Our First Veg Thanksgiving -

Our main course includes-

Quoron Turk'y Roast
Sauteed mushroom and whole wheat panko breaded green beans
Our famous loaded baked potato topped with veggie cheddar cheese and meatless smart bacon.

Our desserts include -

Pecan pie & a
Pumpkin Parfait w/ Chocolate + Ginger Snaps Topping

For vegan recipes check out- vegangela.com

Full name: Davin
Band: Kingdom
Important links:
blogspot
Kingdom







Who is the biggest influence in your musical career?

A "career" is a pretty hefty title, but honestly I do play music than anything else in my life so I suppose it's accurate. The band Reagan Youth is my biggest influence, though musically it doesn't come forward that much in Kingdom. (We covered them on our '9 Lives' 7"!) I respect any band that plays their music unselfconsciously and pushes boundaries with what they're presenting, and very, very few bands do or have done that.

What is your favorite part of playing shows?

I'm like Garth Algar in Wayne's World, "I like to play." I love playing. I love our songs. I love hearing them, I love singing them, I love seeing what solos Dave comes up with, I love covering my favorite bands. Of course all the stuff that comes with playing shows is worth something too (or else we'd just play in our basement)-kids singing along, stage diving, moshing, even the kids in the back with their arms cross who are uncomfortable as all hell with us, I just love the whole damn thing. That's a crap answer huh? "What do you like about shows?" "Um, shows." Haha.

Do you any plan to be going on any tours?

Yep! We're going to start booking a week and half east coast tour for the end January in the next couple days, then we're headed to South America in March, then we're doing a full US in April, then we're going to Europe over the summer. Gonna be a busy year.

What was your inspiration to write your album "the rage that guides"?

Musically we wanted to take it to the heavier side of things. Lyrically I wanted to make it a timely political record. We're vegan and straight edge, and while those things are important there's a hell of a lot of more going on in this world that's just as important. So I wrote about things that were happening at the time- racist and corrupt police using Philly's "stop and frisk" to target poor and black folks, consumerism at it's lowest as illustrated by the Walmart employee who was trampled to death by shoppers on black friday 2 years ago, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism act that targets animal rights activists in America, a sense of hopelessness that I can't help but feel when hearing there are carcinogens in every woman's breast milk on earth. Despite that, I think it's a pretty positive record because for all of those things there are solutions, and I have faith that we'll find them.


What was your inspiration for writing the song Pythoness?

Night after night on our last US tour, I asked the crowd how many people a girl need to sleep with to be considered a slut. Their answers went anywhere from 3 in a year to 50 in a year, 5 in a week to 20 in a week, 2 in a day... no one could agree. Then I asked if it made a difference if the girl loved or cared for those people. All different answers. Then I asked if the girl had only been with 2 people in her life, but cared nothing for them? Again, different answers. "Slut" is a word used to punish women for being sexual, it means nothing, it has no real definition because if it did it couldn't be applied to anyone with a uterus (which is how it's used now.) It's a weapon against women and it works. We all know girls who fear acting "slutty", how many dudes do we know who fear the same? Pythoness is a song about women making whatever choices they want and disregarding what people say, because for girls in this world it's a lose/lose situation- virgin
or whore, in love or not, 1 fuck or 100, it doesn't matter. What makes the real difference is having the self awareness and self respect to make decisions in your best interest- and if that's just getting off, that's cool, and if it's abstinence, that's cool, and it's doin' the one you love, that's cool too.

Can you tell us some more about leaving Eulogy Record and entering the studio to record ?

Not much else to say on the Eulogy front. We just want to be on a label that does vinyl and Eulogy wasn't it. We recorded 6 news songs 2 weeks ago, 4 are going on our new 7", 2 are going on something else (to be announced later.) Our new record is getting mixed right now, and we'll be making an announcement on who we're doing it with soon!

We know we kept pushing the Postmortem Zine Mixtape digital download release back and we finally got around to finishing everything with the mixtape two days ago.
We thought we would just surprise everybody with this release on Nov/17.

Here is the track listing:

Stay up, Stay alive- Dead End Path
Misery- Scourge
Blank Stares- Reach The End (Formerly Rebuild)
Day By Day- Think Straight
Broken Pieces- Stand Your Ground
Caged- Breaker (Formerly To The Depths)
Truth Inside- Truth Inside
Something To Scream For- Declarations
1997 Doge Nightmare- Dead Streets (Live)
The Fourth Wall- Brooksite
*Bonus tracks:
Ain't Hard To Tell- Dead End Path

To download go to our Mediafire link
*If there is a problem downloading this zip please email postmortemzine@yahoo.com!

Name: Nick LaGrega
Band: Brooksite
Important links:
Brooksite Music







Who is the biggest influence in your musical career?

To narrow it down to just one is a little hard but some of the biggest influences for us consist of great bands like All Out War,100 Demons,Shattered Realm, Terror and many others.

What is your favorite part of playing shows?

I would have to say just getting to play for new people is great and seeing the people's reactions to what were playing is awesome.

Do you have any plan to be going on any tours?

I would love to go on full tour's but between school and having to work we will probably only do little weekend tours every now and then, but hopefully one day we will be able to do like a two week long tour or something like that.

What was your inspiration to write your new EP?

For the most we pretty much all listen to a lot of different types of hardcore bands and we figured out a way to combine things that a band like Trapped Under Ice would do with something a band like 100 Demons or Shattered Realm would do. We just wanted to write something that we would enjoy playing and something that was a little different from the other local bands coming out of Long Island.

What was your inspiration for writing the song The fourth wall?

