Earth Crisis

I'm thinking about when this will be released and if I'm it'll be in November sometime

okay I don't really know you'll have one one under your belt was was Earth Crisis your last concert

dude

yeah no

You know, I had the opportunity late last year to meet Dwid after being a fan of his for more of my life than I haven't been.

Was that at the Judge Earth Crisis show?

It was.

Same here.

okay

play once with integrity once was six feet deep another time with integrity and then the only shows we got in cleveland after that were speaking tongues gigs except for the one you guys asked on holy three to play with earth crisis at the euclid tavern

Oh, yeah, that's right.

It was either you or Matt called us and said, hey, would you play the show? And I said, are you sure you want us to play the Earth Crisis?

Because we were doing 18 songs.

We're playing with Earth Crisis.

Well, I mean, you guys are a far better band than Earth Crisis.

I don't mind slandering Earth Crisis.

She came out without her shoes.

Earth Crisis was sick.

Ringworm was sick, too.

Oh, shit.

No mercy, no exceptions, a declaration of total war, the innocent's defense, the reason it's waged for.

that would be earth crisis firestorm.

Exactly.

Great EP.

Right.

Right.

And, and, and earth crisis in particular is going to get brought up a lot for me, but, um, there was the whole, like they got behind their movements.

Like again, there was like this youthful defiance.

But they were super good.

And Earth Crisis, holy shit.

They were awesome.

I have, like, one of the best set lists I've seen them play in a long time.

knocked it out

yeah

yeah i wouldn't have mind seeing seeing earth crisis

though i see

yeah absolutely i mean like i say i've never listened to this before and this is completely blowing me away this is it is like so great i think it's so great they definitely did not get four times

they did they definitely didn't get the attention that they deserved i think i mean in my mind they should have been at the very top of the you know, Earth Crisis, Integrity, all those, which I also, I love all those metallic hardcore bands, but to me, they were always the top.

Yeah I mean 95 I was not listening to hardcore and I didn't know anything about hardcore it's kind of a couple of years later before you know seeing sick of it all for the first time just happening to see them at a festival and I was like oh shit and then that's the next few years I was like I'm gonna try and get everything and you know it was hard to you know I was from a little village in Hampshire um in the UK and getting any kind of punk and hardcore um from any time was pretty difficult for me going into like our local record stores it didn't really have much of many options you had to go into London and just sort of forage for what you could get and so I just never heard this band I think I would have seen them getting mentioned and thanks on various CDs and bits and bobs but I had never heard this and I cannot believe that what 31 years after it came out i'm hearing it now for the first time and it just sounds unbelievable to my ears like this album is fucking incredible i mean how bold in 1995 of a hardcore band to like open with a seven minute long yeah on your album like the fucking ball that sounds bold to me yeah

yeah

And I don't, because I don't, you know, when I'm talking to someone, I know they're not going to know Damnation AD or they might not know the other bands on the list either.

But I put this one on because this record just had... such a crazy impact on my life and like i said it's it's it's why we started the band like we just wanted to be them when we were kids like to us they were they were our you know we were too young to really experience the um the minor threat bad brains era of dc hardcore so for us battery and damnation ad they were our minor threat and bad brains you know

yeah i mean you know this is like crushing in that kind of i guess pre like saying integrity earth crisis pre-hate breed um kind of hardcore and then you've got stuff in it like funeral march in the middle which is just like this atmospheric bluesy guitar solo thing for like nine and a half minutes nine and a half minutes

just ballsy ballsy move after ballsy move from them yeah

And they've been going hard since then.

They started out as more of a hardcore-centric band, being fans of bands like Earth Crisis and Disembodied and all of that.

But they really got into a band called Damnation A.D., and that's when they decided to form a band that was really aggressive.

And then they got into At the Gates and the melodic death metal scene.