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dan-drums/vox......... ... matt-guitar/vox....... .. ... tom-bass/vox ..... .... ... brent-guitar what: squalora is the result of a
lifetime of anxiety attacks and moodswings;
full-on machete-core destruction formerly known as ASS-END OFFEND (imported from
how: squalora sounds like a cross between getting stabbed in the ear with a rusty sickle, having an aneurysm while being run over by a gravel truck, and all your favorite hits from the 80's played backwards, full of subliminal messages. we're talkin' spandex, hairspray and leg warmers drenched in fucking blood from stomping on the heads of riot cops in the streets of portland! woohoo! why: we are a band because we share common interests, or to be more exact, common frustrations with this sick world we're all forced to be a part of. this music is made for the therapeutic release that is achieved in the process. there is something comforting about having someone scream in your face for 30 minutes. it reminds us that not all communication needs to be made through these superficial computer screens! also see: 2005 US/EURO-SMASH TOUR DIARY
Ass-End Offend was a four-piece DIY hardcore punk troop from the small town wastelands of Northwest Montana... A state that hosts one of the nations biggest federal Superfund clean-up sites (Butte's Berkeley Pit and Libby's asbestos for starters) and more casino/bar/restaurants than you could fit onto the Unabomber's shitlist! Razed on a scurrilous diet of 80's and more modern punk sounds, AEO threw together their own raucous mix of hardcore that has been deemed by some as "harsh", melodic at times, and "gloomy with a metallic tinge". Ass-End Offend's damage report includes four 7" EP's and one full length CD/LP, plus 3 full U.S. tours, a handful of west coast trips, and a tour through Eastern Europe.
Brent
has been involved in the Montana scene the longest, he was in Disgruntled
Nation, who self released a ton of records and were the first MT punk
band to do a US tour (that I know of). Tom was in a band in Kalispell
called the Vagrants, Dan was in the Miscreants (also from kalispell),
I was in The Anti Difrancos & Venal i.V. here in Missoula. After their
bands broke up they got together to start Ass-End Offend sometime in '99.
In the spring of 2001 they recorded the material that was released in
2002 as 'Becoming Our Destruction' EP and the split EP with The Anti Difrancos.
The Anti Difrancos played a lot of shows with Ass-End Offend before I
joined, including a west coast tour and a later trip to seattle. The Anti
Difrancos quit when our drummer moved to south Korea to teach English.
So I was suckered into playing with AEO sometime in 2002 and we soon released
another EP "Welcome to the Discomfort Zone". Tom and Dan moved
to Missoula, and Brent is still in Kalispell (this has always made practicing
interesting). WÄNTAGE INPUT Ass-End
Offend is a terrifically blazing Montana (a large, rural, mountainous
western state) hardcore punk rock institution. They have been around for
six years, and have turned what started relatively standard hardcore into
powerful music full of it’s own personality, and originality. Ass-End
Offend play hardcore that can’t, and shouldn’t, be pigeonholed
into one convenient category. In their six years, Ass-End Offend have
amassed a serious following across Montana and America. They have toured
the U.S. three times. They write songs, that for a reference point, are
similar to much of the output of the Prank label. Civically, Ass-End Offend
are thoroughly involved in the U.S. scene; they book shows like crazy
for touring bands. They write zines. Guitarist Matt Svendsen does a record
label called Poisoned Candy –which co-released the CD with Wäntage
USA. They are entirely committed to playing small, intimate spaces to
all-ages crowds. They don’t preach the gospel of DIY, they practice
it. |
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