Interview with Maxxpower
- 5 mai 2016
- 3 min de lecture
Rezine: Who plays in the band?
Drums-Mathieu
Guitar-Manu
Bass-Ixchel
Vocals-BK
Rezine: What are the latest news about the band?
BK: Well, we just released our debut album which can be downloaded on our bandcamp page. We're also releasing a small run of cassettes for the album soon and writing some new songs to be recorded later this year. We're also playing shows when our schedules permit (Ixchel spends about half the year in Kuujjuaq).
Rezine: How did the band start?
Manu: The band started after Complete Lobotomy (our former grindcore project) died. Ixchel and I wanted to play more in the hardcore vein and back then we kind of lost contact with Mathieu so we actually started the project with another drummer (that was living out of town). We were looking for a vocalist but never found one and with our jobs and the drummer living so far we went on a hiatus. A couple a months later Mathieu called me and told me that he wanted to play fast and heavy music again so we showed him the song's, he liked them and he called BK (with whom he collaborated with on BCASA's previous album) to do vox and right at the first jam we knew he was the man for the job.
Rezine: How does Maxxpower fit with your other bands?
BK: Well this band is completely different for me because in my other band ANIMAL ETHICS, I'm playing guitar and doing vocals at the same time. Here I can really focus on vocals and I get to move around a lot more and interact with the audience-which is great. It's also in another realm completely from the hip hop I do. I'm always down for a creative challenge.
Manu: For me it's easy. I'm also in a Sabbath cover band so it fits in in the sense that my slow riffs are influenced big time by Sabbath.
Rezine: Tell us about your latest album?
BK: Well it's got 24 tracks clocking in at around 15 minutes of hardcore punk powerviolence fury! It's also very raw sounding album and was actually recorded live off the floor (in 5 hours) which gives it a pretty live feeling.
Rezine: What inspires the lyrics for the songs of the album?
BK: Everything honestly. A lot of it, is just my silly sarcastic musings on the state of the world, pop culture, stories about people I know Etc…. There's even a Monty Python reference thrown in there for good measure. I try to speak about things that I care about without being sanctimonious or preachy and in the most entertaining way I can.
Rezine: Was there anything that was left out of this album?
Manu: Only 1 song and a couple of covers which we may or may not release were left off the album.
Rezine: Did it take you a while to complete the album?
Manu: For me personally, it was because of our different schedules that I found it took a while to find the time to record.
BK: The actual writing and recording of the album was quite quick. We started jamming as a band November 2014 and it was fully recorded by August last year. Where I found it to have dragged was in the post production phase. But I've had albums that took almost 2 years from the first recording until they were out, so all in all it was relatively quick all things considered
Rezine: What's coming up for the band?
BK: New music and shows and hopefully a split album or EP with some good friends somewhere in the near future
Rezine: Do you have other projects?
BK: I have my other band ANIMAL ETHICS and we have a new project coming out by the end of this year. I also have a hip hop EP coming out under my mc name Bk Brooks and I just produced a bunch of beats on my long-time friend Cracked Lips album called 'Music for People'. Matt also has a new BCASA project in the works.
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