon.

17,YOUR HAVE A THING FOR MANSON, EXPLAIN THAT & WHAT TURNED YOU ON TO MANSON IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I never was (and still am not) into serial killers. Being a film nerd I started watching Polanski films and reading about him. I became aware of who Manson was through that (I had the common misconception about a hippy who took plenty of drugs and killed some famous people) he didn't interest me. I was a mid '90s vegan straight edge kid so I read a lot of militant newsletters and propaganda material (a pity kids don't make those any more) and kept stumbling upon Manson quotes and reference to ATWA. Through that I discovered a lot of things the media doesn't want you to know about the man which made a lot of sense to me about environmental issues, communal living outside the boundaries of common law etc. At the time I was living in the US and for the lack of a better word was living in a cult. The way we were living had more than a few parallels do death valley haha.
I've withdrawn a lot of Manson paintings and influence due to the rise of ignorant children jumping on it. People see his face on an integrity shirt and think he's cool or worse they read Helter Skelter and think they have some insight on the subject.

18,YOUR ART IS VERY DARK & ALOT INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL, WHAT FASINATES YOU ABOUT ALL THINGS SATANIC?In my art I guess European folk lore. My mum was a punk with I guess hippy outlooks on life. We never had a tv in the house but I had shit loads of books. Fairy tales, north myths, Greek mythology, history books you name it. I read a lot of books of old german folk tales. In many of these the stories revolve around the common man, farmer, miller or whoever coming in contact with a personification of the devil, striking some sort of deal with him and in the end trying to work out how to get out of having been tricked by him. I guess that was my first kind of introduction, if you will, to the devil with one cloven hoof, a man's body and clothes and horns. Aesthetically I love this portrayal of Satan, And the fact he comes and interacts with humans. You never see the Christian god coming to interact directly with his greatest creation, he uses his angels or divine powers to do his dirty work. That always seemed lazy to me. The devil is a bit more hands on I guess.
Im a satanist, I believe Satan is the God of artists so I guess you could say when I draw or paint it is a form of "worship". I don't like using the term "worship" so just I tip my hat to him and sing his praises, be it in my paintings, tattoos or bedtime prayers.

19, SO IF PEOPLE WANNA GET WORK FROM YOU INK OR ART HOW CAN THEY GET IN CONTACT?
Find me on facebook, contact the shop or email me simon.jonathan.erl@gmail.com

20, THANKS FOR DOING THE INTERVIEW ANY LAST WORDS OR SHOUT OUTS?
Thank you for paying attention to my work. Shout outs as usual to The Esoteric Gents, Broken Barons and Pale Riders......oh and my mom!

IEPERFEST summer 2011 line-up

Friday, August 12 at 10:30am - August 14 at 10:00am

Location Crossroads of Poperingseweg and Hazewindestraat
Poperingseweg
Ieper, Belgium

GENET RECORDS & REPUBLYK VORTN VIS present

IEPER HARDCORE FEST 2011

12/13/14 AUGUST 2011

AGATHOCLES (B)
BLACK KITES (USA)
BROKEN TEETH (UK)
THE CARRIER (USA)
CDC (USA)
CHEAP GIRLS (USA)
COMEBACK KID (USA)
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR (USA)
DEATH IS NOT GLAMOROUS (NOR),
DECAPITATED (PL)
EXODUS (USA)
FATAL RECOIL (B)
FIRST BLOOD (USA)
GHOSTLIMB (USA)
HARMS WAY (USA)
JONAH MATRANGA (USA)
LA DISPUTE (USA)
LEMURIA (USA)
THE MAHONES (CAN)
POUND FOR POUND (USA)
RITUAL (D)
SFA (USA)
SHEER TERROR (USA)
SIX FT. DITCH (UK)
SOUL CONTROL (USA)
STRIKE ANYWHERE (USA)
STUPIDS (UK)
SWORN ENEMY (USA)
SWASHBUCKLE (USA)
TOUCHE AMORE (USA)
VICTIMS (S)
WISDOM IN CHAINS (USA)
XIBALBA (USA)

+ LOTS MORE TBC!

