Heavy Stench #18

So the bay area is known to have killer bands....such as Torso,Punch, Venkman and No staik…. Heavy Stench hails from San Jose. Killer band and you guys should check out. I hope you guys like it enjoy.....
Q: State your name and what band you play in?

A: We're Heavy Stench from San Jose, Ca. 

Diana - vox

Vic - Guitar

Marco - Drums

Krystl - Bass

Q: How did Heavy Stench get started? 

A: Vic and Marco were getting bored of the shitty indie music that their old bands were playing and they wanted to play music with a more aggressive energy. They started jamming more seriously in 2017 and then asked Krystl to join on bass. Krystl knew Dee through a coffee job and invited her to give vocals a shot during the spring of 2018.

Q: How did you guys get that name?

A: Vic took inspiration from a video game called “Slain”. It was originally “Heavy Stench of Death” but he shortened it.

Q: What are you guys’ influences? 

A: Our collective influences are often evolving and changing but some of them are Exit Order, Cerce, Stresscase, Goon, Punch, Bolt Thrower, Limp Wrist, Disrupt, Cliterati, Lebenden Toten, C.H.E.W., Dauðyflin, G.L.O.S.S., Die Kreuzen, Rites of Spring, Needles, Siege, Warthog, Los Crudos, Asocial, Aus Rotten, Misery, Destrucktions, Selfish, Framtid, Death Side, the Comes, Deef, Anti Cimex, Mob 47, Disclose, Bastard, Dystopia, Nausea, Misery, Assück, Abba and above all else CHER.

Q: Any shout outs you wanna give?

A: Shout to Stephanie for all the hard work she’s put into San Jose, house of the dead/trash house, punks with lunch, Heckdorlan, GlenxCoco, Dopemess, Grody, Nani SS, the folx who run Friends Know in Fresno, These Bastards, Deathgrave, Godstomper, Invertebrate, Discovery, Temptation 87, Aseptic, Tyson and the folx who run the colony in Sac, Biggs/xGrifox, Chris G. and the rest of Windbreaker, Cult Mind, Sissyfit, Isotope, Provoke, Priscilla from Sac, DuranxDuran, Alex/Playback Studios, Myron Fung, xDanex Photography, Violation Wound, Shit Coffins, HoneyxBear/Teachers Aids/Whngr and everyone else at KFJC, Scootch, Gabe/Zest Bay, Rupert/Aklasan records, Boomer, there are really too many to list. Thanks to everyone who we’ve encountered that is constantly working to make punk accessible to people from all walks of life. A homogenous scene is a dead scene.el crusty cristo bookings, 3 Day Holocaust, Auxillo, Sordo, Scalp, Rival Squad, Hate  Preachers, Carli/No Divide. All of our Ventura/Oxnard/ San Diego friends!!

https://heavystench.bandcamp.com/music

Total Cereal/City Of Dis #17

Hey whats going on I have a short but sweet interview with a band from Utah...Yes Utah I didn't know there were bands until he started to follow my band and its a cool band and runs a cool label... check it out and enjoy the interview....

Whats your name what band/label are in and what do you do??

A. Im Sam.....Well...ok total cereal, mutie, these ones might have broke up lol futex, 22a, DRTGRBZ,  and I use to be in Nelson muntz, discoid A, buttweiser (rip Kira) and many more ha! I been working on a small tape label for like 8 years idk (CITY Of DIS)

Who's in the band and how was it formed??

A.  Right now I got a homie from MPLS filling in for the tour I'm on rn, but me and my little brother started the band in 2015 but he kinda drop it cuz he can't tour muck idk but mostly Doug does drums these days and hopefully when I get back to the west coast Doug will be drumming Oh and we started cuz we were trying to write a song for everything day in 2015 we got to like almost 200 I think ha

How did you get the name from

A... Cuz when we started we were making a song a day so it's serialized amount of songs and I have  this fascination with companies and brands so that had a lot to do with picking the name.

How did get into punk???

A... I feel I was always looking for weirder noizyer music that really what got me into pick then noise core and PV stuff 

How is the scene out in Utah??

A....it fucking sucks lol

There's not a lot of bands noone likes anyone elses band in town and everyone kinda hates each other and I'm no exception

What are your guys influences

A probably mostly sepe star sept but also other Japanese noisecore and grind also pv, and my buddy band an atomic whirl was a big influence

What was the best show you guys played and how was your 1st show

A. Probably the one with sete star sept at DIS house but the one we played in Santa Ana and Watsonville with godstomper come to mind and I don't remember when or what our first show was lol

Any releases coming out

A. Shit yeah a bunch of slits lol idk will see ha and if any label r interested in helping out hmu!

One last thing before I let you go any shout out you want to give

A fuck yeah so many, Tony Montana,Also biggie, godstomper, my friend Madge, I guess choir Boy from SLC the homie Doug, Sete Star Sept, Brunswick, anyone who's helped out total cereal, and any of the fans and die hards out there!

https://cityofdis666.bandcamp.com/