*** PODCAST #163 AJ Currier (Colacon, Holly Caught A Contact High) ***

photo: Bret Backus

    In 2022 I met AJ Currier and his crew waiting outside of the ZBR Fest pre-show and we all hit it off instantly. The following year Tomb Tree helped release both COLACON and HOLLY CAUGHT A CONTACT HIGH on cassette. In 2024 COLACON played ZBR Fest and Tomb Tree released their debut album on 12". So obviously this podcast is a long time coming. Besides talking about those bands and being generally hilarious/informative, he also touched on: playing in Scarlet O'Hara/Madelyn Pryor/RaiseUp!/With Winter Upon Us/Kerberos, mispronouncing COLACON, screaming in cars, Psyopus melts the brain, working 94.5 hours in one week, COLACON's first show, ZBR Fest through the years, trusting strangers, defining "slam", the story of the vaulted Senza material and a new jam, accidentally anonymous, Sean Klotz the Hype Man, High Pitch Rich, upcoming Vamonos Tapes news, etc. Bands played in this podcast: Clot, Detach The Islands, Graf Orlock, Peeling Flesh, Rorcal, and Senza. Listen to podcast #163 which is available to stream and/or download for free via this link.

COLACON

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HOLLY CAUGHT A CONTACT HIGH

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Colacon 12"s

1 Setting Things On Fire

RORCAL "Under the Nails" (AJ)

DETACH THE ISLANDS "A Highly Magnified History" (Dave)

2 Siphoning Off Math Grind

PEELING FLESH "Shoot 2 Kill" (AJ)

SENZA "Scrap the Waste" (Dave)

3 I've Watched Breaking Bad 22 Times

GRAF ORLOCK "Border Crossing" (Dave)
CLOT "Fucking Rot" (AJ)

~Dave

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PODCAST #163 linked here

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COLACON "Gales of Contempt" music video

https://youtu.be/gICyDodyHiM

HOLLY CAUGHT A CONTACT HIGH "Hello Mr. Wolynetz" music video

https://youtu.be/Jdd6dLgkpFE

Upcoming COLACON shows:

*** GXLLIUM! exclusive song premiere ***

GXLLIUM!

"Axel Peart"
exclusive song premiere

For fans of: Rex Kwon Do, .gif from god and Me And Him Call It Us

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orders open October 15th @9am PST for cassettes via ZBR

     Thank fucking lord the drummer shakeup didn't break this band up and now their back with a new six-song EP appropriately titled 'Breakup songs' minus two members plus one new one. There's tapes from ZBR going up on October 15th @9am PST but we only had time to pump out 35 before the release, so once those are gone we'll make another 100 easy. Seriously, you are not ready for this EP! The band gave some insight, read below:

"This is the last song we wrote with our last drummer before disbanding with him, a song we were really proud of, thinking it was gone forever! Till we fortunately invited our good friend Tanner to be the new drummer and finished the song with everyone collaborating on it. The song is named after Tanner's dog, Axel Peart. Trying to find a title when we finished mixing, we looked around Tanner's living room and decided that Axel was way too cool of a dog to not name it after him. This song goes out to Tanner for helping us keep this band alive <3"

(2024) GXLLIUM! "Axel Peart" (from 'Breakup songs')

https://youtu.be/3A4XAwOZPT8

     Right from the get-go GXLLIUM! goes immediately for the jugular with chaotic instrumentals that harness a lot of panic chords, blast beats, and wonky, almost Psyopus-esque guitar originality. After the initial minute of headfuckery, the song shifts into a lot slides and breakdowns before cutting out faraway, haunted screams and minimal instrumentals until 1:43 when the song combines the dreamy soft with the devastatingly heavy and it's fucking beautiful. The final minute is more epic in nature and focuses more on tying up the song instead of constant jaw-drops. Lyrics below!

you had me, you had me

You're left behind and you wonder why

Live

Laugh

As I live in your house

As we paint our picture

Death

Cry

As I live in my car

Outside of your house

A comically places static television

Alone

In the room I got for us

I hear your feet over thresholds

As you binge hotel rooms

Your moans ring like greeting cards in my ribcage

Your pictures are Christmas ornaments

Taken down on a February afternoon

Being so young love dies so soon

Blow up the sun like I’ve never fucking seen it before

Crash the car like I’ve never even loved you before

If god seen what you done he would take you out himself

If god loved me he would kill you at my fucking request

ADDITIONAL LINKS & WHATNOT

GXLLIUM! podcast

REX KWON DO

Band: REX KWON DO
For fans of: Hayworth, .gif from god, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Kiowa, Me And Him Call It Us, Onewaymirror, Thank  You Driver, and Antarctica.
Genres: Punk / Hardcore / Metalcore / Metallic Hardcore / Math Metal / Mathcore / Screamo / Skramz / Emo-violence / Mosh

Related artists: ?.
Country: Hayward, California U.S.A.
Years Active: 2024-present

Label(s): Self-released

     REX KWON DO gets their name from the almighty Napoleon Dynamite and released their 'Demo' in fall 2024 and I'm in love. These four jams are chaotic, mathy, heavy, and shrieky as fuck. Imagine Me And Him Call It Us, Hayworth, and Kiowa

in a blender. Shit slaps super hard, like in the opener "Don't Let the Door Hit You Where the Good Lord Split Ya" at 1:14 when the bass drop goes off as an explosion and blowing out all other instruments, then everything slowly increases in volume again as the speakers regain their ability to produce sound. It's fucking awesome and I have yet to hear anything like it. Closer "Thugs, Drugs, and the War on Bugs" brings in the screamo/emo-violence crossover that warranted the Kiowa comparison and is my vote for best song on the EP, especially that quiet and brooding intro and all those dual vox. Easily one of the best demos of the year!!!

     I would love to release this and whatever they do next, so in the off chance they read this please hit me up at zegemabeachrecord@gmail.com

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DISCOGRAPHY

2024 - Demo EP (stream/donate/download here)

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(2024) REX KWON DO - "Thugs, Drugs, and the War on Bugs" (from 'Demo')

https://youtu.be/lI5CkPJ34DA

(2024) REX KWON DO - "Don't Let the Door Hit You Where the Good Lord Split Ya" (from 'Demo')

https://youtu.be/_0QxhIYViVw

(2024) REX KWON DO - "Mocos Song" (from 'Demo')

https://youtu.be/ic4dIRnSGnA

(2024) REX KWON DO - full set

https://youtu.be/Kj7cW8uRh-Q

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