-How are you feeling these days?
XA:I’m very overwhelmed, I’ve never been so utterly happy and eager to live my promising life, on the other hand, I’m having to wait a little longer, so I’m very lonely and impatient, staring at the wall, daydreaming so hard I become overly charged, mentally and sexually, or having to control a sudden outburst to create more than I should.
-Sometimes I think people have no clue what you are talking about, care to go into more details?
XA:Naw, I’m good, I give out enough of my personal life, I think I will keep just a little bit to myself and my loved ones. I can’t give people my eyes. I learned my lessons with trying to talk to everyone on a personal level, I was judged and now people have this false perception of me, they think I’m insane, I’m full of shit or weird, that’s fine, I’m just a regular man, with regular problems, just know whatever you think I am, I am feeling good baby.
-You say that you’ve learned lessons about being personal, can you elaborate?
XA:I used to let everyone in, give everyone the benefit of the doubt, I won a few times, but most of the time I lost. Majority of the people that you will meet, will turn there back on you, everyone does it, not everyone can get along, you just got to get in where you fit in. Now that’s human nature. My issue is, I’m tired of being judged, People who have never met me in person, think they know everything about me and I hear some shiesty slander, believe me. I wish it was as simple as “your music is good” or “fuck your shit, it sucks”, but people have to go over that line, they neither just attempt to berate you or want to suck your clock over the wires, either or, its disturbing. When I walk around America, that is what I see, people hurting each other. I don’t agree with society and the way things are becoming.
-How do you approach creating your albums?
XA: Like a journal, something happens, find a sample, make a hook, produce an instrumental, put drums on it, put bass on it, put whatever instruments works, write words over it, record my vocals, cut it up, mix then master it and it’s a wrap. I also sample myself now, 91% of my drums are real drums, drum machines didn’t give it that knife in yr ass, up your spine feel, you know. I’m very horrible to myself as well, perfectionism controls my life. I just spend the past year making an album, made almost 50 songs and threw almost all of them away and chose 13, 6 of them I made recently. Coy Insanity, out soon, it’s way better than 100% of the fake bullshit a lot of artists are dishing out right now.
-With a name like Coy Insanity, I have to ask, what is it going to be about?
XA:It’s a life album, I have a handful of songs about how our world needs to wake up, stop eating so much and stop treating yr family, friends and strangers like prostitutes, a song about turning into a vehicle, a song about my mental graveyard and how the devil and my enemies live there and I don’t kick it there anymore and there are a handful of love songs about how much love I have for my girl and the journey we have embarked on, it is real love, so it is scary and exciting. It is easy to find someone hot when you want to fuck, bust globs wherever, whenever, it is easy to find someone when your lonely and just need human contact and warmth, it is easy when your dumb ass is drunk around other dumb ass drunks, but when you find love and try to fight it, like naw motherfucker, that is real, that is terrifying, that is beautiful, that’s when you know it is real. Love should not be easy, and as hard as things are right now, it makes appreciation grow tall to the sky, I’m enthralled for the first time in my life, all them other women were just training of what to and not to do.
-Love has always been a constant theme in your music, how has your take on it changed?
XA:I learned a lot from haggard witches & confused woman. Before I knew nothing about love, and at times, I thought I might have found it, but if you “think” you found love, or anything for that matter, then you didn’t, that is like saying I think I was decapitated and didn’t know it, you know. Love is a nice thought, so most people, settle with people for the thought of love, not the actual feeling, then just get hateful, fat and violent, have kids, and hate them because they are a product of their settlement and live this miserable life. If yr companion doesn’t make you a better person, that ain’t love either, you gotta feed off yr loved ones.
-This is going to be your seventh album, musically what can we expect from you?
XA:It is a harsh psychedelic rock record, I made some really killer digital grind albums man, but I wanted to move on, I starting digging melody more and I started to really strengthening up my singing voice, which no one sounds like me. I began working with live instruments, taking samples which are the spine, and just layering the fuck out of them with flesh and blood. I think with this album I will lose some fans, keep my die hard ones and attain a lot more, there is no breakcore, no noise, no grindcore, it is a straight up rock album, I broke down in a weird city and was stuck in a room with no human interaction for weeks, it was literally Coy Insanity, the only people I saw were cashiers and strangers on a bus stop baby.
-I never quite understood how you squeezed into the noise genre, or any genre actually, where do you feel you belong?
XA:I don’t either, I met some killer motherfuckers from the noise scene, but overall I don’t belong there I won’t ever really fit in anywhere, I will always be misunderstood yet respected, unless you really delve into my music and lyrics I wouldn’t expect you to get it, I ain’t making slick jams for the easily amused, I’m making music for the people who have little to nothing and still won’t stop striving until they are six feet under the ground, always positive and always moving forward, never falling back.
-What artist would you recommend people to check out?
XA:Diamond Black Hearted Boy, haven’t seen him perform yet, but he is onto to something and I love it.
-What is your ultimate goal?
XA:To be a good person, and spread good music, travel with my wife all over the world and meet other good people. I want to spread to peace, I want to exhume peace, I want to help people who can’t help themselves, give them hope and let them know, yr not hopeless unless yr dead, even then you can flutter around the air, make love to the sky, kindly haunt the ones you love and be at ease with the earths breathe.
-Do you still partake in hallucinogenic drugs?
XA:Naw baby, I’m high on adrenaline and sober as a wet thunder dog. I will tell you I’m the happiest and smartest I’ve been my whole life, I am able to look at the world and see what I want, natural trips. The worst I’ve ever been was partially because of drugs and drinking, especially drinking, I believe that there is not one good quality about alcohol, unless you prefer being a mistake maker and looking haggard young, it’s witches brew. The thing I’m glad I swam into was shrooms, I learned a lot about myself traveling into my own mind, but I’m great now, I don’t need to go back there again.
-Is Coy Insanity the first album you made sober?
XA:I was clean when I made War Bonnet, but I was in the exact opposite state of mind, I had just almost been murdered and was in so much mental anguish, so I wrote a bitter album, nothing good came from War Bonnet, but now I’m just impatient, enthralled and eager to write on clouds instead of paper, kiss the lips of perfection and teach my sleepless eyes how to rest and enjoy dreams.
-Thanks for your time and good luck with everything, any final statements?
XA:Thank you and good luck as well. World, please stop being so sad and lets only look at the future not the garbage cans, not the blood, not the torn past, let’s really try to move forward or we will all die a horrible death, and I want all of us to go gracefully. In 13 hours I will be in front of the most important moment of my life, and then after that I will chase the next important moment, never stop chasing a dream, nothing should ever be good enough, always reach further and further.
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Xrin Arms (Anthony Vincent) is unique in a profound way and quickly becoming as diverse as he is powerful. Entrenched in a total package the most notable feature being his live shows; a performance art all it’s own and the direct link to an all consuming energy. Becoming nearly inhuman he screams and sings through an open portal while winding his way through the crowd and interacting with his laptop. Not one second ever feels forced and every song feels brand new. He tours the US extensively and I assure you, you have not experienced Xrin Arms until you have been to a show.
His latest work (Coy Insanity) speaks to a deep progression, showing his personal gains in a more melodic tone. Not necessarily a departure from his harsh roots but a growing exploration which builds upon the Soul elements found throughout his work. Pieces of which can be found in nearly every corner of the web:
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