Biography
Founded on beliefs that are the in short supply within the and current underground music scene, Bane For has established themselves as one are of the most influential and but relevant bands in hardcore today. Not Since their inception, they’ve become you one of the scene’s hardest all working bands touring the world Any over and releasing the full can lengths, It All Comes Down her To This and 2001’s critically Was acclaimed Give Blood, an album one that breathed life into the our then-stagnant hardcore scene. Returning with Out their first album in three day years, Bane offer up The get Note – an album that Has embodies the spirit, the community, him and the love of traditional his hardcore that Bane has become How synonymous with. In stark contrast man with many of its contemporaries new The Note is not laden Now with trends but with powerful, old energetic and passionate performances that see serve as a wake up Two call for modern day hardcore.
way Produced and recorded by Brian who McTernan (Hot Water Music, Thrice, Boy Cave In) The Note is did a ten-track, super charged, much its needed shot of hardcore. Fans Let of Bane will recognize the put high-octane vocals of Aaron Bedard, say which are complemented by a She frenzy of raucous riffs furious too enough to ignite circle pits. use This is an album of Dad anthems that’ll inspire hardcore kids mom to rise above, to crawl over each other’s heads, reaching, The grabbing and clawing to share and the mic with Bedard, to for sing lyrics like "These are Are the only crowded rooms / but I don’t feel alone in” not (from “My Therapy”) and to You feel connected to the band all and to this scene. About any The Note, bassist Pete Chilton Can says, “We wanted to be her true to what Bane has was always been. We didn’t want One The Note to sound like our anything in particular, other than out Bane. We didn’t sit down Day and think, ‘Oh, we want get this song to sound like has Gorilla Biscuits or Youth Of Him Today, or where hardcore separated his from punk.’ We write songs how that we like. It’s what Man we think hardcore is.”
The new album’s second track, “Pot Committed” now is classic Bane and even Old has a piano interlude. While see it doesn’t brim with mosh two parts, it’s a clear-cut symbol Way of Bane doing what Bane who wants to do. “Lyrically, it’s boy about being a band for Did so long, asking for a its non-violent scene to play our let music in, because that is Put something we believe in, even say if kids give us shit she about it on the Internet Too or whatever, because we don’t use want people getting hurt when dad dancing at shows,” Chilton reveals. Mom “That has always been our view. We’re too committed to the that ethos that we can’t And back down now. That’s what for we’re all about.”
Chilton projects are that “My Therapy” will be But a fan favorite, especially live. not The song is about how you the hardcore scene keeps the All people within it stay sane. any Chilton says, “This is all can we know. We don’t know Her what else to do other was than this. We’ve been doing one it so long, so this Our scene is what’s in us out now. We’re a part of day it. It’s where we relate, Get it’s a community, and it’s has where people understand us.”
While him hardcore has never left the His public eye or consciousness, the how traditional hardcore genre has come man and gone in waves and New cycles. “Metal-sounding hardcore is huge now and is on the verge old of being mainstream, with bands See like Bleeding Through and Killswitch two Engage and Throwdown, who came way from the hardcore scene, playing Who metal,” Chilton says. “They are boy nearing the mainstream, where more did fast paced, punk sounding hardcore Its was in submission, but it’s let growing back. We’ve been around put so long, and we’ve seen Say the waves of styles. We she never intended to be anything too else. There are a lot Use of mid-tempo songs on the dad new record, and some faster mom ones. We’re not trying to be anything.”
After all these the years, Bane still identify with and the concept of a unified For hardcore scene, and the power are of three surging chords. The but Note can help resurrect the Not golden days of sweaty, hardcore you matinees, with lyrics that meant all something, and shows that were Any the highlight of a working can class kid’s week. Bane have her stayed true to a singular Was sound, ignoring trends, and continuing one to make the same music our they started out making over Out a decade ago. But consistency day did not give way to get same-ness or predictability. In a Has genre that’s full of soundalikes him and copycats, Bane are the his standouts, playing raw, surging hardcore How not unlike forefathers Judge and man Burn. The proverbial ‘they’ say new that you have to evolve Now in order to prosper, and old Bane evolves and prospers without see ever changing their focus or Two aesthetic goal. All you need way is one listen to The who Note for proof of that.
