PUNCH YOUR FACE
Punch Your Face is the very substance of hardcore wraped up with a heavy metal attitude. Matty Bones, the band's guitarist, is here to help us meet with the band. For further info you can visit the band's website of course or the demo sections of the zine where you can read a review of their 2 track demo. But beware, Punch You Face are nasty...!

1.FIRST OF ALL POINT OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS OF THE BAND'S HISTORY AND INTRODUCE YOURSELVES TO THE READERS...
    I think the most important event in our history, was not being arrested by Texas state police after getting pulled over in the Houston area. Lets just say there was enough contraband in the car to end our careers indefinitely. We got lucky and walked away but that was a truly important and lucky moment for us. PUNCHYOURFACE is myself, Matty Bones (guitar), Frankie Mittz (guitar), Jerry IB (Vocals), Luda 6'1 (Vocals), Myke Diesel (Bass) & Justin (Drums).
2.FILL US IN ON THE BAND'S RELEASES. YOU RECORDED A DEMO LATELY. GIVE US SOME INFO...WHERE WAS IT 
RECORDED, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO FINISH IT, WHO WAS THE PRODUCER, ETC? ARE YOU SATISFIED BY THE FINAL RESULT? DO YOU THINK YOU MANAGED TO FIND YOUR PERSONAL SOUND?
    We have a 2-song demo CD that has been out for a while and we just released a live from CBGB's CD.  That's got live versions of all some of the new songs we got like "Warzone", "New York", "Famous" & "Fight Song". There's an Agnostic Front cover on there also.  The 2 song CD took 1 night to do the music, another to do the vocals and another day to mix & master. We're all happy with the sound, I think it captures our sound well but I know when we finally get into the studio again to do an album its gonna destroy that CD.
3.YOU DESRCIBE YOUR STYLE AS A MIXTURE OF NYHC AND DEATH METAL. FROM A SAMPLE I LISTENED TO I FOUND YOUR MUSIC TO BE REALLY AGGRESSIVE AND THRASHY BUT SINCE I HAVEN'T LISTENED TO OTHER SONGS OF YOURS, I CAN'T FULLY EXPRESS MY VIEWS. SO GIVE US YOUR OWN DEFINITION REGARDING YOUR SOUND AND NAME SOME OF YOUR MOST BELOVED BANDS AND ALBUMS.
    Actually we consider ourselves straight up NYHC. Half of us have metal backgrounds but we try to downplay that for this band. Jerry, Frankie & Myself are still in Internal Bleeding and use that as our metal outlet, instead of making PUNCHYOURFACE a complete metal/hc band. I agree with the aggressive comment and the thrash parts are just hints of our metal influences showing through. We put all of our focus on writing beat downs & sing alongs, which is more relevant to hardcore. We all like a wide variety of music but some band favorites are Madball, Skarhead, Boxcutter, Agnostic Front & metal bands like Dying Fetus & Suffocation.  I think if you heard the newer songs you would realize we are heading down the hardcore path.
4.THE STRANGE THING WITH YOUR BAND IS THAT YOU HAVE 2 MALE SINGERS. WHY? DO THEY EXPRESS DIFFERENT FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS? HOW ARE THEIR ROLES DIVIDED?
    I don't find it too strange; I always liked dual vocals. When we started we had a 3rd singer as well but it didn't work out. The band G.F.Y. (which Myke, Luda & myself were in previous to this band) had 2 vocalists as well. Instead of males I do wish we had 2 females singers. That wouldn't work well though; the rest of us would wanna bang those 2 sluts out. I think the vocalists' roles are split by the sound & tone of their voices. They both have their unique style. Luda is more mid/high scream style & Jerry is low mid brutal style & both will break away from their style and do other shit too. Both can actually hit some notes during some chorus' as well. They work to complement and contrast each other as well as hype up the others part. It's cool to see them do their thing together live.
5.WHERE ARE YOUR LYRICS REFERRING TO AND HOW IMPORTANT ARE THEY FOR YOU? WHAT INSPIRES YOU TO 
WRITE LYRICS AND WHAT CAN TAKE THE INSPIRATION AWAY FROM YOU?
    When Jerry writes the lyrics I think he just takes a look around, absorbs what's there then reflects what he feels. Our songs are basically stories about us. It's about where we're from, how we live, the drugs we do, the people we hate, the people we befriend, how drunk we get, the bitches we fuck. We basically hustle and do what we gotta do to keep this band going and that is the basis of the lyrics.
6.HAVE YOU DONE MANY LIVE SHOWS? CAN YOU SHARE SOME OF YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES WITH US? DO YOU 
HAVE ANY PLANS FOR LIVE SHOWS IN THE NEAR FUTURE?
