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"Interview with Botty/D'Ambrosio"

Interview with vocalist Greg Botty and guitarist Jeff D'Ambrosio
With influences ranging from Iron Maiden, NIN and Spinal Tap, Long Islanders None More Evil are best described as “demonic pop music”. Greg and Jeff initially started the band to use as an outlet to vent their frustrations. Surely every metalhead can relate to their angst-driven lyrics, most commonly dealing with failed relationships. Despite substance abuse problems and the loss of their producer, NME finally released Whore this past summer. NME masterminds Jeff D’Ambrosio and Greg Botty took the time to answer some questions.


How did you come up with the band name None More Evil?
Jeff: Basically we were heavily influenced by Spinal Tap when we came up with the name. Many people see it and immediately think that we are a death metal band but obviously we aren't, so maybe it was a bit too cerebral to choose that particular name, but we were going for something out of the ordinary, with a slight comedic edge. Plus we thought it was cool that it could be abbreviated as NME. When we started out we really were quite diverse and didn't have a definitive sound. We called what we played "Demonic Pop Music" because it was heavy and catchy. As the songs came and the sound evolved, "NONE MORE EVIL" took on a new meaning for us in regards to the subject matter of most of the songs. We're labelling something as "none more evil" and I think it should be obvious what that something is.
Greg: How much more evil could that something be? and the answer is "none... NONE MORE EVIL."

NME recently released Whore. What are you guys up to now?
Jeff: Like most every other band who completes an album, we're "shopping" it-- looking for that magical record deal that will deliver us to the heights of rock stardom, or something like that. We have just begun a campaign with Skateboard Marketing to promote the c.d. to radio stations throughout the United States and Canada. After one week, we are the 6th most added artist on metal radio. And we'll be doing some mini-tours throughout the U.S. in the next few months.
Greg: I can't wait to say "Hello, Cleveland!" Plus we'll be selling the CDs out of our trunks, too.

Describe NME's typical songwriting process. Do you guys go to rehearsal prepared with your own ideas or do you just jam until something catches your ear?
Jeff: The songs on Whore were a culmination of the past few years where we had a revolving door of drummers and bass players. With that instability, it was just natural that Greg and I would be the main songwriters of the band. Most of the songs began with myself, Greg and a drum machine.
Greg: I would get real drunk and sad and bang on Jeff's door with beats and melodies in my head and insist that he work on these songs with me.
Jeff: One of us will get an idea for a riff and then I will work on it and get a feel for it and create a beat on the drum machine and we'll put it together from there. Then we'll make a rough demo of it with whatever immediate melody that comes to mind for the vocal part, slap some scratch lyrics together and put it to tape. We'll bring that to rehearsal and then flesh it out with the rest of the band. Greg and I will then work on lyrics independent of each other and then gradually work together to finalize the lyrics. Now that the album is behind us and we've been a cohesive band for a while, we're writing again and the process has changed a bit. We've jammed out a couple of new songs together as a complete unit and I think that's how we'll write a lot more from now on. But I am sure Greg and I will still compose in our own familiar solitude as well.

Whose personal experience inspires most of the lyrical content?
Jeff: Most of the lyrics come from the past and current experiences of Greg and myself. We've both had this slight addiction to dramatic, unhealthy relationships with women and that was the common ground that we seemed to share when we began working together. As a result, our lyrics tend to tell a sort of amalgamated story of his past relationships and my past relationships. In a way, Whore can be looked at as the chronicle of a bad relationship from beginning to end.
Greg: It's a love story, actually. And in the end there is salvation and post-traumatic celebration and excess... and mullets.

Your music is often described as good break-up music. How many people do you think actually break up to your songs?
Jeff: We like to call it "music to break up to" because the lyrics are universal and many people can identify with what is being said and can relate it to a break up or just being shit on by someone else. As to how many people have actually broken up to our songs: I know I was dumped twice during the making of Whore so there you go.
Greg: My father divorced his third wife after hearing the record. It's some powerful shit.

What's your favorite song to perform?
Jeff: My favorite song to play is "Mindfuck." It's such a simple song. There are reall - Transcending the Mundane


"AN UNEQUIVOCAL FORCE OF NATURE"

NONE MORE EVIL: AN UNEQUIVOCAL FORCE OF NATURE
by Bernadette Giacomazzo
Akasha Multimedia Group
www.akashamultimedia.com

For band booking please contact
nonemoreevil@email.com

THE BAND
Greg Botty - Lead Vocals
Jeff D'Ambrosio - Guitars
Will Wood - Bass
Kelly Robertson- Drums

THE BUZZ
Since its inception a short while ago, NONE MORE EVIL has conquered the best New York City and Long Island stages. They have opened for DEATH ANGEL, BILE, the GENITORTURERS, OVERKILL, HELL WITHIN, BIOHAZARD, PRONG and ex- Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler's band, ADLER'S APPETITE.

Their recent show opening for BRAND NEW SIN, proved that the bad boys of the Long Island music scene are ready to take the world by storm.

