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“[Katrina] decimated the Gulf Coast, which is where EyeHateGod [seminal New Orleans sludgecore band] come from. And it pretty much destroyed all their equipment, everything. So a tribute album was being put together to help those guys out. They asked a lot of current bands, and then they said ‘what the fuck,’ and decided to see if Brutal Truth could contribute, even though we hadn’t been together for eight years.”

Between 1990 and 1999, Brutal Truth took grindcore and used it like a sonic sledgehammer to batter audiences across the globe with pummelling chunks of metallic fury. New York, birthplace of Hardcore and East Coast thrash, provided the perfect spawning spot for their heady mix of hardcore punk and death metal.

“And everybody was tracked down, and said “sure, why not? I’m up for a good cause,” The three of us – although not Kevin [Sharp, vocalist], as he lives in Chicago – me, Rich and Brent – they came up to Rochdale, New York, where I live now. Each of them had to drive for 350 miles in the snow – when they made it, it only took about half an hour to learn the EyeHateGod song, so we decided to see if we could play any of our old shit and it worked out. So we asked Kevin if he was interested and we set up some shows.

“They went really well, especially the first show. That was our big ‘comeback’ show in Chicago. We rehearsed all summer, we had Jody [Roberts, of Salt This Earth, and stand-in for the US shows] on guitar, and he did a great job. Considering we hadn’t done a show in eight years, I think we came back really strongly. I don’t want to be overconfident, but we were pretty fucking good.”