BLOOD SHED RAIN ZINE

I was a metal kid, so it came really late for me haha, I was asked by a mate to play drums for him in a band that he had started with some other friends, which ended up being this semi-joke eventually turned serious band Top Gun (which became Slowburn) and I guess it really all just started from there, I had obviously heard hardcore bands before this and stuff but this was the first time I was exposed to other Australian bands and bands that we’re influencing the songs we were writing. But really what changed it for me was watching Hard Luck alot more, and getting to know the guys in the band, they are still one of my favourite hardcore bands, and im lucky enough to be in a band with some of them now. 

-howd i exist start

Slowburn was starting to wind down and I had been playing drums in bands for about 5 years straight at that point with very little time playing guitar, and I wanted to do something a bit more in the style of music that I listened to, but still keep it within the same people I loved playing with and in the scene I was a part of I spose. So I wrote some songs and asked Murph and Sam to play them with me (who were both in Slowburn at the time), then I asked Alex to play Bass cause he hadnt been doing stuff for a while and hes a killer bass player and then I asked Jake to sing, then we started jamming. 

- when you guys started you guys were quite crusty and real intense. with every release your sound has progressed towards more of a stoner rock vibe, was this by design or natural

Definitely totally natural, I like crustier stuff and where we started wasnt some sorta made up thing, it was just what I was writing at the time and what I was listening to alot. But as the band has gone on my musical influences and tastes have obviously seeped through to what I really love and its helped us end up where we are now. 

When I moved to Melbourne Yells was telling me about how she was struggling to start this band that she had been trying to do for yonks and they needed a drummer, and I play drums and at that point hadn’t done so in a long time so was keen to get back to it, so I jammed with them, and I was in the band. Was all pretty quick and easy, its a fun band to be in. 

Guitar. You dont have to lug a car’s worth of gear around and I find Guitar a lot more fun to play. 

- how siked are you to have a release out on prosthetic

Haha, pretty stoked. It’s really awesome that a label overseas wanted to put out our record and especially one with a great history of releases. They’re awesome people and so far have been so easy to work with, so its good!

The people involved with the scene and the friends I have made over the years being in bands I think. I mean I obviously love the bands I listen to, otherwise I wouldn’t listen to them haha, but when you have such a broad network of mates all over the country its something really sick and that I’d never had before I was playing in hardcore bands. Being able to go almost anywhere in the country and have mates to see and a place to crash is an amazing feeling. 

‘Take as Needed for Pain’ by Eyehategod. They are my favourite band, and that record is perfect, brutally heavy, but with a distinct punk/hardcore vibe that keeps shit interesting, and blues groove that makes my hairs stand up.