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"I'm sure there's angrier people playing less conspicuous music, where they don't throw shit at your head, per se. But yeah, I get that for sure. Ironically, I'm way more mellow when I'm not on tour. It's not like I walk around eating people's babies, and when I do I can only ever eat a half of one. But am I a pissed off person? Sure. As much as ever. The things I've been pissed off at all my life aren't going anywhere fast. As far as that translates into music, I think this is how I know this music. Maybe because I started playing it as a teenager, when you just blast out directly at the things you hate in a total Us Vs Them mindset. I'm 32, and it only ever gets clearer to me that all those paranoid teenaged aggressions were as valid as anything that would come out of me in my adult life. But hardcore is therapeutic, the language and rhetoric of this music bring out the cynical, paranoid, hostile things in my head. Sex, violence, all the ugliest skeletons in the closet. It's a healthy vent. Maybe the chip on my shoulder is a bit bigger than some, but being able to channel the worst, most negative, nihilistic or desperate thoughts into this is the single most thing that's kept me from greater self-harm throughout my life. And maybe why I hold on to it so hard."