Interview: Rännstensorkestern

Here is their song from Schizo Punk Compilation Vol.1
RännstensOrkestern – Mördarn

1. Ohoy guys... please write the short story about Rännstensorkestern. What have you released so far? And how would you describe your sound?

RännstensOrkestern was formed 2010 by 4 punks that went in highschool togheter. Rännstensorkestern is in fact the reunion of HunDRunK, witch was active between 2002 and 2007.  

RännstensOrkestern has so far released one EP called III. That EP was released in 2010.

in 2011 we released a single called Vila i frid, and the year after the single Tony 2ton was released and was featured on Turist i tillvaron vol 4. and with this CD our song Mördarn is released!

Hopefully we will get the money we need to release our first full length album this summer. All songs are recorded but we aint got the money needed to finish them yet....

Our sound is like advanced heavy thrashy punk. with a touch of hate. Our music is our feelings so every song is a bit different, but the frustration and aggression is allways there.

2. Is it true that you actually are the best band in the world?

Honestly, yes.


3. How is the scene in the part of Sweden you come from? Do you have anything in Timrå, or do you have to visit Sundsvall for some fun?

The scene is totaly dead. Very sad cus Sundsvall uesed to be punksvall. Now its all long gone. It seems like punk is all forgotten in these shitty towns called sundsvall/timrå. So we have to leave norrland for some fun at all.


4. So what do you think of the Schizo Punk Comp. Vol.1 result? Any cool bands?

We love the cd. Its wonderful to see that there is still fantastic punk around the world and its wunderful to be a part of it.We honestly think its the best record in the world. So far we have all liked M.O.R.A and Razorblade smile. But everything is super as we said before. So i just hope we will heare more from all the bands!


5. What will you do this summer? And do you have any future plans?

To complete our record is the goal of the summer. So we will hustle some homemade booze to get money. Besides that we are going to get shitfaced, and just enjoy the summer. In autum we will get as many livegigs as we can and hopefully wright some new material.


6. Contact info:

Sebastian Danielsson 0731811929 Monsuc@hotmail.com

Interview: Los Mas Peores

I don't know too much about the punk scene in Argentina. But one of all bands is Los Mas Peores. They play really good hardcore/crust. It's always fun to find new bands from parts of the world where I don't know much about their local scene. So let me introduce Los Mas Peores, and here is their song on Schizo Punk Comp. Vol.1: Los Más Peores – Superficial

1. Hey, what's up? Please introduce the band and give us a short story of Los Más Peores and also your influences?

Los Mas Peores is a hardcore punk band from the south of Argentina. We've been playing together as Los Mas Peores since April 2012, but Dany (drums) Mauricio (guitars) and me (bene-vocals) have been playing together for 11 years with a previous band that released 6 records and played in many places. We decided to finish that project and start a new one adding Melisa, who plays bass guitar. The name of the band is a word-game which is difficult to translate to English but it may be something like "The most worst ones" and it's an internal joke because we think that we suck. Our influences are quite wide, from crust core bands such as Los Crudos, Migra Violenta, Charles Bronson to more traditional hardcore bands like Terror, 7 seconds, Minor Threat, etc. We all listen to different styles according to our moods but we try to not put much of these influences into our music because we're trying to write and play our own thing.


2. I'm not sure I've heard any punk from Argentina. How is the punk scene, and can you recommend any bands?

Well punk hardcore scene in Argentina is diverse; there are so many bands, genres and sub-genres. Particularly in this part of the country, which is quite far from the main scene which is located in the capital city, Buenos Aires, the common style is Punk Rock (like The Ramones and such) and there is a little bit hardcore and metal around. We belong to a punk-hc scene that supports or at least is aware of political organizations such as socialism and anarchism, we try to send a message to the people and we try to tell people how's living in Argentina with corruption, repression and more. Government is fucked up and they want to fuck you too, so is important for us to talk about those things, like native tribes and people being killed by the government or politics becoming millonaires of stealing money from people and such. There are many bands to recommend: Enquirer, Los Caidos, Gerk Crust, Migra Violenta, Quemacoches, Operativo Exposicion Total and many many more.


3. What do you know about Sweden and the Swedish scene?

Me (Bene) had a friend in Sweden, her name was Sheena and she recommend me some music from there such as The Pain, Mob 47 and Anti Cimex, which I know are quite popular there, but far from there I don't know much, it would be nice to know more about it. With Internet these days is easier to communicate, spread a message, keep in touch with other scenes and that's one of our goals, to exchange and be able to spread our music in any country. Absolut Country from Anti Cimex is a great record.

