Quicksand

Located in New York's Hardcore soil, Quicksand formed on Moondog's ashes in the early 1990s with Walter Schreifels at his head, singer of Gorilla Biscuits and bassist of Youth of Today. The quartet is part of the emancipation process of the Punk/Hardcore of the time, with Fugazi , Snappase and Drive Like Jehu among others, and soon lays its first eponymous EP via Revelation Records. A tour followed with the gratin Rage Against The Machine, Helmet, White Zombie, Anthrax, etc. Major Polydor, who signed Quicksand's first album, Slip , in 1993, made a point of being noticed. Naturally, the band was shot with The Offspring the following year, for 250 dates. The machine was launched and released Manic Compression in 1995 via Island Records (ex-Polydor), to explode the charts and go to Vans Warped Tower to break the necks of the American "kids". Then at the top of the mountain Quicksand severed and dislocated at the end of 1995. Perhaps the success happened too quickly, but the internal conflicts (and probably the pressure of the record company) were right for the group. After some stage meetings and rumours of reformation of increasing urgency, the quartet returns to writing a new album in 1998, invited at the same time to share a tour with Deftones and Snappase. Unfortunately tensions resurface and what was to be the third album is aborted. New separation, this time long - while Schreifels left to form Rival Schools - until 2012. A few stage appearances later, the band launched a North American tour in 2013, played at the Belgian Pukkelpop festival and began to work without pressure on new material in long format, formalized in 2017, distributed by Epitaph Records, and named Interiors. Four years later, the trio emerged Distant Populations.