It’s refreshing here in Houston to see a newer band playing grindcore the right way. You definitely remind me of early Napalm Death mixed with some Agathocles and Meat Shits. Give us your influences and explain how the band came together.
Well Nick, Max, Zach And myself, are into all sorts of music.
We’re not closed minded at all. But for Tokyo Gas Attack, we all dove into our
grindcore/powerviolence/crossover thrash roots. Napalm Death being a major one
for myself, but we all dig Wormrot, Graf Orlock, Sex prisoner, Brutal Truth, Iron
Reagan, Spazz, G.G.Allin, Pavel Checkov. On the next batch of songs we have
written you will hear a big Japanese/ black metal noise influence as well, from
the likes of Endon, Friendship, Merzbow, and also Full of Hell. Well the way
the band was formed happened like all bands, me and Max had been jamming and
originally we where gonna start another hardcore band but we also wanted to mix
blast beats and we where having a hard time finding members. Then Max came
across a post on Craigslist and it was Nick looking for a band to start or
join. He was moving from Virginia back to Texas Detroit
I absolutely love your band name. If I had never heard your
band before, the name itself would definitely grab my interest. What’s the
story behind it?
Max came up with the name. It's surrounded around the Japanese
cult Aum shinriku. They were responsible for the Sarin Gas attack in the
subways in Tokyo
I like how the lyric topics are definitely all over the
place. My favorite is the conjoined twin story in the song Dead Weight. Is the
lyric writing done by one person or is it collaboration?
Nick pretty much handles the lyric writing but we discuss
the direction of the content and music writing as a whole. We all have a say in
what we release. It's funny cause we use alot of movie clips and samples in our
songs and alot of our stuff revolves around gangsta movies. Like Blood in Blood
out, American Me, Shot Caller, Boyz n the Hood, also serial killers like
Richard Kuklinski The Iceman. We don't dive into politics or take ourselves too
serious. We just like to have fun and write crazy shit.
The noise elements you added are fantastic, especially in the song
“Email Shemale”. Are you influenced by any noise bands?
Yea we dig the Japanese noise scene. Bands like Endon,
Friendship, Merzbow, Boris we also dig stuff like Painkiller, and John Zorn's
Naked city, Mick Harris' bands scorn and again Full of hell.
According to your bandcamp page, the EP was self produced. I
think the production works perfectly with the music. Give us a breakdown of
your recording process.
Yes the e.p. was recorded by Max and Nick. We decided fuck
paying 100's of dollars for an over polished e.p. Since Max and Nick had all
the mics and the programs and shit we said Fuck it. All our favorite bands’ releases
where raw in sound and our favorites so we said Fuck it. We're gonna record all
our own releases from now on. Plus there's no point in having over produced
songs ranging from 2 seconds to a minute and twenty seconds.
You have an upcoming show in Louisiana. Will this be your first time
playing there? Do you plan doing some out of state touring?
For Tokyo Gas attack it's a first and we do plan on touring
soon. We will be booking our own shows with like minded bands be it skate punk,
punk, d beat, powerviolence, grindcore, noise, crust, sludge etc. Locally too.
Tokyo Gas Attack will be in a city near you. #preparefortheattack
Fill free to add anything additional here.
Thanks again for the interview.
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