4. How is a perfect Los Más Peores gig? How many gigs have you done? And have you played outside Argentina anytime?

Well, on friday it will be our 6th gig, we have just started and perfection would it be total crazyness and chaos. We're used to total chaos, like people having lots of fun and participating from the gig, that's one of the things I enjoy the most: giving total permission to people to express and participate from a show. Sadly, right now, people is quite affraid of our crazyness on stage but I think they will become more used in the future when this kind of music becomes aknowledged by people. I know many people from here know us from our previous band, but I think now we're truly unleashed hehehehe. With our previous band we used to play in Chile a lot, we've been invited with Los Mas Peores several times to Chile but work and responsabilities keep getting in the middle, but we will do it eventually.


5. So, what is your future plans?

Our future plans are recording a long-duration record. We have just recorded a demo for ourselves to examine the music and finish the lyrics and we will start recording in July (on winter's break). A part of this demo can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JeB-HZEl-U
There are two labels interested in editing and releasing our record and we're very happy with this, because for us that's how things should work in a DIY scene, everybody helping everybody. We have a distro that distributes material from many bands and it's available at our gigs and we're very happy that people actually are interested in our music and message. Then we're gonna tour at the end of the year for several provinces and cities, many of the dates are already settled and many people are expecting for us, so we're very excited on how things are turning for us.


6. Contact info:

You can contact the band through or facebook page http://www.facebook.com/losmaspeores or write an email to our distro mail: destroythefalcon@gmail.com
Cheers and thanks to you for the interview!

Interview: Återfall

Do you like Driller Killer? Fine, then you should like Återfall as well. This band with members from all parts of Sweden are an extreme raw band. I really appreciate that they are a part of the Schizo Punk Comp and look forward to their new 7". Here is the link to their song on Schizo Punk Comp. Återfall – Day Of The Rope

1. Hey Magnus, please write a short story of Återfall
We started the band in late 2008 as a 2 man studioproject, in the beginnig of 2009 we started to rehearse

2. Where do you get your influences from? How would you describe your sound?
Like a mix between Lasse Dalqvist and Sarcofago

3. How many copys do you have left of your 7"? Any good reviews?
The record is sold out, maybe storpunkarn Anton Cimex have some copys left, only good reviews

4. You all live in different places, how often can you get together and rehearse? Is it right that you have 2 different line-ups, one for gigs and one for recordings?
Not very often, we only rehearse before gigs. and on the recordings only 3 of 5 members have participated for some kind of reason...

5. Well, it's time to end this, what is your future plans?
PPP Records are going to release a 7" , just finished recording the songs

6. Contact info:
aterfall@ymail.com

Interview: Hyrda Knektar

Hyrda Knektar have a sound that is quite popular for Swedish bands to play now. And I like the mix of swedish punkrock and powerpop influences. To get a perfect mix of genres on the Compilation did I really wanted Hyrda Knektar to participate... and they did =) Here's the link to their song Diamant. Hyrda Knektar – Diamant


1. Hello, do you wanna start to introduce the band? Please translate your name - Hyrda Knektar and let us know how you came up with that name
Hey Schizo! We're just three fulltime working family fathers that kick this just for the fun of it. It's me (Markel Månsson) on drums and vocals, Stefan Lundblad - vocals and guitars and Thomas Wallander - bass and backup vocals. We all cheat on some other instruments such as organs and pianos aswell. We have also just recently added Reidar Assine on organs and Nicole Assine and Maria Resén doing backup vocals. Makes us sound massive live but they will soon be appearing on recorded material aswell!

2. How would you describe your music? Your lyrics are in Swedish, have you ever thought about to write lyrics in english? For the people who doesn't understand Swedish, what is your lyrics about?
How come it's so bloody hard to describe your own music although you know exactly what it sounds like?! I guess one could say that we're playing some kind of high energy punk rock with influenced by lots of different styles from rock n roll to punk to power pop to soul and oi! The organ is a big part of the sound and we've also used saxophone, trombone, trumpet, piano and harmonica in our songs so that gives us a special sound. To make it easy, people has compared us to the last Ebba Grön album and that might be pretty close.

Our lyrics are mainly reflections of our society and things we have experienced in our lives. We've all grown up in the suburbs south of Stockholm so we have kind of the same background. Most of our lyrics are kind of nostalgic, probably cause we dont live very exciting lives these days...  But we also have songs about broken hearts and a ballad about finding the love of your life when youve just gotten beaten outside the pub a wild summer night in Stockholm.