FACEBOOK PAGE LINK.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=137719636279608

LAZARE interview.

I have to say LZR are one of my favorite new bands I have heard in the last year, so I needed to do an interview with them. check it out & check them out.

MEMBERS.

guitare : Nico
guitare : Baptiste
basse : xchrisx
batterie : David
chant : Kevin
chant : Dam

1, SO YOU GUYS ARE FROM FRANCE, WHAT PART OF FRANCE YOU FROM?

Most of us are from Rouen (Normandy), 1 hour near Paris... A beautiful town!


2, IS THERE A GOOD SCENE THERE, WHAT BANDS ARE FROM THERE?

Yes there is. It's a melting polt of generation and lifestyle! We've got great band like Primal Age, As we bleed, Back to square one, Alceste, a Rising head for Elijah, Retromotions... For most of them, they are friends of us.

　
3, HOW DID YOU GUYS ALL MEET?


We all meet because of music, we meet 10 years ago for some of us.

　
4, WHATS STYLE OF HARDCORE DO YOU PLAY?


Hardcore! But we can't really define our music style. What's sure is that can limited as beatdown music...

　
5, WHAT ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?


We like hardcore bands like All out war, Kickback, Bulldoze, Nasty, 6fd, Morning again.... But also hiphop and rap music. But what influence us is most society and everydaylife.

　
6, HOW LONG HAS THE BAND BEEN AROUND?


This band was formed 2 years ago but we find our good line up only 1 year ago.

　
7, YOU HAVE 2 SINGERS, WHO IS IN THE BAND & WHAT DO THEY ALL DO?


Singers are Kevin and Damien. They are in charge of lyrics, book shows and communication.

　
8, YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY RELEASED A 4 TRACK CD, WHAT LABLE PUT THAT OUT?


Our Cd was released by Emergence Records. It's the production of a veteran of hardcore in rouen! Most of is work is about punk, oldschool hardcore and post hardcore. He brings very important support to the local scene! Respect!

　
9, ARE YOU HAPPY WITH HOW YOUR FIRST CD CAME OUT?
　
Yes and no... Even you can always find things to make better when it's the first..The most important it's people like it and help us doing shows!



10, WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS TO RELEASE A NEW CD?
　
This summer we're gonna record a full lenght album with Ludo from Nasty. Then will look for a label to deal it...



11, WHAT HAVE BEEN THE BEST SHOWS YOU HAVE PLAYED SO FAR?


I think it was in Spain, at Gijon with our friends from Officer Down. We meet great people there! Asturies Rules! But we also had great shows in Paris, Rouen, Rennes... But we are going to make good shows to June.

　
12, DOES ANYONE IN LAZARE PLAY IN OTHER BANDS?


No, we'd rather concentrate on it. We also make rap music with friends from other hardcore band... We're thinking about release a Cd one day...

　
13, WHERE DOES THE NAME LAZARE COME FROM?


From the bible ahah... We just didn't want another English name.

　
14, IF SERGE GAINSBOURG WAS STILL ALIVE, WOULD YOU LET HIM GUEST ON YOUR NEW CD?


Yes!! For sure!! But maybe he would be too busy... It would be better to have him in the studio for drink and smoke!

　
15, WHATS YOUR MYSPACE/FACEBOOK LINKS?


http://www.myspace.com/lazarehardcore

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001099658846

　
16, WHERE CAN PEOPLE GET YOUR CD'S / MERCH FROM?


During our shows or they can get it on Bigcartel on our myspace page!


17, ANY LAST WORDS SHOUT OUTS?


Thanks for your interest Peachey! Dedicated to all our friends, and all guys who still believe in hardcore...

Check the links to see shows and news!





LAZARE "Put Your Drinks Up" OFFICIAL VID link.
http://vimeo.com/17272002

Freddy Madball - Gunshots ft. Slaine & Jaysaun (OFFICIAL VIDEO) [HD]

TRC - Go Hard or Go Home - Official Music Video

The new TRC video out today.

UNSTABLE FOUNDATION interview.

