“We have a lot to be thankful for dahil sa kabila ng changes sa music industry, we’re still here,” says vocalist Jamir Garcia. “Marami kaming bandang kasabay na wala na ngayon. In our case, we’re still the same members, same record label na PolyEast Records, same sponsors.”
Aside from him, the other members who remain are Chi Evora on drums, Lean Ansing on guitars and Lee Nadela on bass. How come they didn’t disband like the others? “Nagkaroon din kami ng burnout, but we just rested for several months then got together again. We’ve remained solid kasi walang nag-member sa amin sa ibang side band and our earnings are all still divided equally among all of us.”
They also didn’t compromise their craft for fame or commercialism. “May TV station na kumukha sa’kin to be part of their Sunday show but I didn’t want to leave Slapshock and sing with their own singers. We don’t dream naman to be really big, we’re just happy having our own loyal fans na devoted to our kind of music. When we did our last album, ‘Karinyo Brutal’, we were as loud and screaming as before and we realized yun pa rin ang gusto ng fans namin. Now, in ‘Kalibre Kinse’, our first single, ‘Ngayon Na’, is hard and heavy pa rock at tanggap pa rin ng aming fans. Its music video went to the top of the MYX charts. Our other songs in our new album, gusto rin ng fans namin, like “Reset,” “Deliryo,” “Asal Demonyo,” “Burn In Hell,” “In The Line Of Fire,” “Langit,” “Under The Needle,” “Heartless,” “Salamin” and ‘All Hope Is Gone’. Sa Malaysia pa ginawa ang mixing nito, then digitally mastered in San Francisco, USA.”
