Viceland - IL RITORNO DEL VERO HARDCORE - Finalmente Gli X More Than Zero X

Forse il motivo per cui molte band hardcore si lamentano di quanto sia stagnante la scena hardcore è perchè la scena hardcore è davvero stagnante. Negli ultimi vent’anni, sebbene ci sia stata qualche eccezione, la maggior parte dei gruppi/ fanzine/ragazzi dell’hardcore è stata milioni di anni luce distante dallo spirito originale del movimento. Ehi ragazzi, ma l’avete mai letto American Hardcore di Steven Blush? Grazie a Dio da Stoccolma, arrivano gli X More Than Zero X; sicuramente uno dei gruppi hardcore più importanti da Born Against. Sono riusciti a prendere l’etica originale del genere—ragazzi con un cazzo da perdere che strillano su praticamente tutto—e a trasformarla in una valida ed arrabbiata alternativa alle stronzate che nel 99% percento vi comprate come le pecore della copertina del secondo disco dei Minor Threat.

Vice: Come sei arrivata all’hardcore?

Eva Unnes(cantante): Mio fratello era dentro il grind hardcore, quello pesante e politicizzato. G-Anx, Anticimex, Doom… Apparivano molto più credibili di tutti i segaioli Straight Edge tipo Earth Crisis. Trovare un video di Siege nella cameretta di mio fratello, cambiò radicalmente la mia visione dell’hardcore. Da allora fu tutto un fiorire di Negative Approach e Infest.

Tutto ciò è curioso per una diciottenne. Non dovresti ascoltare i No Doubt e quella roba lì?

Divertente che tu mi dica ciò, dal momento che ho da poco incontrato Gwen Stefani qui a Stoccolma. Le ho dato una copia del nostro primo singolo, “With Meaning”/“Destroy The Scriptures”.

Sei l’unica donna in una band tutta di uomini.

Si, ma li tratto come delle puttanelle. Può sembrarti egocentrico, ma penso che noi siamo un po’ come se i Negative Approach e le Poison Girls si fondessero nei primi Neurosis. E in più volevamo dire una cosa.

Quale?

Che è ora di rubare ai rappers il termine “realness” e riportarlo nel suo habitat naturale: l’hardcore.

JIMMY SHITS
Il terzo demo degli X More Than Zero X, Outpatient Wating To Die, è disponibile su www.xmorethanzerox.se.

Comments:

Subject: want some old skewl hxc from philippines
Date: Aug 13 2007 03:52:27 PM
Author: punk/hxc

try this guys this is http://vice.typepad.com/vbs/2007/07/practice-spac-1.html#com
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i met them on myspace they are bunch of nice guys.

Subject: WTF
Date: Aug 13 2007 03:41:56 PM
Author: xrepresentx

is this a joke or what?? X's with someone smokes ?? whata fucckkk ur not hardcore or what ever crap your into... stop tryin to be hard...we all see your just a wana beee

Subject: Hard Core bands
Date: May 19 2007 05:42:41 PM
Author: Richard

These bunch of FAGETS cant sing, cant play, and they look like SHIT .
They need a new make over and some new sounds in order to make it or for me to spend my money on their music.

Subject: FALE and SUK
Date: May 25 2006 09:04:57 PM
Author: doup est.

sorry, but i think you're missing the point. most of them "hardcore" -artists are like, this is something, that's never seen before. but what? these new_school_newbies are way too far away from the real hardcore. and what comes to that "hardcore", i've never seen it since beatles died. is hardcore about killing? crimes? anyone? YUP.so i thought. drugs are still controlling the world, so what can you do? there aint no lord, if jesus passes. you are made of FALE and SUK!!

