Cutting Away Fanzine issue one is out now through What Remains Records, with interviews from Betrayed, Trial, The First Step, Get The Most, Reign Supreme, One Voice, Things We Say, The War and Miles Away.
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Some quotes from issue one for your reading pleasure….
Greg Bennick (Trial)
“What I ultimately realized is that I am in control of my heart...not those around me. I had allowed the social rules of secrecy that surround the disclosing of intense or deeply personal topics to define who I was, what I shared, how I behaved, and what I could express. I was dying inside, unable to reach out, for no reason other than I felt that I couldn't. To share my deepest most intimate secret with tens or maybe even hundreds of thousands of people was the most important and life changing thing I have ever done.”
Aram Arslanian (Betrayed, Champion, The First Step, React Records)
“If you’re actually literally just a kind person, like you’re kind to people, you’re doing something bigger than most people do in their everyday life. I think some of the biggest shit that I think people need to take from hardcore…it’s like…I understand bands that are more like “life is hard” and “life is pain” because life can be painful. Life is hard but don’t let it make you hard, you know what I mean? Don’t let it harden you towards the world. I think one of the most important things anyone can take from hardcore is being kind, and you don’t have to be a social worker to say that you walk the walk then. If you’re kind and compassionate and helping people out, you’re generous and trustful of people, that’s huge because people aren’t like that. If someone reacts to you with spite and you react to them with kindness, then you’re changing the world.”
Ash Pederick (Blkout!, Miles Away, The Design Threat)
“I have always been fascinated by layouts, album artwork, logo's and typography since I stole a couple of my older brothers cd's and bought my first skate mag. I always drew a lot as a kid so I got into art at a really young age and then when my dad threw me onto a computer to make signs or his shop because he could hardly turn the thing on it just all combined into me teaching myself graphic design without really knowing what I was doing at a young age. Before I had even found out there was a name for what was becoming my obsession I had already spent more time on the cover page and picking the right font for my project on Egypt in 8th grade than writing the actual paper.”
Mitch Love (xThe Warx, Tattooist)
“Recently we have been getting a lot more positive feedback because people are starting to listen to what we say, not so much on the straight edge side of things, but what this whole band is about. Yes we are a straight edge band and we push it, but we all have other things in our lives that we do want to be about. I think that is helping us a lot as a band because we attack issue that don’t just attack the point from a straight edge mind. People are reading a lot of our new stuff and going "hang on a second, I can relate to that" and that’s another aspect that we are trying to do with this band. Obviously it is written from a straight edge point of view coming from us, but there is always another side to the majority of subjects this band sings about.”