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Bennett / Photography: Amelia Prime & Greg Bojorquez Even the most cursory of listens to either of Gaza’s two albums, 2006’s I Don’t Care Where I Go When I Die and 2009’s He Is Never Coming Back, reveal a band that straddles the increasingly blurry worlds of metal, hardcore, sludge and grind without lingering very long in any of them. Vocalist Jon Parkin says that’s because the Salt Lake City-based quartet stresses originality over rigid genre identification. “A lot of what’s going on in metal right now is facebook.com/gazamusic parallel to what happened to punk rock in the 1980s and hardcore in the 1990s,” Parkin says. Watch an interview with Gaza and videos of their live “There’s a lot of fronting and posing going on. It performance at Scion’s Metal Matinee series at scionav.com/metal feels like a miniature Hollywood, where a disaster movie does well and suddenly you’ve got ten in a year coming out. That comes and goes. Original bands will last. We work real hard to take what’s come before us and make our own sound with it rather than mimic or perpetuate.” Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Gaza can deliver every last decibel of their dissonant, hyper- aggressive goods live. “Anyone who comes to see us will get a very loud, gimmick-free punk rock show,” Parkin promises. “It should be a place where you can find an outlet and a room full of people who might see the world similarly to you. We’ll play as well as we can and as loud as they’ll let us.” BurninG LovEStory: J. Bennett Photography: Greg Bojorquez It’s not often that a musician’s side project Burning Love’s full-length debut, Songs For ends up becoming his primary band, but that’s Burning Lovers, fuses propulsive stoner-rock what happened to vocalist Chris Colohan in grooves and turbo-charged punk riffage with 2008 when prominent Toronto hardcore outfit Colohan’s seemingly deep affinity for Henry Cursed broke up after they were robbed of their Rollins-era Black Flag. Lyrically, Burning Love is passports and all their earnings at the end of a far more positive than Cursed’s venomous tirades. European tour. Colohan had started Burning Love the previous year with Our Father members “There’s definitely a shift in approach, if not Easton Lannaman, Pat Marshall, Andrus Meret subject matter,” Colohan says. “The content isn’t and Dave O’Connor (who has since been replaced really all that different, but it has to fit the context by Alex “Hawk” Goodall), and suddenly found of the music it’s made for, which is still loud and himself with more time to devote to his new chaotic, but with a very different energy—more project after Cursed’s demise. fun than bleak. My comfort zone is one particular side of my mentality—the dark and nasty, “I had to take a few steps back from everything, let paranoid and apocalyptic point of view. And it’s alone music, after what happened,” he explains. genuine, but not a healthy place to live in full- “But within a couple months I wanted to step it time, you know?” up and get back to it. It’s what I love doing, so I’m going to be doing it regardless of the liabilities burninglove416.blogspot.com that come with the territory, or how many times I have to walk away from something that a bunch of Watch an interview with Burning Love and videos of us have put a lot of years and work into. Burning their live performance at Scion’s Metal Matinee series at Love was already there and ready for it.” scionav.com/metal Why did you start Flenser? I had heard this Ghast record, May the Curse Bind. I really wanted a vinyl version, and there wasn’t one available, so I contacted the band and asked them about that. It went from there. The purpose has kind of changed since then. I’m not into doing just the vinyl editions anymore, but that’s really why it started. Early on, many of the bands you signed were from the Bay Area. What’s special about that region’s metal? There does seem to be a theme of good outsider metal here. You look at bands like Von or Weakling, which were both early, very necrite “sic transit gloria mundi” important black metal bands. I don’t know exactly why that is. San Francisco is a pretty nice place, there’s not a huge amount of social oppression here, but it does seem to result in outsider black metal that is unique here. That’s not necessarily the reason that I’ve signed San Francisco bands, it’s partly just a matter of access. But it also does seem like there’s a lot going on here. What do you look for in a band you sign? I don’t have a specific aesthetic I look for in the bands. In general, I seem to be into bands that are just a little bit different than what’s going on in the genre. So with Panopticon, that’s not straight-up skagos/panopticon “split” black metal. There are crust influences, he’s an anarchist. I kind of like that that’s outside of the regular black metal world, although it has roots there. That’s true for most of the bands on the label. Are there personal qualities, or a particular work ethic, that you look for in a band beyond the music they make? More recently that’s something I look for. If a band wants to tour and is really excited about that, that’s a plus. But that hasn’t been the thing that has drawn me to bands. It usually just feels right. It’s the whole package. I have to like the music and like the people and like whatever message they have. Or at least not completely hate it! pale chalice “afflicting the dichotomy of trepid creation” To what extent is Flenser a DIY label? I don’t think it really is a DIY label at this point. When it comes to releasing vinyl, I might press an insert and package it myself, but I’m not hand-screening anything. I’m not building the packages.