>Hi Mark, welcome here in this part of the world.<
Oh, thank you!

>Glad to be here?<
Yeah, we've never ever thought we would come here to Slovakia.

>Is this your first time?<
Yes.

>Good, and on the way here i saw a poster where was written that you co-operate with Vans, you know, that brand...<
Yes, yes...

>So do you skate?<
Ah... I don't. Scott, our guitar player, skates and Pat, our drummer, skates a little. We're supported by Vans because in America they like to support underground bands like punk-rock bands and they give us free shoes all the time and they made actually our banner for us. So it's one of the honors for the Vans.

>And do you like skate clothes?<
Uhm not really (laughing), i mean, i wear this everyday so...
But i wear Vans sneakers.

>Yeah I see. So now let's talk about your freetime while you're touring. What do you do when you're not on stage?<
Drink and... Let me think. Honestly at night I drink, in the morning i read...

>Any favorite book?<
Right now I've just bought a book by, you know, Slash, the guitar player of Guns and Roses. Do you know Guns and Roses?
>Yeah – sure...<
So I've just bought a book that talks about his life so I've just read that and I've just read a book about an Irish mafia gang in Boston. I like to read about little crime and murder and I also like to read about music so even if it's a band maybe I don't like so much and it's about music, I'll read it, 'cause I like to learn about music.

>So that was about the freetime but get on stage. Is there any place you really like, you know, which is special for you – I mean any favorite spot?<
There's a lot. I mean, whole this tour has been really really good. Last night in Austria was like really really good and Chicago in America is always really good, Tokyo, Japan...

>And at home, Boston?<
Yeah – Boston's really good...

>Always?<
Yep.

>And what song do you most enjoy playing live?<
Eh...I'd say Live in Fear, which is of The Anger and Truth album, or On the Other Side and Scream Out of State of Discontent, I like to play those songs live.

>Great songs! You've travelled the world...played with tons of bands... Was there anyone who you really admired – who was somebody special for you?<
Yeah – I'd say Sick of it All, it was really really awesome to play with... Rancid, Exploited, GBH...

>And when we're talking about Rancid... Are you proud to be a member of HellCat Records family?<
Yes, absolutely! HellCat Records has helped The Unseen so much. If it's not the HellCat Records, we wouldn't be here playing tonight, because we used to be on A-F Records which is a Anti-Flag's label and on BYO Records which is Youth Brigade's label, and both are great labels, but HellCat's bigger, available and has more distribution so it must used to be really hard to buy Unseen records. Now with HellCat the kids can go to the stores and buy a record so this hepls us a lot and also being on HellCat enables us to tour with bands that are on HellCat Records and we tour with Tiger Army, Rancid, F-Minus...
>love F-Minus...<
Yes, they're great – on of my favorites.
>But they don't exist anymore, they're dead now...<
Yes, they are, but Brad (Logan) of F-Minus plays for Leftöver Crack.

>And when you were talking about HellCat I got on my mind that they had a video compilation called Give 'Em the Boot, but you weren't there, because you weren't on the label that time, but it's about video and you also have a video for Break Away from Internal Salvation. Will be more videos from Internal Salvation?<
I hope so. Maybe the next video I wanna shot is for the song Right Before Your Eyes or maybe No Direction, so hopefully a friend of ours, Pete, he's playing bass on this tour, he's the guitar player for Global Threat [that time, AGT weren't officially over] and he's helping us out to play on this tour and he also now makes videos for living so maybe he's gonna make a video for us.

>And what about live recordings? You don't really have any, so...<
Eh... Not really..no...

>Don't you plan any?<
Hm... Maybe some day.

>Ok and do you think that you are good live?<
Usually yes...maybe today...I don't know, you'll see (laughing).

>I think you really can play. I watched a lot of your videos on Youtube and it's been always fun...<
Oh thank you...
>...and on our server one guy said that everytime he saw you live on the internet or somewhere he was making a pogo and stage-diving in the living room...<
(laughing) with a pillow?
>That it's so energetic bomb.<
So funny...

>Yes, that really is...(laughing too) But back to you - your last two recordings are ended with the cover songs, am i right?<
Talking Bombs, Paint it Black... Yes, yes...

>Was it planned or did it come up just spontaneous?<
It was not super planned but when we started to record we decided to...so... Out first record Lower Class Crucifixion we covered Every Rose Has It's Thorn by Poison – it's just like a metal band... It was kind of a joke we covered that... and our second album So This Is Freedom we covered Beat It by Michael Jackson and like another joke...

>And with Paint It Black – was it the same?<
Oh – Paint it Black is just serious we were like: 'It's a good song – let's do it!' On our new record we covered song called Talking Bombs by band called The Freeze and they are just a punk-rock band from Boston. One of the first punk hard-core bands in the 1980s when punk and hard-core started in America and it's kind of a underrated band, the band that not so many people know, and it's a band from our home and always when we were younger we looke up to The Freeze: 'Oh The Freeze – they're good band!' so we covered that. Maybe now some younger kinds will learn about them and that's one of the reasons why we covered them.

