These songs were heavy and intense before the post-production was added, and they'll still have the necessary impact without it. I see the stage and the studio as totally different mediums. Scene Point Blank: Another question about sound: Are you going to try to reproduce any of the post production sounds in a live setting?ĭan Yemin: Not really. When it calls for bulldozer brutality, then that's what you get. When the song calls for melody, we incorporate melody. Melody is, and always has been, an important element in punk music. Scene Point Blank: This album also shows an increasing amount of melody? Do you get shit for it? People saying either, "It's not punk" or, "It's not punk enough." Think about Tragedy or any good crust band their songs have an immense amount of melody although it's presented differently than what people commonly associate the word "melody" with.ĭan Yemin: I don't really care about people's complaints or critiques. In terms of having more songs that don't just rely on blazing fast beats, we're just trying to expand the dynamic range a little bit. We have more songs that are mid-tempo, but the fast songs are a lot faster then they were in the past. Any reason for that?ĭan Yemin: I'm not sure I agree that we've slowed down, although I could see your point. Scene Point Blank: The songs on each new album get progressively longer since CVA in terms of tempo you certainly haven't stopped but you have slowed down somewhat. The second day we opened with "Past Tense, Future Perfect" which we had posted on the web a few weeks before. But the reaction to the new stuff was been really great. No one wants to hear a set dominated by songs they don't know. I felt like we actually got to curate a mini-punk/hardcore festival of our own! We played four new songs in a seventeen-song set. Did you play a bulk of the songs from New Lexicon?ĭan Yemin: The shows were amazing! Some of the most inspirational crowd response I've ever seen, and of course the lineups were flawless. Scene Point Blank: Two sold out release shows: how were they? How was the response to the new songs? I remember seeing Paint it Black right before you released Paradise and half the set consisted of new songs. Dan Yemin spoke with Scene Point Blank about the politics behind New Lexicon and how it gives nods hardcore punk's past while paving a road to its future.
Paint it Black, running on six years and three albums, are always abundant with ideas and energy without showing an inkling of remission or tire. Being in a hardcore band can be a very cathartic, yet taxing experience, making a fuse that's easily snuffed. Being an outlet for frustration, aggression, and a variety of other angst-type emotions, it's common for many hardcore bands to exist for only small increments of time.
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