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Hammer Bros have been taking hardcore a step further with their own unique style, blending together thrash metal with the sounds of bands like the Cro-Mags and Sheer Terror. They are known for their fast, intense, in your face sound, that focuses on keeping hardcore hard, angry and agressive. Sharing the stage with legendary hardcore bands such as Madball, Murphy's Law, Slapshot and my favorite hardcore band of all time Death Threat. Hammer Bros have gained a substantial following with the release of "The Vitality" and our sure to grab everyones attention with their new release slated for a fall date. Expect the new record do shred even more than before.

CaliAlive.com: Can you start off by telling us where you guys are from and what you do in the band?

Hammer Bros: We are from the merrimack valley, massachusetts... and my name is jim, i sing... sort of.

CaliAlive.com: For those not too familiar with Hammer Bros, can you give us a brief history about the band and how it all started?

Hammer Bros: Hammer Bros started about 3 years or so ago... we just wanted to play break-neck crossover hardcore and go off about the world we hate. i got tired with all the fakes in punk, i felt hardcore was totally losing it sense of reality. the bands that got me through every day were long gone, and the new ones were just ripping the popular sound, merch styles, and writing lyrics completely down the middle.

CaliAlive.com: In the past few years or so I have noticed more east coast bands playing that metal tinged/brutal heavy hardcore sound that has pretty much been non-existent recently. Tell us a bit about your influences as a band and how you came up with your unique metal thrash sound?

Hammer Bros: The cro-mags obviously play a huge part in what we do... but also bands like carnivore, dri, sheer terror and sod help round out our sound. i like a lot of old death metal like obituary (cause of death and slowly we rot, not that world demise shit) and pestilence as well and really wanted to work those slams into our sound. Under all the meat and potatos... negative approach.

CaliAlive.com: What do you think of the current state of hardcore?

Hammer Bros: What about violence in hardcore, negative or positive? Scene in general? hardcore sucks. its completely fake. people are in bands to have fun, get girls, or just to play music... that shit is fucked. this isnt supposed to be lollapallooza. Violence, eh... i dont like knucklehead shit. i dont even really like "moshing"... i think its too structured, i wish kids would just lose their minds like i do and slam their heads through walls.

CaliAlive.com: How is your relationship between Hammer Bros and a label, based in California? How did you guys hook up with Joel from Crosscheck Records?

Hammer Bros: Apparently he just got a random email one day and called me... i dont know how he got my number. it was cool though... since he left the label we havent really done much with them.

CaliAlive.com: Name current bands your really stoked on at the moment?

Hammer Bros: Ignorance and Word for Word.

CaliAlive.com: Name some of the biggest bands you had the privledge to share a stage with?

Hammer Bros: Murphys law, madball, slapshot, and most importantly agnostic front.

CaliAlive.com: What can we expect at a live Hammer Bros show?

Hammer Bros: A bunch of guys who have never caught a break, working for everything they got... and never keeping their mouths shut. Im not out to change the world... i just want to make the people i hates lives as difficult as possible.

CaliAlive.com: With your record "The Vitality" instantly in my mind I thought that you guys were one of the angriest, just fucking pissed off bands around. Can we expect the new songs to be just as pissed and brutal like "The Vitality"? Is the release coming out on Crosscheck Records as well? Release date?

Hammer Bros: The release wont be on crosscheck... the date and info will be released soon...and this record is a whole different animal. you havent seen anything yet.

CaliAlive.com: Any future tour plans coming up? West Coast dates at all?

Hammer Bros: When the record drops we will be in your face.

CaliAlive.com: Do you think current audiences are too narrow-minded nowadays?

Hammer Bros: Absolutely, they have no buisness being into punk for the most part... most kids dont even realize that hardcore is punk either.

CaliAlive.com: Who gets the most girls in the band? On a serious note?

Hammer Bros: HaHaHa..Probably Ryan Basile... kid is a home wrecker. He broke up some family down in charlestown last month. married couple, 3 kids, he slept with the husband in some seedy motel. what a grubnick.

CaliAlive.com: Really appreciate you taking the time to do this interview dudes? Any last words, shot outs you wanna say?

Hammer Bros: check out ignorance, word for word,and the whole merrimack valley...  keep working.