SAINT CRUSHER Interview - New D-Beat Post Apocalyptic Noise Mongers!

Saint Crusher is a new band, but not new to the music scene. Can you give the readers some insight of your history and what bands all of you have been involved with?

As far as the bands we have all been involved with, Eric was the drummer in Wrath of Beowulf, Stephen did vocals for Skurge with Harry a while back in their younger years, and was also in Warhounds as the original vocalist. Amanda did vocals for Rotten Waters. Harry has played bass and done backup vocals in numerous bands over the last few years such as Skurge, Red//River, GALL, Bomraw (vocals only), Rotten Waters, and is still currently the bassist in Warhounds. Saint Crusher came about because we have all been friends and thought it would be a good idea to have fun and play some music.

With all of you being in your 30s, how does the current punk/hc scene compare to your early years?

Wow, this is a really difficult question for us. All of us came from specific areas within the Houston scene. Back then the Houston scene was divided into many different families, and it used to be much less acceptable to stray from your specific family/genre of music. Within the last few years as the scene grew mentally and physically, we found each other and grew together as friends. Now that the Houston scene is much more diverse and accepting, all of our influences are more easily able to be meshed together creating a sound we find unique to Houston and the GCHC family.

So far you only have two promising instrumental tracks online. When do you plan on doing some recordings with vocals? Also, do you have any releases planned?

Full band recordings are planned for mid-summer, and look for a release probably around late summer to early autumn. If time allows, some raw recordings with vocals will be placed on our Facebook and Bandcamp periodically.

Your first show was part of a mini-weekend tour. How was that experience and when can we expect to see you hit the stage again?

We had a blast on our mini-weekend tour! The crowds were extremely receptive. We met a lot of new awesome people and had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some great bands such as Clit Eastwood, Prions, ASS, DDA, Satanabis, Bomb Hoarders and of course the killer Khobretti! Our next show will be on July 1st with Sex Pill and The Pose in Houston. The rest of the information on that show is T.B.A. We also have a show coming up on July 12th with Hard Charger from Canada and Thunder Tank in Houston at The Shop.

To me it seems that Houston is having a bit of a breakout in great local music. In all the genres, thrash, hardcore, punk, metal, all have great bands here in the Bayou City. What do you think has created this sensation?

GCHC has all grown up with each other, for the most part, for what seems like many years. Most of us have been in different bands together over the years and have been fortunate enough to feed off of each other to build and create the mixture of sound and talent that we have now. Old friends go and new people join, ever diversifying the sound of GCHC! OUGH!!! DRINK BEERS AND BLEED EARS!!! Love, Saint Crusher

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