Loud hardcore rooted
rockstars What Hands Are For took some time to talk to me about how the band
came together, to what their name symbolizes, how their influences are
inspired, and what else they have in-store between now and the rest of their
musical career!
1. How did you come together?
We pieced ourselves together
over a couple of years. Most of us were involved with the local metalcore craze
of the mid 2000's. we came together as an opposition to the kind of music we
were playing as teenagers.
2. What type of band are you
guys?
We are a loud band. We named
our first EP Loud Ass. People routinely tell us to turn down and it will help
us sound better, but we have yet to listen because... We're sadists. We are
rooted in hardcore but our branches are all over. We write songs to be catchy,
but they come out darker. I'd like to say we sound like a lana del rey lip
augmentation.
3. So tell me why the name
What Hands Are For does it symbolize or represent anything for the band?
It's a line in a Smiths song.
We had many terrible band name ideas. We had just about settled on Go West, but
... They are a band already. Perhaps you remember the classic King of Wishful
Thinking?
Anyway. We figured Pretty
Girls Make Graves and Panic! At the Disco were onto something so we listened to
The Smiths- Handsome Devil and tah-dah...that line resonated with us. Most people think it's
about jerking off or copping a feel or playing music. But it's more controlling
than that.
4. You released an EP
"...Please Believe Me" can you tell me where the title came from and
is it a concept release?
The title please believe me
was pulled from the song Me Myself and My Terms, which is this self comparison
to Charles Foster Kane, but there is a certain desperation in trying to have
that kind of control. Things unwind. Balance is lost. Challenges become
impassible. There is a lot of talk about being two different people, the self
being portrayed or the so-called real self and it's a fight figuring out if
either one of them are good or bad...
But they both want to be validated.
5. Why did you pick Jungle
Riots as your single?
It's awesome, and we wanted
to work with Kyle Black!
6. Tell me about the song
Jungle Riot?
Well, following what PBM was
about comes this song about the idea of living life to the fullest and changing
who you are to follow your dreams and looking back on the wreckage it's caused.
7. Who are some of your
musical influences?
Everything good and shitty.
They inspire equally;
The Dark Lord Moz
Dead Biggie
Dead Tupac
Dead (now) Thrice
Dead Fugazi
Mewithoutyou
Everything Kanye has ever
done and ever will do
Strung Out
Big Wig
Dead Pretty Girls Make Graves
Every Time I Die
Dead Clipse (reborn)
Dead Poison the Well
Dead The Kinison
Dead than alive now dead
again Refused
Jurassic Park Theme song
And about 1452 more. Don't
ask that question.
8. Do you guys have any new
music or side projects in the works?
We have a series of EPs we
are releasing thought out 2013 starting in January. The project has so far
taken on the name These Trying Times because its been three years in the
making. shout outs to college and capitalism for making that time between
releases possible. Also our drummer is in another band called Spirit Fangs who
are a wonderful indie rock band turned hardcore with a great ear for songs.
9. Where do you see What
Hands Are For in 5 years?
Dead as fuck or sold out
theaters.
10. Any last words?
Yeah.
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