Subject: H2GC LESZNO
Date: Apr 02 2006 10:12:30 AM
Author: simon

NAPOISZE COS PO POLSKU PEWNIE NIKT NIE SKUMA O CO CHODZI :p ALEE JA NIE KUMAM WASZEGO JEZORA ALBO BADZ CO HARDCOR CZYMA NAS RAZEM RESPEKT :) POZDRO :p ALE HUJNIA :p HAHAHAHA

Subject: H2GC
Date: Apr 02 2006 10:12:30 AM
Author: simon

NAPOISZE COS PO POLSKU PEWNIE NIKT NIE SKUMA O CO CHODZI :p ALEE JA NIE KUMAM WASZEGO JEZORA ALBO BADZ CO HARDCOR CZYMA NAS RAZEM RESPEKT :) POZDRO :p ALE HUJNIA :p HAHAHAHA

Subject: huh?
Date: Mar 31 2006 03:19:34 PM
Author: hank hill

to whom are you talking? who's talking about fsu? what is "real" music? why can't you manage a coherent, fully-formed sentence? what hardcore bands are you talking about? jesus.

Subject: ?
Date: Mar 30 2006 12:55:36 AM
Author: zj

I think your speech very makes sense! What meaning but don't I understand your speech am!dear Tony!

Subject: hardcore
Date: Mar 27 2006 02:47:53 AM
Author: Tony

the hardcore bands youve talked about are all shit what happend to good hardcore bands like youth of today, gorilla biscuits, inside out, vss, bluetip. your all wankers

Subject: ...
Date: Mar 12 2006 09:09:01 AM
Author: fah-q

fuck hardccore, fuck tough guy meatheads, fuck the thousands of poser kids with generic tatts and band hoodies. hardcore has destroyed boston. FUCK YOU!!!!! SHOVE YOUR SOX HAT AND NAME DROPPING PEOPLE IN FSU YOU MET AT A SHOW FOR 2 SECONDS UP YOU ASS AND LISTEN TO SOME FUCKING ACTUAL MUSIC AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Subject: y'all clueless
Date: Mar 07 2006 11:09:35 AM
Author: the masskantroll

"anyone angry enough to be into hardcore past age 21 needs fucking help. that shit is hilariously lame."

i'm curious as to your age. i'm also curious as to your knowledge of, and participation within, any punk/hardcore scene. i defy you to name more than 5 hardcore/punk bands who've put out records in the past year. i'd wager that you don't know shit about music that isn't fawned over in such bullshit publications as spin and fader. yes, i would bet that when i say "hardcore," you think "madball." also, do you mean to say that after the first years of only the second decade of an individual's life, one is expected to become complacent, if not apathetic? so what, are you like always happy, bobbing your balloon head to jam band records? guess what? there's still shit in this world for responsible, thoughtful, and compassionate adults to get pissed off about; and i'm not talking about issues of "keeping the edge," "staying true," or "defending the scene."

"i remember kicking little punk rocker's asses after football games. hardcore my ass."

who the fuck cares about what a jock asshole has to say about punk or hardcore? i can only hope that you try to pull more macho bullshit on some little crustie in the future and get fucking cut in the stomach with his switchblade.

Subject: Bored of boredom
Date: Mar 04 2006 03:38:39 PM
Author: Franchised youth

The problem with the post cold war, post 9-11, age of Western decline is that all the marginalized 'outsider' groups who don't identify with the norms that the editors of this magazine still think exist realize that there's more to worry about than not fitting in.

Subject: how do you like these apples??
Date: Mar 02 2006 04:21:43 AM
Author: do you like apples?

the theme is that every article is fake.

that's why you couldn't find a band url.

Subject: the anger and fury
Date: Feb 24 2006 08:59:57 PM
Author: struggling within

good job on their name vice. it sounds like it came out of a hardcore band name generator

Subject: murt is hardcore
Date: Feb 22 2006 07:04:38 PM
Author: bumskin

murt is for you it is for me

Subject: hardcock
Date: Feb 22 2006 06:55:54 PM
Author: tim carr

the term "hardcore" is best summed up by letting your mum inside you and loving it.coffee cock.

