Monday, September 01, 2008


Chesty Malone & The Slice Em Up's (Horror Hardcore/Punk from the U.S.)

Chesty Malone & The Slice 'em Ups are a brilliant one of a kind savage Horror Hardcore/Punk band--these dudes will eat your brains out! I encourage you to listen to their sick, cool music & judge for yourself. They are fucking phenomenal, they are what Misfits is for Punk, but they deliver their stuff 10 times heavier & with a female vocalist. Enough said people.

So my friends tell me a little bit about the history of the band & some personal details of each member if you can dude?

Anthony: A couple years ago Jackie and I decided we wanted to start a new band and play hard old school style hardcore punk with no compromises, in the tradition of bands like Black Flag, Misfits and Bad Brains with a metal side too from bands like Black Sabbath, Venom and Motorhead. Plus we love zombies and blood so of course that crept into the lyrical themes. Then we set out to find like-minded people to play it with us. Originally we got Tom and Hans and though they are still brothers to us they are no longer in the Slice 'em Ups.
Me personally, I'm just an old school hardcore rock n' roll kind of guy and I've been playing guitar since I was 14. Been drawing since before I can remember (I do all the band's artwork too if ya didn't know).
Jaqueline: What he said. We got tired of the same ol' shit all over the place and wanted to turn things up a notch and bring back the style of our favorite bands.

Are you guys on tour lately, I saw you guys have 4 shows announced but you regularly have more & that's fantastic, that means that a lot of people fucking dig your one of a kind Horror Hardcore sound. Tell us more about your shows & stuff?

Anthony: We like to go at it 100 fucking percent! No halfassed bullshit allowed. A lot of people can't always hang with that but I'd rather not play at all than play some weak, fake, boring crap. We are breaking in a new bass player and a new drummer (Ernest Anderson III on bass and Angel Cotte on drums, welcome aboard dudes!) so very soon we will be announcing some upcoming touring plans. Stay tuned to the website and myspace page!

Any plans of doing several mini tours or big tours across the US? I'm sure that a lot of Hardcore Kids, Horror Punkers, Thrashers & many more will enjoy your cruel blasts all night long & will become addicted worse than heroin hahaha, explain?

Anthony: Yeah man we have some upcoming plans we're cooking up! We want to make it out to the west coast and hopefully one day Europe and fuck, basically anywhere that'll have us! Puerto Rico! And of course up and down the east coast.
Jaqueline: We wanna play everywhere and as much as possible. If you want us to come play your way, shoot us a message and we will talk about hooking something up. We can't be confined to NYC forever!

Have you guys thought about touring outside the U.S. to countries like Brazil, Japan, Spain, Costa Rica or the U.K to name a few, people will do big fucking lines just to get a cool spot & witness the mayhem you perform on stage, not too many bands deliver solid Hardcore Punk quite like you guys, go tour the world & brainwash your dear zombie fans?

Anthony: Hell yeah we wanna play everywhere! Promoters get in touch! Let the brainwashing begin.

Tell us some of your influences besides Horror Punk, old school Hardcore & zombie & gore flicks. You guys play very fast, have a lot of creativity and lyrically speaking, you focus on zombies, death, some topics that are categorized as taboos in normal society. Do you care about what ignorant, stupid people say or no?

Anthony: Nahh we don't care at all what people think (unless of course they're saying they like us hahaha!). If we cared what the assholes thought of us we would've quit doing this a long time ago and gotten boring office jobs and slithered off to suburbia or something. We love playing fast but I have threatened to write all slow songs for album number two (just kidding, or am I?). We like to write songs about everyday subjects and cloak them in bloody horror type imagery. For instance, "Meat Factory" is about working a fucked up shitty job but the lyrics are about a guy plucking the brains out of human skulls on an assembly line.
Outside of the influences you already mentioned above I like writers like Charles Bukowski and artists like Berni Wrightson and good old Pushead, shit like that.
Jaqueline: Normal society makes me itch. We write a lot about violence and creeps and violent creeps. There's a lot of that around.

You guys have an amazing debut album out now entitled "Now We're Gonna See What Disaster Really Means" which is so great & something the world of Hardcore/Punk needed, seriously to me it is one of the best albums I've heard in years & can't fucking get enough of it. Tell us your thoughts towards this?

