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Waste Not, Want Not With TONY FORESTA From MUNICIPAL WASTE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name is Tony Fasta. I sing for Municipal Waste and we are touring
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  Australia in July. That's all are you talking about? That's you. I'm
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  my friend. Good to speak you this morning. Good morning, it is
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  here, but it's a great morning too. The sums out as cold as
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  fuck that we're alive. How cold? How cold is it? I go
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  to most most people don't think it is cold, But like I came come
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  from the top end of Queensland, so like I'm used to the tropic,
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  so anything under twenty five degrees and I'm winging, I'm cold. So it's
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  probably about fifteen outside. But it's yeah, I'm just I'm a sick when
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  it comes to cold. I thought I thought it was just warm there all
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  the time. I didn't realize y'all had a winter. That's a stupid item
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  you mentioned Broth. Municipal Waste return to Australia this July for the first time
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  since twenty thirteen for runner show started involved on July the fifth and hitting Sydney,
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  Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide and finishing in path on July. That it
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  ain't but that's WHA's the biggest question mat his wife. You neglected us for
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  so long, That's what I'm saying. He is, Yeah, it didn't
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  seem like it. I think it's because Iron Reagan did a tour there,
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  but shit, that was like man, that was probably like eight years ago.
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  So yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's kind of hard
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  sometimes to get tours booked there, and apparently y'all are having getting a ton
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  of tours now more than you used to. So maybe people just overlooked us
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  or whatever. But we always want to come back. I mean I said
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  this in every interview, but Australia is my favorite place to the tour.
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  So just ask us to come every year and we will. Just got to
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  invite us. So I love that think you've called it the Wasisted tour,
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  like it isn't really for a new album, it's not for a near lazy,
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  it's not for anniversary. It's just because you want to play. That
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  pretty much says it all a pretty much. I mean we've released I'm trying
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  to think ten years we released like four records, maybe five if you caught
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  the EPs and all that stuff. So I mean, what are we gonna
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  We're gonna go out there and tour on the last thing we put out or
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  you know, so, yeah, we're just we're just celebrating that we're coming
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  back, you know, so let's fucking party. Yeah. Now, you
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  mentioned the four albums you put out, but what else has changed with the
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  band since last song? You're eddio? Well, ship man, I don't
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  I don't even know if Nick was in the band the last time we toured
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  Australia, I don't think so, man, y'all are in for some ship,
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  dude. We've gotten so much better. Yeah, I mean, we
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  got a we got an extra guitar player. We sound better. We fucking
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  uh yeah, We've we've got to chops up. Yeah, we've got a
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  whole lot of new songs that rule to play too. So it's gonna be
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  a lot different than the last time we were there, but hopefully is violent
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  as the last time we were there, because that shit was fun. So
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  miss you guys when you're out of you lost and lived music. Guy might
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  like. What can fans expect from a Municipal Waste live show? It's pretty
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  pretty chaotic in it. Yeah, it gets pretty care The last guy who
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  just interviewed me showed me his hand and his finger was was cut or not
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  or twisted that way, and he said it was from the last time we
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  played there. He was like when it showed, he like, fuck you
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  deformed his hand. But no, I'm people. It gets it gets rowdy.
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  It's not like violent in a way where people are trying to kill each
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  other. Is more of mutual violence where everyone's kind of in it together,
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  getting crazy, getting rowdy, picking each other off the ground, shoving him
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  back down. Yeah, yeah, it's fun. It's over there. They
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  get it and uh, and it's it'll be it'll be rowdy, definitely,
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  Hopefully it'll be rowdy. If it's anything like the last times I've played there,
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  it gets pretty Uh, it gets pretty rowdy, rowdy sol reach out,
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  I guess, like do you expect anything from your crowds, Like is
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  there anything that they can do to make you walk off stage and just go
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  fuck? Yeah, that was a good show. Oh. People used to
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  bring stuff to throw around. That was kind of like a thing back in
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  the day. It's just more of like, you know, even if the
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  crowd's not getting too violent or whatever, rowdy rowdy, I don't know.
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  You can just tell when there's when there's a good reaction. You can just
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  feel it, and you can tell when you're playing good. A room of
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  full of people are smiling and they're just stoked on the music. I mean,
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  that's just as good as we have two hundred stage divers for a minute
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  long song, you know, and then it get a bit coyote, wasn't
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  it come back? In the history of it? Bro? Like you started
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  beings a licened Richmond, Virginia back in two thousand, mite, What was
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  a musical cluset like that gave birth to the band? And where did you
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  fit in? Initially? Well, early two thousands, it was a weird
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  time for metal. It's very uh, it's a lot of new metal,
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  weird shit like that. Me and Ryan kind of came from the punk scene
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  where we lived, So for us it was we weren't being ironic. We
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  were kind of pissed off that that thrash metal wasn't as popular at that time.
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  I feel like people were kind of too cool for it for some reason.
