P-State your purpose for being here:
G-Have no choice.
P-Is it true that Canadian punk and hardcore bands rock out harder than American ones?
G-Of Course. Canada is the home of rock.
P-Where do you guys call home?
G-Burlington, Ontario
P-Who is in the band and what is each one of their roles?
G-Matt Jones: Bass
Shawn Magill:Guitar
Brad Casarin: Guitar
Kyle Bishop: Vox
Chris Danner: Drums
P-If one person could be added into the band, dead or alive, who might that be?
G-Danny Filth (Dead or Alive?)
P-What is the history of Grade?
G-Formed in 1994 from the ashes of Incision.
P-Release wise, what is the history? (7"s, 12"s, etc.)
G-Grade/Believe LP (Workshop 1994)
Changre 7" (Wheatfield Press)
And Such Is Progress LP (Second Nature)
Separate the Magnets LP (Second Nature)
Triumph & Tragedy EP (Victory)
Under The Radar LP (Victory)
The Embarrassing Beginning LP (Victory) (Nov. 21)
P-What was one of your guys most favourite shows?
G-BizarreFest in Weeze Germany With Rollins band, Limp Bizkit, Foo fighters and Suicidal Tendencies!!!
P-What is the most ideal playing environment? (ie. on top of a skyscraper, in a back alley)
G-Outdoors at around 25 degrees Celsius.
P-Are you aware that your projects' name backwards is 'edarg'? how does that make you all feel?
G-No Comment.
P-How have you guys changed in your years of existence (both musically and personally)?
G-We've become a little more open to new ideas both musically and personally.
P-How do you feel your music gives back to the community, or might change somebodies' day?
G-Let them know that there are people in this world that are still intent on making good music.
P-In describing your sound to an elderly person, you might compare it to what from the early 1900s? (ie. the discovery of flight)
G-D-day.
P-What bands do you feel are up and coming, who people might wanna check out?
G-Please listen to music that does something for you and you alone.
P-What do you notice about kids in the scene in different parts of the world?
G-That they all wear studded punk belts. And I thought I started that.
P-If the underground music scene could have it's own Olympic sport, which one would that be? (ie. syncronized moshing)
G-Sycronized stupidity.
P-What thing from outerspace would you compare your sound to and why?
G-A Supernova???......
P-What should everybody do to keep sane in this ever-increasing confused world?
G-Stay true to what you beleive in. Don't worry about someone else. Too many people spend too much time on someone else's life when they should be improving their own. Oh yeah. Nobodys perfect.
P-Any special traditions you guys perform before entertaining crowds of people?
G-Argue and fight. Lots.
P-Do you guys have any special messages for anybody who might read this?
G-www.grade.net