Deafening Sound

Q: How did Cold War get together, and with so many members of other bands, did you all start out as a side project?

A: Cold War began with dudes who were no longer in their previous bands. Some were asked to leave, others had left voluntarily, some were given a plane ticket home from Canada. Since all of these dudes were in previous bands they decided to start a new project, not a side project, in early 2003, in an effort to play in a band no one could be kicked out of, except one. He is no longer with us, his name is Jeff Tryon (not Tyrone). But it's all good cuz he's not really dead, and he plays a lot of Zelda.

Q: How did you guys hook up with Indecision, and are you satisfied with the label?

A: Well, Marc Jackson previously played drums for Throwdown and did a few releases on Indecision, Steve also sang for a band called Welcome To Your Life, which was also on the label. Dave Mandel is a really solid dude, so as soon as we were ready to look for a label, Indecision seemed the best route to take, we are very satisfied with our label and will be doing another release shortly.

As an album reviewer, which I do consider myself sometimes, I have come to appreciate the beauty of progression. Anyone wondering what I mean by progression should now take a listen to Eighteen Visions' Lifeless EP and then their most recent self titled album for a lesson in "progression". Progression is what makes new music so interesting to people like me, and the reason that I keep spending such ridiculous amounts of time downloading music *gasp* and every once in awhile, spending money on it as well. Enter Elysia, a young upstart band that has helped pioneer the West Coast originated "deathcore" subgenre of what is now a dying metalcore scene. Elysia, along with fellow West Coast metal stalwarts like All Shall Perish, Internal Bleeding, Molotov Solution and Job For A Cowboy, have been moving their newly discovered style of brutality across the country from their homes in California, Arizona and Nevada all the way to the East Coast where Internal Bleeding helped begin the genre, and the trend is fast taking root. Now, what does this have to do with progression? I can remember a friend of mine telling me about 'one of his new favorite bands, Elysia' almost a year ago. I can then remember going home, the little music whore that I am, and downloading every Elysia song I could find on the internet (which, thanks to inventions like Myspace.com, Purevolume.com and HXCMP3.com was nearly a whopping five or six different songs) and sitting at my computer and listening to them, marveling at how unbelievably brutal the music was.