Our Interview with Extinction A.D.

Colour me geeked.

I am fucking giddy and goofy-balled because of these Extinction A.D. Assholes. There recent EP/single tore the lid off of the adolescent angst and rage that was still swimming in my lower and most Christian extremities.

I immediately had to buy a 40 of Ballentine and head out to walk the grounds of my former high school after dusk (which according to the signs is off-fucking-limits bro).

Luckily when I was stopped by Donnie the night guard, he bought my story that I was looking for my dog (thanks to my quick thinking and his lack of knowledge I convinced him that the bondage leash I was carrying was a dog leash) and he saw me as an upstanding member of the community and decided to help me find the dog and never said shit even as I pulled out a second 40.

My guess was that Donnie loved the Extinction A.D. That was banging out of my boom box as well.

He had the look of a hesher bro bro.

I recently sat down with some asshole named Ricardo who plays guitar and sings for these delightful flower beds of awesome and we talked about what makes them tick.

Our interview with Extinction A.D. Starts now.

SYFFAL: Our readers are best known for their separatist beliefs, their healthy distrust of the blog-o-sphere, a 7th grade education, a 3rd grade reading level, their collective 67% body fat, and the fact that not a one of them has seen day light since the Clinton Administration. Yet for some reason they turn to us time and time again to find those under the radar bands that make their nether-regions vibrate like a shitty Samsung Galaxy. So help us help them get one off by answering the following,
who the Fuck are you?

Rick Jimenez: Rick Jimenez

SYFFAL: I'll call you RJ. Hey RJ, what the Fuck do you do?

Rick Jimenez: Some type of vocals and play guitar for Extinction A.D.

SYFFAL: Noted. So, why do you guys all look so fucking short in your press picture? Is that some sort of Instagram filter? The short guy with a chip on his shoulder always starting shit down at the jersey shore filter? What the Fuck bro?

Rick Jimenez: We are all in fact short. Before Instagram and smart phones existed, photographers got paid money to take pictures and make them look better than a 2 megapixel Coleco vision camera. Fortunately for us, the use of Instagram makes it so we can pay a real photographer nothing and get a better than iphone picture so a real photographer can maintain work. So yes, after we got the picture, we just put the Snooki filter on it.

SYFFAL: Midgets have the best sense of humor and you guys are fucking hilarious bro bro. You all come from other band essentially making you a super group. How is working with Extinction A.D. different from your day gigs?

Rick Jimenez: Musically its way different than any other band we have done or are doing. Way more metal and not based in hardcore at all. For me personally, it's the first time I'm doing lead vocals while playing guitar. I've played everything else in other bands and been in different situations of backing vocals/lead vocals but guitar and lead vocals is new to me. Aside from that, there is a bit more co-op in this band than others i've done recently.

There are main songwriters and such but there is a big "let's make sure everyone is happy with every piece of this" factor as opposed to "we need this specific thing to be done asap so if 4 out of 5 people are into it, its a go" Who knows, maybe that'll change to that once we get the ball rolling more because you can't sit and bicker about an aspect of a t-shirt design for a week because someone is being a difficult bastard, but as of right now its keeping the newness and collective feeling fresh.

SYFFAL: Bro, can I design the t-shirt? It should be Fat Albert eating a chimichanga. I want a 5% take bro.

Speaking of the song writing…two songs, really bro? That's all we fucking get? Two fucking songs? Are you guys being assholes by playing just the tip and giving us two songs of an amazing album? or are you being assholes by only having two songs because you are busy smoking too much pot out of Sprite cans and playing Call of Duty battle for my asshole? I guess my question is, what the Fuck? and Why you being such assholes?

Rick Jimenez: We have a full length and more written but these two songs are all we recorded so we could essentially use it as a demo, get the name out there, shop to labels, get shows etc. Not sure if we chose the best two songs or not but we picked two we were ready to go forward with right away and encompassed a bit of the spectrum we wanna cover with the band without giving away too much. I rather people think we're assholes for only releasing two songs than to think that the two songs blow goats. Just the tip for a bit makes it better in the end sometimes anyway

SYFFAL: Sometimes? More like all the time. Speaking of those two songs, I said:

I can't imagine the number of D batteries I would have drained while drinking sixer after sixer of Meister Brau and bumping the shit out of this while trying to avoid security guards and police when my motley group of friends walked around the streets of Montrose , NY.

Is this what you were going for? If not what did you hope to achieve with this EP?

Rick Jimenez: Not that it was what we were going for but the feeling I got when the songs started coming together was "this is what I would be playing in my walkman through the 80's and 90's while walking to hang out with my friends and act like miscreants while they get stoned and drunk and I light things on fire and throw rocks through windows" To me it has that feeling of metal before it was ruined by shitty metalcore and I like that this is the band that I wished I was in in middle school and high school.

