About Me
PREDATION, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Venom, Keen of the Crow, Fear of God(Switz), Possessed, Bathory, Autopsy, Vesuvius, Bolt Thrower, God Macabre, Putrefaction, Sadistic Intent, Nihilist/Entombed, Assuck, Immortal, Anarchus, DeadHead, Blasphemy, Dark Angel, Desultory, Excruciating Terror, Blood, Crematory(Swe), Death, Kreator, Dr. Shrinker, Immolation, Goreaphobia, Grotesque, Megaslaughter, Sodom, Necrovore, Abominator, Old Funeral, Thou Shall Suffer, Exorcist, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Invocator, Asphyx, Nuclear Assault, Dead Infection, At War, Beherit, Dismember, Sarcofago, Obituary, Multiplex, Sabbat, Sadus, Excruciation, Convulse, and a million more!!!!!!Those are just off the top of my head.If it's Death, Grind, Thrash, Speed, Black, Doom,Crust, WHATEVER Metal.As long as it's good and true,I LOVE IT!!!!!!
Of course I love all of the classics,but I love the new bands as well that keep the torch burning.I also can get into other types of music as long as it's extreme and true!!Old Country(Cash, Jennings, Nelson, Cline, Lynn, Jones,etc...)Some Hip Hop as long as it's heavy and underground influenced(Wu-Tang, Cannibal Ox, Vast Aire, MF Doom, Dalek, Ill Bill, Necro, Geto Boyz)And other shit like Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Oldies from the 50s and 60s, Classic Rock from the 70s, Some 80s..ical and Jazz also make it into my listening sometimes,as do old American roots music and Blues.Love REAL Hardcore and REAL Punk.Circle Jerks, Discharge, Mob 47, Anti Cimex, Raw Power, Varukers, G-Anx, Charles Bronson, Disrupt, Hersey, Crude SS, Siege, Black Flag, Misfits, Poison Idea, Battalion of Saints, Amebix, Ramones, Extreme Noise Terror, Doom, and another million more! Love the slow stuff as well: Thergethon, old Paradise Lost, Corrupted, Saint Vitus, EyeHateGod, Asunder, Grief, and many more. All the fucking Power Violence/Crust bands:Capitallist Casuallties,Stapled Shut,Black Army Jacket,Plutocracy/No Less/Kalmex,Unruh,Divisia,Skaven,and all the others. Can't forget about my Grind/Noise bands I haven't mentioned up there:7 Minutes of Nausea, Impetigo, Cripple Bastards, Cocofonia, S.O.B. ,Sore Throat, Gut, Fuck on the Beach, old Discordance Axis, and another million more.
Interests: Family and Friends first, work, playing in my band, lifting weights, some Sports(GREEN BAY PACKERS!), Pro Wrestling(EC FUCKING W, AWS, old school NWA and WWF, etc...)Music(of course!), Concerts, Camping, Movies, Trips, Drink, smoke, Cars, reading, dvds, playing guitar/bass, dogs(Pitbulls, Rottwilers, Mastifs, big mean dogs!haha), Guns, Knives, Weapons, European Travel, U.S. Travel, Cadillacs, Chevelles(and pretty much any Chevy muscle car!), eventually World Travel. Regular guy that just happens to be also regularly crazy(haha).
It started for me in the local Death Metal scene in 1989/1990 when I was helping my friend Bart out with Extiction of God Fanzine.It was crazy because we were able to meet and talk to some sick people/bands for interviews and reviews.We were able to meet/interview:Mortician, Vader, Immolation, Sadistic Intent, Goreaphobia, Cannibal Corpse, Asphyx, Beherit, Therion, Autopsy, Demoltion, Nuclear Death, Morgion, Vital Remains, Nausea(LA), Blasphemy, Mayhem, Incantation,among others. I also worked at the killer metal record store in LA in the early 1990s,Wild Rags Records. I was able to meet and talk to many local band people,as well as heads from all over the world who would call to talk with Richard C. After that,I guess my claim to fame(if you can call it that,hahahaha)is playing Guitar and doing vocals for GASP,which had an album out on Slap a Ham records(Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People yeah yeah yeah,I know,fucking artsy fartsy!)I ended up quiting that band when the direction was getting less heavy,less death/grind,and more of a psych/noise style(I was having fun jamming with my friends in the band,but it just got to a point where my heart was not in it). I have always been a crazy ass metalhead,if you listen to the early GASP songs,you can tell. Before that,I was playing in a Grind band called Malfunction,and at various times throughout the 90s,I played with Phobia and Christfall/Suffering Luna. Also played with the last days of Excruciating Terror a couple times before they broke up for good(R.I.P.)
Now,I sing in a band called GRAVEHILL,check us out at www.myspace.com/gravehill666. Just looking for cool people that share the same interests. I'm very supportive of bands. Ask me to buy a shirt or demo,go to a show,hook up a show for you,put the word out,I'm down.I'm very supportive of the local and actually the overall scene(world wide!) as far as the Underground Metal Scene goes(Death,Grind,Black,Thrash,Speed,Doom,etc...)I want to establish a strong scene/movement here in Southern California.
I help out with METAL HORDE PRODUCTIONS,check that site out at www.myspace.com/metalhordeproductions. We do live local metal shows 2-4 times a month and also help our friend Bart out with his AWS wrestling events.It's total DIY underground no bullshit.Hit us up and come hang at the AWS Shop sometime.