3. What do you think of the Schizo Punk Comp. project with bands from all kind of punk genres? And do you think it's just an utopia I have that I want to unite all punk genres?
It's a great initiative and I think you should keep it up! I dont see any reason why different genres should be held apart? I listen to a lot of different punk styles (and other music aswell), and I think alot of people do.

4. What do you think about the punk scene in Stockholm?
I think the punk scene in Stockholm is very well alive and kickin'! Many of the punks (and skins) have grown older but stay in the scene and there seems to be younger ones coming up all the time. There are many bands and I dont think the number of gigs are going down. In fact, for the last four years we've had the  anuall Pretty Shitty Kjell festival every easter who have given us bands like Peter and the Test Tube babies, Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer, Infa Riot, Anti Nowhere League and Angelic Upstarts and many more. So, all in all I would say it's a good scene.

5. Please tell me about your future
We are writing and recording tracks for a 7" thats gonna be released by Noise of Sweden and we're also playing the Dead Rhythm Fest in Västerås in September so I guess we'll rehearse some of the new songs until then aswell. Guess thats what's gonna be in the near future.

6. Contact info:
You can find us on Facebook, youtube, Spotify, ITunes  and www.hyrdaknektar.se
For information, interviews, booking and indecent offers - send a mail to: info@hyrdaknektar.se

Interview: Irritation

Irritation from Sala/Västerås, Sweden belongs to one of the rawest existing band in Sweden. And Befa is a good guy, so I really wanted to have Irritation on the Compilation. Here's the link to their song "Ingen lysande framtid". Irritation – Ingen lysande framtid


1. Hey Befa, what's up? Do you have a new line-up, who are in the band today?
Yes i´ve recruited some new guys to the band and it´s Joel from Passiv Dödshjälp, Kronisk Misantropi among others on drums and Fredrik Thölin from M.B.E and Dissober on bas

2. Do you have any plans for the summer?
No specific plans more than rehearse and drink beer but we recorded 10 new tracks last weekend and we´re looking for a label/labels that can release them and we´re also looking for gigs so all you punk promotors out there can book us ´cause we´re pretty cheap

3. Do you see Irritation as a band or is it your project?
Yes we are a band but i still do the riffs and lyrics by myself.

4. How would you describe Irritation for people who've never heard you?
Swedish crust/d-beat with influences from Skitsystem,Martyrdöd and maybe some Uncurbed like riffs.

5. Ok, let's finish this, do you have any last words, or any plans for the future?
Like i said we´ll hopefully find some label that will release our stuff and we´re also looking for gigs/tours both abroad and in Sweden and we will continue to rehearse on regular basis ´cause i have songs written for about 3-4 albums. Cheers and thanks for your support!!!

6. Contact info:
Contact me at mattias.bergfelt@gmail.com or visit or FB-page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Irritation/143064402425259?ref=hl and leave a message or comment and our Myspace are fucked up by Myspace themself so i don´t care much about that page...

Interview: Mindless Violence

Mindless Violence from Skopje in Maccedonia play very good hardcore...
Here is their song "One Spirit" on the Schizo Punk Comp.
Mindless Violence – One Spirit

"Too punk for the hardcore kids, too hardcore for the punk kids,
too mainstream for the thrash kids, too thrash for the mainstream kids."



1. Hey hey, let us know the story of Mindless Violence.

Hi, we’re formed in Skopje, Macedonia in 2010 by Marko-vocals, Aleksandar-guitar, Kristijan-drums and Vladimir-bass, but we made some changes in the lineup, so currently the bass player is Stefan. We have one demo and a 7 inch split with Damage from Linköping, Sweden.

2. How is life in Macedonia, and the punk scene as well?

Well, the everyday life in Macedonia is hard. Small country that still is looking to find a place in the European Union and the people are living one day at a time. On the other hand, the punk scene is doing well. We have many great bands, but the sad thing is that we don’t have decent place to do shows. So if we do it in a club, usually the club will have all the profit, not the bands. So the shows usually are made in underground garages.

 
3. Have you done any gigs in former Yugoslavia? Where do you prefer to play then? How would you describe a perfect M.V gig?

Because we are still young band, we only made a show in Belgrade-Serbia, and we are hoping that maybe next year we are going to make a tour around former Yugoslavia. But we still prefer to play in Skopje, because it always harder to play in front of your own crowd. The shows are always filled with positive attitude, no kick boxing and other mixed martial arts. A simple circle pit, sing-along, moshing show.
 

4. What is your lyrics about? How do you write your songs?
The lyrics are about stuff that piss us off, but we also have lyrics that inspired us from some personal experiences. As far as writing songs, if somebody have a new riff or new lyrics we make a song.

