Jake: Oh it s ok, I think the thing is when you re with a record label for so long and after so many

Jake Kolatis: Oh thank you, glad you liked it. But I don t know, it seems to always be this thing where an album comes out, then you let people get into it for a little bit, then hit the road pretty hard. Like we ll do a thing where we hit Europe pretty hard then hit Central America for a short tour then come to the US and then back to Europe for a summer tour. And with our singer and bassist both being Latin it definitely helps open up that whole other world that a lot of other bands can t get to go to. And being punk rock, we re very international, people are very into hardcore punk rock pretty much in any country. So we can just tour the whole world and it kind of has been non stop with that, we might get a month or two off and all we do is pretty much rest at home because ya know we re not twenty-two anymore.
escorted tours to italy Jake: Yea a little bit, but actually The Casualties work a little bit better under pressure. So I ll personally escorted tours to italy be touring around with riffs and certain riffs I ll have around for a few years, but it ll only be a verse or a chorus or something and then it ll all kind of come together a little bit more when it s like Ok dudes it s been two years we should really think about writing. And then it s kind of just non stop and then we ll set a recording date and when there is a deadline is when we are very much ok we have to do this.  That s pretty much how it goes, and I think you have to come out with something every 2-3 years to keep people still interested, ya know. There is still that newer generation of kids who are really into the heavy stuff and if it s not there for them to listen to or if there is nothing new happening with the band then the whole vibe gets stale. And to even remain relevant escorted tours to italy then you need to keep putting albums out there. I mean we re certainly never going to be a reunion band.
Nefarious Realm: Yea please don t get to that point! So The Casualties have been in the scene for awhile and continue to produce albums. Fans often worry that with age of a band the newer albums might drift from their original sound, whether getting softer or even selling out but Resistance is true roots punk that remains escorted tours to italy aggressive and doesn t stray from who The Casualties are. Can you talk about the creative escorted tours to italy process and influences that helped you guys create that punk feel and sound?
Jake: Well with this album, not that we have a set sound or anything, but we actually wanted to go heavier. I myself have been going to see a lot more thrash bands, it seems there is a little bit more happening in that scene right now and it s just where that music and scene is a bit more appealing to me right now. It s appealing because it s fun and it s happening right now, I ll still go see punk rock bands too when I can but it seems that I just want more aggressive stuff. You can hear it come out too, where I don t have to write so much traditional escorted tours to italy stuff which we ve been doing for a long time and we re still doing that but, it feels a little more fun to have kind of a thrash inspiration.
Nefarious Realm: You mentioned before not being twenty-two anymore, and obviously no longer having that teenage angst, would you say going to metal shows has helped bring the anger and aggression out?
Jake: Ya totally! I mean, we re still going to those punk shows but they just aren t happening as much, there isn t a lot of younger generations doing that anymore. And even bands that we came up with have left the scene. Even little bands that we used to tour with have completely left the scene and it s weird to us, it s almost like we re the last ones, we re like the last of the Mohicans out here [haha].
escorted tours to italy Jake: I think it s, well I m not going to say that we re not paying bills off of the band because at this point we are. I mean we re not driving around Italian cars or anything escorted tours to italy but it s because we tour so much that ables us to pay rent and stuff like that. The amount escorted tours to italy of touring that we do and have devoted our lives to this it s kind of like well fuck, we can at least pay our rent off of it. Personally if I m not 100% into something than I m just not going to do it at all. And I think with a lot of bands all they do is a one month tour a year or two month tour a year and I think that can also aid in breaking down a band by not having that full commitment.
Jake: Yea, and actually that tour was really cool because you have two different scenes, I mean we re all still weirdo s, it wasn t like oil and vinegar, but the bands did mesh very well. And what was cool was the Nekromantix brought a different element to the show where their fans might not necessarily go out of their way to go to a Casualties show and then our fans might not go see the Nekromantix. So it was cool to play for the different fans, for all of the bands even, and the fans liked it a lot. And we ve done stuff like that before like when we played with Havok and Toxic Holocaust, it s cool to play with such heavier bands and to have their fans enjoy us.
Nefarious Realm: Yea I actually had to chance to see you on the English Dogs tour, and being my first time seeing The Casualties live I was blown away by the energy, and bringing me to my next point actually, The Casualties are able to play on bills with metal bands or even Warped escorted tours to italy Tour type shows and still bring the brutality and get the crowd going crazy. Can we expect to see a diversity in bands for a future Resistance escorted tours to italy promotional tour?
Jake: Yea, I mean I m not too sure yet, but we re looking to do something for February, escorted tours to italy again I m not sure what it would be yet, but hopefully it s a mix that is weird but not too weird. Like, we don t want it to not make sense ya know? I like diversity but it still needs to make sense like when we toured with Toxic Holocaust and Nekromantix. I guess we ll see, no bands have been decided yet.
Jake: Ya totally, and we definitely tried to get it across a more version of hardcore punk since people see us do Warped Tour so much and with street punk dying out we thought escorted tours to italy well we can still do this and play with thrash bands and get in front of the younger kids who don t necessarily like slow poppy shit but who still like something heavier and hardcore. And especially with doing Warped Tour so much I think some kids thought that maybe we were more mellow than we really are, so of course hell no we re not poppy at all!! So why not get in front of a heavier audience because the style of hardcore punk we re playing is more heavier. And you want to represent who you are as a band properly which also played in why we went with Season of Mist over Side One Dummy.
Jake: Oh it s ok, I think the thing is when you re with a record label for so long and after so many releases, instead of things feeling new and exciting the label starts treating everything very like ok we re going to do this and we re going to that. It didn t feel like anything new and exciting was happening. And with the industry how it is and new ways of promotion you want your label to enthusiastic and telling escorted tours to italy you what they are up to and you want to think wow I never would ve thought of that. Rather than being upset and being like oh why didn t you do this? So I think the relationship just sort of expired, it wasn t a negative falling out or anything I just think it was time for us to go with something new. It s like being in love, then going through a breakup, and then just finding that love again, ya know?
Nefarious Realm: Yea that s life I suppose [haha], to backtrack a second back to Resistance , there was one song in particular that really caught escorted tours to italy my attention in kind of a humorous way, Corazones Intoxicados , entirely in Spanish I ll have to have one of my SoCal chollo s to translate. Care to comment on that song?
Jake: Yea well most of the record is kind of heavy and all and Jorge had this idea, and Jorge usually has ideas for weird songs, and so he ll have these ideas that he ll hash around with Rick and they work together into creating it and recording it and so they went with that idea of having a unique song and decided to do it in Spanish and it s what came out. It definitely makes this album very diverse like there is that one song that is weird and not in English.
Nefarious Realm: Yea it s definitely a stand out song, and again the whole album is great I really enjoyed it. That wraps it up on my end I really appreciate the interview and I look forward to seeing you guys on the road!