Black Market Activities Records…

Adam: It’s just Black Market Activities. It’s kind of like a whole conglomeration. He’s [Guy] kind of doing the label. I’m going to use it as the moniker for my design stuff. In the future, we hope to bring more into it. You know, we’re open to do whatever.

When/why did you guys decide to start this label?

Adam: I don’t know. We just always wanted to. My time in this band, I’ve learned a lot about how record labels work, and you know, it’s interesting. I’d like to give it a shot. It’s going to start off as a hobby. If it gets bigger and bigger, that’s cool. If not, then…

(Someone burps)

You know, you can make that a sound clip.

Kevin: Really?

Adam: Hey, Every Time I Die had sound clips. We want sound clips.

Mike: I scream.

Make a sound clip.

Mike: My throat hurts.

(chuckles)

C’mon man.

Mike: That’s a sound clip. “My throat hurts.”

Adam: I can scream like a little girl. AAAAAAHHHHHHH!

(laughter)

Haha. Ok. We may have to break that apart. I can actually FTP it to Alex.

Mike: Wait, I’ve got a sound clip. (Does beat-box beat)

I’ll have difficulty translating that.

Mike: People can download that, and then they can use it as the sound as they open Microsoft Word, or if they have a Mac and open some Mac program. And it’ll go, pkok ke pkok ke ke peh pkok. Isn’t that cool?

(laughter)

Kevin: That’s awesome.

Ok. I will make that a sound clip, and then we’ll post it. Just like the Every Time I Die.

Mike: Or you can do this-pff che pff pff-pff. You can use that one too.

These are all like different beats.

Mike: These are all copyrighted, but you can use them.

(laughter)

What are they? House? Jungle?

(yelling)

*Click here for audio*

Mike: I can’t really do jungle stuff. Pat from Premonitions [of War] can do jungle like nobody. But I can’t do it yet. I’m practicing.

Adam: Aww, here comes Paul.

Someone: Where’s my penis?!

Someone else: It’s next to my penis.

Someone else: Or next to the vagina.

Someone: Where the fuck are my goddamn, fucking…

Kevin: You guys are ruining our interview with Lambgoat.

Someone: An interview with Lambgoat?

Paul and Andy: Fuck you, and fuck Lambgoat!!

(laughter)

Paul/Andy: It’s the worst site ever!

Kevin: They’re ruining our interview with Lambgoat!

Paul: I FUCK UP!!!!

Someone: Hey, were you [Andy from ETID] in the last one?

No, Andy wasn’t in the last one.

Adam: You can be in this one.

Andy, is there anything you want to say anything to cover the last ETID interview?

Andy: What was the last question?

(indescernable/jumbled responses)

Andy: Is that what he said?

Adam: Can I do a message board…

(more jumbled talk)

Andy: Ask me a question.

Ok, first you’ve got to say your name, and then talk, because it’ll make it easier when I type this out (no one listens).

(Andy laughs hysterically)

Andy: It was in there.

(laughter)

“What about in terms of designing the record…” Is this one? Did you guys answer this one?

All: Yes. We already did that one.

Adam: Pretend you’re me.

Andy: Ah, fuck that.

Someone: How about a better question…

Andy: Alright. “In terms of designing the record”…

All: We already did that one, too.

Andy: You didn’t ask ME this.

(laughter)

Go down. How about this? What are you guys going to do to rectify the fact that your last record was green AND red?

Andy: Green and red?

Yeah. The cover.

Andy: We’re gonna fucking set shit on fire. Like, you’re going to light it, and it comes on fire.

Someone: Every Time I Suck dick…

No, I want it one color.

Andy: That’s why it’s called “Hot Damn.” It’s like a bunch of colors. If you light it on fire, the CD itself is actually CD proof, or burn proof.

(More people join the conversation)

Fat Pat: I got a joke.

Ok, Rich. Why are you back here in New York City?

