Profile: The Grizzly Twister
Name: The Grizzly Twister
From: Gävle, Sweden
Sounds like: Exactly what you'd expect from a band with this name: a whirlwind of claws and teeth.
Listen: With love sincerely yours, the enemy...
Discography:
2006 - Split EP w/The Plague Sermon (My Favourite Toy/MidMarch Records)
2005 - Distorted like it's 1989 (Tour EP/Self-released)
2004 - Kill the autopilot CD (My Favorite Toy)
Links:
www.grizzlytwister.tk
www.myspace.com/thegrizzlytwister
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discover new exciting hardcore bands. The scene's been so watered down with mallcore and mainstreamo that a band like The Grizzly Twister is a total anomaly. TGT understands that punk is supposed to be thrilling and maybe even a little dangerous. I don't care what your hair looks like, I want music that feels vital, that pushes boundries. TGT delivers.
Who are you and where are you from?
We are a five piece hardcore combo from the more southern parts of northern Sweden. We play danceable chaotic punkrock – a kick in the crotch for the uptight non-careing crowd of today's society.
What makes TGT special? Why should anyone care about your band?
We all need some drama now and then, the common man as well as the hardcore scene. It sometime seems that 'punk' now days are more about fitting in than not to fit in. Using two synthesizers have made us punk within the scene...
Which would you choose: the power to fly or invisibility?
The power of love?
Or... as we all know "there is no greater power, than the power of goodbye."
What inanimate object best represents TGT's music? Please explain.
We're a black box; born from chaos, you can't break us, figure out or name the wierd material that were made of and you just can't make us shut up.
Of all the people in the band, who are the lovers and who are the fighters?
We just love to fight... no, we mean we fight for fun.
Besides playing with two synths, what's the punkest thing a band can do in 2006?
Less punk-hardcore dress codes, more thought. Or if you think of people just in general, we guess it's to keep the D.I.Y.-scene going, it doesn't have to be that complicated. To put up shows, etc. Do things instead of waiting for things to happen. Lets take back what has become stupid clichés, 'cause it's actually possible to change things. Fuck you.
Finally, what does the future hold for TGT?
In June we're going on a little trip over to the UK to play a few shows with a band we just recently released a split 7" with, The Plague Sermon. Jolly good shit! We're also releasing an EP in France this fall and will also do a short tour follow-up on that. Right about now we're busy writing new songs for an upcoming album we hope to record sometime late August. The new material is angrier and a bit darker than our old stuff. Hopefully it will turn out the same way on recording as well. Or as we say in Sweden "Den som lever får se."