DEMO ALERT: What’s The Kaohsiung City HXC Connection To Bay Area HXC? Check Out BLADE

This is badass – check out newly formed Taiwanese hardcore band BLADE on their debut release entitled ‘Kaohsiung City Hardcore’ and features an amazing dude with a track record of sick bands/releases from this gorgeous island (Deadpan muthafuckas). If you haven’t heard Deadpan yet…

As we are in the unenviable position that if we harass people enough, they will oblige us with more information, hahahaha…, the homies in BLADE were kind enough to send us some context to the band.

The first thing we had to ask was the history of this new band. “I had a band with Scott called Deadpan before. But it stopped because Scott moved to Australia. Last year he came back to Taiwan to visit his family and we suddenly had an idea to put something together and play a random show. Then the idea got more serious because we began plotting this, we realized that the city we’re from, Kaohsiung, has actually never released a hardcore record. So that’s where the concept of Kaohsiung City Hardcore was born.”

SICK…it’s always sick to see bands be STOKED to rep their scene hard.

In terms of music then? “We gotta shout out Hands of God from the Bay Area. Their singer, Jeffrey’s, family is from Kaohsiung and not only were we super inspired by Hands of God, we love the connection that the Bay Area has with our own city also being a bay city of Taiwan. I feel that’s a deep connection to me, hardcore and bay areas. I’ve always wanted to build up a Bay area hardcore style that belongs to Taiwan just like what Hands of God, Sunami, Big Boy, Gulch have done for the Bay Area in California.

As the music is hard, the lyrics gotta deliver that extra punch. “The lyrics are mostly about my life, our city and the drama within. The song “New Bay” was just written with this background. Kaohsiung is a bay city that in Southern Taiwan and we really want to use our voices to shout out to Taiwan’s Bay Area.”

RESPECT.

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