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Paranoize is a non-profit independent February 1, 2016
publication based in New Orleans, Louisiana Only 4 months late in getting an issue out on
covering metal, punk, hardcore, sludge, time! I’m getting better! Paranoize’s New
Year’s Resolution is to actually crank these
doom, stoner rock and pretty much anything
issues out on a somewhat regular schedule.
loud and noisy.
At least every 3 months. I had a computer
crash and blah blah blah you don’t care.
Bands/labels are encouraged to send their
music in to review, but if we don’t like it, This issue has interviews with 2 New
you can bet that we’ll make fun of you. Orleans bands (Witch Burial and Glut) and 2
bands from the Gulf Coast (Future Hate,
from Mobile, Alabama and Dragunov from
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You may send all comments, questions,
know that the world of loud, noisy music has
letters, music for review (vinyl, cassette, cd),
lost a true legend and pioneer, As a tribute to
‘zines for trade, money, various household the life and music of Lemmy Kilmister, Al
items, etc. to: Hodge has contributed his journal entry
Paranoize which recounts the Motorhead/Agnostic
P.O. Box 2334 Front/Hallows Eve show (and the ensuing
Marrero, LA 70073-2334 riot) on October 27th, 1986 in Chalmette,
Louisiana.
USA
I leave you with this drawing of
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Paranoize #38 credits:
Bobby Bergeron:
Glut interview, Dragunov interview,
reviews, layout, tyrant.
Jenn Attaway
Future Hate interview
Lizard
Witch Burial interview
Al Hodge III
Motorhead story and cover photo
(Motorhead at the St. Bernard Civic Center
10-27-86)
NEW ORLEANS SCENE
REPORT
Joe Laubach (The Eat the Witch, Short Leash and
Pallbearers/Medically Separated) Glut
has launched a record label,
Summary Execution Records, and Recordings for Disappointed Parents
has a few release coming out: and Donkey Puncher are both in the
Medically Separated split 7" with finalizing process and will be out this
Nola/Houston band Fugitive Family year.
Baghead (from Hattiesburg, MS) 7”
Short Leash 7" (sometime in late Classhole has released their self titled
February right before they leave for album on cd through The Compoud
tour through Texas and Mexico). Records. A split 7” with Fuck You
Pay Me is in the works!
The Pallbearers new album is on
hiatus, because Richie Roachclip is in A Hanging will be releasing a few
need of an operation. tracks on compilations this year (the
“Crescent City Carnage” comp LP, a
Josh Vaughan (aka Josh Wolf) of 4-way split 7” with Dragunov,
Reason Of Insanity, Snooty Wartrodden and Before I Hang, and
Garbagemen, Secret Prostitutes, too a cassette compilation that Rob
many other bands, has moved to New Lovell is putting together.
Orleans and is starting a few new
projects with many people here. Baptizer’s 2015 demo is being
released on cassette through A
Dummy Dumpster is finished Necessary Evil Records and have
recording the new album "Red Sword recently added a bass player, Todd
Of Redemption" and there will be a Strange (Crowbar/Down) adding
NOLA cd release show in February or some low end to their sludgy death
March. sound!
Six Pack have finally released their Eyehategod has splits with Bl’ast and
cd "Demonic Possession" Mountain Of Wizard coming soon!
Gristnam has released “Release 3” on Opprobrium (formerly Incubus) will
their bandcamp page and also have a have a remastered version of their
split with Fulgora coming out in a “Serpent Temptation” re-released by
few months Relapse Records and may possibly
even have a couple of reunion shows
CRage! Records will be releasing this year!
Crescent City Carnage, a 12”
compilation featuring A Hanging, Desecrator is a bad ass new thrash
Gristnam, Ossacrux, FSUP, …I band featuring members of Most
Ain't, Solid Giant, Sunrise:Sunset, Heinous and Short Leash.
Add some Satan and some spells and you
have Witch Burial.
Any of you guys religious?
Naw , just hateful.
You guys planning on playing more shows
after the record is released?
We're hoping to tour in support of the album.
Do a bunch of weekend gigs and then a 2
week tour. We try not to play the local scene
much. People around here can burn their shit
out. We don't wanna be that band.
Witch Burial is a four piece blackened rock n What is your definition of black metal?
roll band with members from other bands! Me personally its all about nasty, dirty, mean
Listen to them and read this... hatred. I want to kill you and your family in
the name of Satan type shit. I get bored with
Between all you guys, what bands/projects atmospheric stuff, although I do love
are y'all in? Burzum hhaha. We're not into new hip
Well there is a lot of em. I myself there’s shitster bands . No progressive/No
Nex de Omnis, Writhe, Serpentis , Rob has hipsters/no nerd glasses hahahah
Ossacrux and 100 other punk bands. Jared,
the singer is in Nex de Omnis with me and As far as the NOLA scene goes, do bands
he was the first singer of Goatwhore. Chip is with your style get respected the same?
in Diab and Sam is from Gloria Lunae. Well, NOLA is known for its sludge music.