5. Any future plans? What will you do this summer?
This summer we are preparing for our new EP release called „Забот на времето“or on English “The Tooth of time”. After that we are going in the studio to record our first LP and maybe a tour around former Yugoslavia. 
 
6. Contact info:
omovski92@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/mindless.violence.skopje

Interview: 40oz folklore

40oz. folklore was formed back in 2008. And their hardcore is influenced by 80's US/HC and English oldschool punk as well. They contribute on Schizo Punk Compilation Vol.1 with the song Soapbox. Here's the link to that song: 40oz. Folklore – Soapbox

1. Hello, how are you? Who are the members of 40oz Folklore? And please explain the name.
Thanks! Everything is going quite well! We have Jamie Spall on drums, Sloan Stewart on lead guitar, Taylor Russell on 2nd guitar, Joshua Mc Avoy on bass and I'm on vocals. This current line up has been together for 2 years now. Jamie and I are the only original members from the start, 5 years ago in 2008. Taylor joined a few months later. We originally had a different vocalist, at first, and I was the lead guitarist for about the first 8-9 months before I got on vocals. Sloan played in a previous band with Jamie and I called, Tyber Stryke, from 2005 to 2007. He rejoined us in 40oz. Folklore, in 2009, and Joshua joined us in 2011 replacing the original bassist.

The name 40oz. Folklore comes from the fact that we enjoy drinking beer in that size. It is usually one of the most expensive ways to purchase beer in that quantity. We don't have much money so we try to get the most bang for our buck!

2. How would you describe your music? And where do you get your influences from?
I think our music is somewhat of an old school influenced style of hardcore punk with a more modern sound to it. Some of our influences include Chaos UK, Poison Idea, Conflict, GBH, Circle Jerks, Germs. Mainly 1980's Los Angeles hardcore and '82 style UK punk.

 3. How often do you play live? And where do you like most to play?
For the first 4 years we would play at least twice a month. I've been in Los Angeles attending school, so we haven't played in about 10 months. I return to Tennessee in a few weeks and we have our first show, in almost a year, scheduled in August. It will be our 100th live performance and our 5 year anniversary show.

We prefer to play out of town, rather than in our own city. The people in other places seem more receptive to our music than the local people are to us. We are the only hardcore punk band from our town, and the people in our city seem to prefer pop oriented punk bands. Though most of our shows have been in town, it's much better for us when we play in a different city.

4. What have you released so far? Any good critics?
As far as releases, we have one "official" album called "Something's Wrong With This Picture" released during the summer of 2011. Previous to that we have a demo of songs recorded in 2009-2010. We've been on a number of compilation albums, many of them put out by Ungovernable Resistance DIY Radio.

The response to our album has been very good. We've had some really nice reviews from it. Our demo pretty much got trashed by MRR, calling us a dime store oi band, with a bad Tom Waits impression on vocals. I thought that was pretty funny, considering we sound nothing close to oi music! lol!

5. Well, what will happen with the band in the future? Any realistic dreams?
I will be getting back with the band and returning to Tennessee very soon. We plan on recording 3-4 new songs, ASAP, then putting out a split EP with another band, as of yet to be determined. We also have a short 7-10 day tour of the south/east part of the US planned for later this summer. We would like to get out to the UK and Europe in the summer of 2014. That all depends on our financial situation once the time comes and if we'll be able to afford to get over there.

6. Contact info:
fortyoz.folklore@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/40ozfolklore

Interview: Spotlicks

Spotlicks from Stockholm, Sweden is one of my favorite bands and their punkrock appeal to me very much. They went out on their second euro-tour this spring 2013 and did a couple of gigs in the UK. The song they participate with on Schizo Punk Comp is called Apati and here is the link to that song on Schizo Punk Comp. Spotlicks – Apati

1. I think that everyone who read Schizo Fanzine and Schizo Blog have heard about you, but please write a brief history about Spotlicks
Spotlicks have been together since early 2010. Staffan and Rikke had been fiddling about a few times but it all came together when Elin made her entrance. We hit our spot straight off from the start and have been playing our brand of melodic punk since then with a 7" and a 10" under our belt along with some compilations. Two European tours but we keep yearning for more.
    2. You did a UK tour this spring 2013, what's your best memories from that tour?
The best was to hook up with the wonderful Buiten Gebruik again! Too bad they couldn't play any gigs, we would have loved to see them live again. Apart from that it was great to be in Brighton, London and Leeds and to meet lots of great people. Thanks to everyone involved, really!

