Could you introduce your band? When did you start playing and what was the reason to form a band?Golden Violence started in June 2007 in Rome, we all came from different projects of our area, we decided to begin a new project to spread our message, our ideas about the world that surround us, the band is strongly influenced by the NYHC style with some breakdown parts. The current line up is a four pieces one with Fabio at the voice, Fabrizio ( me ) at the bass guitar, Alessandro at the guitar and Simone at the drums. As I said before the main reason why we started this project was the chance to have our voice in the Hardcore scene, share our friendship, and what we like most…. playing gigs!!
Your new CD has just been released. What can we expect from this stuff? Our CD “Hate has come” is been recorded at Refuse studio in Rome and released last July. Everything happened so fast, we were just playing and playing, when we reached about 8 songs we said why don’t we record? Then we had a great response from the D.I.Y. labels, indeed we have 6 collaborating in this issue. Now the record is distributed in the U.S: and in Japan, so it’s been a much unexpected result, and I don’t really know what to expect next, we just hope to keep playing gigs around.
What were the main influences, both lyrically and musically, when recording this album? In other words, at which point in your life did you realize that NYHC is probably the best things that happened to you ever?Eheheh this is the question I liked more. About the musical Influences I can tell you that we spent a lot of years on the dusty vinyls of Sick of it all, Agnostic Front and Madball. But we are influenced by many more bands such as Knuckledust, Icepick, Terror, No innocent victim, Strife, Integrity, Black Flag and so on. I probably discovered that NYHC was the best thing ever happened to me when I was about 15 years old and my brother crushed in my room with a present. “Demonstrating my style” by Madball…..what came out of the speakers totally blew me out, that was miles away from everything I ever heard before.
What about the lyrics? Are they important part of your music?The message behind the music is one of the main reasons why we play and the lyrics of a song are the only chance we have to make our voice be heard, to let everybody know how we feel about the world we are livin’.
Do you think that “old school” sound has been lost? Nowadays when asked about “hardcore” most of the people would say Hatebreed not Minor Threat.I have to be honest. To a “new” kid that approaches to HC the sound and the quality of the Hatebreed recordings can be much more “attractive” than the noisy home made recordings of Minor Threat, but for those who know HC from its roots masterpieces as “filler” and “in my eyes” will never be replaced. I don’t think that old school sound has been lost, there are many good bands in Italy and in Europe that keep this genre alive, and many bands such as Gorilla Biscuits are coming back on tour, so I think and hope that old school will never die.
Is Golden Violence a full time? If not what do you guys work at, what’s it like being in a band and at the same time living a normal life?Golden Violence as many bands of the underground are not full time project, we all have to struggle with work, studies and everyday life, but this is part of the game so it’s ok.
The worst and the best memory concerning the band?I don’t wanna be too positive but as I told you before the Golden Violence project was a big surprise from the beginning so I just remember the good days we spent together, the gigs we played and all the times we shared with the bands we played with and with kids who came out for the shows.
Do you play many gigs? Is it hard to set up a gig in Italy? Is there a show that just sticks out to you?Playin’ gigs for us is never enough we would like to play everyday but for the answer I gave you at the last question sometimes this is impossible. The scene in Italy is pretty amazing there are a lot of people who work everyday with D.I.Y: booking agencies and labels to set up interesting shows.
What city are you guys from? What are some of your fav bands from the area?We are from Rome. There are many good bands from our area and the list may be too long, but you should definitely check out our local heroes of metalcore In Cold Blood. Rise from the Agony, Think About (they know about old school), While you wait, Kernelzero, Bedtime for Charlie and Dead Weights Fall.
I didn’t wrote you about To Kill and Strength Approach cause everybody knows how great they are.
How is Italian scene in general? Who are some bands in Italy that you feel everybody needs to check out if they have not already?I think Hardcore is made of the kids, the message and the music so I can’t say what’s the most important, but these are the values that turned Hardcore from a common genre to a real lifestyle, what makes us survive through the age of the music empire, what moves you and a lot of other guys to run fanzines, labels, booking agencies and bands. This is the fuel we need to carry on.
Is there anything in hardcore scene that pisses you off?I don’t like the “temporary” fans of the Hardcore scene. You know that kind of kids who follow the scene for three weeks and then when it goes out of style they choose another trend to fit in. Hardcore is not a seasonal activity, Hardcore is a commitment.
How do you feel about metallization of hardcore? Is it killing hardcore or rather a fresh air in the genre?You know Hardcore has a lot of different “subgenres” from old school to beatdown, 2 step and so on, it doesn’t matter which one of these you like more or which you play the important thing to me is share the hardcore values and if you do it with the right intentions nothing can really affect the scene.
Your thoughts on Gomorra book/movie? Is organized crime influence on people’s life in Italy as deep as portrayed in the movie?You know there is a big polemic going on in Italy in these days because some people and the authorities said that GOMORRA showed the bad face of Italy and maybe tourists won’t come to Italy anymore. That’s how they want to confront themselves with the whole Mafia and Camorra thing we are worldwide known as the Mafia country, but they want to keep it underneath, they want to keep our eyes closed.
We have much more than Mafia, we got mister Berlusconi and the Vatican, I can assure you that they act in the same way but they are not labelled as criminal organizations yet. I think we all need a movie like Gomorra to realize what’s really going on in our country, just like Meirelles did with “City Of God” in Rio de Janeiro.
Any last thoughts? What are the future plans for Golden Violence?With Golden Violence we will keep on playing and we are thinking about doing a split album. I would like to thank you for the chance you gave us to introduce ourselves to the Polish kids, and for the awesome job you do, we really appreciate it.
My very last thought goes out to the Palestinian population who is dying in these days under the Israeli bombings.
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE.
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