People expect every band from here to sound
What era Goatwhore Jared play in? like that shit. Things are getting better. The
He was the first guy, back when it was called bands are getting better and the crowds are
Killgore. getting bigger. I guess after you play for 13,
14 years in one city people start to notice. So
You have any other recordings besides the yeah I think things are getting better for
bandcamp stuff? black/death metal here.
We just finished up recording our new
album. It’s gonna be released through the What are some of your favorite local
Occult Roots label hopefully at the end of bands?
the year. There's some good bands here. I like Six
Pack, A Hanging, Dummy Dumpster,
When did you guys decide to start Witch Demonic Destruction, Abysmal Lord,
Burial? Ossacrux, FSUP, Classhole.. Mehenet I
Well Sam and I were jamming with Writhe could go on and on.
and that kind of lost steam. So we changed
the music to be a little more abrasive and How do you like Phil and his 100 projects?
called in Jared to sing. Later Rob answered No comment hahha Naw man, he does a lot
an ad for a bass player and Chip came along of shit. I guess if I were in his position id do
and kind of finished up the sound we have. the same. I dig Christ Inversion and Old
It’s a great group of guys to jam with. Necrophagia.
As with all your projects, evil shit seems to You can check Witch Burial out at:
be the focus of your writing…. How do the witchburial504.bandcamp.com
songs come together lyrically?
Jared and I talk about what direction songs
should go in. And he just comes up with
some great lyrics. We try to focus on true
evil. Murder, war, just mean spirited shit.
the Eiffel Tower, Today is the Day, Cows,
MDC, Die Kreuzen, Black Orphan,
Executive Slacks, Creeps on Candy, Qui,
Killdozer, Wire, Big Black, Subhumans,
Lydia Lunch, The Fall, The Dicks.
Some of my favorite bands that we’ve
played with in some form or another are
Golden Pelicans, Dummy Dumpster, Mr.
Clit and the Pink Cigarettes, Fat Stupid
Ugly People, Nots, Child Bite, Negative
Approach, Buck Biloxi and the Fucks,
Future Hate consists of Miranda Pixley on
Liquor and Lies, Classhole, Party Plates,
vocals, Dennis Hyland on guitar, Matt
Salts, and I’m probably forgetting a lot of
Martin on bass, and Austin Reidy on
great shows off the top of my head
drums. When Austin is training to be a
because I’m an alcoholic but I TRIED.
military helicopter pilot (no, really),
Honestly, I could blubber on in this
David White takes over on drums. Matt
section but I won’t bore too much. This is
and Dennis are two of the original
just a small portion.
members of Naked Intruder, although
The most recent thing I’ve been listening
Miranda and Austin were also in the band
to is Dope-Guns-’N-Fucking in the
at the time of its demise. All four members
Streets, as well as Skin Graft
of Future Hate are also in CCCR with
compilations. I like a LOT of noise. Matt
Jamie Vayda of The Stovebolts on vocals.
likes Toto.
Miranda plays bass in that project.
Future Hate will be playing at Circle Bar
Where does some of the inspiration
on February 26th. I caught up with her to
from your songwriting come from?
see what’s going on these days.
Honestly, passages that I read from my
futurehate.bandcamp.com
favorite authors really help to motivate
and capture horrific graphic imagery. Our
How and when did Future Hate co
self-titled album is heavily influenced by
me into existence?
the writings of Mikhail Bulgakov, Celine,
It was a bizarre existence. Soap-operatic
& Klaus Kinski’s autobiography, with
melodrama, sad staking of claims,
other random snippets and goodies from
probably lots of crying.
personal garbage that decided to overflow
to lyrical content.
How would you describe your style?
Hardcore punk with people that can
What is the band’s songwriting process
actually write and play. Everyone has
like?
completely eclectic influences, but it just
Everyone contributes. Normally, Dennis
so happens to fit together… peppered with
comes up with certain themes throughout
horrible inside jokes.
a song and then continues to develop them
It’s hard to describe influences because we
with drums, then Matt puts his gorilla-
really don’t set out to sound like anything
style bass over the themes to give more
else, but we definitely listen to music. This
drive; or, we start with a bassline from
is where I blah blah….Nomeansno, Jesus
Matt and we take it from there. Some of
Lizard, Discharge, Fugazi, Motorhead,
the songs were recorded over a year ago,
Swans, Melvins, Lake of Dracula, Hoover,
while others might have just been
Cream Abdul Babar, Das Oath, The
festering in our minds for a week and end
Birthday Party, Pissed Jeans, Hex
up in a live set.
Machine, Clockcleaner, Chrome, Foetus,
The Plasmatics, Country Teasers, Thrones,
Daughters, Hepa-titus, Plot to Blow up
Does being a female frontperson play Mystery School Records. We have been
into your writing or style at all? Do you continuing to write and incorporate
factor gender in at all? unreleased material into our sets.
I don’t think so. I’m just an honestly
disgusting individual. I think that may
have been the appeal to let me scream
obscenities while they made noise. Maybe
it was the former frontperson turning my
mic around at a show and telling me that
“girl vocals” during our set was a no-no.