1, SO YOUR AN OLD BUT NEW BAND, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE CONNECTION WITH 4 IN THA
CHAMBER .

Well, UF was started in March of 2009 a few weeks after 4ITC broke up. It was started by Dave and me (Frankie - both original 4ITC members). That is pretty much the only connection. Unstable Foundation is a new band with new music.

2, WHO'S IN THE LINE UP NOW, ANY ONE FROM THE ORIGINAL 4ITC?
Frankie – The original 4ITC guitar player. Unfortunately, Dave had to leave last year to pursue becoming a chef. We are still best friends to this day. He misses everyone and makes a mean meatloaf in the process

The non 4ITC members are:

Scott – Vocals (First Band, but tried out for American Idol)
Paul - Drums (ex Sworn Enemy)
Chris – Bass (ex Full Blown Chaos)

3, TAKING IT WAY BACK WHEN DID YOU GUYS START 4ITC?

Now I’m feeling old. We started 4ITC in Feb of 1995 and stayed a band until 2009. It was a fun run, but nothing lasts forever. We have been through 5 singers and 11 guitar players. It was time to kill it.

4, UNSTABLE FOUNDATION WAS THE NAME OF YOUR 1ST MCD, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS
NAME FOR THE NEW BAND?

We were going to name the band something like “Bear vs. Toddler” or “ I Wrestled A Mexican Once” but we figured it was easier to go with “Unstable Foundation”. It required no thought, no energy and it was already there. So, once we started a new one with ex members; it just seemed to fit. And everyone was on board with it.

5, SO YOU HAVE YOUR FIRST CD OUT, ARE YOU PLEASED HOW IT TURNED OUT?
We are really happy with it. We got to work with a great engineer in Rockland County , NY by the name of Max Velez. He’s an awesome dude and an extremely talented guy. It’s been a little slow getting it out into the world, but things take time. Usually, this stuff is not an overnight success. Then again Scott was on American Idol, so that should boost our sales by 2 or 3 records

6, YOU HAVE SOME GREAT GUEST VOCALS ON IT, IS THAT JUST FRIENDS OF THE BAND?

Absolutely, we are all friends. Sal Enemy has been friends with us for a long time. Plus, our drummer Paul used to be in Sworn Enemy. So we asked him to come down and it just fit. The same thing happened with Martin from Billy Club Sandwich. We have all known each other forever. The other guest vocals are Bobby Brazen (ex 4ITC/Slam One Down) and Dante from the band Undivided. That are all really talented guys and we were ecstatic to be able to have their voices on our CD. It was a great time had by all.



7, 4ITC HAD SO MANY DIFFERENT SINGERS, YOU THINK YOU FINALLY FOUND A STEADY
LINE-UP?

Well even though Unstable Foundation is the name of our first 4ITC record, we are by no means going to drag it out like 4ITC. Scott is a great addition to the band and he is not going anywhere. (Unless Simon Cowell calls him) We have fortified a solid line up of people that are in it for the love of playing music. 4ITC was an ego trip and a lot of the newer members didn’t really understand how being in a band worked and had alternate motives. I guess our mistake was taking in new members too quickly and not really taking the time to see if they fit. It will not happen in Unstable Foundation. We are all much older, wiser and clear headed since it takes a lot more beer to get us drunk



8, WHAT EVER HAPPEND TO THE ORIGINAL 4ITC SINGER, DO YOU EVER HEAR FROM HIM?

He became a Unick and started a 2012 religious cult with other Unicks. Last I heard he was currently trying different recipes for cyanide fruit punch for the big event on December 21, 2012.
Oh you wanted the truth?
Actually, no one knows what happened to him he had a falling out with the band in the end, but I think the Unick/2012 story is a lot better because it’s just too funny


HOW DID YOU FIND THE SINGER YOU HAVE NOW?

We had open tryouts. We weren’t looking for a guy that has been around for a long time. We were looking more for someone that was a little younger, that was still hungry and would work well with the rest of the band. He contacted us when he saw our ad, came down and did a good job. We heard he tried out for American Idol and were like “wow!” .. lol The rest is history. Though we torture him like a kid brother, he is a good fit!


