"it's the inner beast that keeps pushing on"

summarize the past

Thanks to the newest edition of THE HEAT, people find out about this blog I did and do sometimes. Well, first off: It's not my fault that Dominik Heat didn't print the current issue within the last... 12 months or so, haha! But on the other hand it's also not his fault that in the meantime my whole life-situation turned upside down almost completely. However, if there's one thing that remains, it's my absolute taste in music. I mean, say what you want, but most people don't even have this. All jokes asides: If you don't already have a copy of THE HEAT III, go and manage to buy one. Fuckhead. But since nobody else would check this site anyway, I assume, changes are pretty big you already bought it.


I have to get myself a copy as well. I can't even remember what I've been asked. Kinda strange. I'm pretty sure there are some folks around who hope that I turn up pretty ashamed of some things I did and spoke about in the past (or in even in this specific interview). I mean, I won't lie. I've always had a big mouth and I can be pretty ignorant at sometimes. This has always been like this since I was a little child, so... even due to the fact, that I'm still growing up and blah, this probably will never change. So, there'll always be situations like these. And in the end of the day, I couldn't care less about people describing me as a sell-out, a hipster, a try-to-be-quiet-progressive or whatever. Let them listen to Cold World. Ha! (Speaking of being an arrogant big mouth...)


By the way, may I get your attention for some news in my own business?


Seed of Pain is still busy. We're currently getting all our stuff together for our record, finishing some art-work details, rehearsing for the release-shows, getting some serious extravaganza bombastico lights, videoanimations and other ridiculous stuff. Honestly, I think this could turn out pretty bad, so be prepared for some LOL-moments.


Check our website: www.sopcollective.org
Check our myspace: www.myspace.com/seedofpain
Check our buddies: www.myspace.com/lesyeuxsansvisageband

Love, Peace, Self-Destruction
SS

Winter Tour Report pt. II

The sequel of the already legendary Tour Report pt. I. Here it is, by the way, go and buy the new PJ Harvey Album "White Chalk". Lovin' it.

Dec 24, Nova Gorica, Slovenia

After an awesome 10-hour sleep we got up in the morning in Vienna. Actually my mind won't let me remember if we hung out in Vienna or if we drove straight forward to Slovenia. But I know, that we were listening to Turbonegro in the van, and I also remember by now, that Krieger (singer of Fall Apart) went at war with a bus stop sign. You can't imagine? Pretty simple: He tried to get our van out of the parking and ignored the above mentioned sign. The sound of "Kkkkkkkkkkkrsh" was recognisable for everyone inside the van. If we hadn't expect this tour to turn out a finacially disaster, we realized so shortly after that accident. But hey, Krieger's gonna pay this on his one and will most likely sell some of his xposix records on ebay to do so. Yup.

So, Slovenia! We arrived there, while the sun was setting and it was an awesome landscape. A little bit of a mediterrian feeling came up and we got high hopes for the show that night. The promoter of the show mailed us before, to let us know that we should just try to find "the huge casino building in the center of the city". We did so, some minutes passed by and a super chill anarcho-crustie with booze in his hands walked our way saying something like "So, you are swiss bastards? Welcome!". Awesome! Turns out, the show takes place at a small squat called Ideal Bar. They had a party going on for three days already which was their way to celebrate Christmas. We spend some time in the "backstage" watching Nirvana Homevideos as well as the super good movie STREET TRASH together with a super drunk anarcho (with an old MAYHEM Longsleeve btw.) who seemed to know every single spoken word in the movie. After a lot of hanging around and having food, FALL APART played a short set in front of 15 people. So did we. We gave away some free shirts as well as a lot of beer and the crowd seemed to like it. Altough they found it pretty strange, that most of us weren't totally drunk.


Dominik, our drummer banged the drum so hard, that there was a huge hole afterwards. One of the guys in FALL APART didn't know any better than sayin' "You can put your penis into this!", so one of the crusties managed to do so... Now, imagine yourself how a completely wasted punk tries to put his dick into this hole of the snare head in front of some retards from Switzerland.



After the show we had to load our gear into the van again, cause we had a long drive before us through the night. The punks tried their best to convince us to stay there and party on with them for like forever, but we didn't. Everyone got into the van, I had to stay up the whole drive, to make sure our driver didn't fall asleep. Again, the whole landscape was awesome. We drove through Croatia were there was a lot of snow contrary to the almost warm weather in Slovenia.


We decided to make a short trip to Budapest, Hungary since we had enough time. At the borders to Hungary policemen stopped us and asked us for some kind of a permission we should had in order to pass the borders. We didn't know anything about that and so the guys in blue told us to drive back to the borders of SLOVENIA to get some. Wow... needless to say, we didn't want to do so. All of a sudden, the one guy said something in the way of "Well, you are a rockband, so you have to sing something for us to pass the borders, and yeah, give us a cd". There we were, 9 kids in a van singing "Jingle Bells" at 4 o'clock in the morning somewhere in eastern europe.

After I told them, that we sound like Bruce Springsteen they were satisfied and let us pass.


