1. who is in the band?? what does each person do?? how important is their element in the total sound? MERAUDER IS ME,JORGE ROSADO VOCALIST

AND ORIGINAL MEMBER AND NOW IN DA MIX IS DREW SMERDEN ON BASS, DARIAN POLLACH AND DAVE STAFFORD ON GUITAR AND BOBBY BLOOD PONTE ON DRUMS.

IMPORTANT THEY R,CAUSE OF THEM AND ME WELL, TOGETHER WE ESTABLISHED A NEW AND IMPROVED MERAUDER.... BETTER THEN EVER!! WITH STILL DA SAME

STYLE BUT WITH A LIL'MO' METAL AND BRUTALILTY IN IT...WHICH WILL BE RELEASED SOON,I MEAN VERY SOON BUT JUST CANT SAY WITH WHAT LABEL RIGHT

NOW. I CANT HONESTLY SAY DAT THIS RECORD WILL DEFINITLY GIVE OUR FIRST ALBUM MASTER KILLER A RUN FOR ITS MONEY!! WHICH IS A GOOD SIGN,CAUSE

ITS SHOWS DAT WE PUT OUR HEARTS INTO THIS AND KEEP BRINGIN SHIT 2 DA TABLE EVERY TIME, WHILE OTHERS JUST TRY TO CONTINUE SOMETHING DAT

SOMEONE ELSE STARTED.

2. How long have you been around? How long have you been playing shows?? IVE BEEN HANGIN AROUND DA SCENE SINCE 85 O'86 AND STARTED PLAYIN

SHOWS AROUND 90 OR 91 WITH SOME BANDS DAT I WAS IN LIKE....THE REAL "FULL CONTACT",AWFUL TRUTH AND SOME OTHA SHIT!!

3. What area of 518 are you from??NO PART MY MENG!! IM BORN AND RAISED PUERTO RICAN FROM BROOKLYN!! MERAUDER IS A BROOKLYN BAND!! NOT LIKE

BIOHAZARD WE REALLY CAME FROM DA STREETS OF BROOKLYN,WELL ME AND DA ORIGINAL LINE UP..BUT DA SOUND, DA STYLE AND DA LEGACY IS ALL BROOKLYN

MADE,100%!!! BUT I GOT 3 NEW MEMBERS FROM DA 518 AREA,DREW,DARIAN AND DAVE BUT THESE GUYS R MO'BROOKLYN THEN WHAT IVE BEEN SEENIN LATELY!

DATS WHY THEYRE IN MERAUDER!!

4. what are your musical influences?? Any thing else influence you to be in a band?
WELL BRO IM NOT GONNA SIT HERE AND TELL ALL I LIKE BUT I CAN TELL U THIS I LISTEN 2 ALOT OF DIFFERENT SHIT AND I LIKE WHATEVER IS GOOD DATS

ALL. EVERYTHING BUT CLASSICAL AND COUNRTY MUSIC!! HATE DAT SHIT!!! DA GHETTO INFLUENCED ME BRO!!JUST DA GHETTO!!! IF IT WASNT SO FUCKED UP,IM

REALLY FUCKED UP!! NOT LIKE TODAY CAUSE DA GHETTOS R SOFT NOW MUST OF NY IS SOFT NOW. I MEAN, THINGS HAPPENED RITE IN YO' FACE ALL DA

TIME,EVERYTIME!! AND I KNEW THIS WAS GOIN TO BE DA DEATH OF ME SO I HAPPEN TO LAND INTO HC AND METAL WELL MUSIC PERIOD! I DIDNT DO MUCH

SEARCHIN FOR A BETTER WAY OUT OF DA HOOD CAUSE THAT WAS NOT A REALITY IN THEM DAYZ!! BUT WHEN I SAW AN OPPERTUNITY TO GET OUT I DID..BUT I

NEVER LEFT BROOKLYN AND DA HOOD JUST FREED MY MIND FROM DOIN DA WRONG SHIT ALWAYZ!! AND LOOKED FORWARD SOMETHING ELSE NA'MEAN?

5. What would you say your style is (hardcore, metal, thrash, punk, generic rock, rap, etc)? DEFINITLY METALCORE CAUSE WE CREATED IT AND R DA

KINGS OF IT!! NO ONE ELSE!!

6. What is your favorite part of playing a show?WHEN ITS OVER!!LOL!! NA'JUST KIDDIN!! IT WOULD BE WHENEVER I SAW DA KIDS SMILIN!! SERIOUSLY

BRO..SMILES WERENT DAT COMMON IN DA HOOD CAUSE NO ONE HAD A REASON TO SMILE!! AND KNOWIN DAT IM RESPONSIBLE FOR DAT AND NOT ANYTHING ELSE

DATS FUCKED UP OR WRONG!! SO DATS WHY ITS 1 OF MY FAVORITE PART, BUT DA BEST PART IS THERES USUALLY REAL GOOD BUD AT MERAUDER SHOWS AND I GET

SOME OF EVERYONE SHIT. MOST OF DA TIME FOR FREE!!HA!!

