By the time you are reading this ar ticle you are either stoked because you saw Off With Their Heads or you fucked up and are probably watching a bunch of dudes in tight pants chasing a dead pig’s ass for points. I had the pleasure of seeing Off With Their Heads Sunday mor ning at T he Fest in 2007. I had no clue what I was going to see and almost blew them off to eat more pizza. Luckily good friends of mine convinced me to check them out, and ever since it has been my shit. With song lyrics like “It’s all a fucking joke to me / I wake up and wor k, and get fucked up and sleep / I wake up and wor k, and get fucked up all over again,” combined with instrumentation that is original yet comparable to punk rock l i k e D 4 a n d To y s T h a t K i l l y o u c a n n o t g o w r o n g . O f f With Their Heads might be one of the busiest bands in punk rock. Right now the band is cur rently on a tour that is around six months long and has put out over a dozen records in the past couple of year s. Their most recent release was also their first fulllength, From the Bottom, which was released on No I d e a t h i s s u m m e r. R y a n Yo u n g w h o p l a y s g u i t a r / vocals in the band was awesome enough to answer s o m e q u e s t i o n s a b o u t t h e b a n d f o r m e r e c e n t l y.
Cu rtis G r i m stea d: Fir st, the generic histor y question. How did Off With Their Heads come to be? Rya n Y o u n g : I w a s l i v i n g i n a r e c o r d i n g s t u d i o b a s e m e n t with my friend Erik. I wrote a few songs and we recorded them. They were the product of hour s and hour s of layering stuff and coming up with different ver sions. That wound up being the fir st 7”. Justin came along in the middle of rec o r d i n g t h a t s t u f f a n d 1 5 m e m b e r s l a t e r, h e r e w e a r e . C G : Yo u h a v e b e e n t o u r i n g f o r a l m o s t t h r e e m o n t h s s t r a i g h t and have another three months from the looks of your tour schedule. How is touring non-stop wor king out for you guys? RY : W e w e r e t a l k i n g a b o u t t h a t t h e o t h e r d a y. N o b o d y i s t i r e d o r s i c k o f e a c h o t h e r, a n d t h a t w a s t h e b i g c o n c e r n . It’s something I’ ve alw ays w anted to do, and this gr oup of b a d n e w s b e a r s w a n n a b e s a c t u a l l y p u l l e d i t o f f. K i c k a s s. CG: Where have you not played that you would really like to? RY : W e r e a l l y w a n t t o h i t u p t h e S c a n d i navian countries and Austr alia. From the sounds of it, we will be doing all of that in 2009. CG: From the Bottom is the fir st full studio album that you have made. Wer e the songs 35