Dez 25, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia


It seemed to me like this day never ended. After ending up in Budapest at 9 in the morning on this holy day, we started to realise that every single shop was closed that date. Too bad. Especially for Benno, since he tends to be a hungry guy. Somewhere along the highway I also managed to get rid of my beloved STRIFE baseball cap (Victory Records, circa 1997), since I thought that it will bring us no luck. So, that was definitely a hard but fair decision.


Banksa Bystrica is a nice, small town. I'm not sure but from what I saw, it seems quite touristic and also there were a lot of alternativ/punk people around there. We finally found a Pizzeria with cheap prices and I lost my wallet. Or it got stolen. Whatever.

The show was put up by a cool Irish guy, who's name I already forgot. But he was supernice and took care of us. There were alot of people and some local bands raging from Crust to Screamo to Grindcore. My ears heard a Nasum Covertune as well. I went into the van to take some sleep, because I was so damn tired and the show was set up late. I guess, we both played good sets that night. We played the song "Shroud" from a band called Born Against. We did this several times before, but it's kinda weird, when after the show an elderly guy comes up to you, wanting to thank you so much for that one song and so on. I mean, in Switzerland or Germany, when playing a classic hardcore show, people are way too cool to tell you so, nor do they know any bands that aren't hyped at the moment. Sad but true.

Our singer also managed to break some girls' hearts. While playing our show, two girls were standing in the first row. All eyes on him, without even noticing the REST OF US BEING COOL AS WELL! No, sorry. Nevermind.

We crashed at the promoters house and I finally got my urgently needed sleep.

Winter Tour Report Part I

Finally I managed to make my first blog-entry in 2008. As you might know, Seed Of Pain went on tour during christmas holiday together with Fall Apart. I took my time to put up a little tour-report. Here it is:

FUCK CHRISTMAS - PRAISE SATAN TOUR 07 PART 1

Dec 21 Zug, Switzerland


After getting our van ready and loading in our stuff (which took us about a whole day) we arrived at the venue. Of course not on time. Fedi, the promoter of the show inmediately made us feel welcome when we drove our van to the venue by showing us his grimmy face and his nice italian middle finger... AND cooking awesome food for us. Let's talk about the show. The event was called "X-Mas Mosh Festival", other bands playing were Born From Pain, No Turning Back and a few moshy swiss bands. We really did NOT fit in to the bill, but nevermind. We had our fun. I guess, we played okay and to my suprise a lot of people were actually watching us with their cute New Era Caps on.

After SOP, Fall Apart followed up. I personally think, that this was the best set of them I have witnessed yet. The crowd-response was cool, people sang along and I even found myself trying out what it's like to be stagediving. (Dear readers, stagediving is still no good, since that night my back hurts constantly.)

After the show, we went back to Lucerne to our homes and families.

Dec 22, Winterthur, Switzerland

This show was in a nice, small squat. SOP and FA were the only bands playing, still a lot of people actually showed up. That's no big surprise, since Fall Apart got a lot of strange friends from Winterthur. They all showed up, drank beer and danced to silly and/or bad music. The atmosphere was completly different from the day before, way more familiar. Thomas from Germany showed up with our 12inches, so this was kind of our record release show. We had a hell of a luck, cause the 12inches should have already arrived the day before, but DHL somehow fucked that up. Whatever, we were damn happy to have the records with us for the tour.

After the show we slept at the venue, while all the crusties and anachrists made a HUGE party downstairs( H-U-G-E). Sadly without us, cause the day after we had to get up early. Vienna was our next destination.

Dec 23, Vienna, Austria

We didn't get much sleep. We got up at something like 6 o' clock in the morning and when we wanted to load our stuff into the van, we realised that the already infamous after-show-party was still going on. We had to explain to everyone, why we were ALREADY leaving and that it was nothing personal and so on. It was quite funny. But we didn't have any time to waste. Travelling from Winterthur to Vienna takes some time.

While being on the road, we listened to the song "The Decline" from NOFX over and over again. Good song.

We managed to arrive more than on time in Vienna at the Arena. Pascal FA had the nice idea of going to the famous Vegetasia Restaurant, too bad that we found ourselves after a 30 minutes walk in the cold in front of a closed restaurant. After saying FUCK YOU to the opening times that restaurant has in our own way, we walked back to the venue.

Again, SOP was the opening act of the evening. From the beginning on I had some strange problems with my amp. The sound was desasterous on stage and I guess not much better in front of it. I can't even say if we played bad, it just sounded crappy anyway. However, people showed up and watched us, which I think isn't always like that! So, thank you Vienna. Next time, it'll be better.

After FA, Losing X Streak played and the Vienna Crew went completly insane. People were moshing and singing along. They made LXS feel really welcome. To be honest, I didn't really dig their music, however I fully enjoyed their Cro-Mags covers. Meanwhile, Adi FA went to the hospital to check, what's up with his foot. We already feared that we had to cancel the following shows, but happily after a while he returned with the news, that the doctors didn't find anything.

Since everyone was tired from the short night before and the long drive we decided to go to sleep as soon as we could. I fell asleep soon after I read "FUCK DMS" written by Rick Ta Life on the bedroom wall of the venue. "Fuck Rick Ta Life" I whispered back.