    We played our 1st show in July 2003 and by the end of the year we did over 35 shows. We love playing shows, that's what we're all about. Since we've started playing out we played just about every weekend.  We took a few weeks off to write some new shit and we were all so bored and fiending to play a show. I think playing out is our biggest addiction.  We already did a show in the new year and we got a few more lined up for January & in February we got a lot of shit we're planning on doing. Definitely some touring in February. 
7.WHICH ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE?
    Touring is about it.  Hopefully we'll put out another studio recording in the coming months.  Internal Bleeding will be hitting the studio in March to do a CD for Century Media.  It's gonna be called "Hatefuel" and people will be able to hear the metal shit some of our members do. Otherwise it's not to get arrested, over dose or get any more bitches pregnant on the road. Unfortunately all of these have happened already & hopefully won't happen again.
8.WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO SOMEONE THAT DOESN'T KNOW YOU, IN ORDER TO INTRIGUE HIS INTEREST? WHICH 
IS YOUR MOST APPEALING ELEMENT ACCORDING TO YOU?
    Hi Stupid!!  That usually intrigues people when you first meet them. I think my most appealing element is that I'm burnt so I get along with all kinds of different people.
9.IF YOUR MUSIC WERE AN EMOTION, WHAT WOULD IT BE? IF IT WERE A PAINTING, WHAT WOULD IT SHOW?
    Emotionally it would have to be some form of release, like an orgasm or something else cathartic. Yeah our music is violent and heavy, but it's like that so we don't have to carry those emotions with us. If it was a painting, it be that one with the 6 dogs playing poker. Each dog would represent one of our members and I'm sure instead of playing cards we would be around the table playing with sniffable substances.
10.WHICH DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST AND WHICH THE WORST PART IN YOUR MUSIC, ACCORDING TO YOU? WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU NEED FURTHER IMPROVEMENT?
    The best part is playing shows. The worst part is setting up and breaking down the equipment before and after a show. Only way I can see improvement is when we hire the crew of Mexican midgets to roadie all our shit around. We've been talking about it for a while but those mexi-midgets don't work for as cheap as one would think.
11.ARE YOU SATISFIED BY THE FEEDBACK YOU GOT THIS FAR? IS THERE AN ELEMENT OR A DESCRIPTION THAT YOU SEE GETTING REPEATED IN ALMOST ALL THE REVIEWS YOU RECEIVE?
    From what I've read the reviews have been favorable. We see people mention bands like Madball & Skarhead as our influences, but also say we have our own way of going about the NYHC sound. The most repeated thing in the reviews is complaints that the demo is only 2 songs.
12.YOU ARE IN A SEARCH OF A LABEL. DID YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST TILL NOW? WITH WHAT CRITERIA WILL YOU 
SELECT THE LABEL YOU WILL SIGN WITH?
    We've talked to a few people who mentioned doing a CD, which is cool, but I think the main thing we are looking for is tour support. We just wanna be out on the road and it would be nice to have a label that would back and support us on that.
13.LET'S SUPPOSE THAT WE LIVE IN A WORLD WITHOUT MUSIC. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IN SUCH A CASE?
    Hmm, dude I don't even know how to address that. I guess if the world  had no music I wouldn't know what I was missing but if I heard music and then went deaf and couldn't even feel the vibrations of music like a deaf person does, I guess I would be permanently disappointed. Music & playing shows is better than any other drug to me. But it's fun to mix the music & the drugs oh yeah & sex too.
14.IN WHICH MOVIE SOUNDTRACK WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE TAKEN PART OR HAVE COMPOSED?
    American Bukkake 10 has a kick ass soundtrack. I would love to be the guy who hit pre set beat 69 on the Casio keyboard.  That man made an audio masterpiece.
15.WHY DID YOU NAME THE BAND PUNCHYOURFACE? ARE YOUR MUSIC AND LYRICS A PUNCH IN OUR FACE? IF YES, EXPLAIN HOW?
    Our first pick was the Hymen Hammers but there's some Canadian band with that name, fucking Canadians. The name could be seen as a lyrical and musical punch in the face as you mention.  Plus it just sounds like a heavy band. I don't think an Emo band would work with a name like that. Also it says a lot about us, we're all like to play music, party, hang out but if you step to us, talk shit, fuck with one of the crew then we're gonna punch your face, enough said.
16.THANK YOU! HAVE I FORGOTTEN TO ASK YOU ANYTHING AND YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?
    Thank you for doing the interview. If you want further information on us check out our website www.PUNCHYOURFACENYHC.com. You can go on there to get the latest news and tour dates. You can also buy merchandise from the site too, we got hoodies, t-shirts, belts etc in all sorts of designs & shit. Also if you hear of us coming to your town, come to the show and bring your virgin girls, food, drugs or hook us up with a place to crash. We're a bunch of broke ass mutha fuckas. Aight, later bro thanks again for the interview.
Nick  "William_Kidd"  Parastatidis
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