>You said that when you were younger you were taking a part at shows and so... What was the first time you said: 'Fuck I love punk-rock!'?<
I was 15 and an older friend gave me a Misfit's Earth A.D. and also their Walk Among Us and the first Minor Threat album and when I heard that I said: 'Wow – that's fucking awesome i love this!'

>And when we're talking about Misfits... i think you have a tattoo of Misfits...<
Yeah – two!
>Really?<
See – here... [there will be the photos]
And the other one is Samhain which is a singer's of Misfits other band.

>And do you have any other tattoos because of any other bands?<
Yes. This is [will insert picture] Blood for Blood, they're from Boston and really good friends of mine. The bass player from Blood for Blood made three Unseen videos: False Hope, Scream Out and Never Go Home. So good friend and I have a tattoo of them.

>That's awesome... (jealously) Now - is there something you want to tell to people here in Europe?<
Yes! It's a pleasure to be here and play for people in Europe and that Europe is some place we neglected, we didn't come to you for a long time, because we couldn't afford it. It's too expensive for American bands paying the tickets to fly here and you have to pay for the van, the equipment... but since we've signed with HellCat they help us to get over here and it's an awesome place to play. It's funner than America to me, because the kids are super-excited.

>Is it much more different than America?<
Well it's not so much different but right now it just seems that Europe has more active punk and hard-core scene like the more kids and people are excited about it and wanna get punk-rock and hard-core music. But in America it's not so kind of popular like people wanna listen to bands like My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy... So many less people listen to punk and hard-core like bands like The Unseen, Sick of it All, A Global Threat and, you know, Blood for Blood... They should have a lot of fans but the kids stop to listening underground music they wanna listen to the mainstream stuff so now Europe is a better place to play.

>Understand but in one of you interviews you said that you were not so against mainstream, right?<
Oh no – not exactly. I mean my view on mainstream is this: If a band becomes popular but they don't change what they're doing then i don't have a problem with that. Like Bad Religion or Rancid or Social Distortion or Motorhead or Slayer... All those bands they never change, they stay the same. And for whatever reason the people start to like them, you know what I mean.
I think it's a problem if the band all of a sudden is like: maybe if I put on my eye make-up and lipstick, different clothes, more people like me... You know what I mean? To me that's selling out and I have a problem with that but I have no problem with radio, or MTV or something and with playing Unseen video there. I'd rather more music like Rancid, or Social Distortion there, because I'd much rather people learn about bands like that than the bands like Good Charlotte or My Chemical Romance. It's not even that I so much hate either of those bands, I have no problems with them, it's just good for people to know that there's something alternative to what it's out there.
A lot of bigger bands sometimes become bigger because record labels will pay a lot of money to make sure that radio stations play them. Or records labels will pay money to make sure that videos will be played. You know, so it's almost like they become popular because ?SHOUT IN THE FACE?. Maybe if a band like The Casualties will be payed at the radio stations people will probably like it because it'll be all they'll here over and over again. Like brainwashing. It's like you're driving on the street and you see a billboard with McDonald's so you'll go there because it's all you know. So a lot of bands become popular just because of that it's all there is, all what people know. They keep hearing it, singing it, and then they go to watch them. But it's not very often deserved. A lot of bands are popular but will not get a respect for it, because to me they're not saying anything. You must work hard to get where you are, you know... The Unseen struggled for a vey long time or even Rancid had struggled many years before they got popular. Tim (Armstrong) and Matt (Freeman) playing in Operation Ivy, they struggled, were poor and when they started Rancid they stayed the same. Same music, same ideas and then got popular. And Lars (Frederiksen) from Rancid, he played in so many bands before Rancid: UK Subs, and other groups... And with Rancid they started to do something honest and something for real and people caught on to it. I'm proud of the bands like Rancid.

>And you also have sort of problem with this. People started to call you sell-outs and you wrote a song So Sick of You. Is this the answer on it?<
Yes, it's because, again, bands like The Unseen or The Casualties or Sick of it All, again the same bands, Blood for Blood, Agnostic Front... all of them, they constantly tour all the time. Tried to spread the word and expose themselves to kids and sometimes for whatever reason the people start to like the band. And then some people start to like the band beacause it's more popular. Maybe like super punk rock like: Well, I saw The Unseen, but I don't like them because the guy with The Famous shirt likes them. Or like: Little girl,who doesn't really like punk rock and knows The Unseen is why I don't like them anymore. And we haven't changed what we we've been doing, we're still the same band, and it's just sorry of other people will find out about us.

>Yes, and it was the same with Anti-flag when they signed with major label.<
Yeah, exactly – Anti-flag did not change anything. They're still just Anti-flag.

>And just distributing the music to more people...<
Yes to more people, and I like that and I wish them the best!

>So you obviously agree with this.<
I'd much rather the kids listen to Anti-flag than Jay-Z. At least, Anti-flag have something to say.

>So thank you, man, it's been great to talk with you and i wish you to have a great time for the rest of this tour.<
Oh – thank you too!