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Bottle-fed on bands
11ke Agnostic Front
and Reagan Youth, Sick
of It All's Lou Koller
(vocals). Pete Koller
(guitar). Armand
Majidi (drums), and
Craig Setari (bass).
have become the de
facto hardcore stan-
dard, the line in the
sand between the
metal-tinged straight-
odge crowd and the
easy-does-it post
hardcore bands.
In 1986 and '87, hard-
core was very easy to
define, while today
It properties are a
bit e vague. How
have things changed,
and are the initial
definitions for hard-
core still applicable?
Armand when it first
reaked its head, hard-
code had some definite
and clear political mes-
sages Nowadays, the
messages are getting
more personal as opposed
to social. The lyrics
weren't anywhere near as
Introspective as they
are now.
Craig Also, these
ids that haven't been
around for very long
don't know hardcore in
Its true sense because
they weren't going to
Sick
of it All
matinees back in the day.
Armend: It seems that
the life struggle nowadays
is the pain you have to
endure getting a tattoo as
opposed to living life as a
social misfit.
Well, you get what you ask
for. Where you wrote lyrics
about feeling like a freak
in high school, years later
those hardcore kids that lis-
ten to your music no longer
feel like freaks and are
better adjusted.
Lou: Maybe it worked.
How do you feel about your
new record, Built To Last.
and what did you try to do
differently with it?
Armand: It has some dif-
ferent flavors from the last
few records. The production
is clearer, and there is
energy and diversity on it.
Lou: But we're very con-
scious of wanting to keep our
sound. We may progress and
write songs in a different
way, but we definitely play it
with our sound.
lyrically
than we ever have in the
past. When you grow up, you get
more comfortable with yourself,
and that is showing. There are a
lot of bands, especially hardcore
bands, that aren't really comfort-
able with themselves and come off
as immature or stupid, and it is
really obvious. Or they have a
message that isn't thoroughl
thought out.
Over the past three years, the
beat-down thug element at your
shows has/ really thinned out
What was that change like?
Lou: We made a conscious.
effort to get rid of that. When
we would play a show back in, say.
'93, we were one of the few hard
core bands that could play
York due to all the violen
because the club owners knew.
ve talked to the kids and the
knew all the troublemakers. We
would hold their weapons in the
dressing 1002 so at least they
weren't on the dance floor. And
we learned that if we played)
with five other bands that sound-
ed like us, then there was going,
to be nothing but fights. So wel
got a little diverse and took
bands like Black Train Jack on
tour. It added a different ele
ment to the show, and kids whe
wouldn't ordinarily come see u
would show up.
How does Sick Of It A11
remain relevant without rely-
ing on nostalgia?
Craig: We don't follo
How have you progressed with any type of plan. We do
the record exactly?
Armand: We're just morn
comfortable expressing our-
selves both musically and
our own thing, and ve
still have a lot to
offer. Joseph Epstein,