There’s a reason why Black Flag are so heralded and respected so long after they existed by younger generations. It’s not just the fact that they had a cool logo, it was also their inspiring drive and energy that, against all odds, saw them power their utterly uncompromising and original noise at a time when long hair, tattoos and punk rock was not a career option. They sounded the way they did because that’s how they felt and how they wanted to express their feelings. Pissed Jeans are no Black Flag tribute band, but there’s something about their ridiculously heavy punk rock noise and venomous approach that makes you feel if Black Flag had existed in this frustrating, jittering modern world, this is what they’d sound like.
Four albums in, Pennsylvanian quartet Pissed Jeans have mellowed NONE. ‘Honeys’ is a raging barrage of noise that goes nose-to-nose with all of the essential BLACKS (Big/Sabbath/Flag) with a stomping Jesus Lizard strut and a boot boy Negative Approach stomp. This is nasty music with a production so viciously heavy It’ll bite your fucking nose off, send warm jets of piss running down your thighs and render pretty much all of what passes for punk rock these days obsolete.
So, for young and old gazing into the past with rose-tinted glasses wishing there was bands as intense and FOR REAL as Black Flag still playing, fuck the nostalgia, there is and they’re called Pissed Jeans. Now hear them roar.
Download the amazing riff heavy ‘Cathouse’ track for free here.
Earache Records have surpassed all previous attempts of longest doom records by unleashing the beast that is SABAZIUS. 11 solid hours of drone, feedback and noise that is called ‘The Descent of Man‘.
Now, most people will presume that this is a gimmick, but delve a little further into the world of drone and you will find that this is taken with as much seriousness as any other music genre out there. I used to have a flat mate that would have drone blasting through his NS10’s when I got home from work almost daily. The smell of weed and the whiff of booze obviously helped him on this noise-filled journey of feedback and bass hums, but essentially he would sit there for hours on end taking in aural hits of distortion and probably even wanked himself off in the process.
Who knows on the latter, thankfully I never found out, but this ‘ritual’ exists and SABAZIUS has just blown the doors off with 677 minutes of doom tinged tones. This beast, the longest song ever made, (surely?) was recorded live to desk in one continuous session at Foel Studios in Wales over the weekend of 24th and 25th November 2012. The track was produced by Chris Fielding who surely must have fallen asleep at the desk at least once. Try it, maybe it’s for you.
It seems that the East Coast is coming up with the goods right now. Alex Davis, Austyn Gillette, Brian Wenning, Fred Gall, Marius Syvanen, Stefan Janoski and more all feature in the latest Iron Fist edit from New Jersey.
Julian Dykmans bows out of professional skateboarding for Antiz Skateboards this month after 10 years of service for the French company. He leaves everyone with a reminder of just how much he has comitted to the game though with this fun tribute.
Jed Cullen shows you how much pain it takes to grow a moustache of the year in his section from the new Perfect Blues video that has just been released.
Get on this for Skate Edit of the Week and if you want more, follow your nose.
Good news for skateboarders comes officially from Bay Sixty 6 skate park this week in that the good, old Wednesday night session is finally back to being a skateboards only affair.
Since the re-opening, Wednesday nights have been shared with fruit-booters who have made it their own night out, which has seen the traditional sesh become somewhat frustrating. Following various chats with ourselves in here and local skaters, the Bay owners have now made Wednesday night an official skateboard night only, every week, so get down there and enjoy it.
With a heap of line-up changes and four studio albums down the line, Your Demise are looking the tightest they’ve ever been. With their recently released EP Cold Chillin’ stacking up amongst fans new and old, their 15 date tour has most definitely kick-started this year.
To round off the Sink Your Teeth tour, Your Demise’ guitar God- Oz unveiled the band’s plans for the year, their move from Visible Noise, going DIY and there’s even a mention of One Direction! Read on to find out why from Jenny Chu‘s interview.
Congratulations on your recently released EP Cold Chillin’, how long did the writing process take?
It didn’t take very long because we had a bunch of riffs already kicking around from when we toured Japan and other tours. It just came together so quickly and easily everyone as always was on the same wave length. It just came about so easily it didn’t take long at all really.
How did it compare to releasing records through Visible Noise?
Visible Noise never said we couldn’t do anything, but we had to release a record when they were ready for it. Now we can just release whenever we want, we can do whatever we want. Like if we want to do another EP in a couple of weeks, we’ll do another EP. We’re not tied down in some respects.
The first track to be released off it was ‘Karma’, why and how did you pick that track?
It was just an instant banger. Like we love that song, it just felt like the right first song, just really punchy and in your face.
Which track from Cold Chillin’ is your favourite to play live? – Does it sum up Your Demise as a whole?
Karma! That’s what we open the show with, it’s brilliant, I just love playing it. So stoked every time we go to play it! We’re all good mates and it’s a great song to play.
You released your 4th full length album only last year, as well as Three For Free EP, do you find writing songs comes really easy for you guys hence your compact back catalogue?