Rich: Because L.A. fucking sucks.

So, you don’t work for [whatever company in] L.A. anymore?

Rich: No. Bi-coastal dude. Wherever you want me to work, I’ll work.

So you’re booking shows for CBGBs again?

Rich: Back with a vengeance.

Pat: No, wait, I gotta tell my joke.

Alright, this is Pat.

Pat: Did you guys hear about the French machine guns that are on sale on eBay? From World War II?

(No’s and yes’s)

Never used, only dropped once.

(laughter and “Oh’s”)

How about this? I heard Jack Osbourne likes ETID according to the message board.

Andy: Yeah. It’s true.

Is he producing the record?

Andy: He’s not producing the shit. He guest vocals on it.

Are you lying?

(laughter)

Andy: [indiscernible]…lie. What the fuck, man?

Kevin: Him? Lie?

Andy: We flew him out.

Mike: Doesn’t he guest vocal on it, too?

Andy: Well, he just kind of…yeah.

(random chatter and laughter)

Mike: Didn’t he come down and take you guys on tour? And then you went partying in every country ever?

Andy: Yeah.

Someone: We gotta go guys.

See you later. Hey, let me ask you something. Every Time I Die gets a lot of shit on the message board.

Andy: Ha. No shit.

What do you think about that? For real?

Andy: For real?

Yeah. Do you not care?

Andy: Me personally? I don’t give a shit. I don’t like threats.

What about Gainesville Fest? There were rumors going on…

Someone: Festivals are for faggots!!! Just so you know.

That someone gave directions to beat up kids that post on Lambgoat.

Andy: All we did is said, “If you post on Lambgoat, raise your hand.” And then when they said “Yeah,” then we said, “Ok, that’s your target.”

Someone: Ohhhh, straight from the mouth.

Wow, no love. No love.

Andy: No, nothing personal against Lambgoat.

(more random chatter and laughter)

Nothing personal against Lambgoat, man. Just the kids, just the kids, man. Say10ordie.

(laughter)

Oh, you’re naming names!

Andy: Yeah, say10ordie. Fuck that dude.

Adam: I want a piece of crossfire. He said some shit about us. You want my mom to die? You don’t fuck with my mom!

Oh, you guys are name-dropping. That’s good.

Adam: I’ve got that kid’s phone number. I just haven’t called him yet.

Andy: Dudes in Raleigh, North Carolina said they’re going to come and beat us up.

Someone: Do you want Chad’s, from New Found Glory, phone number?

Adam: All right, give it to me.

Kevin: Yo, let’s tell everyone on Lambgoat what Chad from New Found Glory’s phone number is.

Andy: Dudes in North Carolina wanted to beat us up, and we played like 20 minutes from Raleigh, North Carolina, and no one came to beat me up.

Rich: That’s because you guys are good, dude.

Wait, who’s from Raleigh?

Andy: Ah, I don’t even know the dude’s name.

Adam: There’s like eight people in Raleigh.

Andy: But supposedly, his sister got beat up because we told the crowd to beat her up or something like that. Which was totally not real, but he said he wanted to beat our ass.

Someone: Dude, that’s true.

Someone else: Do you want Chad from New Found Glory’s phone number?

Alright, give it to us.

Someone: This is anonymous, though. This is an anonymous post. xxx-xxx-xxxx [phone number omitted to prevent stalking].

Adam: Say you’re not in The Red Chord.

Someone: And I’m in The Red Chord.

(laughter)

Adam: He’s the singer from The Red Chord.

Duly noted.

Fat Pat: And Fat Pat did not say anything on this, because no one likes him anyway.

(some people leave)

Thanks Rich, thanks Pat.

Adam: Alright, we have to load the van, so we should finish this.

Alright. What kind of bands are you looking at for the new label?

Adam: Bands that we enjoy and believe and think will do well. We’re doing the Backstabbers, Inc. discography. We’re doing the Found Dead Hanging record. They’re absolutely brutal and crushing. And Dead Water Drowning from New Hampshire.