7. What is your most memorable show experience? WOW SO MANY BRO..SO MANY!!LOL!!SHIT THIS COULD TAKE ALL DAY!!LOL!! I COUDNT REALLY SAY BRO.

SOMETHING ALLWAYS HAPPENED EVERYWHERE WE WENT FOR REALZ!! I GUESS ALL DA FESTIVALS WERE DOPE AND JAPAN AS WELL!! AMAZING TIMES!! WELL THERE

WAS THIS 1 TIME WHEN WE PLAYED A FEDERAL PRISON IN JERSEY I THINK. A SHOW FOR DA INMATES. HA!! NOBODYS DONE DAT IN HARDCORE NOR METAL!! OR

EVEN IN HIPHOP 4 DAT MATTER, PAPA!!A PRISON BAND OPENED DA SHOW, 3 DUDES DAT PLAYED SOME SHITTY WANNA BE BAD COMPANY OR SOME'M LIKE DAT! BUT

THERE WERE NO GUARDS AROUND EITHER,JUST US IN DA MIDDLE OF A BASKETBALL COURT ROCKIN OUT WHILE THEY WALKED AROUND US AND SHIT..LOL!! I SAID

BEFORE DA SHOW FIRST MOTHERFUCKER DAT MAKES A MOVE ON US IS GETTIN DA MIC STAND UPSIDE THEIR HEAD AND REST IT ALL UP TO GOD!!LOL!! WHICH

SUCKED AS WELL CAUSE NONE OF US AT DAT TIME BELIEVED IN GOD!!LOL!! BUT IT ALL ENDED UP BEIN' A REALLY DOPE EXPERIENCE AND FEELIN AS WELL

CAUSE IM FROM DA STREETS AND WHEN THEY WERE REALLY DA STREETS NA'MEAN? SO I HAD MY MOMENTS WITH DA LAW AND WHATEVER BUT BEIN LOCKED UP AINT

NO JOKE BRO. SO FOR DAT SMALL THING WE DID AND FOR DA SMALL TIME WE WAS THERE, IT WAS BIG FOR THEM AND MERAUDER WAS A APART OF DAT, AND DATS

BIG WHERE IM FROM.

8. As a band what ave been your biggest challenges? MENG.... EVERTHING!! FROM LABELS TO PERSONAL SHIT BETWEEN MOFO'S IN DA BAND AND OUTSIDE

OF DA BAND AS WELL!! YO! IT AINT EASY DOIN THIS, GOIN AWAY FROM HOME LIVIN ON DA ROAD. U DONT REALLY HAVE ALL THOSE EVERYDAY

LEISURES...UNLESS UR METALLICA OR SOME SHIT LIKE DAT!! BUT OVERALL ITS JUST NOT 4 EVERYONE!!!

9. Is there a story behind the formation of your band? NO REAL BIG THING. I WAS ALLWAYS A PART OF DA BAND FROM DA BEGININ' EVEN WHEN MY BRO.

ORIGINAL SINGER MINUS WAS IN DA BAND. I WAS DA 1 WHO INTRODUCED SOB TA VINNY VITALI AND THEN THEY STARTED SHIT WITH ANTHONY AND THEN I CAME

IN AROUND 94, AFTER MINUS LEFT AND THEN GOT A DEAL WITH CENTURY MEDIA A FEW MONTHS , WHICH REALLY WASNT MUCH OF A DEAL BUT IM NOT MAD IT

STILL GOT US OUT THERE. WE DIDNT REACH OUR FULL POTENTIAL NOR WERE WE BACKED PROPERLY,BUT FUCK DAT THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW. SO WE DID OUR

THING WHICH BUILT OUR REP BY BEIN DA BADDEST MOTHERFUCKERS AROUND!!LOL!! SERIOUSLY WE DID BRING A NEW STYLE TO METAL AND HARDCORE AND TILL

THIS DAY ITS GOIN ON AND WE STILL GET DA RESPECT FOR IT AND IM VERY VERY HONORED! BUT ANYWAY BRO,WE HAD PROBLEMS IN DA BAND AND OUT WITH DA

LABEL. DATS WHEN ALL DA SHIT DROPPED AND WE STARTED TA SLIP FROM OUR RESPONSIBLITIES AS A BAND AND TA OUR FANS. WHOM HAD NO PART OF ANY OF IT

BUT STILL ENDED PAYIN FOR IT ANYWAY AND WERE SORRY. BUT DA LABEL HAD MORE FAULT, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENNS WHEN YAH FUCK BANDS!! THEN LATER ON WE

HAD A VERY TRAGIC MOMENT WHEN MY OL' TIME BRO, MY BAND MEMBER JAVIER "SOB" CARPIO DIED,WHICH WAS NOT VERY LONG AGO. AT DAT TIME ID ALREADY

HOOKED UP WTH DREW AND DARIAN AND SOB WASNT PLAY'N BUT WE WERE STILL HANGIN OUT NOT AS MUCH AS BACK IN DAYS BUT U KNOW. ALSO MO' SAD NEWS