That may have solidified his ousting in
my own mind, and got me motivated
enough to continue writing, because we
had a great thing going. I wanted to put What is CCCR? What does that sound
words to all kinds of noises. My point is, I like?
don’t factor in gender at all and neither CCCR is hard to explain. Dennis met
does anyone else in Future Hate, but Jamie Vayda when they played a
people often do and it pisses me off. Stovebolts show together. They had a lot
in common and Vayda offered up his
Future Hate arose from the ashes of vocals. We had all of the music recorded
Naked Intruder, and originally, you with no one to sing it. Vayda was brought
even kept the name. At what point did in as a hired gun of sorts after gripes about
you guys decide to change the line-up, the direction of the band. We went into the
and why did you change the name? studio, and at the last minute, our singer
We had lots of new material either decides he can’t sing on that material. It
completely recorded minus vocals, or was quite bizarre. In the end, it yielded
concepts that we were sitting on in Naked something quite amazing, I have to say.
Intruder and just in the process of
recording and writing because we are Do any of the guys want to talk about
always toiling. The songs were getting what kind of gear they’re using these
more and more intricate and I guess days?
someone just couldn’t handle that. We I’m just going to make stuff up in this
booked a few shows mid-break up of section that I THINK is right but is not
sorts, so we continued with the name. I necessarily truthful - but, as memory
wasn’t whipping my dick out on stage so I serves me, correct. Austin plays on a
didn’t want anyone feeling deflated Sonor Drum set that looks like someone
coming to our shows not getting puked 60s seafoam green all over it, that
cockflashed. More new set, less old set. also has boogers on it that he assures me
are for tone, but I’m pretty sure they just
Do you have any recordings out (and if collect hair and more boogers… and, to be
so, how can fans get them)? Are you honest with you, I’ve never seen a kit like
working on anything new? that before; it’s very random. Dennis is a
We released our first, self-titled, album magician on guitar so I dont really quite
back in September which is the absolute grasp what’s going on there. He plays a
tits for a first album, as far as I’m much cleaner sound on what I believe is a
concerned. You can get our songs on Valve King slant with an Acoustic head…
bandcamp.com, or send us a message via MAYBE… He also breaks out an Orange
the world wide interwebs and we will ship amp from time to time. Matt plays on an
you a copy. Your best bet is to not be a Ampeg Combo…. I heard that he acquired
miserable, lazy, sad sack and actually it from a very kind transgendered fellow,
come out to a live show. We are VERY but that is a story for another day.
VERY close to releasing CCCR on
impossible to get pressed. Cassettes seem
to be making a comeback with
record/music enthusiasts, so we went with
tapes. The kids seem to like ‘em.
What's planned for the near future?
Working on some new material for a split
release with LEOPARD PRINT in 2016.
And we will likely try to start getting
some out of town gigs sometime after
Mardi Gras.
What have been your favorite and least
favorite shows?
We have been pretty fortunate with shows,
especially for being a “new band”. We
Glut is a punk/hardcore band featuring
haven’t had a bad show yet. I honestly
members of Ossacrux, The Pallbearers,
don’t know if there’s a favorite – our first
Gasimasma and Medically Separated.
show at Siberia was really awesome. We
You can check them out at
ended up playing last and after a line up of
glut504.bandcamp.com
bands that we sounds NOTHING like. We
Here is an interview with vocalist Rob.
got on stage, rocked for about 18 minutes,
and got a tremendous response. Everyone
Who's in Glut?
was pretty stoked and got really excited.
Howie - Guitar, Pam - Bass, Dan - Drums,
That’s the show that still sticks out for me.
Rob – Vocals
What do you think of the New Orleans
scene? (Favorite bands/venues?)
Give a little history on the band.
New Orleans loves heavy, intense, raw,
Glut originally started with Howie, Pam,
hardcore music – and that’s what we do,
and Dan. They had been jamming on some
so it works out well for us.
songs for a while before I joined. Pam is
my stylist/hair sculptor/head shape
You're all involved in several other
engineer and had mentioned the project
bands. Who's in/does what and what
and that they were in search of a vocalist,
are they all about?
so I auditioned. Everything seem to jive
Howie is in the Pallbearers, Reason Of
really well between the 4 of us, so we
Insanity, Fugitive Family and also in
locked it down and became GLUT. I think
Medically Separated with Pam. Dan is
Dan came up with the name. I can’t
also in Gasmiasma. I play drums in
remember for certain, but I’m pretty sure
Ossacrux, I play bass in Witch Burial, and
it was Dan.
I play guitar in a new project called
Torture Garden, which also features Dan
How would you describe your sound?
on drums, as well as Jasmine from Jesse
Old school hardcore punk. We aren't
Tripp and the Nightbreed on bass and
trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes
Emily from Boozoo on vocals. Torture
to song writing. Just paying homage to
Garden demo will be out at the end of
bands that inspire us and making music
January, so keep your eyes peeled.
that we would want to listen to.
Any final comments?
Why have you only released your music
Thanks for making Paranoize happen!
on cassette so far?
And thanks to NOLA for all the love and
Vinyl pressing plants have been backed up
support!
for quite a while, so vinyl is almost
