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 Seizure Crypt : Interview With The Whole Band www.MySpace.com/SeizureCrypt March, 2007 via email By Matt G Rock, hardcore, punk...fun! Seizure Crypt fal into all of those headings, most importantly fun. They guys are always kidding and bantering withone another while delivering some seriously heavy and aggressive sounds. Something that Hussieskunk fans truely enjoy...energetic hard rock music! Matt G was given an opportunity to talk things over with Seizure Crypt, about their new album, the scene in New York City, as well as what they have planned for their future. Come along and read all about it with Matt G as your guide... HSC: Who's in the band and what instrument do you play? Tom: Vocals. Mike SOS: Vocals. Doug: Drums. Bishop: Guitar. HSC: How long have you guys been together...as a band? Tom: We got together in 2004. HSC: What's the history of the band? Tom: Like I said before, we got together in 2004 and me and Doug started with writing some material in his house in Breezy Point in a little small cramped up room. And what else you got to say about that, Doug? Doug: That’s it, man. That covers it...the history of the band. Tom and seven songs, the history of the band is Tom and seven songs. HSC: How did you guys get started? Tom: How did I get—-well, we got started—-I played in a band Charnel House from 1990 until about 2004. And that disbanded after, you know, a lot of hard work. And I was pretty PO’d at the time. And that ended and I still wanted to do more. So I locked myself in a room and wrote a record. And I ran into Mr. Williamson over here and presented the material. He liked it and we kept going from there, we kept pounding out tracks. And he was in a similar incident that I am sure he can elaborate on if he chooses. Doug: I got fired from my band! And I was looking to play in another band and Tom came with these seven songs and we went into this little room, which was not big enough, and recorded them as demos. HSC: Where did the name of the band come from? Tom: I came up with the name years ago on a side project that I was trying to put together and it became defunct real fast and the name kind of just stuck around. And really I had came up with it, I kind of just put two cool words together and that’s how it came to be. Doug: I don’t have anything to say about the name of the band. It’s Tom’s name. Tom: Yes. I work in New York City as an EMS worker and there is a lot of times that we get patients that are not of sound mind and we take them to the psych wards. It’s a term we use amongst the EMS workers, they’re called “Seizure Crypts” and that’s where we take them. HSC: Where is the band from? Tom: Queens, New York. Doug: I am from Bayside. Mike SOS: Queens. Bishop: The stinkiest borough in New York City, the Bronx. HSC: Who and what are the influences of the band? Tom: DRI, Crumbsuckers, Slayer, Slip Knot, Cryptopsy, Minor Threat for me. Doug: My influences go far beyond the music we play. In fact, last night I just made a mixed CD, the opening song was a Kansas song. Mike SOS: Living in New York City and being a musician and struggling is an influence of my band here. Bishop: All my influences go back to as far as the 60’s and the pioneers of rock. All of way through and until the most recently. Pretty much a lot of bands--any one of the bands that have a lot to say honestly and sincerely and any music that just moves and groves. That’s about it. HSC: Do you have any releases? Tom: Yes, Seizure Crypt as a band, we have one release and one pending. The first is called “City of New York”. Mike SOS: That is the album title, but we’re not sure because you can never tell by looking at the front cover with the album title. Doug: We won’t reveal the name of the new album in this interview. HSC: Tell us more about those albums. Tom: Well, the first one was pretty much about my own demented rage. I had a lot going on in my life at the time and definitely Seizure Crypt was therapeutic in releasing a lot of my angst and I was pretty happy for it. Doug: I don’t know what to tell about it, it’s got seven songs, five of them Tom wrote, two of them I wrote and Tom wrote about his own madness and I wrote about the madness of the world that I exist in. Mike SOS: I had fun ‘cause all I did was smoke pot and scream. HSC: Where are the previous efforts available? Tom: You can get them at www.SEIZURECRYPT.com. Drop us an email and we’ll get you out a copy right quick. Doug: You can also get the record