10, ARE ANY OF YOU GUYS IN ANY OTHER BANDS?

Not at the moment. All members are just in UF. Want to start a side band?
We all have full time jobs and lots of responsibilities that go with them. So, all our free time goes to UF.


11, HOW DOES THE SCENE DIFFER NOW FROM WHEN YOU GUYS FIRST CAME OUT?
In my honest opinion it’s dying. There are much less places to play these days and the turnouts aren’t like they used to be. We play the music we love, but we wish more people loved it more. Now when a band you don’t know goes on, most people go outside while they play. (Even in the winter) Also, everyone you know is in a band these days. I can go on for days about this, but I’m sure your readers are bored of what I have to say already, why torture them more?

12, YOU THINK ITS BETTER NOW OR BETTER BACK IN THE 90'S?
It was way better in the 90’s.. More people came down and supported bands. Everyone watched you and if you sucked, you knew it!

13, WHATS THE REVIEWS BEEN LIKE FOR THE NEW CD?
Everyone that hears it tells me they love it. (Unless they are lying to me in the same way my mother told me I was handsome). I would love to find more reviews and I would have no problem sending a cd to anyone that wants to review it. Positive or negative! Just hit me up frankie4itc@yahoo.com

14, YOUR CD CAME OUT ON ON THE ATTACK RECORDS HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT?
Sammy from On the Attack is old friends with Dave and I, liked the new band and then offered to put our CD out. We released it in June of 2009 and It’s called “Strength Through Determination”. Pick it up, you won’t be sorry!

15, WHATS UNSTABLE FOUNDATIONS PLANS FOR THE REST OF 2011?
Play as many shows as possible. Get the music out there to everyone and hopefully just have a lot of fun. I have been playing in bands since I am 14 (20 years, yeah I’m old) and I honestly don’t know what to do if I wasn’t playing. So, until my legs are falling off and I have to be carried off the stage I will keep playing. Same goes for Chris and Paul. We are still trying to figure out Scott’s story. Did you know he tried out for American Idol?


16, HOW CAN PEOPLE HEAR YOU, WHERE CAN THEY GET YOUR CD FROM & WHATS YOUR
MYSPACE LINK?

www.myspace.com/unstablefoundation

17, I KNOW YOU GUYS WANNA PLAY IN EUROPE, HOW CAN PROMOTERS READING THIS GET IN
CONTACT WITH YOU GUYS?

First off, we would love to play overseas. So hit us up!
unstable.foundation@yahoo.com
(Frankie)frankie4itc@yahoo.com or (Scott) ihad240@gmail.com


18, ANY LAST WORDS & SHOUT OUTS.

Thank you for taking the time to do the interview and reviewing the CD. From the heart, the band appreciates it.

As far as shout outs:

John and Apparition (formerly Waist Deep In Flesh), Undivided, Slam One Down, Billy Club Sandwich, Sworn Enemy, Full Blown Chaos, Heartbeatstill, Diary of Demise, GFY and everyone that supports us thank you!



The links to there myspace, facebook, reverb nation.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unstable-Foundation/161304773912234

http://www.myspace.com/unstablefoundation

http://www.reverbnation.com/unstablefoundation

Pound for Pound - Dystopia

Check out the new vid from POUND FOR POUND.

GOLDEN BULLET interview.

I was really impressed when I first heard Golden Bullet, so I wanted to find out more about the band so I wrote singer tonny for an interview, here's what he had to say.

1, WHO'S IN THE BAND & WHAT DO THEY PLAY?
Golden bullet is Jeffrey (bass) , Jan (drums) , Ivo (guitar) , Lowie (guitar) and I’m Tonny (vocals).

2, WHEN DID YOU FORM & HOW DID YOU ALL MEET?
The first rehearsals must haven been somewhere early 2005. It was Jan (drums), Tom(guitar) and I. We already knew each other because we live in the same village.

Ivo (guitar) joined us a bit later. Nobody of us who met Ivo earlier, we found Ivo through a friend of him. Tom left very soon when Ivo joined us because of lack of time.

