Thursday, January 25, 2018

TAKEDOWN - Bringing Yesteryear Brutality into the Modern Day


I was impressed when first hearing your CD demo. However, I was even more absorbed when seeing you live. What is your mental approach when playing live?
Our overall approach when playing live is simple, have fun and entertain. Our perspective has been and will continue to be “we will play for 6 people or 60 people”. You can expect the same effort each time we show up. For the effort itself we have a band goal to not take ourselves too seriously, but there are two key elements we look for in our live shows, energy and tightness. We don’t always succeed but we will keep trying.

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I see you have been gigging more frequently. So far, what has been your favorite show?
Our favorite show is the next one someone will let us play. Of the shows we’ve done it seems the next is always a little better.

Where did you record your demo? How was the process?
We recorded the two demos we have on FB in our practice space. It’s very rudimentary. We used my old MOTU 896 and didn’t spend much time on it. We just wanted to get something to hand out.

The music has a 90's metallic crossover sound with powerful vocals. Is that an accurate description? For those who have never heard Takedown, explain in your own words what they should expect.
As far as the overall sound, we try to take that late ‘80’s early 90’s hardcore punk rock style and make it relevant to today. There are definitely elements of metal there but the underlying element and foundation is straight up hardcore punk rock.


What are your long term goals and do you have any new recordings planned?
We don’t have any long term goals. We just take it as it comes. We have upgraded our recording gear and will hopefully have a legit full length by end of summer 2018.

All of your logos and t-shirt artwork have a military theme. Can you provide more details regarding that?
It’s not really a military theme at all, but we make no qualms about our beliefs. Yeah, we like guns. We believe in self help and being man enough to accept help when it’s needed. Hand up not hand out. Family and friends first. Do not fuck with my family or my friends and we’re cool.
https://www.facebook.com/TakedownHardcore/
https://takedownhardcore.bandcamp.com/

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