SICK OF IT ALL and Tue Madsen have maintained a long-lasting relationship based on understanding, friendship, and most importantly, good results-three factors any band would be very happy with. His objective viewpoints helped settle a lot of little issues that could have easily become stumbling blocks, and the songs themselves ended up benefitting from them. “This is the first time we’ve ever had a producer involved from start to finish, including the songwriting process. “The Jerry Farley also became a very important part of the creation of this album,” Majidi says. What helped the process run smoothly was Farley’s early involvement, the two five-day pre-production sessions, and the ability to record as SICK OF IT ALL progressed with the songwriting. Wake the Sleeping Dragon! was put to proverbial tape by The Jerry Farley at Nova Studios in Staten Island, New York over two weeks and a half, while Danish producer Tue Madsen (Meshuggah, The Haunted) mixed and mastered SICK OF IT ALL’s latest rager at Antfarm Studios in Aabyhøj, Denmark. We’ve allowed ourselves greater lyrical freedom on this record for sure!” It’s always time for revolution, so that message is loud and clear on multiple songs, but we also sing about musical heroes like the Bad Brains (‘That Crazy White Boy Shit’), inner demons (‘The Snake (Break Free.)’), our distaste of animal abuse (‘Bull’s Anthem’), annoying narcissism on social media, friends we’ve lost, life on the road, impending wars for resources, as well as mosh pit patterns that can be linked to male pattern baldness. We’ve done ‘serious’ so often, that what might stand out most to people is how much fun we had with the lyrics. “So many different topics were covered, some way more lighthearted than others. “On this record, we had a more open, communal, tongue-in-cheek approach to lyric writing,” says Majidi. If you still feel you can enjoy our music anymore because of what they said, we hope you had fun with us up till this point.While daily frustrations, political idiocy, war, power imbalances, and general inequality have long fueled SICK OF IT ALL’s no-bullshit lyrics-the album title Wake the Sleeping Dragon! refers to a protest mechanism-today they’re focusing on the bigger picture while also injecting a bit of levity into the songs. Again, I hope you understand that we are four guys who grew up together, and have always had different opinions yet somehow we have managed to stay together for over 30 years. Instead as soon as you disagree with the opinion of one member you condemn us all and disrespect us with your funny meme. Maybe do that before you condemn a band who you supposedly admired or was a fan of. And if you really feel that strongly that you want to condemn us all, before you do that I urge you to go to their pages and talk to them. I mean come on they didn’t convince you to change your minds about this plague and the vaccine. And as “influential” as you think they are they are really just giving people something to think about. Yes they have their views and should be able to express them. There have been only two member changes since their inception, with Max Capshaw temporarily filling in for Majidi in 1989 and Craig Setari replacing Cipriano in 1992. Formed in early 1986, the band consisted of brothers Lou Koller on vocals and Pete Koller on lead guitar, Rich Cipriano on bass, and Armand Majidi on drums. In fact they are probably more cautious than most when dealing with this. Sick of It All is an American Hardcore Punk band from Queens, New York. They are two very intelligent people not just reactionary idiots. That doesn’t mean Armand and Craig are running around ripping masks off people and causing riots at Walmarts across the country.
Each of us in the band came to our own conclusions and live our lives the way we see fit. Do you take everything your government says as fact? Like they have such good track records? It would easier if we just sang about hanging with da boys and drinking beer and yelling Oi Oi Oi in every song. (Just to be clear that’s the other fans words not ours, ok) If you are just casual fans you might not notice that a majority of our lyrics are about questioning the powers that be. It’s also funny that we (SICK OF IT ALL) are getting shit from fans who are saying we AREN’T doing enough to standing up to the oppression that is happening. If you notice they have never pushed them on the bands pages. I find it sad that you are all so quick to condemn the whole band and all we stood for and fought for, because the opinions that Armand and Craig have expressed. Nun hat sich Frontman Lou Koller, über die Kommentarspalte eines Instagram-Posts, zu den Anschuldigungen geäußert: Man kann sich jedoch noch in einigen Podcasts ein kleines Bild dazu machen, wie z.B. Dieses taten sie unter anderem über Instagram, wobei die meisten kritischen Posts mittlerweile gelöscht wurden. Wie leider viele andere Mitglieder aus Bands, äußerten sich auch die beiden Sick Of It All-Mitglieder Armand Majidi und Craig Setari in der näheren Vergangenheit immer mal wieder etwas fragwürdig zur aktuell vorherrschenden Pandemielage und weiteren Verschwörungstheorien. Lou Koller mit Sick Of It All (Photo by Sven Nöhren)
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