Our good friend Doug has decided to start helping us out with interviews, recently, he was able to talk to two of the members of Jukai, LIHC heavyhitters who have recently been making huge waves in hardcore.
Doug- Whats up, this is Doug with Patrician music reviews here with Kyle and Kyle from Jukai, whats up guys?
Jukai members-Whats going on Doug how ya' doin'?
Doug- Doin' good, trying my best.
Jukai members- Word, I feel you, we had an up and down day, we had Buffalo Wild Wings, the Rangers lost but I don't give a shit, I'm an Islanders fan.
Jukai members-Fuck you
Jukai members- Listening to that on the way here was awful, it was like 6-3 in the finals it was terrible we had to turn it off. We put on Michael Jackson instead, because that was way better.
Doug- So you guys have swords, is that right?
Jukai members- Yeah it was apart of a raffle, so as im sure you know, Rob McAlister, from Capital passed away tragically, and Im sure I speak for everyone on Long Island when I say capital was one of the bigger influences to us growing up. And whenever we went to shows, capital was always on the show, and at times we'd say oh its just capital but ya know, now that they're not able to play anymore we really miss it. So to raise money for him, and his family, we raffled off a sword, and our friend from Germany won it, we don't know how he's getting it back to Germany though.
Doug- So how did you guys get swords?
Jukai members- Ebay
Doug- So its like five swords?
Jukai members- Yeah we gave four to our friends and one for the raffle.
Jukai members- Yeah the first raffle was at our record release show last night, for Devoid of Hope
Doug- Yeah so tell me about that, is this your first release through a label or?
Jukai members- Yeah, yeah so what happen was like, we demo'd everything out and we recorded with our buddy in Sheer Terror. And we went on a three day stint and we accidentally left a cd of the tracks in the van and Dan from King Nine was like "I really like this, do you mind if I passed this along to Anton, and our friend John Scanlon messaged him and we got the ball rolling.
Doug- So you guys had the record release show, and the binghampton style date on the back with Marauder, are they a big influence for you guys?
Jukai members- Yeah, I love marauder, we love marauder, marauder is the best.
Doug-Are there any bands you all love or?
Jukai Members- Indecision, one of our biggest influences because we all got to see them when we were younger. Disembodied as well.
Doug- When I was starting Blame God and we had to write beatdown parts we'd listen to disembodied
Jukai members- Yeah so those are the bands, we all come from different places musically. My style comes from early 2000's metalcore, bands like Misery Signals, Disembodied ect, for this project I'm definitely influenced by modern bands too, Axis, they're sick, as well as Incendiary, King Nine, I mean getting to watch all those bands live makes me want to push myself further.
Jukai Members- Also we got to see Old Wounds play on Long Island, their live set was rediculous, it was at the double header after the Nails show. Getting to see thme play with Zao was really an experience.
Doug- I got to see them play at Oneonta Punk and it was so sick.
Jukai- We got in touch with their drummer and now we'll be playing with them with Bane, and a few other bands.
Doug- Does he have a particular booking range, i mean Scanlon
Jukai- He goes through ECC, they make it a really cool space for new bands to play great shows, and local bands get on and its just really cool.
Doug- It's like a unifier, also like Tom McCarthy
Jukai- Yeah Tom books alot of stuff that you might not be able to see on Long Island, like we played with New Lows, and a few other bands he's booked us with.
Doug- So what do you think of Bing so far?
Jukai- Yeah it's really cool so far, like I had a few mixed opinions on the place so at first, i know that sometimes theres not alot up here but yeah, theres alot up here thats really cool.
Doug- Binghampton has a really growing scene, you should definitely keep on top of it.
Doug- Guitar tone wise, is there any band you try to model it after?
Jukai- So I think tone really comes from the basics, like the head, what guitar you're using and all that, how you're playing, what pickups. I switch my pickups alot to get a different sound. I change tubes a lot also, to get a new sound out of things. We really don't use pedals and I don't knock pedals at all, but we're kinda lazy.
Doug- So to wrap it up, What is Jukai?
Jukai- So in Japanese, it means sea of trees, but when you put it into google translate it means like, Buddhist initiation ritual. So alot of people liking our page are these aspiring Buddhists who are just totally getting the wrong ideas. But the name came about because we started this band after I got back from college, so we all came together and started playing, The name came about because we were all arguing about names, and we read the article on the Japanese suicide forest, and it was fucking brutal. But yeah, thats where it came from, and people say its really unique, which is cool.
Jukai Members- Indecision, one of our biggest influences because we all got to see them when we were younger. Disembodied as well.
Doug- When I was starting Blame God and we had to write beatdown parts we'd listen to disembodied
Jukai members- Yeah so those are the bands, we all come from different places musically. My style comes from early 2000's metalcore, bands like Misery Signals, Disembodied ect, for this project I'm definitely influenced by modern bands too, Axis, they're sick, as well as Incendiary, King Nine, I mean getting to watch all those bands live makes me want to push myself further.
Jukai Members- Also we got to see Old Wounds play on Long Island, their live set was rediculous, it was at the double header after the Nails show. Getting to see thme play with Zao was really an experience.
Doug- I got to see them play at Oneonta Punk and it was so sick.
Jukai- We got in touch with their drummer and now we'll be playing with them with Bane, and a few other bands.
Doug- Does he have a particular booking range, i mean Scanlon
Jukai- He goes through ECC, they make it a really cool space for new bands to play great shows, and local bands get on and its just really cool.
Doug- It's like a unifier, also like Tom McCarthy
Jukai- Yeah Tom books alot of stuff that you might not be able to see on Long Island, like we played with New Lows, and a few other bands he's booked us with.
Doug- So what do you think of Bing so far?
Jukai- Yeah it's really cool so far, like I had a few mixed opinions on the place so at first, i know that sometimes theres not alot up here but yeah, theres alot up here thats really cool.
Doug- Binghampton has a really growing scene, you should definitely keep on top of it.
Doug- Guitar tone wise, is there any band you try to model it after?
Jukai- So I think tone really comes from the basics, like the head, what guitar you're using and all that, how you're playing, what pickups. I switch my pickups alot to get a different sound. I change tubes a lot also, to get a new sound out of things. We really don't use pedals and I don't knock pedals at all, but we're kinda lazy.
Doug- So to wrap it up, What is Jukai?
Jukai- So in Japanese, it means sea of trees, but when you put it into google translate it means like, Buddhist initiation ritual. So alot of people liking our page are these aspiring Buddhists who are just totally getting the wrong ideas. But the name came about because we started this band after I got back from college, so we all came together and started playing, The name came about because we were all arguing about names, and we read the article on the Japanese suicide forest, and it was fucking brutal. But yeah, thats where it came from, and people say its really unique, which is cool.
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