We found Lowie (guitar) as Tom’s replacement. We found him through some friends who knew Lowie was looking for a new band. Lowie knew a bass player and brought Jeffrey into our band. It must have been already summer 2005 until we had a real and the current (!) line up.

Not everyone knew all the others from in the beginning. Our passion for music brought us together and we became really good friends. And it is fantastic that it went that way, otherwise the band should not be still around !

3, HOW DID YOU GUYS DECIDE TO PLAY THE STYLE YOU DO THE H8000 STYLE?


Everybody in the band has his own vision on music and wanted to play something else. We decided just to start with writing songs, and that it was (and it still is) important that everyone within the band has his influence in our songs. We never wanted to play a certain style. We never putted the h8000 stamp on our style, it was something we got when we started to play shows. And we are more than happy with it, the older h8000 bands were and still are something special.

4, FOR KIDS WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT H8000 IS, COULD YOU EXPLAIN.

H8000 stands for the hardcore scene in “west-flanders”, they took the number 8000 because the zip code of every village/city in “west-flanders” begins with an 8 followed through three other numbers. Later they putted the H (that stands for hate) before it because of all the negative shit that entered the scene. The so called h8000 sound is an sound that was very typical for bands out of our area. Think bands in the vein of edge metal bands like Liar and Congress - two bands that everybody knows / heard off. For so far the lesson history like they told me, because we talking about the early 90’s now. I did my first show in 1998. I was 16 years old then, so I can only tell you my experiences from ‘98 until now.


For me is h8000 (and hardcore in general) more than a music style or an area in Belgium. It is a feeling and feelings are hard to describe. When I entered the scene, I saw a world who was new for me. Kids who were busy with organizing benefit shows, gave each other flyers to inform you about cases where they really cared about. Kids helping each other to get a ride to shows… There was a certain unity and respect. However there was also a lot of bullshit and maybe I just make my memories more beautifull than they are without realizing it because I was to young or whatever.
I know that humans have that bad habit to look too much back (or forward) instead of enjoying the here and now... But I want to be honest, I miss that positive atmosphere a bit, it just feels different now. And it is to easy to point to other and younger kids. I guess the older kids were not able to keep things / values alive? The only thing we can do is trying to give an example and looking in the mirror instead of pointing and nagging. After all, this counterculture and what it means to somebody is still something personal.

5, YOUR CD CAME OUT ON CFC RECORDS, HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT, DID THEY CONTACT
YOU TO SIGN TO THEM?

Diana a friend of us from holland, gave the people from cfc a promo. She said to us that they liked it, so I contacted cfc. I started to chat with Rick Verbeeck from cfc and Rick had a bit the same vision on hardcore, the scene, life, … like we had. We signed very quickly their label. Maybe a bit strange that we’re on a label from Holland , but we are very happy with it. Rick is a fantastic dude who does a lot for his bands.

6, ARE YOU HAPPY HOW THE CD TURNED OUT?
Yes we are. It is not perfect, and like the most thing in this world, there are things that can be improved. But we’re happy with the result. I also want to thank Andy Vuylsteke for doing a fantastic art job (http://xjuggernautx.deviantart.com/gallery/) ! We got exactly what we wanted ! And he had to work really fast. Jan our drummer, recorded everything, spent days and days to mix the whole shit and in the end everything was mastered at the famous CCR studio. Chris did the mastering two times!! The first time he was only 99 percent satisfied, so he did it again. He is a great dude to work with and very experienced in his studio work.

7,HAVE YOU RELEASED ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE YOU DID YOUR CD?

We did a split demo with our friends from saviour in 2008. In 2009 we released a promo. And in September 2010 we released this full length album.

8, WHATS THE SCENE LIKE IN BEL RIGHT NOW, ARE THERE ANY NEW BANDS WE SHOULD LOOK
OUT FOR?

There is a lot of activity. Lots of (new) bands and gigs. Some kids started to doing paper zines again. Something that wasn’t that common anymore. Let’s hope that this is the beginning of a new wind through our scene. Hardcore must be more than music !

