Professional speaker, documentary producer, writer and singer it he bands TRIAL and BETWEEN EARTH& SKY, Greg Bennick is by far one of the most influential figures in hardcore in the past 15 years, and was nice enough to take some time off his busy schedule to answer some questions for us.
1. It’s been more than 15 years since Trial started, how do you see yourself now? How much did you and the band change in these years?
GREG: I see myself largely the same as I did when the band was really picking up speed. There was a definite shift in the band between the sort of pre-Trial line up with the first two records, where the personnel of the band and the songs we were creating were simply hardcore songs with intent of communicating potent feelings and ideas, and then the "Are These Our Lives?" era when the lineup solidified and the songs got way more intense and powerful. Three members quit permanently to play metal instead of hardcore, and that left Timm and I able to find people who wanted to take the band to another level communicatively. Of course that all changed in 2009 with the death of Brian Redman our beloved bassist, and it was only in the last few months that we've found our stride again in terms of feeling connected to one another once again as a group and about the ideas and feelings we're sharing.