Me and Dylan just get to the room, plug in, and I just start riffing, he comes on top of it, and then we keep going like that until we find parts that we like.

But for the upcoming stuff, we’re still in the process of writing it, but I don’t know what it's going to be like this time.Ĭhris: We don’t really take parts and construct it.

For the newest one, we wanted to do heavier stuff, so I got busy writing more death metal. We mixed that up together and that’s how the three demos came out, hardcore and beatdown blended together. In the beginning of the summer I wanted to do more hardcore, but then I found out Dylan likes older, more beatdown bands with a lot of grooves. Leo: Well, Dylan likes a lot of Chicago Midwest and beatdown bands, so I guess we go more for beatdown.Ĭhris: Yeah, I mean the two releases we have out right now sound a little different. What would you say was the musical inspiration behind the band? Can you take me through a little bit of how that writing process was that summer? In the fall, we recorded the three-song demo that we have out right now, and from there the rest was history.Īwesome, that’s really cool.

We were in college, so we would go back and forth after class. Writing shit, going back and forth the whole summer, cause he’s still in high school. We started Outta Pocket, and I hit him up saying he could do vocals this time, and then Dylan had posted a Hands of God cover, and I was like, “Wanna jam some time?” We met up at his house, and we were there the whole summer of 2020. I wanted to write stuff that I would for sure listen to. We couldn’t practice and Chris and I just got fed up and started Outta Pocket.Ĭhris: For Scumdog, we did a lot of stuff, but the pandemic started, and no one wanted to do anything. Leo: I wanted to start another band with them called Scumdog, and it didn’t work out too well when the pandemic hit. Once high school ended, I started a project called “Body Blow” with some of my high school friends. What brought you guys together? Did you know each other before the band? How did Outta Pocket start?Ĭhris: We’ve had little startups, friend band projects, but nothing serious. Grew up here in Redwood City and favorite hardcore band right now is Pain of Truth for sure. I was born in L.A., but I did most of my growing up here in the Bay.Ĭhris: (I’m) Chris - I play guitar. Afterglow: Thanks for sitting down with me.

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