I reviewed Six Brew Bantha's excellent split w/ Archagathus not too long ago and decided to take it upon myself to get an interview from the hateful grinders.when i emailed them about it,they were more than happy to be interviewed and even offered me hard drugs! we discussed victoria BC,Archagathus,No comment and even salvia.enjoy:)
36th: When and why did Sixbrewbantha form?
Mark: Hi Chris, sixbrewbantha started with Tyler and I learning our instruments together in my parents basement sometime in 2004 or 5 i think... we were in high school and made short bursts of noise and would scream and smash things after a few years we learned to play somewhat and became aware of extreme music. (Hearing downsided by no comment being quite a definitive moment for the three of us.) We began playing local shows and with the help of other bands and the birth of black raven records a very healthy scene has been developing here in Victoria. As for why we exist I'm not sure, why do we do anything?
36th: What is the story behind your band name?
Mark: When we began we were a 2 piece and Tyler wanted to call
the band six brews and i wanted to call it dead bantha, we combined the 2
names and decided to roll with it until we came up with something
better. This name was formulated a long time ago.
36th: What subject matter do you cover in your songs?
Mark:We cover a variety of shit in our songs from Current
events, to philosophical questions to self evident facts. I feel
Bryan's lyrics tap into world issues with an open mind and does a good
job of exposing things for what they really are behind the candy
coating. I'm sure Bryan could elaborate much more. My lyrics tend to
touch on the subject of the self mentality that contributes to the
structure of the world and society around us which i feel is the root of
everything, ourselves.
36th: What reception has the victoria scene given you?
Mark: Victoria is a wonderful place to live, it has it's
flaws (excessive security and police force for instance) but it's
gorgeous and home to me, the scene as i mentioned has been very good to
us and we wish to bring as many touring d.i.y. bands through as we can.
since the opening of black raven records (record store/label/promotion)
the scene has expanded and got out to a lot of people and I am very
thankful for everything
Wolf and Danni have done. (including helping put
out our records.)
36th: How'd you hook up the split with archagathus?
Mark: The archx split first came up the second time we
played arson fest in Winnipeg with archagathus on our way home from our
cross Canada tour. had a wicked night smashing down beers and somewhere
the idea for the split was suggested and we acted on it a few months
later, cheers Dan / bachelor weekend!
36th: What are some of your infulence's?
Mark: We listen to lots of different music definitly been
influenced greatly by no less, man is the bastard, assuck, discordance
axis, gasp, crossed out, excruciating terror, napalm death, plutocracy,
carcass, no comment, humangreed, final exit, enemy soil, shitfit and a
huge array of noisecore.
36th: What are some of your favorite unsigned or local bands?
Mark: Some current d.i.y. bands i've been fiending lately
are shooting spree (really check these guys out, INSANE live) soil of
ignorance, iskra, obacha, pizzahifive, cooked and eaten, tu sufres,
archagathus, wolbachia, violent gorge and all of Winnipeg really, no
eulogy (reece toye you smoke too much pot) death toll 80k, goner,
agitate, Lt.dan, total hipster crusher, godstomper, sidetracked,
hummingbird of death, powercup, sakatat, osk, the afternoon gentlemen,
massgrave, mind as prison, camphora monobromata, g.o.d., parliamentarisk
sodomi, cokskar, cloud rat, the oily menace, ethical drinking, worlds,
rape revenge and a
fuckload of others.
36th: What are your plans as a group for the future?
Mark: Currently we have
our upcoming LP at the plant and are booking a 2 month u.s. tour stoked
as shit to grind with many kill, kill, kill bands. Guess we will be
getting drunk with you in L.A. bring some salvia to smoke!
Thanks for the interview homies!
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