digitally, or each song individually from many different downloadable web sites, all linked to our web site at www.SEIZURECRYPT.com. Also available on CD Baby, also available on Dark Tower Records, also available on Indie Warehouse.com. Bishop: It’s available. Mike SOS: You can get it in the trunk of my car. Like Creed only cooler. HSC: Does the band tour, when and where? Tom: Yes and at any place that will book us. Doug: Yeah, we actually [kind of] did a tour in ‘06. All the past show dates are listed on the web site under news and information. It was called the ”Fuck Pay to Play Tour” of ‘06. We played about 12, no 14 shows. Bishop: We used Bar 131 as our headquarters and we spread out as far as Pennsylvania. And pretty much anywhere that we were allowed to spread the madness. Mike SOS: It seems like we played every Friday night and I loved it. HSC: Do you have a web site...myspace page? Tom: Yes. We have two, we have www.SEIZURECRYPT.com and www.MySpace.com/SeizureCrypt. They’re two totally different sites that you can get bits of information. Bishop: Yeah, pretty much what the other two guys said. www.SEIZURECRYPT.com and MySpace so hit us up and we’ll not be shy. We’ll hit you back. Mike SOS: Our MySpace page has alot of sluts on them, enjoy them. HSC: Do you find MySpace useful? Doug: Personally I don’t utilize that so much, Tom is the person to ask that. Bishop: I believe that MySpace is useful; it networks, it links, we keep in touch with all of our other bandmates and other bands that pretty much try to do what we do and revive the scene in New York City. Tom: Yes, MySpace is very useful coming from the days of tape trading and those of you that are reading this interview and remember the tape trading days, you know what I am talking about. So yes MySpace is a very useful tool. Doug: Instant gratification. Mike SOS: MySpace is useful getting your music to a million different people in an hour and it’s useful if you want to gawk at some plastically enhanced females and read some inane blogs from people who can barely put two sentences together or type correctly. Bishop: So MySpace is a lot of fun. Mike SOS: MySpace is a colossal waste of time, but you need it because if you don’t have it, you’re a f**kin’ dick. Doug: It’s a necessary evil. Mike SOS: That’s what it boils down to because you know what? I don’t care what the f**k Katie from Wyoming looks like. I could care less. Yeah, put some clothes on and read a book you slut! |
 HSC: How is the local scene in your area?Tom: It’s starting to perk, it’s starting to perk. There are a lot of good bands. There is a lot of variety and we have a home base now and, you know, it’s definitely starting to blossom, I have to say. Bishop: The scene in New York City is not where I would like it to be and it’s not where a lot of people think it should be. So we’re looking to make the scene a little bit more popping than the usual cookie-cutter band types that are out there right now pissing us the f**k off. We’re here to bring something new to the table and perhaps spark an interest in the fans that are pretty much at this point jaded in New York City. There’s an overflow of a lot of mediocre bands out there. I’m not going to name any names. And that’s just one guy’s opinion. We are here to do something a little bit different by actually entertaining with good music and good attitudes. Doug: The local scene is up and coming thanks to Tom booking 131 and Breffini’s which are bars around Queens Boulevard, bars around College Point, New York. We’re working on it trying to make the scene because if you don’t make it, there is isn’t going to be one. Mike SOS: I would like to answer that in a couple of different ways: I think that the local scene blows goats because there are a million bands wearing woman’s jeans playing false rock and roll and they get good slots on Saturday night. And there’s girl metal that I detest and there is tons and tons of bad music out there that is getting much, much props which is unfortunate and tragic. CBGBs and the Continental have closed in the last year and all there is to play are fire trap basements with barely even enough head room to even get noticed. New York City is a cesspool. Unfortunately, the music that plays through it is gayer than most you can even imagine. Bishop: Here, here. Mike SOS: But by the same token, there are people trying to do the right thing and trying to keep things going. Unfortunately due to high rents and other city cleansing, thanks to certain officials, it’s