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METAL ZINE scIoNAv.coM voL. 2 V. municipal waste - crom agalloch - floor - nails bonded by blood SCION A/V SCHEDULE A p r il April 9 Scion Metal Matinee with Mind Eraser and Noisear in Chicago, Illinois April 10 Scion Metal Matinee with Mind Eraser and Noisear in Los Angeles, California April 26 Scion A/V: Enslaved EP M Ay May 14 Scion Metal Matinee in Los Angeles, California Staff C U r r en t Ly AVA I L A b le : Scion Project Manager: jeri YoShizu, SciontiSt Nails, editor: eric ducker creative direction: Scion “Conform/Scum Will Rise” video art directION: mBf Production director: anton SchleSinger contriButing editor: j. Bennett AssiStant editor: Maud deitch graPhic deSignerS: nicholaS aceMoglu, caMeron charleS, kate Merritt, gaBriella SPartoS Question: Sheriff: StePhen giSondi How do you keep up with new bands to book for scion metal events? 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BennettB o n d e d B y B l o o d Taking its name from the influential 1985 album “It’s an album with a very metaphorical message,” by Bay Area thrashers Exodus, Bonded by Blood says Garcia. “It’s about how an alien race called rolled out of Pomona, california, with a four- the crong takes over Earth through the system- song demo titled Four Pints Of Blood. That they atic collapse of world governments into a new world recorded this demo with studio time they won in order. They seek something hidden deep within the a local battle of the bands contest—beating out human genome that will secure their existence.” 249 competitors—has “cinderella story” written all over it. And so it was… Inspired by the conspiracy theories of Alex Jones, David Icke and Megadeth’s 2009 album In 2007, the band self-released an EP titled Ex- Endgame (which was named after an Alex Jones tinguish The Weak, which featured a cover of the documentary), Exiled to Earth merges shadow gov- theme song from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ernment menace with comic book battle action, and landed them a contract with lauded U.K. ex- as evidenced by the band’s shoot ’em up video for tremity label Earache Records. They then helped the song “Prototype: Death Machine.” “I wanted introduce classic 1980s thrash to a new genera- the concept to be more relevant to this era, but tion of headbangers with their 2008 Earache de- it ended up being set in 2610,” Garcia says. “Regard- but, Feed The Beast. Though they’ve experienced less of what time the album is set in, I believe it sends some lineup changes over the years, the group a very clear message out to those who seek it.” currently features guitarists Juan Juarez and Alex Lee, bassist Jerry Garcia, drummer carlos Re- myspace.com/bondedbyblood galado and newly added vocalist Mauro Gonzales. Bonded By Blood played the 2011 edition of the Bonded by Blood’s second and latest full-length, Scion Rock Fest. For photos and videos, go to Exiled to Earth, takes an entirely different turn, see- scionav.com/rockfest ing them entering unfamiliar territory for most thrash bands. Exiled to Earth is a concept album about an alien invasion of our planet, circa 2610. Interview: J. Bennett Photography: Donofthedead Formed in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Crom became cult favorites when their 2001 full-length debut, The cocaine Wars: 1974-1989, throttled listeners with a gonzo onslaught of uncleared samples, deranged verbal outbursts and blasts of sludgy powerviolence. They followed it up six years later with Hot sumerian Nights, a sharper, more precise amalgamation of the band’s monster riffage and heavily sampled Bronze Age fixations. Known for unhinged live shows, Crom currently has a new album and a documentary in the works. Guitarist Phil Vera, also of L.A. powerviolence legends Despise You, gave us the rundown. HOW WOuLD YOu say THE BAnD CHAnGED BETWEEn THE cocAINE What’s THE status OF THE CrOm DOCumEntarY? Dude, I have no clue. I recently saw the guy WARs AnD HoT sUMERIAN NIGHTs? The musicianship has definitely gotten better. I don’t know who’s doing it, and he was interviewing a bunch more people. I was under the impression that he was if that’s good for everybody, but for me, I just can’t keep playing a bunch of noise. I want to progress. pretty close to being finished, but then he was asking for more footage, so I don’t know. It’s too bad, I want to become DragonForce. I mean, who doesn’t? But basically, we feel the first record is like Evil because that teaser that came out a while back was cool. But I guess he’s like us when we make records, Dead and the second record is Evil Dead 2, where they improved the formula. so we’ll probably blow it it just takes forever. Except that we don’t put out a two-minute clip for something that’s coming out in with our third record, kinda the way sam Raimi did with Army of Darkness. five years. A nEW CrOm ALBum Is In PrOGrEss. WILL IT EVEr COmE OuT? That’s a good question. I’d say CrOm sHOWs ArE KnOWn FOr BEInG unPredictable. What DO YOu HOPE PEOPLE GET we’ve written about half of a record. My goal is to actually have it done this summer, which means I OuT OF sEEInG YOu LIVE? You know how when jazz bands play, they leave that kind of free space gotta get my pops going on the artwork. where every performance can be different? crom is kinda our version of jazz. You never know what’s gonna happen. I think we might start doing some flips, maybe get some chainsaws. I think people GOOD sEGuE. YOur DAD Is THE mAsTErmInD BEHInD THE CrOm ALBum COVErs. HOW DID would be into that. that starT? My dad has been a commercial artist for about 40 years now. He started with a company that did all these cheesy 1970s movies like Food of the Gods, meteor and The Hearse. He drew sketches and allhailcrom.com storyboards, whatever they needed. He’s actually working on the new Transformers movie now. When we needed artwork for the first crom album, I asked him and he was totally into it. We told him we Crom played the 2011 edition of the scion rock Fest. For photos and videos, go to scionav.com/rockfest wanted a girl riding a polar bear, done [Frank] Frazetta style, and he was totally into it. And then he did the foldout with that viking—we call him sven. He totally gets where we’re coming from. BASTARD NOISE Story: J. Bennett Photography: Magdalena Wosinska When discussing the goal of Bastard Noise, bassist and co-vocalist Eric Wood says, “We just wanna go for force, precision and calculated progression.” Wood co-founded the Los Angeles noise band 20 years ago as an offshoot of powerviolence progenitors Man Is the Bastard. “Bastard Noise really came from my love of bass,” he offers. “It goes back to when I was a kid and first discovered bands like Budgie and Yes and Gentle Giant—and, of course, the original [Black] sabbath catalog. I liked anything that threw me overboard in a blissful manner. But at some point you wanna stop being a spectator and just do it.” As a result, Bastard Noise was born on a cold slab of heavily manipulated electronics and bone-rattling low-end. Known affectionately as “the skull”—a reference to their infamous death’s head logo—Bastard Noise is lauded as much for their prowess in the noise genre as for its insanely prolific output.