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Episode #2 – Justin Kier of OTEP Our second episode of Reverberations with Ramar features Justin Kier, drummer for Otep. Antihero Magazine’s Greg Ramar had the opportunity to hang out with Justin when the band made a stop in the Bay area. The episode is broken up into four parts below. Check it out! Part #1 “I was a fuck up. That’s who I was. I was just all over the place. Jumping all over the things. Getting expelled and suspended. Tapping on stuff. I was always beating on things, refrigerators, desks. Getting referrals and teacher letters home because I was beating on everything. I was a rambunctious asshole.” Part #2 “For me, what really made me want to be a drummer is when I went to my first metal show. I saw Pantera, Anthrax, and Coal Chamber at the events center in San Jose. When I saw that spark that, the feel of these guys on stage. It wasn’t even a certain one. It wasn’t Phil, it wasn’t Dimebag, it wasn’t Rex, it wasn’t Vinnie, it was all four of them. Just coming together as a whole unit. Feeling that these guys made. Just changed my life. I was like ‘what the fuck is going on here?’ I realized I got this drum kit at home, maybe I could start this process going. Find four people that I could get this feeling from that I got from that stage, and so I started hitting the kit hard.” Part #3 “…It’s my heart, my soul. I hear songs and it could make me happy, sad. I feel it. I feel everything that people say. I listen to the words. I’m dissecting things. I’m dissecting drummers. I’m dissecting guitars and the feeling of people. That’s really what gets me into music, it’s the feel. It’s the connection of all of the members onstage. Just creating the spark. My body absorbs that shit man. I’m like a sponge to it. My eulogy would be, without music I’m nothing. I’d be nothing.” Part #4 “I know there’s a couple of places every time we go that just fucking go insane. I’m really looking forward to opening up with some of these new faster songs and seeing what these kids do.” “…The energy. The amount of work you have to do too. You got to put in some time to be able to play some of these licks and the dexterity. I don’t know, the endurance. Fuck man, double bass and at 220. Fucking, 180.” “Any of these things that these guys do with metal, it takes a lot of talent, endurance. I like the sound and the bigness of it. How fierce it is. How overpowering. It could take you from one place or the next. I don’t know, metal just spoke to me.” Photos by Greg Ramar Justin Kier - OtepJustin Kier - OtepJustin Kier - OtepJustin Kier - OtepJustin Kier - Otep The post Reverberations with Ramar: Justin Kier of OTEP appeared first on Antihero Magazine.

Episode #1 – Rob Watson of LIONHEART On our first episode of Reverberations with Ramar, Antihero’s Greg Ramar talks with Rob Watson, the charismatic frontman for the Northern California hardcore group, Lionheart. The episode is broken up into four parts below. Check it out! Part #1 “We honestly, truly, do it for fun. There’s a lot less pressure now than there was back when we were really trying to make it happen. Ironically enough now, we’re actually bigger than we were back then when we really were trying. I don’t know if that has something to do with it, especially me. I’ve relaxed so much in the writing process. I just write exactly what I want to write, period. I say whatever the fuck I want to say. That’s it.” Part #2 “The first real hardcore band that I ever got into was Blood for Blood. When I first got into it, I didn’t even know the difference between hardcore, punk, or whatever back then. I just thought they were … I was listening to punk stuff, AF, Blood for Blood, all that type of stuff. I didn’t even realize it was hardcore really. I just thought it was a better version of punk. I just thought it was a heavier version of punk. The lyrical content of it stuck out to me. I was probably ten, eleven, twelve years old or something.” Part #3 “I feel like every year it gets so much more marginalized, and there’s so many more sub-genres for it that you can’t even. I don’t even know what punk is anymore. Frankly, I don’t even know what hardcore is anymore to some extent. There’s bands like Turnstyle and Blood for Blood. Both “hardcore” bands, but you couldn’t be farther apart in terms of style and sound and lyrical content.” Part #4 “…That we were honest. I don’t know if that’s even the type of answer you were looking for, but that’s all I really want. It would be fine with me. I think we’ve always been an honest band. Never really tried to be anything that we weren’t. Never really switched up our style. Been singing about the same shit since day one. I still mean it. People liked it, and people have not liked it, but it’s been the same.” Photos by Greg Ramar Rob Watson - LIONHEARTRob Watson - LIONHEARTRob Watson - LIONHEARTRob Watson - LIONHEART The post Reverberations with Ramar: Rob Watson of LIONHEART appeared first on Antihero Magazine.

Interview with Art of Dying frontman Jonny Hetherington ART OF DYING frontman, Jonny Hetherington, talks to Mike Kennedy about the latest album, Rise Up, working with Dan Donegan of Disturbed, producer David Bendeth, and much more. You can check out the album review of Rise Up here on Antihero Magazine. The post AntiCast – Episode 4: Jonny Hetherington of ART OF DYING appeared first on Antihero Magazine.

Interview with Rob Watson of LIONHEART Lionheart – Rob Watson – Photo by Greg RaMar Antihero Magazine‘s Greg RaMar caught up with LIONHEART vocalist Rob Watson for a chat about his early influences, what hardcore means for the frontman, and much more. LIONHEART is set to release Love Don’t Live Here on January 22, 2016. The post AntiCast – Episode 3: Rob Watson of LIONHEART appeared first on Antihero Magazine.

Interview with Brock Lindow of 36 Crazyfists 36 Crazyfists recently released their seventh studio album, Time and Trauma, on February 17, 2015. This also marked the first album to be released on the Spinefarm Records label. The band is currently touring with Nonpoint in support of Time and Trauma, and photographer Greg RaMar caught up with vocalist Brock Lindow at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, California for a chat about the latest album, the band’s history, hockey, living in Alaska, and other good stuff. The post AntiCast – Episode 2: Brock Lindow of 36 CRAZYFISTS appeared first on Antihero Magazine.

Interview with Cavalera Conspiracy drummer Igor Cavalera The Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA – May 3, 2015 AntiHero Magazine‘s Greg RaMar sat down with legendary drummer Igor Cavalera of Cavalera Conspiracy on Sunday, May 3, 2015, at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, California to talk about his early influences, the legacy of Sepultura, his work with Cavalera Conspiracy and more! The post AntiCast – Episode 1: Igor Cavalera of CAVALERA CONSPIRACY appeared first on Antihero Magazine.