194: Chris Colohan (Sect / Cursed): I Scream Headaches
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews hardcore luminary Chris Colohan (Left for Dead / Cursed / Sect / The Swarm / more).
On this episode Jeremy and Chris talk Toronto, Heart, drums, stage fright, isolated vocals, creativity in physical releases, playing a show the same day he formed the band Ruination, extensive touring in the band the Swarm, Cursed / Weakerthans overlap, creating his project Unwell, the new Sect album "Plagues Upon Plagues", and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so listen, there are no shortage of record labels out there. So if I was asked, |
| 0:05.4 | who I think stands out above the rest in quality and consistency, it's convulse records. |
| 0:11.8 | Starting in only 2019, they have been completely unstoppable. You know them from releasing records |
| 0:18.7 | by gel, MS paint, and Military Gun. |
| 0:21.9 | Well, they've just released two new seven inches, one by the Tokyo hardcore band The Breath |
| 0:26.9 | and the other by Ultras, who features members of World Peace and fentanyl. |
| 0:31.7 | You can check out those records, along with all the other top-tier releases, by visiting |
| 0:36.3 | convulsedrecords.bandcamp.com. |
| 0:40.0 | And if you want a personal recommendation, check out the Daisy release, Maximum Blast Super Loud, |
| 0:45.8 | pass guests to the podcast, great band, or how about entry? |
| 0:50.4 | Their latest 7-inch exit interview is incredible, and hey, it features Clayton from Tushay-a-Mory, and I swear I'm not being biased. |
| 0:57.9 | Hit up convulsrecords.bancamp.com. |
| 1:01.3 | First ever podcast. |
| 1:17.6 | First ever! The first ever podcast! |
| 1:28.3 | Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
| 1:41.3 | I am your host, and if this is your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today. |
| 1:53.3 | This is episode 194. |
| 1:58.0 | And my guest this week is, I'm just going to say it, he's probably, I think he's, yeah, |
| 2:05.4 | I'm just going to say it, he's my hardcore hero. This week I'm talking to Chris Collahan. Chris has |
| 2:10.4 | been in so many goddamn bands, and I'm going to be honest, I love them all. He's been in bands like |
| 2:15.6 | Left for Dead, Ruination, the Swarm, AKA Knee Deep in the Dead, |
| 2:20.8 | cursed an all-time favorite, if not my favorite, burning love, mature situations. |
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