Hey what is up sorry there wasn't any new interview last week I got caught up with something but anyways this week I interview a homie of mine that was in a killer grindcore band. I saw them a lot of times like Sordo. and I seen his recent band which is cool and they played with Grind and Bear it, YACÖPSAE and Stimulant. Well here is the interview of Aputasos/Modering Viberation enjoy.
State your name and what band do you play for???
Yo what's up Marco, hope you're doing good. I'm Jose and I play for Menacing Glare and Moldering Vibration, and I have a million other failed projects haha.
How are you doing?
Good man, about to go to work soon.
Congrats on your little one.
Thanks homie. Ya the third child is a handful, all of them are in their own way but I enjoy them and weird stuff they do.
How did you get into punk???
El Monte backyard scene back in '99. I was a tween. I got into the fast craziness of hardcore punk and grind, so many serious shit was played through that time, made me want to do it.
Was Aputasos your 1st band or you had a different one??
I had a lot of failed bands like I said haha! But Aputasos stuck, even with a million members, and me constantly changing how we sounded, because we were terrible hahaha!
How did Aputasos start as a band?
Me and Jerry thought of the idea, the bass player and guitarist I had when we started. Then we got Jen, but that didn't last because of dumb band fights. Then came Sean and shit worked better. But I don't feel the band truly became complete sadly, but we did play a lot of cool shows and toured, so that was fun. The latest was just me and Sean. But Jerry was in it for awhile. Dude so many vocalists hahaha. And the mentioned. Yup see what I mean, it was evolving all the time.
then you started Pickled how did that start?
That was Sean's idea. We were recording a lot, really shitty, and we just started bullshitting with the idea.
Ya we did. I would message Sebastian, we liked each other's work. Eventually I asked if he wanted to do a split, he told me he had his other band that was more active, Mongolico. Then we finally met at the prefest show of Onefest when both Aputasos and Chulo played, we were both really happy to meet each other in person. Great guys right there!
And we finalized the split there
How did Aputasos and Pickled end??
I failed miserably bringing a shit load of bands to LA in 2017, SGF, I was overwhelmed with something I want ready for, or wanted, booking in LA. I just wanted to play fun shows with friends and shit got out of hand. Lost a lot of friends. And I didn't want to play anymore at that time.
How did menacing glare start?
And that's where MG started. Me and my homie Ricky trying to evolve our music, and build something new and more developed. We spent the rest of 2017 writing and a bit of 2018 too, then I finally started playing live again when I felt better about everything.
What was the line up??
Ricky strings, Eddie vocals, me drums.
We're still writing shit, but Eddie quit. Wish him the best, he was a great guy and I truly care about that dude. But like I said we're still writing and maybe I'll convince a rebirth of playing shows when covids done, who knows.
How did Moldering Vibration start as a band?
Moldering Vibration started cuz I wanted to do a sludge project and I met Nic. He Fucking loved sludge too, so eventually we started writing. We actually only wrote one song but Menacing Glare was on pause so then we kept writing and soon it became my main project. But eventually we started mixing grind, powerviolence and death metal into it to make it more banging.
Any releases coming out soon?
Moldering Vibration second release.
Menacing Glare 3rd release if I can convince Rick haha
Aputasos. It's a revisit of past work, but I don't suck as much as I used to, so I wanna redo it right. Plus I got some ideas i never got to do.
Was there supposed to be an LxBxR Split in the works????
Ya Man LBR Split is still happening, we had to put it on pause our writing cuz I had to find a new job because of covid making my job inactive, schools closed. But now I'm finally working full time again so I'll be able to jam a little on Saturdays.
Any shoutout you want to give? My boys who write with me, Nic, Ricky, and now we have Kevin on bass! He's an awesome person. Jaime rules, happy birthday, Jerry Flores, Jerry Zam.
Thanks for you time Jose
Thank you for this Marco, felt good revisiting some memories. Let's grow from them and create even more good times!
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