In their 10 year existence they demolished the fakes and plowed a path for many to follow.

Interview by Jarrod Norris for Hardtimes.

In 1998 Texas had no hardcore band to call its own. Sure there were hardcore bands, there was a hardcore scene, there were people doing work and making things happen, but it didn’t all come together until Will To Live stepped up to the plate to show how it’s really done. We finally had a flag bearer; a real hardcore band that sang about real life and brought us all together in a massive pile of sing alongs and breakdown fury. We were proud to be from Texas and we finally had a band to carry our voice.

"it was good to have snuck into that world and gotten of it in one piece without getting yelled at.

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interview conducted b Adam Connett

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Firstly I'd like to know how is the tour treating you‭?

Henry Rollins:‭ ‬The tour starts tomorrow night.

Where are you most looking forward to going‭?

HR:‭ ‬I don't look forward to any one place more than another really,‭ ‬I am happy to be touring pretty much anywhere.‭ ‬I really like being in the world.

How does it differ for you getting ready for a night of spoken word compared to a night with the band‭?

-Candiria have never been strangers to experimentation. For the better half of the band’s existence, you both positioned yourselves and were marketed as an experimental, crossover metal/hardcore unit. If you hadn’t already made the point clear with “What Doesn’t Kill You” and “Kiss The Lie,” self-reinvention seems to be the only way Candiria has chosen to survive over the years.

By Tyler Hodkinson

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH FUCKED UP?

-You guys are quite the hardcore supergroup. But before we get to the meat, let us know what each of the members do for a living or on a regular basis that would be worthwhile noting.

Matty (drums) - I work at a restaurant, give drum lessons, pretty much play music all the time. I also started working for my endorsee, Masters of Maple Drums, building and selling kits. I play for Mikoto and Mean Season as well.

Joey (bass) - I go to school full-time and work for a lighting company.

This recently unearthed Life of Agony interview from 2005 was conducted during an exciting time for the band; they were riding high on the renewed-interest in “River Runs Red”, and they were just about to drop their Epic debut, “Broken Valley”, a record they all felt would kickstart their largely stalled careers.

Of course, things didn’t really work out that way; the record flopped, and apart from an opening slot on a Megadeth tour later that year, no one really paid attention to the “relaunched” LOA.

-Considering how busy Chris Beattie probably is with Hatebreed, and the rest of you guys with your own projects and day jobs, how did Blackened come together so quickly?

By James Driscoll

- I’m trying to route misogyny and concern about women and their destruction, so to speak, in Hardcore from 1999 on. I chose 1999 because I think that Poison The Well was the first most modern example of saying that women were OK to sing about while still being a legit Hardcore band. I also talk about Glassjaw and Eighteen Visions and Scarlet, and some throwaway songs like Maudlin by A Life Once Lost, etc. But you guys, well, you writing the lyrics, do it in a way that’s much more violent.