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  There was a weird time with thrashmenal You seem like you're around my age,
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  and I don't know if you remember, but it just seemed like there
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  was a pretty grim time for thrash metal. Young people weren't really playing it,
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  and uh, we were kind of like fuck that, and uh,
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  you know, wrote wrote short, fast, crossover punk metal songs, and
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  you know we were into like COEC and d r I and s O D
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  and bands not just bands with letters for their names, but other suicide tendency
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  is st but now, uh, you know, so that was the ship
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  that influenced us, and we just really didn't give a fuck and just we're
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  like, we're going on tour and we wrote a batch of ten songs,
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  not even I don't think it, just went on tour immediately, just started
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  playing people's houses and we would just go places we didn't even have shows booked
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  and play wherever we could. I'm in a call on and people just loved
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  loved what we were doing. The timing was perfect for us. And even
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  today, man, it's like it just still grows. Like the band has
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  never kind of leveled off. It's just has always kind of steadily grown and
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  we've always been able to get our music to like different people, and people
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  appreciate it. It seems like it we're still here, so you know,
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  that's a good thing. They're still getting routy, So that's a good thing.
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  They're still getting rowdy, you know. You know, we're getting older
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  and were sore afterwards, but we're getting rowdy. Uh No, you've probably
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  answered this a thousand times. Price ologize in advance, but I haven't heard
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  the story. But but after you played your first shot that you use the
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  take potty, you got childs with inciding a minor riot, Like, what,
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  what's the story about that? The story behind that is that someone at
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  Earache wrote a press junk hit and it was just a rowdy show and the
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  cops came. It was like a keg party, but it wasn't a riot.
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  I mean, people just were like, oh my god, why is
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  everyone rushing in this house? And the cops came and yelled at us and
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  maybe almost the rest of a couple of people. But I wouldn't say there
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  was a riot. But that kind of happened a lot when we were playing
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  earlier on because we were just playing really small places, the cops would have
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  to get called a lot. But I wouldn't say. It wasn't like tear
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  gas in the streets or anything like that. But that was just I think
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  that might have been someone taking privileges with the writing to hype our record about
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  fifteen years ago, but that stuck with us. It's like it's like the
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  first thing on our Wikipedia page or whatever, and it's literally from a press
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  a press junket from like Earerche one hundred years ago. Wow. But one
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  thing that you go to advar about you guys, it's like you have musical
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  stall of the Cross IV thrash for like you haven't wiped it at all,
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  Iver be twenty four years as a band, Like, but in that song,
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  there's been so many trends coming and going and now people love this and
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  I haight that. But you guys are just stuck to your guns, Like
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  if you haven't felt tempted to sort of ride the wife for a bit and
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  see what I think? So are you just being content to do what you
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  do? Yeah? I think it's never really been our style to like switch
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  up our style to get more record sales or you know, whenever our label
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  or whatever somebody tried to tell us, like you need to do a TikTok
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  because that's what the kids are doing now. It's like we don't give a
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  shit about that. We just like the way we know what we're gonna we
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  know, we like to write, and if we do want to get like
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  super creative as far as like branching out musically, we just start another band
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  and do another band. That's why. That's how we're all in two hundred
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  side projects I don't know have And it's like it's like, you know,
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  we have what six fucking seven records now, and I've never been like,
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  even especially with the last one, I've never been like, Okay, we've
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  done this enough, you know, like I feel like we still have stuff
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  to improve on and we can still add something to what we're doing. So
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  the second I think it gets stale is when I don't think we should do
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  it, but I think I think we've stuck to our guns and we're still
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  writing good songs. And even the last record, I'm like, really really
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  proud of it, So I'm happy with it. So that's else. As
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  long as you make yourself everyone else, Yeah, exactly. But but luckily
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  for us, it seems like people dig it, so we'll keep riding.
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  We'll keep riding that wave, you know. And then another underlying and important
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  sustaining successes is your sense of humor and the attitude towards music might love,
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  but they didn't. Modernized music things just so sanitize, you say, and
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  politically correct, like you find it harder to maintain that that sense of humor
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  and that edge. So I guess stuck in the face of everyone telling need
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  to sit down and shut off and babe nah. I mean, I feel
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  like you need to be a little bit more respectful nowadays than I guess you
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  could have a while ago. But I think now more than ever, people
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  need to get a little humor injected into what's going on in their lives because
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  shit's crazy nowadays. So I feel like just just doing our thing and having
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  a sense of humor. I think that I think we've done serious shit in
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  the past, but I think if the day we were to go full on
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  serious, I think I think that would bum a lot of people out.
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  Nah, we like to We still like to ham it up, all right,
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  tiny, Well, thanks for your tom that I brought it. That's
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  all I've got for it, But I mean it's for waste. Will be
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  out here from July the fifth and that''re in pretty much, So get yourself
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  the ticket, get down, get routy, get volid, and get up
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  It hell yeah, get up, Get up father. I'll be at the
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  Brisbane show, so I'll sing out and say hi, Yeah, I love
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  Brisbane man, I'll see you there.