{"id":63076,"date":"2017-03-14T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=63076"},"modified":"2017-03-14T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:04:49","slug":"vile-horrendous-speech-an-interview-with-mike-hochins-of-vhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/vile-horrendous-speech-an-interview-with-mike-hochins-of-vhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vile Horrendous Speech: An Interview With Mike Hochins of VHS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THIS INTERVIEW CONTAINS VIOLENCE, BLOOD AND COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF FUN!<\/strong><\/p>\n

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Formed in 2015, VHS \u00a0<\/strong>is a horror themed metal band from Ontario, Canada. Their\u00a0melting pot of styles truly sets them apart from many of their contemporaries, and their connection with horror will be a treat for many. I got the chance to chat it up with vocalist\/guitarist Mike Hochins\u00a0about\u00a0a good number of topics to include: the band, their connection with B-movies, upcoming music and \u00a0a few top 5 lists.<\/p>\n

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Many Toilet readers should recognize VHS from episode 5 of the Toilet ov Hell podcast<\/a> but not a lot is known other than the basics about the band. What can you tell us about the history of VHS? And what brought the band to where you are today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike:<\/strong>\u00a0The basic history lesson,\u00a0eh? So the three of us have known each other for years. I’m the old fart of the band so I’m not sure exactly how many years we’ve known each other but it’s been a while! That said, we had never done anything music related together until we got together to play Gwar<\/strong> at a cover show with my brother is law playing the role of Oderus.\u00a0 At this point, I was only doing vocals in a different band and it felt good to play guitar again. So after we were done with the cover band idea, we decided to carry on playing music. I think it was my wife who said why not do a band about horror movies? It was something I’ve always wanted to do but never came together, this was the perfect time and it’s been a blast.<\/p>\n

We pretty much started recording right away. We did the demos for “Fornicating in the Furniture Store” and “Hairspray and\u00a0Bloodpsray\u00a0at our first jam. From there we basically just demoed more tunes and released them online to see what people thought. Eventually, we put all of those recordings together for the Rewind of Die<\/em> demo. Mike from HGPD was interested in doing something with us so we recorded a few bonus tracks and that was released as the Hi-Fi Horror (Uncut Edition) EP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The rest of our history is pretty much covered below, so I’ll end this one on a cliff hanger….<\/p>\n