Tell us how the band started
I was writing a lot of stuff by myself. I was in a really difficult part of my life where everything felt very pointless. I don’t want to be melodramatic, but a lot of crushing events were happening in my personal life, and it just didn’t feel like I deserved anything good. The music is incredibly pessimistic, and dark for those reasons. A good friend of mine Sabian started helping me demo these songs that I was recording on my phone, and later our current bassist Zach joined as well. As these demos turned into something more, Sabian ended up becoming uninvolved. Zach, and I found other members over the course of about a year, and as soon as we found our current configuration everything instantly clicked. We are a mix of hardcore, straight edge, and extreme music dudes. So we took this extremely harsh, and dark music that I had written, and contextualized it within hardcore. We made it violent. It has been so many years since the original music was written, that it almost feels like I’m looking at a time capsule from a past chapter of my life.
Give us the rundown on this new album you’re promoting, and your latest single, “Great Dane”
The self-titled EP comes out June 1. It is 5 songs, plus a 14 minute noise track that is exclusively on the B-side of all the physical releases. “Great Dane” is my favorite of the two singles. It has less hardcore influence, but is so evil, and crushing. With all of that being said, Eric from Landfilth made perfect sense for the feature.
What’s going on in the Cinci music scene?
There are a lot of people doing amazing things for the Cinci music scene right now especially in the hardcore, and extreme music scene. Chris Alsip, Rust Belt Ruckus, Jesters, DSGN, Sam Mills, John Hays… I’m certain I’m forgetting people, and I mean no offense by it. And not to mention bands are starting to book their own shows, houses are booking shows across the river in Covington/Newport. It is an amazing, and in my opinion, thriving scene. And this is just the DIY people I’m referencing. Cincinnati has humungous venues as well. Cincinnati has always ruled when it comes to art, and music.
You’ve been doing music videos and visualizers for all the singles so far. How have they all come about?
Outside of playing music I’m an artist. I went to art school in Cincinnati mostly painting, and making video installation work. I’ve always cared a lot about film (if that isn’t obvious by our band’s name being an Eraserhead reference). I think the ideas for these not-quite-music-video visualizers came from something I’ve noticed online with music videos, and how music behaves on YouTube. Bands either have a YouTube video with their album art, or they spend thousands of dollars on a music video. And I felt like there just had to be something in between those two options haha. Something not quite as boring as the first, but not quite as expensive as a music video. So I just decided to make what is essentially lyric videos, made to fucked up imagery with vague plot. And honestly, they are cool in my opinion. They are doing well.
What’s next for you?
Right now we are just promoting our two singles until our EP releases June 1. Until then, we are ordering tapes, CDs, different kinds of merch, and hopefully having an early release show in Cincinnati May 30th so that people can get the EP physically early
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