Sick of It All is a hardcore punk band formed in 1986. The band is one of the most influential band in the history of hardcore punk, belonging to the modern hardcore scene, for all the good reasons, the SOIA can be considered as “godfathers of the world’s HC scene. “Based on a True Story” is their ninth studio album, released April 20, 2010 via Century Media Records.  Sick of It All are: Lou Koller (vocals), Pete Koller (guitar), Craig Setari (bass), Armand Majidi (drums).

A few weeks ago, Sick of It All, performed at New Age Club in Roncade (Treviso-Italy), sharing the stage with another NY HC icon, Madball. I had just finished interviewing Freddy from Madball. For many reasons, before leaving to Roncade, I hadn’t a chance to fix the interview with Sick Of It All, but their tourmanager kindly asked me to wait while he went to see if the band is available or doing the soundcheck. Exactly after 2 minutes, Armand (Majidi) entered the backstage, the drummer of Sick Of  It All, and I said smiling: “Hi Tarja, I’m Armand and I’m here for the interview” 🙂 Very Good! We sat down on the sofa, where only moments before I had talked with Freddy.

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