Firebrand After Dark Issue 2 - August

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it's just that we don't sit on songs very long. Also with the split coming out soon this will help us get the name around more labels/distros etc, and therefore be able to pitch the album further a field and get more financial support as this has always been the bane of Gacy's, we are fucking skint.. but who in a band, in this choice of genre isn't? We won't be selling out any stadiums soon, and we never intended to ha ha.

Any Irish bands that you think will make it across the water in the future? All of them. Why not like. If 4 dickheads from Belfast with 50p in their pocket can get across the water, anyone can. Not saying it's easy, fuck no… I couldn't get a full UK tour booked the last time, so I thought fuck this we're going to Europe. And the only feasible way was to buddy up with our mates in By Any Means, boom 11 date tour was sorted. And it was one of the greatest experiences of my What's your opinion on the current condition of life and I'll never forget it. So many bands from Metal in Ireland? here like Axis of, Ilenkus, Empty Lungs, Pigs As Strong I'd say. Maybe not just metal though… I People, Red Enemy, Murdock and Five Will Die, don't follow that particular genre on it's own… I have tackled UK festivals, UK tours, European tours would rather say the 'heavy' scene maybe. As I love and more… shit loads more than Gacy's has, and my hardcore, metal, crust, sludge and noise. fair fucks to them. It's breaking the illusion that if There's always been a strong backbone of Death you're in Ireland you're fucked…get off your ass and and Black metal in Ireland, and an abundance of get out there, these guys are giving up their great bands playing that like Zombified, Overoth, holidays from the daily grind, some quitting their and Rex Shachath. Hardcore seems to be on the jobs to tour, loosing money, sleeping on floors, up. When Gacy's first started there was very little eating shite for weeks… and all because they love hardcore bands in the North, next to none, bar what they do. I highly doubt any of those lads I Hand of Death, and The Lobotomies (more mention are doing these tours across the water off hardcore Punk). But in the last few years it is really their own backs to be rock stars or the next big growing, it seems to be with the younger crowd thing. It's their love of it and we have nothing but getting into it which is great, and down the line can the up most respect for anyone doing it, and that only mean great things. The South has always had comes from all the lads in Gacy's. And long may it their solid acts like Frustration, 20 Bulls Each and continue, this wee country is pulling out some sadly disbanded acts like Only Fumes and Corpse great bands and it would be a shame to limit them and Famine flying the hardcore flag, and then only to our shores. bands like Warpath, Coldwar pushing the metal side of things.

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