ABOUT MY OTHER GUITAR PLAYER ANTHONY.FOR DA LAST 8 O 9 YRS BEEN DOWN AND OUT STRUGGLIN' HARD ON DA STREETS LIVIN IN SHELTERS AND SHIT. I

TRIED HEPLIN HIM BY LET'N COME BACK WITH MERAUDER BUT IT WASNT WORKIN AND WASNT DA THING FOR HIM AT THAT TIME. AS FOR ME MY FRIEND, I WAS

RUNNIN AROUND AWHILE IN DA STREETS..UP 2 NO FUCKIN GOOD ABOUT 7, 8 YRS AGO. I HAD MO' THEN MY SHARE OF A LOT OF BULLSHIT MENG, WASTED

TIME,HOMELESS FOR A LIL BIT, CAUSE I CHOSE IT. ROBBIN DRUG DEALERS UPTOWN WITH MY BARE HANDS!!LOL!! DAT AINT NO FUCKIN LIE EITHER!!LOL!!.BUT

FUCK ALL DAT!! DAT WASNT ME!! NOW IM STILL AN OG FOR MY FAMILIA DMS AND A PROUD FATHER OF 2 ROCKIN BEATIFUL KIDS DEVIN AND DAHLIA AS WELL AS

A HUSBAND TO MY WIFE DINA WHOM I LOVE AND WHOM I OWE ALOT 2 AND MY FANS SHOULD AS WELL CAUSE IF IT WASNT FOR HER I WOULDNT BE DOIN THIS BRO!!

4 REALZ!! AND SOME OTHA PEEPS YAH GOTTA GIVE IT UP TO R MY NEW MEMBERS WHOM R ALSO PART OF DA REASON, CAUSE I COULDNT FIND DA RITE MEMBERS

FOR THIS BAND AND I DIDNT.... BUT THEY FOUND ME!! SO YAH CAN THANK MY WIFEY DINA AND DA NEW GUYS DREW,DARIAN,DAVE AND BOBBY FOR HOLDIN ME

DOWN!! CAUSE DATS WHOM I THANK..BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. OH SHIT HOW CAN I FORGET FRANK WATKINS OF OBITUARY MY BROTHER AND MANAGER WHO'S DONE

GREAT BY US, WE LOVE YAH FRANK!!LOL!

10. Any upcoming shows you want announce?? NONE AT DA MOMENT HOMIE. MAYBE BLACK AND BLUE BOWL...JUST A THOUGHT!

11. Who is your favorite other local band that you have shared a stage with? WE SHARE DA STAGE WITH MANY BRO...BUT 1 OF MY FAVORITE BANDS

AROUND DAT DOESNT GET DA RESPECT THEY SHOULD IS INHUMAN FROM BROOKLYN!!GREAT FUCKIN BAND!!

12. Have you recorded a CD? Is it available to your general audience--if so how do we get one?YEAH WE RECORDED AT BIG BLUE MEENIE IN

JERSEY,LOVE DAT FUCKIN PLACE!! THEY KNOW THEIR SHIT!! TIM ROCKS AND DA WHOLE STAFF THERE IS GREAT...PRO'S AS WELL AS GREAT GUYS!!! LOOKEM UP

YAH WONT BE SORRY!! FUCK DIGITAL!! LIKE I SAID BEFORE WERE IN DA MIDDLE OF SHIT SO I CANT SAY WHO NOR WHEN.

13. Do you have a future CD release that we should be impatiently looking forward to? BE PATIENT LIL HOMIES!! IT WILL BE REAL SOON I

PROMISE!!

14. Do you consider yourselves to be local stars in your music scene?? (do people know who you are/ do you have a decent sized fan base)YEAH

YAH CAN SAY DAT, WE'VE BUILT QUIT A REP AND FAN BASE HERE AND ALL AROUND DA WORLD. WE GOT HARDCORE AND METAL KIDS COMIN TA OUR SHOWS FROM ALL

AROUND..OUR LAST SHOW IN JAPAN WAS 2000 KIDS DAT WAITED UNTIL 4 O'CLOCK TA SEE US PLAY AND NOT 1 SOUL LEFT! EVERY SHOW BEFORE DAT DREW ABOUT

4OO KIDS A NITE! EUROPE IS DOPE TOO!! CANADA,MEXICO WHATEVER!! I HAD A REP WAY BEFORE I EVEN KNEW WHAT HC OR METAL WAS, BELIEVE DAT!!

15.
[lastly] Any advise you would like to pass on to any other band that may not yet be where you are??(no specific bands just generally)JUST DAT

BE STRONG STICK TO UR GUNS AND FUCK EVERYONE! DO U DATS ALL!! DONT BE A SLAVE TO TRENDS CAUSE THEY COME AND GO! AND ALL DAT FUCKIN BULLSHIT

YAH KNOW WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT.........PEACE LOCOS......JORGE DMS OG' AKA SATATA OR DA MASTA KILLA!! YO CHECK OUT MY NEW HIPHOP PROJECT WITH

MY BOYZ CARBONE,DREADFULL AND DJ SHARK ITS CALLED BALLBUSTAS!!!!..THANK YOU BRO.ALOT!!!
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