"The other guys were only 14 and 15 years old, so this was their first band. Was CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER your first band experience for the three of you? If not give us details about your previous acts and Scott / Bill ones? It was too bad because he was a good kid and we had a lot of fun with him." At the time, I’d say we were better soccer players than musicians! We parted ways with Adam because his parents really didn’t want him playing in a band, but he was the one who really got everybody together. Adam brought Bill to one of our rehearsals because we needed a bassist / vocalist and that’s how it started. And once again, it was because Adam and Bill were both on the high school soccer team. We didn’t meet Bill until school started later that fall. So at first, it was just the three of us during the summer of ’84 playing SLAYER, MOTÖRHEAD, VENOM, and GBH covers. Adam played on the same soccer team as Scott (Scott’s Dad was the coach). Our fathers were both commissioners in the local youth soccer league. "I used to teach guitar lessons to a kid named Adam who I knew through soccer. Enjoy and pick up "Convicted" right away!ĭo you remember exactly how the band was formed late ’84 in the first place? How did you hook up with Bill (Crooks) and Scott (Peterson) back then? Now that Relapse have just re-released their two first albums in a totally brilliant way and knowing that the band was reformed, I contacted guitarist Les Evans to conduct an interview that covers the band’s career in depth – something which never really happened before considering how short Les’ answers were in the past. This California based four piece managed to issue a killer demo and four albums in their relatively short career, the earliest being, as far as I’m concerned, the most impressive as they delivered a mixture of high speed Deathcore material with a Punk approach. , D.R.I., AGNOSTIC FRONT as grandfathers of the whole Crossover movement but shame on them because there was tons of other bands which helped to define that new style, such as NYC MAYHEM, CRO MAGS, NEOS, NEGATIVE APPROACH, SUDDEN IMPACT and of course the mighty CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER. A lot of people are quick to name bands like S.O.D.
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