SYFFAL: You sound like you might be a serial killer, if you wet your bed into your teens and tortured small woodland critters to catch a stiffy you might want to look into that broseph. What was the process that lead you to go the 80s thrash revivalist route? and how did you pull it off? Most people sound like assholes when they do that, you guys sounded like Tom Araya fucking Scott Ian while Dave Mustaine jerked off over them.

Rick Jimenez: Honestly it was just what came out. This is the style of music that made me actually start playing guitar and the first style of music that got me obsessed and took over my day to day life.

As I discovered punk and hardcore, I wound up getting more involved in that and although I never stopped listening to metal, it wasn't the focus of my musical taste anymore... but as time went on, my musical tastes started reverting back to what got me way siked years back and by 2009 my iPod reflected more of my 9th grade Walkman rotation than it did a summer hardcore festival.

Our last band This is Hell was going that thrash/crossover direction but once these songs started being written, it was full on metal and extremely satisfying as well as right feeling. There was no "hey lets do THIS type of band", it was more "This is what I'm writing, lets go with it cause I'm fucking siked". I probably wouldn't watch Tom Araya Fuck Ian or Mustaine jerk off but I would let AJ Lee from WWE smash me in the face with a bag of hint of lime Tostitos filled with her diarrhea.

SYFFAL: You are disgusting bro. Speaking of 80s thrash, lets play a game I like to call pin the influence on the asshole. Each of you assholes tell me your biggest 80s thrash influence and I will tell you why you are an asshole.

Rick Jimenez: Picking just one makes it difficult but picking more than one is cheating and ruins the game and i like games and hate cheating...

Rick - Metallica

SYFFAL: You are an asshole because you killed Napster and think women going to shows is gay.

Rick Jimenez: Beale - the Texas chainsaw massacre

SYFFAL: You are an asshole because Texas.

Rick Jimenez: Pete - Slayer

SYFFAL: You are an asshole because because you spell your name Pieter.

Rick Jimenez: Scuzz - Pantera

SYFFAL: You are an asshole because only date rapists and Chuck Klosterman ilke Pantara.

OK, let's look into the future, the year is 2047, you are old assholes wearing blankets over your gimpy broken ass legs, you have had like 72 knee replacement surgeries because the booze, drugs, and anal from the road have left you damn near crippled and in a shit ton of pain. Your grandson shithead and your coozebag granddaughter swing by and they pull up your Wiki page in the computer in their distended bellies (you know those fucking assholes will be malnourished on a diet of Cheetos dust and cherry pepsi). What do you hope the Wiki entry says about Extinction A.D., and what do you think the most embarrassing thing you will have to explain away to your grand kids....you know minus the part about being musicians.

Rick Jimenez: "XAD slaughtered the lives of the wicked with their pounding metallic assault and set forth a revolution of logical thinking all while destroying the metalcore nerdom that infested the earth and set the record for the worlds largest circle pit during the show in the city of Atlantis to a crowd of 750,000 headbanging mutants of which Metallica and a reformed Venom opened up for them and also paid Rick's credit bills just before he was forced to declare bankruptcy because he had not made any money playing in bands his entire life. Unfortunately in an interview in August of 2013, he proclaimed he would let AJ Lee from WWE smash me in the face with a bag of hint of lime Tostitos filled with her diarrhea."

SYFFAL: As much as I appreciate the nod to our now epic interview (fucking META BRO!!), you forgot to mention the site SYFFAL, as the reason for your success. Speaking SYFFAL, we started as a group of friends and former musicians sharing music with one another because we were bored to death. In this spirit who are three bands, other than yourselves or any of the 1000 bands you are in, that we should be checking for?

Rick Jimenez: Hatchet, Without Remorse, 1776. 1776 is older LIHC dudes that have all been in tons of other bands and do this as their main band when their personal lives allow and they are a great band musically and have a ton of great and interesting things to say lyrically. They don't get their due on Long Island let alone the world.

SYFFAL: Speaking of Long Island, you guys are from Long Island, Fuck that place is worse than Florida. How do you think being from Long Island has helped you create this exciting new album? and how has being from Long Island hindered your personality?

Rick Jimenez: Long Island is definitely better than Florida. Florida is essentially where the dead long islanders go to waste the money I never made cause I'm not white.

The way LI helped create the album was that I am surrounded by music and attitudes I know I do not want to be associated with. No matter where I lived I'm sure I could give the same answer because most people suck regardless of where you are but were still better than Florida

SYFFAL: Promote whatever you want.

Rick Jimenez: Go to our websites. Check out my other bands American Ice Age and The Conflicted, Beales other bands Starving Arts and Punishment Due. Check out Maxon Pedals because those dudes are the best and their effects pedals kick the ass. The moon landing is fake.

SYFFAL: BRO! KUBRICK DID IT!