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Empire State Bastard guitarist Mike Vennart on the band's origin, touring, Twitter and more
Guitarist Mike Vennart traces the beginnings of extreme metal band Empire State Bastard to about 12 years ago. “It was sort of a mythical sort of joke band — everybody goes through this stoned idiot phase of let’s pretend we’ve got a band but never actually do anything — and it was just one of those for years,” Vennart said last month in a Zoom chat from Manchester, England. “It was always going to be some kind of really intense left-leaning — I hesitate to say metal — but it was always going to be something along those lines, maybe a noise band or some kind of really weird psychedelic thing, and it kind of ended up being all three of those. It just took an awfully long time for us to have the time to do it, the pandemic just put everything on ice, so it was like, ‘Well, let’s do it now then.’”
Red Rum Club on Their Addictive, Collaborative Sound
Over the last two days, this band has played in both Brooklyn and Philadelphia, which physically solidifies their place in our lives after months of being a sonic constant in our ears and hearts. Red Rum Club, based out of Liverpool, do not take themselves too seriously. This works for...
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