About the bands where you should look out for. Check headshot with their new second vocalist Aarjen. I heard a very promising demo tape from a new band “last stand” . Cold fusion also a new band that will hit the Belgian stages very soon. Watch out for them! Last weekend we played together with fields of troy (with dompi from spirit of youth / blood redemption) and I’ve been blown away !!! I am sure that I forgot a lot of bands, but I can go on and on !

9, WHAT INFLUENCES YOU TO WRITE YOUR MUSIC & LYRICS?

My personal life, my vision upon the world around me and the injustice within it, sometimes even about my vision upon the hardcore scene. About my feelings, about guilt, betrayal, burdens, about those things that are so hard to express …
I’ve got a little story about this that I want to tell! Willem from flanders fury (http://flandersfury.blogspot.com/) did an in depth review about our record and the lyrics. He used a lot the word “reflection” in his review (about the lyrics), and I realized that this is something very important in my life / lyrics. To be honest, he gave me a bit more insight in my lyrics, I was impressed ! If you are into h8000 stuff check his blog ! (http://flandersfury.blogspot.com/)

10, WHAT BANDS HAVE BEEN A BIG INFLUENCE ON GOLDEN BULLET?

A lot of bands, but it is always so difficult to write names down. We are 5 different people all five influenced by different bands. Let me say, length of time, merauder, slayer, all out war, …

11, WHERE DID THE NAME GOLDEN BULLET COME FROM?

I tried to define the meaning of “golden bullet” in the song gold.betray.bullets..
It is about persons who reach you the hand and offer you solutions; the “so called-gold” . What if those same persons in the end the betray you? You get the gold… a golden bullet in your back.

12, I THINK ITS VERY COOL YOUR KEEPING THE H8000 SOUND ALIVE, DO YOU THINK YOUR
GONNA INFLUENCE MORE BANDS IN YOUR AREA TO DO THIS?

I really hope we do. It should be really cool that ten years from here we look back and can say that we were a band who influenced other bands to bring back the h8000 sound .

To be honest it is crazy that we already got a lot of very good reactions from outside Belgium. Kids who are saying how cool it is that there are still bands with an h8000 sound. Kids who liked the dark concept around the full album.

While within our own country some kids are always talking about the old h8000 bands and they forget about nowadays bands who bring (back) that kind of music. A bit pity, if you ask me… I hope the ban is broken with the full album. I see more and more younger kids at our shows, maybe they needed some time to get familiar with our sound? Or maybe they just didn’t know us yet. Lately we play more and more shows, we get more chances to spread our music. For the moment there is even next to the Belgians show a show in france and one in Holland confirmed.


13, WHAT ARE GOLDEN BULLETS PLANS FOR THE REST OF 2011?

Playing a lot shows ! We really enjoy the live vibe! And we already started writing new material. If it should be possible… doing a tour! A friend of the band is looking for that, but nothing is confirmed. So if there are people who are interested don’t hestitate to mail us !!! (Everyone in the band kept next dates free thursday 21 july, friday 22 july, saturday 23 july and sunday 24 juli.)


14, DO ANY OF YOU GUYS PLAY IN OTHER BANDS?

Nobody does, I think we are all to busy with different things outside the band. And we all want to focus on golden bullet. It is a fantastic thing if you can do rehearsals and playing shows and everything in and around the whole band with guys who are really good friends and are giving the best of them ! This is a fantastic reward for al the time and energy we put into it.



15, WHERE CAN PEOPLE HEAR YOU??, WHATS YOUR MYSPACE LINK?

Check www.myspace.com/goldenbullet . People who are interested in our full album, or have a question or so ; mail to goldenbulleth8000@hotmail.com or contact our label (www.myspace.com/crossfirecult). The album is also available through goodlife recordings and reality records !

ANY LAST WORDS OR SHOUT OUTS?

I want to thank you for doing this and the very kind words you said about our album in your review. I want to excuse me for the long answers (and that my English ain’t perferct) To everyone who wants to know something about us or our music, don’t hesitate to contact us ! People who can help us out, with a show in or outside Belgium or a tour, we always appreciate such things! To everyone who helped us out with something, thank you so much ! Take care.