Yes it does! A lot of the time we have riffs kicking about here and there, or song ideas. We find it quite easy to work with each other so writing is never really an issue.
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Has Your Demise ever experienced writers block?
A couple of times, but not really anything to worry about. We have it for a minute then we listen to something and are like “oh shit we can do something a bit like that”, but it’s easy enough to get through.
When can we expect another album? Or EP like you mentioned earlier?
Maybe next year, yeah…not next week. We’ll probably start recording a full length at the end of the year and then probably released early next year. And see what happens; maybe do another EP after that as well!
Today is the last date of the Sink Your Teeth tour, what have been your highlights?
Oooh, there’s been quite a few! Like Manchester was mental, kids were on the stage constantly throughout the whole set..Leeds! To be fair all the shows were good, even like you know, it was just a bit unfortunate Newcastle was shut down but that was good show. We haven’t had any bad shows on this tour; they’ve all been really enjoyable. And I’m really looking forward to doing tonight here as well- London!
So you mentioned Newcastle, you got through six tracks then what happened?
Yeah that’s right; they didn’t give us a warning. They literally ran on stage, pulled the microphone out of Ed’s hand and we carried on playing and then they cut the stage power. The kids were crowd surfing, we weren’t inciting it because we were told not too before that show, but the crowd were crazy so what can you do, if the kids just want to have fun, they want to have fun.
How have Heights, Counterparts and Fact found supporting you?
I think they’ve really enjoyed it. We’ve supported both Fact in Japan and Counterparts in Canada and they’re good mates of ours so it was nice to bring them over here and give it a blast!
You’re off to America at the end of May, how excited are you for that?
I’m really excited! All the fast food, just hopefully some nice weather- fingers crossed! I always love going to America so stoked on it.
Bit of sight-seeing then?
If we have time! We had a tour that finished in New York and I went to the Empire State building which was cool. We go up on the West Coast. I just love California! Everything about California is amazing, I love it.
In the past years you’ve toured a lot, who has been your favourite band to share the same stage as?
There have been so many great bands we’ve been on tour with! I tell you what, this tour; watching Fact every night on this tour has been pretty wicked. And seeing them pull thousands of people in Japan, selling out massive venues was cool. So it’s good be sharing the stage as them.
If you could tour with one band who would it be?
Just constantly touring with one band?!? That’s a tough one because like you meet so many people and you get on with everyone. For me it would probably be Comeback Kid, I love those dudes! They’re a great band. Luckily we’ve been able to play quite a few shows with them and do a couple of tours.
If you had to cover one song, what would it be?
Probably something from One Direction! That’s what the boys would say. One Direction definitely.
You teamed up with Impericon for Cold Chillin’ how did that come about?
They do all our merch for us and we’ve known them for years! They actually came to us saying “we’ll release it for you”, they’re good mates and they always hook us up.
Do you think that’s going to be a future thing then with Impericon?
I’m not sure really! We’ll have to see how it goes. If they’re up for it, we’re up for it.
How’s the reception been for Cold Chillin’?
It’s been really good, really good like. People are saying “Oh, Your Demise are back” even though we didn’t go anywhere. Yeah it’s been a really, really good reaction to it which is cool and obviously you want to hear good things about the music you write.
Were there any tracks that didn’t make the final cut for Cold Chillin’?
We kind of half wrote one track but it was pretty much we got four solid tracks and that was it, the fifth one was just a bit more of a jam and didn’t suit it really.
What would each of you be doing if you weren’t in Your Demise?
Ed would probably be selling shoes, I dunno what Jimmy would be doing, Stu would probably be doing tour managing I reckon- he’d be a good tour manager or having a band van rental company! Me…I’d be a mechanic!
What’s in store for the rest of this year?
Just plenty of touring! And probably write a new full length album at the end of the year.
There’s a reason why Black Flag are so heralded and respected so long after they existed by younger generations. It’s not just the fact that they had a cool logo, it was also their inspiring drive and energy that, against all odds, saw them power their utterly uncompromising and original noise at a time when long hair, tattoos and punk rock was not a career option. They sounded the way they did because that’s how they felt and how they wanted to express their feelings. Pissed Jeans are no Black Flag tribute band, but there’s something about their ridiculously heavy punk rock noise and venomous approach that makes you feel if Black Flag had existed in this frustrating, jittering modern world, this is what they’d sound like.
Earache Records have surpassed all previous attempts of longest doom records by unleashing the beast that is 
Alex deCunha has some new raw footage skating the MK Plaza and Buckinghamshire’s streets today. Press play to see if he makes this roof drop.
Julian Dykmans bows out of professional skateboarding for Antiz Skateboards this month after 10 years of service for the French company. He leaves everyone with a reminder of just how much he has comitted to the game though with this fun tribute.
Silas Baxter-Neal skates the streets of Tokyo, Japan at night in this latest Adidas edit.
Jed Cullen shows you how much pain it takes to grow a moustache of the year in his section from the new Perfect Blues video that has just been released. 