What was it about Found Dead Hanging that [appealed to you?]…

Adam: Found Dead Hanging, we just played with a bunch of times. And we’re friends with them. And they put on a awesome show. They needed someone to put out their record, and we said “Hey, we’ll do it.” Dead Water Drowning, I think they gave us a demo at Hellfest.

Kevin: Yeah, the only demo we listen to all the time.

Adam: Yeah. We actually remembered them and we live somewhat close by. We started to talking to them and things just sort of worked out.

Do you guys actually listen to all the demos you get?

Kevin: Actually we do. One of our shows, it was after Hellfest. Where were we? I don’t know where it was, but we were behind the club we were playing. We showed up early, we shoved in all these CDs, and the only good one that came out was Dead Water Drowning.

I’ve actually heard their name from around somewhere.

Adam: Yeah, they’re just really good. They’re really fucking good.

Would you release any limited edition Red Chord material for collector geeks on the label?

Adam: We might. We’ve talked about it. There’s talk about doing a self-released four-song EP of covers and stuff. A low-key thing just for fun.

Mike: Shhhhh…

Adam: I mean, we’re not made of money. You know, it all depends on that. This is all coming out of our own pocket.

How about other projects outside of The Red Chord? Beyond the Sixth Seal.

Adam: Beyond the Sixth Seal.

Kevin: I think it’s just Beyond the Sixth Seal.

Adam: Oh, Candy Stryper Death Orgy.

Kevin: Candy Stryper Death Orgy. Mike’s…

Can you say that again?

Both: Candy Stryper Death Orgy.

Kevin: They’ve been around for 14 years, and Mike is the youngest person in the band, obviously. And the other two members could be his father.

Is that “Stryper” with a Y, like the Christian hair-metal band?

Adam/Kevin: Yes.

Adam: They’re thrash metal. A thrash band.

You said earlier that Red Chord is basically all you have going on. But you guys hold down jobs, right?

Kevin: We all have jobs.

Adam: I do freelance stuff, and I live at home. So I don’t have many bills.

Kevin: I make batteries for the Navy.

Haha. Ok. And we know Guy is the short-order cook.

Kevin: Gunface works for CompUSA, and Mike [drummer] works overnight at Target. So it’s very hard to get up in the morning when we have shows and stuff.

Adam: Yeah. I sell a lot of stuff on eBay, and I never have any money.

What else do you guys do outside of music, just to kill time.

Adam: Sleep. Sleeping is awesome.

You guys play videogames.

Kevin: I play videogames. I take off work to play videogames. I’ll stay up until five in the morning, I’ll wake up at 10 in the morning, and then I’ll play videogames until my eyes are ready to pop out of my head. That’s about it.

How about certain bands you guys are into right now? I read you guys are into a lot of Czech metal bands.

Adam: Gunface is into that. Contrastic.

Kevin: Yeah, Contrastic.

Adam: I think we’re all into them. I’m on a huge Entombed kick. All I listen to is Entombed now.

Kevin: I’ve been listening to a lot of Crowbar, Opeth, and Type O Negative. I have no favorite bands. I’ll go through periods where I’ll listen to CDs over and over again, so I can’t really answer that straight-up. I know Guy loves Suffocation. Devourment.

Well, that’s pretty much all we have. Is there anything you want to plug? Maybe something we may have missed?

Adam: Going on tour April 19 thorugh Metalfest with Bleeding Through and Himsa. After Metalfest…

Kevin: June 21 through Hellfest…

Adam: Hellfest, with Premonitions of War and Dead Water Drowning. And Beyond the Sixth Seal is going on tour with A Life Once Lost after Metalfest.

Ok. Cool. Thanks for your time. I really appreciate it. You guys were awesome tonight.

Adam: Thank you.

Kevin: Thank you……we sucked.

(laughter)

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