![]() ![]() I think people are really gonna have a good time - just as good of a time as we are." "I think we're gonna make people smile with it. "We're doing our best to reproduce the record, to have that soul that the record has," he added. They've been hammering it out in the practice room since early December 2015 and have also penned an original song. It's going to be a "fucking ferociously blistering" set, said Kubinski, noting that he's got some killer musicians in his corner. The Crosses, which is the broken German translation for "die kreuzen," also feature Mike Olson on drums, Dave Eck aka LuckyLacquers on guitar and Joe Sanfelippo on bass. It was always a satisfying listen and we felt mentally drained when the record or tape ended. My friend John and I sat in his bedroom when the album dropped (along with the "Cows and Beer" EP and the band's offerings on the "Charred Remains" and "The Master Tape" compilations in the early '80s) and unpeeled those songs note by note, scream by scream until we felt like we owned them, as well. ![]() Fucking hell, man, I helped make these toys and now I wanna play with them," Kubinski said over the phone last Saturday. "We worked so hard in the early years, the four or five of us, if we were lucky enough to have a roadie with us, in the back of a van for hours on end, either freezing our asses off or sweating our asses off. ![]() It's a crucial hardcore platter, essential listening for anyone who likes to have the inside of their skull scraped away bit by bit.Īs Tim Yohannan so eloquently wrote in his review of the album in MaximumRocknRoll issue #15 in July of 1984: "This is fucking great!" (12 times!) The 21-song record, which was released in 1984 on Touch and Go Records, clocks in at 29:27. Next month, Kubinski and crew will hit some stages in Wisconsin and crank out the first Die Kreuzen album from front to back. To put his plan into play, he's joined forces with a new trio of bandmates and hammered the moniker The Crosses onto the music terrain. Photo: Fred Fischer.ĭaniel Kubinski - the man who possesses the gnarly voice behind the equally raucous Die Kreuzen tunes - wants to give some of his former band's songs a jarring workout and gouge people's eardrums along the way. ![]() The Crosses, from left to right: Mike Olson on drums, Daniel Kubinski on vocals, Joe Sanfelippo on bass and Dave Eck aka LuckyLacquers on guitar. ![]()
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