Anthony: Thanks a lot man! We worked really hard on our album and we did it all by ourselves—no record labels or producers or outside help. Just us, for better or worse! All of us put tons of blood sweat and soul into that album. You can hear some songs from it on our website and myspace (you can also buy it there!).

Is it hard to have a female singer with so many talents & you guys playing in front of many sick bastards & not just that, the many men that don't think that good old Hardcore & Punk music is supposed to be played by females? What can you say to all those stupid fucks out there & tell us a little bit more about what your singer means for the band?

Anthony: Hey to each his own I suppose. If you don't like a female singer don't listen to us I guess. Although she certainly doesn't sound or act like your average girly singer singing about makeup and feelings! Except for bad feelings. There aren't too many girls singing this kind of music so it does set us apart. I could give a fuck man, I love our band so if anyone doesn't want to check us out because we have a female singer, fuck 'em!
Jaqueline: Deal with it, fuckos. I don't ever promote us as "yeah! We're cool cause I'm a girl and I sing. That's why you should like us!" Fuck that. I don't really think about it. We have had people being obvious haters on the fact that I'm a girl singing this kinda stuff but they can go fuck themselves. I'll punch a guy in the face as soon as the next guy will. I've never even been big on girl singers. I love L7's "Smell the Magic". I like to think of myself as "fast, mean and frightening". I've also always been a huge Lunachicks fan. But when we rehearse and play shows and stuff I'm not like "Hey, I'm gonna try to sound like this girl" I'm more like "wow, I sure wanna sound like John Brannon or Henry Rollins" so I make it sound as mean as possible.

Are you guys creating new vein slicing songs these days for a future release or not? How about releasing some cool 7" vinyl, some splits with bands with the same philosophy as you guys? It would be awesome to check out an album filled with classic Hardcore & Punk songs in your style that will kick so much ass. Also tell us about the Misfits tribute you guys play once in a while. Describe to us your live shows, fans & all that happens at a normal Chesty Malone & The Slice Em Up's show. We need a live compilation DVD make us happy hahaha!

Anthony: We are always working on new stuff and currently have two new songs written. One is called "Protest the Unborn" and it's about how we believe there are far too many humans on this rotten stinking globe. The other new one is called "Exit 13" and it's about coming over to our house for some grilled meat! We're not saying what type of meat however. We love vinyl so hopefully someday we can do that but it costs more than CD's to make so who knows, like I said, we have no outside help. We'd also love to do splits with other bands so get in touch bands! Maybe someday there will be a DVD, probably when our boxset comes out.
About the Misfits tribute stuff, Misfits songs are really fun to play and we were asked to play a Misfits tribute night a year or two ago so we learned 8 or 9 tunes. We used to bust some out at shows for fun when we felt like it but we haven't in a while. We like to cover tunes by bands that we love and have also played songs by Black Flag, Bad Brains, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. Just for fun and to wind people up a little.


You guys are taking the Underground media by storm, a lot of Magazines, zines, radio stations & others are helping spread the word & supporting true Horror influenced music & that's way too cool. Not to mention Myspace & many internet music sites that help a lot. How does all this make you guys feel, tell us in your own fucking words please?

Anthony: It's great man! People like you do a lot to keep the underground shit alive! It ain't always easy. New York Waste mag here in NYC is also pretty great to us! Along with Pat Duncan on WFMU in Jersey City and Chris Unknown on WUMD in beautiful downtown Dartmouth, Mass. We appreciate all of it!
Jaqueline: Hell yeah. You want us to come play on your radio show or fuckin' just wanna play our album or give us a write up or whatever then we will gladly send ya some shit. Hit us up.

2008 started kicking ass for Chesty Malone & The Slice Em Up's, constant shows, lots of appearances in cool fests, more exposure throughout the world, every damn corner of this sick world is listening to your tunes & that's a fucking honor my friends! Also the media is helping the band a lot, how does all of this make you feel guys? Tell us what's left to achieve for this young group in 2008 & in the near future?

Anthony: We wanna get out there and spread this shit as far as it can go! We have a lot left to achieve, believe me. Really we've just begun. Our album coming out in April of '08 was only the beginning!
Stay true and don't let the bastards grind you down!
Motherfucking Slice 'em Ups forever!