Subject: hardcore
Date: Feb 20 2006 03:37:04 AM
Author: Dr. Yablonsky

Lots of great comments here from the usual anti-hardcore music crowd. "Go start fires," "I play rugby," "get a job." I think I'd rather hang out with this somewhat corny band than any of you geniuses.

Subject: need a url for the band
Date: Feb 16 2006 03:32:02 PM
Author: j e s s e

can't find these guys anywhere online. HELP!!

Subject: is this impressive?
Date: Feb 15 2006 02:07:35 PM
Author: a native negro caucasion

geez... i remember kicking little punk rocker's asses after football games. hardcore my ass. now rugby... that's hardcore. and why do you have to be angry to play hardcore music? and why do you have to be a misfit? and why do you have to be a whiny pretensious beatch?

Subject: you
Date: Feb 14 2006 01:40:49 PM
Author: fuck

if you are really angry, go start fires. Fuck "hardcore"

Subject: seriously
Date: Feb 13 2006 04:27:15 PM
Author: yeah

anyone angry enough to be into hardcore past age 21 needs fucking help. that shit is hilariously lame.

Subject: foamcore
Date: Feb 13 2006 02:41:01 AM
Author: Nicholas

Steven Blush's American Hardcore is a-really bad book if you want o know about hardcore music.

Subject: aaaa
Date: Feb 12 2006 12:39:32 PM
Author: eee

what ever

Subject: american hardcore?
Date: Feb 12 2006 06:15:07 AM
Author: Paleface

Nevermind that the book American Hardcore was flawed horribly in narration.

Why is the band featured in this articl relevant to hardcore at all? Man, I been playing hardcore music for ten years now. We done brought life to a small city of 100,000 people, and brought a scene to em, the same way it use to be... No one anywhere else takes notice.

Cause we weren't cool kids, a bunch of misfits. an ego maniac in front (me), a rock and roller looking bassist, a mohawked drummer, a drug addict guitar player that needed his mother to dress him still, and a nerdy middle class kid on the other guitar.

We got in fights, we caused a ruckas, and most importantly, we stuck up for all them kids that ever felt alienated. We deserve more respect then these fucking pussies.

Wow, I didn't plan on saying all that, but I'm drunk, and things happen

Subject: m'eh...
Date: Feb 10 2006 08:28:10 PM
Author: knife mcdagger

i gave gwen stefani a 7-inch once, but i'm not in a band, nor do i listen to music.

Subject: OMGROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Feb 10 2006 03:39:58 PM
Author:

"I met Gwen Stefani when they played in Stockholm recently. I gave her a copy of our first seven-inch, With Meaning/Destroy the Scriptures."

Subject: actually,
Date: Feb 10 2006 10:27:32 AM
Author: the massingale

this band does exist, unfortunately. eva, tomas, erich, and vallen are good peoples. i rode with them when they played with krush and typhoid and iil groater last summer in germanland and france. they do not have any more 7" but will. pax romana, swine!

Subject: hell
Date: Feb 10 2006 07:40:17 AM
Author: fuck

those fucking scandanavian women are hot. Straight edge is fucking alright by me if they look like that.

Subject: Hardcore
Date: Feb 09 2006 11:40:38 AM
Author: Dylan Kaiser

Grow up, who fucking cares. Get a job and a life.

Subject: Bullshit again
Date: Feb 09 2006 10:50:18 AM
Author: dub:h20

Couldn't you guys have thought of a better article if you were going to make shit up?

The band and the url of their demo (see bottom of article) doesn't exist.

Subject: Another Generation of Hardcore
Date: Feb 09 2006 09:03:06 AM
Author: Mugabe

Hardcore? ...C'mon, white people, I think it's time to come up with something new.

Subject: the andy
Date: Feb 09 2006 07:52:12 AM
Author: the ground round

i don't think that this band is being recognized because it includes a female among its ranks. in all honesty, though, within any culture or scene dominated by men, the powerful, expert contribution of girl is something to be celebrated. anyway, i'd wager that most don't even know that a band called xmore than zerox exists, much less if it features female vocals.

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