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Band Profile: Usepensinging
location: Taipei, Taiwan.
band members:
Jun-Zai-Vocal
Lu-Guitarist
Norton-Bassist
KingKong Kuan-Guitarist
A-Die-Drummer
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/usepentosing
discography:
2008 Usepensinging x Ashen split EP (released by Psychoyouth Records, Taiwan)
2009 Copycat EP

It was a total confusion when local audience meet this Screamo band Usepensinging, and it took me for a while to understand their music a little bit. They were brave enough to call themselves a screamo band, since for many who consider themselves "punk" did not give a shit about any American screamo bands, for an obvious reason they simply sucks at music but really know about their hairstyle. But no, not this Usepensinging, which influenced by more hardcore-oriented Orchid, Ampere and Japanese Otto Records (with the release of  Envy, with their fanbase both in postrock and hardcore community)and etc. Personally I would understand the bands before mentioned as hardcore screamo, but simply for the understanding instead of creating another label. The Jun-Zai's scream is very much psychotic and frentic, which is one characteristic of hardcore screamo. the arrangement of each instruments is pretty complicated and precise, and the ability to handle variety of tempos is pretty neat-- slow intro, breakdown and then sudden bombard and at the end an abrupt stop. Usepensing releases two EPs, one with death grind monster Ashen. the bassist Norton is the owner of Psychoyouth Records, a distro and a label in this tiny scene, with its effort to introduce both local and international bizzare yet talented bands. Now Usepensinging is in a hiatus, each member has their own project-- Nortion organizes gigs and runs his label, KingKong is the guitarist of We are so Sad, Lu the guitarist of another screamo/postrock band Until Seeing Whale's Eyes, and A-Die is the drummer in Ashen.

I still rember the exciting feeling to go to their performance, often pretty short but always impressive, like they stub your brain with a sharp dagger. Some members are veterans in early emo scene and still stick together after these years. But then it is like they come out in past few years in the underground scene without notice, and then every kids received electric therapy after going to their gigs, then often with HC band Angry Young Men, Ashen...etc. I wanted do a report about this unique and kinda mysterious group and the atmosphere which they create with each performance in the scene, but then it was like I was so busy and later they just told me yeah we broke up and I thought fuck ya and what a lost...

The latest video from Wikileaks, titled 'Collateral Murder,' on April 3rd, 2010, depicting a military mission in July, 2007, when 12 civilians, including 2 reporters from Reuters, were killed by 30mm cannon on the Apache helicopter. According to a former individual, now members of Iraq Veterans against War, the whole operation by no means violates the standard procedure and was on the base of everyday military practice. The Reuters asked the Pentagon for this video in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act but received no response. The 12 murdered civilians include two children who was on the way to school with their father, also dead, driving them to the school. The father was shot dead when he tried to give a hand to the injured reporters.

The video leads not only severe criticism on individual soldiers about their morality, since they obviously noticed the two child were injured and laugh at the civilian bodies. The further response from campaign like Iraq Veterans against War remind people that a problematic military system and patriotic ideology exist, though they do not attempt to morally justify the deed, which in my opinion they did try to distract the attention at some point. It also reminds me of how everyone from the left focus on the US healthcare reform yet let go the adding of more GIs into Afghanistan and Obama's stand on nuclear technology control instead of giving up the nuclear idea...i think of "I am not morally justifying anything but..." and how people make themselves as rational as they can and are too scared of being an angry bitch...

• Democracy Now!--'Veteran of Military Unit Involved in 2007 Baghdad Helicopter Shooting Says Incident Is Part of Much Larger Problem'

For a half year I did not feel any thrills from anything; it was a feeling of adrenaline-bombard over the head, with the mixed smell of body odor and cigarette-butts. This feeling keeps pushing me to do some public-facility-fucking-up, to ride a bike and read out loud the poem or manifesto come up into my head, or simply participate whatever and grab anything and write and document and sleep for 4 hrs and wake up...Yeah! No. seldom this feeling come into my me for this half year. Most of the time I am just confused, about how friends keep saying solidarity becomes the one alienates everyone the most often, how an artivist becomes a social elite and how every protest becomes a trade-off. Nevertheless I am the most confused about and pissed by myself. For bitching others I am simply conscious of the passiveness about myself. And when it comes to any exciting project, it's just like a flash and after three or four weeks what I wanted to do were left behind.