Lyrically the song is about thinking something is real when it's actually fake. Pretty much getting fooled by the world and life.

QUICK UPDATE: We know we've been taking "forever" to put out our digital release of The Postmortem Mixtape.
As of now their are about 10 songs on the mixtape and we are planning to release the end of November.

*Short story is that two of the bands we have tried to contact a number of times will not/have no interest of returning our email therefore we are doing 2 bonus tracks on the mixtape that are not bands we have interviewed.

stay tuned for more updates via twitter * @postmortem_zine
- Aaron XXX

Name: Uriah Thomas

Band: Dead End Path

Important links:
Dead End Path





Who is the biggest influence in your musical career?

I don't know if i have much of a musical "career" as i do a musical
hobby. I would say my biggest influences are the other three dudes in
this band that are along for the ride with me while I pursue this
musical hobby of mine, and who knows maybe one day it will be my
career. My Mom is also a big influence because she literally supports
any decision I make with this band and will always give me the best
advice. Little known fact: My mom has the craziest DEP merch
collection of anyone on earth...

What is your favorite part of playing shows?

I hate playing shows. Naw, just kidding. I get really nervous
sometimes before we play like "bigger" shows and I always ask myself
"is it worth it, is being in this band worth this agony?" to which the
answer is obviously always "no" but then i sack up and do it and after
the first 8th of a second into the first song I'm having the most fun
I've ever had. Also, seeing peoples reaction to music we made is
pretty surreal. Oh and meeting new people, I love meeting new people

Do you any plan to be going on any tours?

Actually yes, we just announced a 20+ day winter tour with our best
friends in Stick Together... It's going to be from December 27th until
January 15th so everyone keep a look out and catch that slam jam
hitting a city near you

What was your inspiration to write your album death walks beside us?

I can't really speak on anyone else in the bands behalf about
"inspiration" to write the record, but i think as a whole we just
wanted to make the best record we could. We wanted to prove to some
people we were most than just a "hype" band or some bullshit. I'm
really pleased with the way the record turned out and people seem to
be into it so i guess you could say that's pretty inspiring. As far as
specific inspiration and influence go, the title and i guess even
just the overall theme of the record is facing death. It's a huge fear
of mine and I had to face it sometime, why not on this record...like
"death walks beside us, who fucking cares". If you listen to the
record, every song touches on death.

What was your inspiration for writing the song born into the grave?

That song is actually about a couple different things. Dying,
god/religion, my dad and how they all tie into each other. Mostly my
dad i guess. There is a line in that song about seeing a picture of my
dad for the first time in my life, literally the first time i had ever
seen what he looked like (probably a week before i wrote the lyrics to
this song) and i guess that experience inspired the lyrics. I kind of
like letting people interpret the lyrics how they want though. The
lyrics can be about whatever you want them to be about i guess.
Another bit of inside info, the line "born into the grave" is borrowed
from an Alice In Chains song.

Can you tell us some more about your show at Hungarian liberty hall in
Ronkonkoma, NY on November 12th?

We're playing a slammer gig with Mother Of Mercy, Fire & Ice,
Incendiary and I think a couple more, we're actually doing a weekend
with Incendiary, this show then a show in DC the next night with
Bracewar, Mother Of Mercy, Fire & ice. Both shows are going to be
bonkers. Jake from LI and Darren from DC always hook up cool gigs

Full name: Gavin O

company name: Still Proud Clothing

important links:
SP clothing
bigcartel



What was your inspiration to create a clothing line?

The inspiration for Still Proud came out of my love for independent music and discontent for the corporate lifestyle. Besides the 9 to 5 hustle I wanted to have something of my own that would allow my ideas and creativity to flow. I was attracted to clothing because of its close relationship to music and the fact that it’s such a direct medium of expression. SP is very much influenced by many of the ideals within hardcore, the street appeal of hip-hop but also an element of self-empowerment.

I've heard you say "Still Proud will always be a brand rooted in the Hardcore and Independent Hip-Hop community" can you elaborate on that?

Sure, I’ve been involved in the hardcore scene for the greater part of my adult life (bands, journalism and booking) and have thus been fascinated by the ideals within it. Integrity, inner strength, nonconformity and a DIY mentality are what I’m referring to. Indie Hip-Hop also embodies these ideals and is another genre I’ve been a fan of for some time. These ideals have not only influenced my life but also what I wanted SP to represent, so whether it’s the artists we work with or the themes running through our designs, we’ll always have a foundation in these subcultures.

What are your plans for the future with your clothing company?

From hammering down a 3-season release schedule, expanding our product line and also looking into some retailer distribution, these are my goals at the moment. As for the greater picture, I really feel like the sky’s the limit for SP so we’ll have to see.

What is the deal behind the "this world is mine" hoodie that was limited to 50?

It was actually limited to 25. The hoodie is all about holding your own and not letting society dictate to you what you can or cannot accomplish. The diamond represents prosperity while the dice stands for the gamble of life. Put them both together and you have the sacrifice that it takes to succeed.
Are you going to print some more designs for back to school? Seeing as school has already started and our new line’s about to drop, I’d say we’re a little late. 4 new tees, 3 tank tops and a b-ball jersey are set to drop next week, be sure to stay tuned for the announcements: www.stillproudclothing.com

What’s the hardest part of owning a clothing line?

So far, it’s just been keeping a consistent release schedule. When you’re a one man team, there are many things that you have to juggle between design, production and then of course building the community around the brand so that the designs move. Throw into the mix working a full-time job and you can imagine how crazy it can get. It’s easy to look at a clothing company and not realize that there are many factors involved but I’ll be one of many to tell you that to believe this is to be very mistaken.