No Division

Has there been an evolution from the b-boy aesthetic of your first record? It’s always gonna be about b-boying — that’s just what I am. It’s always about what you saw on the first album. The breaking and the rhyming and the DJing, you’re always gonna get those elements out of the tracks. What has influenced the spiritual outlook of your lyrics? A lot of strong positive things have influenced me throughout my life. Reading the Bible, reading the Koran, listening to Brand Nubian, listening to Bobery turn for North Carolina’s Confessor has been demanding: signed to the then-fledgling Earache label in 1990, the band released only one full-length album and an EP before breaking up in ’94, though they were part of the infamous Gods Of Grind tour with Carcass, Entombed, and Cathedral. Their slant was highly technical doom/death metal — completely unlike most bands past and present — and the wailing vocals of front-man Scott Jeffreys simultaneously endeared them to fans and alienated them from further successes. They reunited in 2002 for a benefit show for guitarist Ivan Colon, and after his unfortunate pas (Urbnet)