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Steve Dolcemaschio (Tee Pee Records): The Saints because their entire team isn’t white.

Justice (Trapped Under Ice) Personally I would like to see New Orleans come out on top of the superbowl. I think it would be a great thing for their city. Plus, as a Ravens fan I would love to see the Colts lose!

Brendan (Incendiary) – Although I’d like to see the Saints win, I think dorky ass Manning is just too good. Indy will take it but it’ll be close…

Nick (The Destro) - Something inside of me almost wants to cheer for Payton Manning and his Colts, turning around one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL. . That being said, I am a boy from the south, with the people of Louisiana as my neighbors to our great state of Tejas. As we watched Drew Brees rebuild and push the Naw-lins Saints, the people from the city also continue to fight and rebuild after  Katrina, so I seem to feel a sense of pride, a feeling only second to our own Dallas Cowboys, that has brought a helluva smile to my face with many beers raised this season. It appears the Saints are done losing and are walking in expecting to win this one. They have the #1 offense for a reason and their defense has been killing it. I’m ready to see Darrin Sharper pick more than a few off Manning. So, just as the great New Orleans native Phillip H. Anselmo gives tribute to the team and city in his band Down, I will also be cheering  ”On March the Saints!”

Jayscender (Descender) – Saints, Because even God wants the Saints to win! and I actually hail from the great city of New Orleans! GEAUX SAINTS!

Mike Bigel - (Green Arm Management) – The Saints.  I don’t actually care who wins though, as I’m a Giants fan.  But shit, the Saints deserve it… And Shockey deserves to win a Superbowl where he’s allowed in the stadium!

Jamie Farkas (Vice Records) – The Saints. Because New Orleans deserves a victory. And I can’t root for the team that took the Jets out of the running.

Joe Affe (Maximum Penalty) – Even though Manning & the Colts knocked out the NY Jets and are the favored win, I would loved to see New Orleans take it all for the first time in the history of the game. You don’t have to be a Saints fan to go with the underdog on this one – the bookies are going to have a field day!

Hull - Those in HULL that watch or are interested in football believe that the Colts of Indianapolis will win this year’s Superbowl spectacular. There would be quite a few reasons for this, but, the only good one would be because they had the balls to pull out a last minute win over NY’s last hope for a dream season. Otherwise, their loss to the Jets would have spurred many a jolt and jeer to our good friend in Batillus. Mr. Geoff Summers was/is quite excited about that damn team winning and busting his balls is rather enjoyable.

Freddy (Madball): Colts…all the way. No particular reason, I’m a Giants fan… but I like the Colts as a team more than the Saints.

John Bundy (NAAM): What the fuck is the super bowl?

Looks like a lot of love for the Saints and the WHO DAT!? nation. Check out all the bands and bros that weighed in and party your ass off on Sunday!

Suburban Scum’s Internal War is out now on Ride the Fury.

DOWNLOAD: SUBURBAN SCUM – COUNT MY BLESSINGS

David Castillo’s Top Ten of 2009:
Converge – Axe To Fall
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye
Cable – The Failed Convict
Shrinebuilder – Self-Titled
Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
Vreid – Milorg
Incendiary – Crusade
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Rorschach – Protestant + Remain Sedate LPs (Reissue)
Liturgy – Renihilation

Fred Miketa’s Top Ten of 2009:
Entrance Band – Self-Titled
Trapped Under Ice – Secrets of the World
Portal – Swarth
Jesu – Opiate Sun
Dusted Angel – Dusted Angel EP
Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
Blind to Faith – The Seven Fat Years Are Over
Der Blutharsch – Flying High
Death Before Dishonor – Better Ways to Die
16 – Bridges to Burn

Cameron Octigan’s Top Ten of 2009:
Cathedral – Forest of Equilibrium (reissue)
Cryfemal - Increibles Tormentos
Diamatregon – Crossroad
Gromm – Pilgrimage Against the Catacombs of Negativism EP
Katharsis - Fourth Reich
Lifelover – Dekadens
Marduk – Wormwood/Funeral Mist – Maranatha
Nargaroth – Jahreszeiten
Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary (reissue)
Velvet Cacoon – P aa opal Poere Pr. 33

1986
Right around 86’ is where I discovered a lot of hardcore music (i.e.; Brains, Mags, AF, & Warzone). I had a small crew of friends in high school that were listening to HC records and going to shows. I was going to LaGuardia H.S. on the upper west side at the time (which is where I first met Jimmy Williams – who attended Humanities H.S. downtown). Without being in Manhattan all the time I don’t think I would have gotten into as much music as I did. The city was where everything was happening and from there it spread out into the boroughs. That’s where I really started tape trading with friends, cutting out to pick up other demo tapes, 7 inches and just to hang out downtown. The Ritz, 1018, Lismar, Nightingales & CB’s – my whole world changed and it wasn’t just me.

1988
88’ saw the recording of the MP demo out in Brooklyn at Sty in the Sky and our first appearance on WNYU “Crucial Chaos” which, at the time, was the local hardcore-punk college radio station in the city w/ Johnny Stiff & Spermie Marlene. Later that year, we put out our Demo (like every good HC band at the time does) and also put 2 songs on Bill Wilson’s Blackout Records compilation Where the Wild Things Are. At the time it wasn’t about the size of the sound but the energy from the songs – you can definitely hear it on those recordings. It was Roger Miret that gave us our first CBGB matinee show with AF that year.

1994
94’ is a significant year for MP – it saw the reformation of the band at a point in time that I personally didn’t think would ever happen. Jimmy had some legal issues and we hadn’t had any contact for a few years. So much had gone down with everyone personally I never thought when Jimmy resurfaced he would ignite so much inspiration and drive. My brother had come back from a place many don’t come back from and to share that was nothing short of a miracle. The rest of us pretty much dropped what we were doing at the time and picked MP back up where we left off. Recording an EP and 2 full lengths along with touring the States & Europe was something at the time nobody would have predicted.

2007
We’re asked to be part of a Hardcore station in the new Grand Theft Auto IV video game along with the likes of (Bad Brains, Cro-mags, AF, SOIA, Leeway, Murphy’s law, Underdog) to name a few. That came off the heels of our longtime friend Armondo Bordas who met me and Jimmy outside of Humanities H.S. in the city years ago – fuckin’ small world! That right there immortalized MP in a way we never thought possible. To be a part of that is one thing but to be on it with those bands meant a lot to us. Especially for us growing up in the New York scene.

2009
09’ brings Maximum Penalty in contact with Dan Korneff (Producer) whom we met through our one time manager Billy Milano & Patrick Kitzel (Reaper Records) who we first met in Europe on tour w/ AF. There had been a conscious decision in & around 06’ to focus on the original sound of MP, all of us including myself, Darren (drums) & Jimmy worked really hard on getting MP back to its core, so when Korneff & Kitzel came into the picture and helped make us make that a reality was amazing!

2010
Maximum Penalty is planning a Japanese & Australian release date for our new record Life & Times.  MP will also be touring the East Coast with fellow labelmates Trapped Under Ice, Naysayer & Forfeit in early January also with Terror in the Spring. We’re in the stages of planning a trip into Canada and out to do some west coast dates before next summer. Along with a European tour by summers end.

Words: Fred Miketa

Dead City’s Goddamn the 21st Century is out now via Thrashed! Records

DOWNLOAD: DEAD CITY – SABBATH LILY