PunkTV.ca: First of all, would you introduce yourself and your band?
Sure, my name is Steve and I am bassist and backup vox for Buried Inside, we’re a 5 piece from Ottawa, Canada.

PunkTV.ca: I know you guys are from Ottawa, what is rock and roll like out there?
It’s maybe surprising to many Canadians, but it is surprisingly good. There is always a flow of bands coming and going, but there are always some great local bands. We are happy to be here.

PunkTV.ca: Since you are close to both Montreal and Toronto, are you more influenced by the Quebec metal scene or Toronto hardcore, and do you play in both cities a lot?
I’d say more influenced by the Quebec metal and Quebec sorta hardcore from the mid 90’s sorta, that influenced us a lot. We play Toronto from time to time, and that’s not our favorite place to play. We love going to Montreal, and even deep in the woods like, we play these outdoor festivals deep in the woods, and they are awesome, JP’S Chalet fest was one of them, and we were the only English speaking band… The bands that played after us were mostly like Despised Icon and Ion Dissonance which are metal but have more of the mosh breakdowns. So we do shows like that and it goes over well. Also, Toronto is 5 hours away and Montreal only 2. When Ottawa is overlooked by touring bands, we’d always go to Montreal instead of Toronto, just because it is closer…

PunkTV.ca: So, what are some of your most influential Quebec metal bands?
In the mid 90’s, the punk and melodic stuff like Prophecy, and Drift. There are bands like “Ire” as well, but more recently, less specific to particular bands to more like the types of shows, and the types of people. We just feel sorta similarly with that scene, and we feel like we have a lot in common with those people, we can speak French and we can communicate with them pretty good. There is also that unspeakable danger element that people hint about, playing in a francophone environment, but nothing ever happens, and it could go the other way, but they are not like that. I have a very good friend who is an all out separatist, but we actually get along really well…

PunkTV.ca: So the francophone are really cool?
Ya, when we first started going out there, our singer Nick would start the set in French, and that’s because it is a political issue, so they just kinda appreciate that we are not just another ignorant English speaking band, or an ignorant Yankee, they appreciate the effort at least.

PunkTV.ca: What about Alberta?
Ya, we played out there in march, we did Calgary and Edmonton. We played in Edmonton with a band called the Wolf Note, they are in that screamo punk world, and we have known some of those guys for a bit. We played a basement show, which we do from time to time, and that was a cool show. In Calgary we played a few shows, cause Saskatchewan fell through. It’s those drives out west, man they are a killer.

PunkTV.ca: Especially in the winter!
Ya, Edmonton gets wicked cold, and I have never been there in the winter, but I don’t much care to. Are you an Oilers fan?

PunkTV.ca: Not as much as I would like, all I do is work on building this magazine, not much time for sports or recreation are you a MontrÉal fan, or Toronto?
No dude, Senators!

PunkTV.ca: Shit, see how much I am into hockey these days, forgot about them? Do you get out to a lot of games?
Ya, I got to a game versus Toronto… Ottawa won 8 – 2 and we got the tickets for $20! Was wicked!

PunkTV.ca: Are tickets expensive out there?
Fuck, ya. Like the ones we got on the third deck… and they were $75

PunkTV.ca: Beer here is like 8 bucks at the games, ridiculous!
Ya I don’t buy food or drink at the arena… Bags of chips are like, $3, for 5 chips, lol.

PunkTV.ca: Tell us about the relationship with Relapse and how that came about?
Sure, it was mainly one individual who sorta got the ball Rolling for us, he used to work in the Warehouse there, and he had got in touch with us when our last record was out, and he wanted to distribute it, and he did that, and we just kept in touch, and he really wanted to know the steps to what we were going through. And we recorded “Chronoclast” not really knowing what we were going to do with it, or what label we would be on. And so shit just happened form there.

PunkTV.ca: And has it been good, did they get you the big tour?
Ya, they hooked up this one, High on Fire, and they have provided some opportunities that we could not have got on our own, at the stage we were at. Like any label their size, they are a promotion machine, all the staff there are also really good people and we get along with them all so… it’s really good.

PunkTV.ca: It’s kind of bizarre and rare that they would sign a Canadian band, let alone an Ottawa band…
Ya, we are one of the only two from Canada, the other one is “The End” and they are from Toronto.

PunkTV.ca: Tell us about your new album, Chronoclast?
It doesn’t even seem new anymore to us, but I guess it’s a whole piece of work, which I don’t know how specifically to describe, but lyrically, It looks at time and different elements of how time fits into our lives. Nick is the best one to explain all this, but this one looks at one aspect of what he covered in the last album. The principal though is who controls time, and how it is used as a means of control. And each track sorta tackles a different component of his philosophy and how it relates to time and control, power, that sort of thing.

PunkTV.ca: The album was written as a single 40 minute piece?
Ya, I think we sorta tackled it as we were used to writing, in a song format, and then each track we completed, and then bridge together, and then we repeated parts like 20 minutes apart just to create that sorta fusion, and continuity. When all of the music was done, maybe half of the lyrics were done, so Nick finished the lyrics after the music was done. And pretty much up to this point, we have always written a song without lyrics first, and then Nick will organize the lyrics, and then the back vocals, and up until now, it has always been that way. We have been talking about the next record, and about different ways that we could tackle that…

PunkTV.ca: What is that in the background, are you listening to Donna Summer?
No (laughs) I am listening to that band, sweet. My gf loves them

PunkTV.ca: They are awesome, …ballroom blitz
Ya, fox on the run… awesome tracks.

PunkTV.ca: This is your second album after Suspect Symetry?
We have our very first album which was 1999 I guess it came out, but it is long out of press and never to be repressed. So most people see this as our second album, and some even as our first, hahahaha. People around Ontario, Quebec, and even Nova Scotia, upstate New York, would see it as our third, depending how into us they have been.

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