not possible, but we’re working on that. Tommy is doing a wonderful job taking care of his own little entity at Skull Fracture Fridays. We try to do a lot of grass roots stuff. A lot of DYI stuff because basically there is nobody throwing us money like in California to play 700 f**kin’ seat halls, that’s for sure. HSC: Next question, what are some of your favorite bands from your area or from elsewhere? Doug: Favorite bands from my area? I would say I was handed a CD last year—the CD is actually from 2002 from a band called Utopia Banished. And a great band that came through 131 is called Archaic. I see on their MySpace they say that they have now broken up. Tom: Rest in peace. Mike SOS: That’s why MySpace is useful. Bishop: Gossip. Doug: Other good bands from my area? I don’t know, there is a million of them but right off the top of my head, those two jump right out. Tom: I would say Caught in a Trap, Dead Letter Box, Yo! Scunt, the Strap Hangers, Blackout Shoppers, Waking the Cadaver, Archaic. Bishop: Bishop is going to say John Wilkes Booth and Yo! Scunt. Mike SOS: Yup. There is a lot of great bands who unfortunately get frustrated and have to vacant the positions and allow the other hipper— Tom: The Bronx is Burning. Mike SOS: -- newer bands that draw well and suck take over. That’s the realty of the situation. There is a lot of great bands in the scene and all the scenes, New York City hard core and punk is alive and well. You just have to really go out of your way to find it, unfortunately. Tom: You find it, it’s out there. Mike SOS: The New York City scene is riddled with musicians stuck in bad day jobs and horrible situations and unfulfilling musical experiences. But we’re working on that being four guys from veteran bands from New York City who collectively have played a total of 85 years on stage. Bishop: We have a dream. Tom: Support the underground. Mike SOS: That’s nice. I like Yo! Scunt too. And I also like SOS because I’m in SOS. Bishop: Shame on me. Mike SOS: Thanks a lot guys. Tom: Boo. Bishop: Boo. Doug: Yeah! HSC: What can we expect in the future? Tom: We have a new album coming out. No, we’re not giving out the name right now. And a lot of gigging, a lot of push because Seizure Crypt only knows one way, forward. Doug: I would say that you can expect our music to develop beyond what it was on the first record. All you have to do is listen to the new record when it comes out and that will give you a good gauge to figure what the third record may hold. At the same time, I am trying to force down these guys throats a better stage show so we can entertain musically and visually. Bishop: I’m going to tell you that what you can expect in the future is incredible evolution from all of these fantastic musicians—I’m excluding myself in that comment. Tom: No, don’t exclude Bishop! Doug: I’ll include Bishop. He is a fantastic guitarist! Bishop: You can expect a lot of growth and a lot of ingenuity and a lot of of—let’s see, I’m losing my words— Doug: How about dynamic? Bishop: Dynamic. You’re going to see— Tom: Pulsating. Bishop: Pulsating— Doug: How about structure? Bishop: You’re going to see structure. You’re going to see— Doug: How about clever? Bishop: That’s enough out of Doug. You’re going to see a lot of different things. We’re going to take a lot of different directions and give you the best of everything that we know and what we cherish in the types of music that we listen to and what we’d love to see. We’re fans of music so we’re going to bring to the table what we would like to see and what we feel are missing in the industry right now. So you should expect a lot of new things and daring things and we’re not going to be afraid to explore and we hope that you’re not going to be afraid to open your minds to some of the madness that we’re going to throw your way. Mike SOS: I expect in 2007 and beyond, space suits, moon walking lessons, a lot of throat-coat teas, me sweating buckets of water on stage and just undying everlasting madness. Tom: Yes. Mike SOS: That’s what it’s all about, man. This is a fun project. I expect me to have more fun than I had last year, if that’s possible. And I expect to come up and rip some heads off and show people what hard core and punk and New York City metal is all about. Bishop: We live! HSC: Last words? Tom: Thank you, Hussieskunk for giving us this interview. Bishop: And wonderful reviews, we love you! Mike SOS: Thank you, Matt. Later, man. |
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