3. I know that you are gonna record (or have recorded) a few tracks, what will you do with those tracks?
It totally depends on how well we manage this time as we've gotten more picky and want a Good result before we decide to share it. Possibly there's a new record to come in the end.

4. How many copys have you sold of your 7" and your 10"?
Oh, a couple of hundred at the most.

5. What about the future, any plans?    
The usual: recording and touring. Improve our songs, recordings and concerts. We're putting together a tour package for Sweden in september along with Head-ons, Smash it up and Suicide syndicate. We hope to return to England aswell. If you have any ideas for gigs then please get in touch!
   
6. Contact info:
You can reach Spotlicks through our Facebook profile or just send us a mail: spotlicks@gmail.com

Thanks to you Schizo!

Interview: Razorblade Smile

Razorblade Smile is a really good UK punkrock band. And they deserve all the best since they are just as good as all the classic UK punkrock bands. Here is their song "35 Years (go to hell)"
Razorblade Smile – 35 YEARS (go to hell)


1. Oi! Oi!, what's up? How is the punk scene in Glasgow?
Punk scen in Glasgow is pretty healthy and very underground D.I.Y.

2. Please introduce the band? And the obvious question, Celtic or Rangers?
Well we're a 4 piece Kate on vocals, Roddy on guitar, Shug on bass and Davy on drums. Roddy and Shug are Rangers , Kate is Celtic and Davy is Motherwell.

3. Do you want Scotland to be independent from England?
Yes we would like to see Scotland get independence.

4. Please describe your music and what is your lyrics about?
Our music is Punk rock and our songs are about life and descrimination against the poor.

5. What is your future plans?
Well our future plans are to gig more outside scotland maybe europe some day.

6. Contact info:
Anyone can contact the band via facebook . Razorblade smile

Interview: Demöralyzér

The bass player Jan from Demöralyzér speaks out some interesting thoughts about CZ. I like their sound, crossover hardcore punk. It would be cool to see Demöralyzér live, hope they can make it to Sweden in the future.


1. Hey hey, can you introduce the band? Members, releases etc.
Cheers from Pilsen, Czech republic. My name is Jan I am 33 and I play bass in the band. Instead of it I am tattooist and I have a tattoo shop called Garáž tattoo in Pilsen. Demoralyzér was established in 2009 and first line up was: me - bass, šváb - guitar, majty - guitar, vápno - drums, páv - vocals, dodo - vocals. We recorded our fist and only demo in 2011. Two songs of this demo appeared on some compilations. Then Majty and Dodo left the band to start another band, some kind of hipster metal or shit like that.

2. How is the punk scene in Czech Republik?
I am not much interested in czech scene, sorry.Different scenes in our country are divided, there is not much unity here. In Pilsen most punks are conservative and ignorant red necks. There are few old punk bands here which started in 80ies and still play. Instead of us there was only one other band in Pilsen that played fast hard core and it was Barrel. they don´t play anymore but the singer runs punk hard core pages called Raw zine http://rawezin.wgz.cz/. Pilsen is full of hipsters listening to some post metal hard core emo shit. There is quite strong extreme hard core scene in Czech but really not in pilsen. I am more into czech bands from 80ies so I am not good for this question. There are also few interesting big festivals in our country - Extreme obcsene - grind, metal, crust, gore, Fluff fest - hard core fest for pc kids - It is near Pilsen, Mighty sounds - punk, ska, Hc, Pod parou - punk, hc. Time to time I do with my friends in Pilsen benefit gigs for anti racist activities, It is called Beats and riffs. There is also streetpunk crew called Pilsen trojans crew and they do anti racist oi/punk gigs but their shows are now situated more in Prague.



3. What is your lyrics about? And how do you write your songs?
Our lyrics are "havin a laugh and havin a say with a touch of hate" haha. I made some lyrics and it is always about something that pisses me off but I want to write it in a funny way and add some excessive hateful attitude. I don´t like serious pathetic pc lyrics. Other members do lyrics their own way but it is never pathetic.

4. How many gigs have you done so far? And how is a perfect Demöralyzér gig?
I am not sure but I think 20 gigs. We don´t play much maybe we should promote our band more. Perfect gig - good bands on the bill, no emo/post/screamo/hipster shit on the bill and not to be the last band on the bill:).

5. Do you have any plans for the summer and the future?
No plans for summer, maybe few gigs and in the future we want to make some official record.

6. Contact info:
Thanx for interview and for compilation, keep the faith, here is contact: krtektattoo@centrum.cz
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dem%C3%B6ralyz%C3%A9r/153291194731541?ref=tn_tnmn