Tim Connolly of LongIslandMusicScene.com compared some of the EVIL tracks to "being on a runaway train" and "chilling to the bone," but that doesn't even come close to describing the power-laden live show. With an intense stage show and a seamless blend of introspective lyrics and high-energy riffs and beats, NONE MORE EVIL hypnotized the intent audience with such songs as "Freshtration," "Mindfuck," and the radio-friendly "Blame Me," which has been featured in heavy rotation on Fingers' Metal Shop, the wildly popular, two decades old radio show on Cox Communications-owned WBAB-FM (102.3).

Ultimately, what makes NONE MORE EVIL different from the rest of the hardcore bands currently relentlessly touring the local scene is that beneath the thin veneer of normalcy lies a tumultuous relationship between the macabre and the masochistic. When the Botty/D'Ambrosio tag-team is allowed to reign in full force on the stage - no matter what stage that may be - the result is kinetic enough to de-rail a subway.

NONE MORE EVIL... an unequivocal force of nature. - Bernadette Giacomazzo


"NONE MORE EVIL LIVE"

"It was as if the Earth had opened wide and Hell itself was raised on the streets of Levittown the night that one of the leaders of Long Island's pure Metal Revolution, NONE MORE EVIL, drove a stake into the heart of the Metasin stage at the Ultrasound Lounge in Levittown, New York.
The dimming lights sent the metal-mongers to the stage like moths to a flame under the cloak of fog and darkness. Then, without warning, Greg Botty threw a tight fist at the sky and forced a gut-churning scream into the mic that sent NONE MORE EVIL headlong into "Retox." Botty hit the stage in high gear and appeared to have his sights set on giving the audience as much as it could handle.
Botty and guitarist Jeff D'Ambrosio play off each other well and combine to give NONE MORE EVIL their balls and backbone. Drummer Rich Russ and Will Wood on bass fill out the sound, and the foursome combined on this night for an 11-song set that never drifted from the 'heavier the better' formula." - Good Times Magazine


"Review of WHORE"

Long Island metal clan None More Evil are a dark hard rock band not unlike Danzig or Dope whose latest 11-track eardrum cracker -'WHORE'- is an unapologetic commentary of the sad state of suburban life. Merging the wares of Godsmack and Korn, this band's caustic crunch is just as suitable for the strip club as it is for the moshpit, as songs like the industrially tinged title track and the brooding 'Blame Me' are straight up angst ridden tunes guaranteed to unleash your animalistic instincts. A solid recording that keeps the guitars tuned punishingly low and the vocals slightly synthetic assist 'WHORE' in achieving the dirty grooves and demonic tuned down madness that should give hard rock fans with a penchant for the foreboding something to get excited about.
- MIKE SOS, Ear Candy Magazine


"These Guys Should Be Signed!"

"Packing the groove-heavy hard metal of Godsmack, combined with the insanity of Slipknot, New York's NONE MORE EVIL is a heavy, yet melodic band that has much to offer. How this band is unsigned (at least at this point) is beyond me... Yes, comparisons could be made to Godsmack, Drowning Pool or perhaps Sevendust, but on WHORE, NONE MORE EVIL produce a high-quality effort, that brings their own little sick twists and style. If you can't get into the groove of "Freshtration", or the sick guitar solo and the song's catchy-as-hell chorus, then maybe you're in the wrong genre of music. Album opener, "Retox", and "Blame Me" follow suit with the same formula, but there's enough variety and surprises abound to retain your full attention. "Facing Wrong Direction" sees the band try out a metal-type ballad and it succeeds in never getting too soft and offering memorable vocals. The album's title track, "Whore" is perhaps the heaviest and strongest track of the release and is where I feel kind of a Slipknot type vibe within the song's main riff. The album for the most part is mid paced hard metal, but has a very thick sound, with the grooves carrying each track. Sound effects are thrown in here and there, making the album much more interesting than radio-friendly rock and sick guitar solos are found throughout. On "No Answer" the band lays down the funkiest grooves of the album and maybe the catchiest chorus here. NONE MORE EVIL also show off their ridiculous sense of humor on "Mullet Man". Sample lyric: "She like it long in the back/She like it short on the top and the sides..." And the song seems ode to 80's hair-metal with it's shout along chorus.
This release is solid and entertaining from start to finish period.
Bottom line: NONE MORE EVIL's WHORE is a must hear for all metal fans. WHORE needs to be heard by the masses. The album is heavy, catchy and sick and has enough variety for repeated listens"
- LiveMetal.net


Discography

"WHORE" LP, 2005
"WAITING FOR NOTHING" EP, 2003

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NONE MORE EVIL was born in the dank, drab, suffocating corner of a suburban nightmare. From Long Island, New York-- where the morbid past-time of wife swapping was perfected into an artform-- NONE MORE EVIL vent all the rage, confusion and disillusionment of a scorned lover and shattered heart through their heavy, beautiful, melodic, and brutal music. NONE MORE EVIL craft their songs of loss, anger, disbelief, and sorrow with crushing guitar riffs and powerful vocals adding the occasional sensitivity and the darkest of humor... mullets, anyone?