Cardiac Arrest - There’s No Escaping the Vortex Part II
By: Mike Sloan
Blistering.com: Quite a few relevant bands just can’t tour anywhere near as much as they’d like due to financial reasons and because many of the members have full-time careers outside of their bands. Macabre, Deceased, Cianide and others fall into this category. What about Cardiac Arrest? Is it possible for you guys to eventually get on a huge nationwide tour of 30-40 cities or even tour across Europe?
Knizner: No. Well, I would never say never. But I was out of work for a lot of years. Pretty much from the time I joined Cardiac Arrest I was out of work; from 2006 until just recently. I was always saying that if we want to do a full tour, we gotta do it now. We did a good tour with Gravehill and Hod. It was a lot of fun but people don’t realize that it’s also very expensive. It takes a lot to do that. It takes a lot to do any sort of traveling show and people don’t understand that. It’s not about making money but I don’t want to lose money doing it. I’m almost 40 years old now. It’s not like I’m 18 again and just take off and everything will be fine. If something big came up and it was the right thing, it would certainly get discussed and we could all maybe make arrangements, but realistically I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
For this year we’re just doing limited shows. We’ll see what happens next year. It’s one of those things where we’ve been a part of some really great shows and it’s like, how will those be topped? We just played with Autopsy, Cianide and Bones at Reggie’s and Reggie’s was sold out. That’s a big deal because that place just doesn’t sell out. The only time I ever saw Reggie’s sold out was when Paul Di’Anno from Iron Maiden played there when he first came through. That Autopsy show sold out. Reggie’s is a great place but it’s not that big and it just doesn’t ever sell out. How will we top that? What, next Saturday we’ll go play at Joe’s Pub down the street [laughs] in front of ten people? So, we’re done in the city for a while unless something special comes along. I just don’t think people realize what goes into a tour. We don’t have a tour van and we certainly don’t have a bus [laughs] and we all have to take turns driving. Sometimes you don’t shower for days or the next show is twelve hours away from where you played last. It’s a rough haul sometimes. I enjoy doing it but when it’s finished, I’m like, “Okay, I don’t want to do this for a while” [laughs].
Blistering.com: What are you realistic expectations for Cardiac Arrest and Vortex of Violence and what’s the deal with your other band Severed (ed - not the metal/hardcore band from NY)?
Knizner: Oh boy. We have some things planned and we’re going to do some fun stuff. We are going to do some split 7” soon. We are going to do one with Mutant Supremacy out of New York. They are good buddies of ours. We are also doing a four-way split with Mausoleum, Offal and Scaremaker. Hod mentioned something about doing a split. Us and Cianide have always talked about putting out a split, but that’s usually just drunk talk. So we’re going to do all that and we also have some ideas for the next album. We’ve got quite a few songs already but we want to just take it easy and really bring Nick in (properly) because this will be his first time recording with us. We haven’t done any vinyl in a long time so we’re going to do that.
As for Severed, well. Oh man… Severed’s always been a kind of different animal. Danny [drums] and I play when we can play. He’s busy, I’m busy. He’s in a couple other bands, I’m in Cardiac and in between that and work, his family, my soon-to-be-wife, I gotta have some time to myself. It’s hard to get together on a regular basis. It’s one of those on-a-Saturday-once-in-a-while type of things. Do we ever do anything? No [laughs]. We’ll eventually get together, call John [bass] and just go from there. That’s kind of how we do it. Me and Danny are going to be playing together until we are, like, 70 or something [laughs]. We always talk about recording but something always happens and we don’t play for like six months or something and then we forget everything we did.
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