Entertaining Interview With Razorback Records’ Billy Nocera
After most of the worthwhile bands on Razorback Records jumped ship, founder Billy Nocera is attempting to rebuild his underground empire. While he comes off as fairly delusional and bitter at times, you can check out a fairly entertaining interview he recently did about the label online here. You can check out some highlights below as well, but make sure to read the whole thing for his angry words about GHOUL.
“Like I said, most of these albums can NOT do more than 2000 copies or sometimes even 1000 is enough. This music is simply not a big thing. I guess if we were a nu-metal label or put out something called SLAMMING THE GUTTURAL then we could sell that many!”
“To me, the true underground died that year when IMPETIGO broke up and INTERNAL BLEEDING was born, haha! Oh yeah for sure man, I know I’ve pissed people off who like that kinda music. But who cares, that music is not even real death metal to me.”
“Well you gotta know that lots of those bands never really ‘left,’ we actually wanted them GONE! Yep! Lots of these bands started to think they were bigger than they actually were and felt like they deserved more, so we’d said ‘ok bye, find a label that will make you HUGE then!.’ Has that happened for some of those bands? Nope, I don’t think so. Most of those bands haven’t even recorded ONE new song since not working with us anymore and some broke up. I’d rather work with easy going, down to earth bands than ones that think they’re big time rock stars or whatever. I just have no patience for that kinda crap. So actually Razorback was better off without many of those bands. “
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