Creepout Interview

From Tokyo, Japan, Creepout is a long standing band that's all about maniacal, ignorant, brutal hardcore. They've been going for years now and after a slew of hard-hitting releases I think they've reached a cult status in their country. Despite that it ain't easy to find more in depth info about the band, so I thought it would be a good idea to catch up with their singer Kunihide to talk about band's past and future.

You’re probably one of the key bands to ever emerge from Japan in 2000s and I think everyone into hardcore heard about Creepout at one point. However, it’s hard to find any background info about the band. Can you give me a bit of a history?
Formed in 2002 with some my boys who played for previous band i sung,just started as some old school hardcore band.Ofcourse as you imagine,we got huge influence from Cleveland hardcore so we wanted to have some essence of it on our music but couldn't do well then.We got a few important things/moments ever,one is to play/meet with Integrity in japan 2004,and did a split with Crowd Deterrent in 2007. and after split with CD,we got a chances to play in the U.S., A lot of things has changed and went great.We wouldn't spread our name to outside of japan mainly,that was natural.Butso many bands/guys know our name and gave me cool reaction,that's so great.

At the beginning, what type of music did you want to make?
Oh yes Cleveland hardcore like OLC/PB2000 and some B4B tastes.

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Review: Ultima Victima - Muertes Sin Razon

I guess Ultima Victima is one of the top bands to come from Mexico lately. The album is a blast of uptempo, dynamic hardcore that’s both knee deep in tradition with a heavier twist, taking a lot from classics like Sick Of It All (Screath the Surface era), Madball or Terror.. You can easily spot their influences from jump. It doesn't contain anything new, but they’re pretty good at that style. The music is laced with tight riffs and solid drum work. There are moments when they lose their shit, but also times when everything is tight. The production is really heavy, it’s like they were aiming for Hatebreed type of sound.
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Demo Daze: Outlaw - Demo

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Review: Internal Warfare - S/T

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Video: Hardside - Timebomb

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Destroy Cleveland - official trailer

Destroy Cleveland is a documentary about the Hardcore music scene in Cleveland from '86 to the present. This scene was notorious for it's violence and mayhem. Rustbelthammer.com for more info.

Features: Dwid Hellion, Aaron and Lenny Melnick, James Bulloch, Tony Erba, Tony "Chubby Fresh" Pines, Paul Schlacter, Steve Peffer, Chris Pellow, and many more.

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Demo Daze: Spirit Crusher - Demo 2015

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