Then here I am in Medan, Indonesia. I consider something here give me the cure and provide me a solution. Not yet happened at least these two weeks. I sit in the house, thinking about the roosters and cats. Drunken street punks. Cheap weed. Sour tuak. Punk and many more punks and then punks only. Then I felt the hollowness for being in punk scene. For after all these years it's just beer-can piles and cigarretes and stupid jokes and mosh-pits and same idiotic identity problems of who is punk and who is not... Then those punk kids 10 years ago are either smart enough or normal enough not to claim him or herself as a punk...

So it is all within a minute when I stop buying any hype of micro-ism or guerilla warfare in everyday practice or ithcy adbusters...,and start to miss the enemies and friends and a tiny possibility of radicalness without any posterity and pretension. Finally I am secured now.

location: Taipei, Taiwan.

band members:
Possessed Spike - Vocals (drums 2005-2009)
Po-Wei Liao - Guitars (2007-)
Vic - Bass (2005-)
Curseomind - Drums (2009-)
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/bazookacrossover
genre:old school thrash
discography:
2009 Toxic Warriors(released by Metal Inquisition Records, German.)

Bazooka started as an old school euro-influenced thrash band and still sticks to this fierce and raw style now. Experiencing lineup change, Bazooka's present lineup is Po-Wei(guitarist), Vic(bassist), Spike(vocal)and Curseomind(drummer). In my opinion, although not as a professional omniscient metalheads, people know Taiwanese metal scene or have their first impression through now world-famous ChthoniC, and it has influenced, both the local audience and band, the taste of How a Taiwanese metal band sounds like. Never is this a big deal to me, though.(even I can talk tons of trashtalk about this bizzare metal scene and how the macho atomsphere make me uncomfortable for hours.)ChthomiC is never part of the scene and it would never intend to, I guess.

On the other hand, Bazooka makew sense to me for the practice of DIY attitude originating from punk culture, from recording to cover design, booking their own shows and support our gigs even we can't afford to pay them much. Members of  Bazooka do have a wild range of taste and know clearly what sound they would like to bring out. Po-Wei is an addict to crust punk and old school metal bands. He is also a gothic and post-punk lovers. Spike has his solo goregrind band "Rampency." Vic is in a brutal death band called "Revilement." their music is simple yet raw, and they bomb you with its great riffs. Personally I think their live performance is of much more fun than their album, for the energy, the incredible speed they play the instruments,  and the chemistry between members.

Those guy are so active in the scene that they organize gigs(Raw Noise Attack series, Liberated Rhythms and Tiger-hunting), play in bands(Bazooka, Revilement, Total Disruption, Rampency), open up the very first crust punk shop in Taiwan, performs with veteran bands such as Abigail from Japan.  In 2009 Bazooka was signed by Metal Inquisition Records and release the first album "Toxic Warriors." They are interviewed by magazines such as Terrorizer, and they receive quite a good review for the album.

location:Taipei, Taiwan
band members:
guitarist and vocal: Bruce
bassist and vocal: A-Si
drummer:A-Die
myspace:http://www.myspace.com/ashenkill
weblog:http://ashenkill.blogspot.com/
genre: death/grind/hardcore
discography:
2008-split with Usepensinging
2009-EP "H1N1"

Personally this three brutal monsters called Ashen is my favorate band in Taiwan, with its fuckin' fierce & evil drilling noise. The band started in 2007 as an old-school thrash band influenced by Slayer. Nonetheless, They've evolved, with its loyal audience, into a band with the Napalm Death grind-sound and ability of totalj control of the mathcore techniques. the guitar are fuckin' of devil, and A-si simply plays the bass with full-speed and rawness. They have this great understanding in the change of tempo, yet the band still makes you wanna mosh pit.

After all this years, Ashen has palyed with J-noisecore band Melt Bananna and Breakcore solo project Drumcorps. Ashen is not a band of idiot machismo, but of fun and good humor. They just all DIY by themselves, but still hold quite a standard of their musical quality.