DefCon4.

DEFCON4 FUCKING SUCKS. Their music is not for the weak and there's a good chance you'll get your face beat in when you see them live. Or maybe you'll just get a handful of human shit in the side of the head. Call him a singer if you want; Dug "Sergeant Skate" Moore screams and smashes himself with the microphone. The rest of the band is just in it for the chaos and beer. The live show is havoc; usually ending in confusion and pain, the singer out cold or the kids looking for their knocked out teeth on the dirty floor. The fact that there's nothing good about DefCon4 is exactly the reason to listen to them and go see them play. They're just wrecking everything. Rhino interviewed Dug (singer), Robin (guitarist), and James (drummer).

Does Robbie Gangemi go to DefCon4 shows or what?

Dug: The Godfather does indeed hit up our show. Ever see a hip-hop kid slam?

Robin: Last time I saw him he pushed some kid off a second story porch on Mission Hill. I think the poor kid landed on his head. Wait, he interrupted me while I was eating asparagus at B-Sides in Cambridge.

Tell us about your mid-wipe poo-poo pictures on the Net.

Dug: www.myspace.com/DefCon4. We want people to know they've come to the right place. The Internet is wack anyway.

Why does your bass player need Starburst candies before every show?

Robin: Wow, how did you know that? Skot actually requests that or he won't play the show. His name is Skotty Sweet Tooth.

Dug: They go good with cigarettes.

How did the name DefCon4 come about, and how do you describe your music?

Robin: From the movie Wargames, and we are leaning more towards a Melvins/Rorschach sound lately. But we got famous from sounding kind of like Born AgainSt and Black Flag.

James: Dust, Devo and Groinoids are my influences.

Dug: Sleazy love songs and politically played-out rants, cheesy Oi! bass lines, Jr High guitar twiddles, and a trained monkey drummer.

What's going on with the Boston music scene lately?. What bands have you played shows with that you're hyped on?

Robin: There's barely an all ages scene so we play old man bars that have no clue how deranged us and our friends are. Especially the Cape Cod crew. As for bands I'm hyped on, Bloodstains is the next biggest thing out of Boston, and the bands Anodyne and Crash and Burn.

Dug: World Series Champs, that's what's up] Bands like For the Worse, Slimy Cunt and the Fist Fucks, Concrete Facelift--there are so many sick bands in town and too many to list.

You guys are touring soon with Napalm Death, GoatWhore and Adolf Satan. Damn, that's a heavy bill.

Robin: Adolf Satan is the new Anal Cunt minus Seth, who is now in a coma--and we hope he gets better. Jason Hodges from Suppression set that one up. He came out of the closet recently and I hope he gets better as well.

Dug: Honestly, I'm looking forward to skating some new terrain on this mission. I heard Little Rock has a Grindline park and Baton Rouge has a brick wall like Boston City Hospital (RIP).

Dug, I hear you bleed occasionally when you're singing. What's the worst that's happened?

Robin: Being banned everywhere.

Dug: Horrified girlfriends, promoters not dealing with us. It's funny the amount of shock a little piece of glass can produce. My insurance has a $50 deductible. I like to see the promoter pay after they're done mopping up my blood off the floor, walls and ceiling.

What happened at The Abbey Lounge Club outside of Boston with the bag of shit? Tell us about that one.

Dug: That's what got us banned from the Abbey. We get all types of heads at our shows, so shit--no pun intended--goes down. Basically my friend from Vermont offended my friend from here, who's one of the most brutal punks to come out of Boston. Well, my friend got the idea to eat a giant meatball sub and shit in a bag, only to put it over the head off my Vermont buddy. This is my Worst friend, Mike McCarthy from For the Worst, who took the bag and threw it in the pit while we were playing! Everyone thought I was pulling some GG shit, so guess who got blamed? All of Mike's blood photos in his albums are a result of me breaking a bottle over his head in retaliation for his heinous acts.

Who in the band skates?

Dug: Everyone can skate, but James rides Nashua skatepark and random pools all the time that you will never know about. I skate my ramp, Greg's Jersey wall or the C-Bowl as much as I can, give or take injuries, band practice and, of course, New England weather.

What label are you on and where can our readers find some DefCon4 CDs or vinyl?

Robin: Ammonia records (ammoniarecords.com) is my label and you can get CDs and vinyl from there. We pretty much have put out everything ourselves. We're looking for a bigger label to just focus on us.