(Earthquake Metal)

If memory serves me correct we met back in 1991 through a mutual friend
named Eric St. Michael who for the first year or so was our singer, of course
we were going by a different name at the time as well as we wereapartment in North Hollywood and became very good friends, Michael didn't
move until some six months later after breaking up with some chic. Anyway the
three of us became very tight we did almost everything together things like
going to the local and sometimes not so local bars and strip clubs (FM Station,
the Star Garden, Candy cats 1 & 2, The Whiskey, the Hollywood a Go-go and
the world famous Troubadore).

We rehearsed a couple of days a week and we soon came to realize that our
singer, even though talented and professional he just did not have the anger the
band needed nor was he twisted enough so in mid 1993 we parted ways due
mainly to different taste in music in which by this time for T, Michael and myself
had become very aggressive and tormented.

After Eric left the band we decided to change the name of the band to blAck
and search for a new singer. We must have met with two dozen guys that
claimed that they could not only do the job but do it better than the guy singing
on tape. Now the guy singing on tape was me for we had to lay down some
sort of guide lines for what it was we were looking for in a singer. Needless to
say not one of them could display the attitude or performance I had managed to
somehow achieve on tape. Don't ask me how it came that I suddenly was able to
sing the way I was but Michael and T said "fuck it none of these guys can do
what you're doing so let's just be a power trio and do it by our selves", since it
was always just the three of us anyway it made sense and I became our new singer.

We started a rigo-rous rehearsal schedule of seven days a week and at least three
hours a day. Now because we all worked different jobs, Michael at West lake
Audio, T at Tod-a-o video and me I've probably worked a hundred jobs since
I've been in blAck everything from Pizza Hut to the Odd Ball Cabaret as a D.J.
for strippers, anyway this meant we sometimes had to rehearse at 10:00 AM or
2:00 AM. This was very difficult but as a result of it we became tight as fuck and
we locked into the direction you now hear on CD.

Do not get me wrong we did not get there all by our selves. We have our
influences too: bands like Helmet, Pantera, Sepultura, Tool, Anthrax and well just
all sorts of shit. Those bands and others helped blAck become what we are
today and if anybody says we ripped off this band or that one well they may be
right but you show me a band that doesn't and I'll let every member of that band
punch me in the fucking face.

So the next few years were filled with GREAT shows and broken fucken dreams.
Our hopes would be lifted to the stars only to be shot down time and time again,
one record label or ano-ther filled us with so much false hope it would make you
fucken sick yet we stuck together, hell I went to jail twice for stupid shit I've
been homeless and flat broke but the guys would never let me give up and I love
them for that. Our plans for the future are simple "world domination" as Pinkey
and the Brain would say, providing Los Angles is still standing and people still
want to hear this kind of music whatever is politically correct to call our type
of music, thrash, metal, extreme or fucking shit for all I care.

Whatever the future holds blAck WILL be there no matter what the fuck
anybody says or thinks. We couldn't survive if we did.