01. TELL US ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF OUTRIGHT RESISTANCE? A. Well, Outright Resistance started early in 2011 as a bunch of dudes that wanted to play some seriously groovy and splendidly heavy music. We worked on getting our D.E.M.O. recorded nice and quick with a good friend of the band and then set about trying to play absolutely ANYWHERE we could while throwing splendid CD shaped coasters at everyone and anyone! 02. WHY THE NAME OUTRIGHT RESISTANCE? A. The name took us quite a while to decide on to be honest, because we started off just thinking "What sounds cool" but as we started writing songs together and some of the lyrical themes started to take shape and make themselves known, we knew that just having any old name wasn't going to cut it. With a lot of our songs being about standing up for what you believe in even in the face of great adversity, we started to think of ourselves as a resistance ourselves, trying to stand up for people who are being pissed on in innumerable ways, and thus we thought Outright Resistance was perfect as it summed us up and our goals and ideals quite nicely!

03. WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU PLAY? A. Music wise we like to see ourselves as 'Groove-Metal' because we absolutely love heavy grooves more than anything else! Though at the same time we try to incorporate pretty much everything and anything that we like music-wise into our sound which we personally feel gives us more of a unique sound as our songs jump from the rocky yet screamy grooves of 'Slave To The System' to the speedy thrash influences of 'Gee, Dysphoria' up to the pseudo-deathcore 'Flight of The Necromancer' to the build up of the pure groove that is 'Death of a Nation'. I know it's so overstated these days, but we are one of those bands that think, if we like something, throw it into the pot and see how it turns out! Who knows, maybe our next track will be some crazy grindcore meets black metal track!

04. HOW IS THE ACTUAL LINE UP?
A. Outright Resistance currently consists of 5 members who each bring their own personal influences to the table, sort of like throwing cats into a bag and seeing what happens. Vocals - 'Captain' Paddy Lee (Lamb Of God, Slipknot, Psychostick, The Black Dahlia Murder) Guitar - Michael 'Grandad' Worsley (Machine Head, Alter Bridge, Stone Sour) Guitar - Joe Jacobs (Parkway Drive, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine) Drums - Michael "Nelly" O' Neill (Deicide, Slipknot, Behemoth) Bass - Richard Stevenson (Iron Maiden, Opeth, Electric Wizard, Gama Bomb)

05. WHO WRITES THE MUSIC AND LYRICS? A. As far as writing goes for the most part Grandad will write the general overview of the song musically and then bring it to the rest of the band to play about with, tweak and just make it as best as we can really. Lyrics are usually handled by myself (Captain Paddy) though Grandad contributes quite often bits and pieces, as does Nelly, in fact Nelly actually wrote all of the lyrics to 'Death of a Nation' as well as 'Tattered Remains (of Success)'. In general everything is quite a conjoined band effort where everyone chips in to an extent with all aspects of every song. 06. TELL US ABOUT THE SCENE IN UK? A. The scene in the UK is an interesting one, as you may know the UK is well known for producing many, many amazing bands. I think the UK has a good scene helped along by so many people that aren't in bands that just generally believe in it and are helping it to flourish. I think that whilst there is of course, a lot of rivalry between bands, there is just so much respect for each other that everyone helps out everyone else which is nice, and more and more fans are coming out and doing their best to support their local scene so in general I think it's a great progression and that as time goes on the UK scene will hark back into its former glory!

07. WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE? A. Currently merchandise-wise we have 2 different types of T-Shirts still available on our Big Cartel page. The 'Slave to the System' Tee has our current red logo on the front of a black shirt with the lyrics "ARE YOU A SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM?" on the back. Our 'Gee, Dysphoria' Tee has our older white logo on a black shirt with the lyrics "STAND UP FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED" on the back. We also have lots of free copies of our D.E.M.O. EP 'Don't Eat My Organs' that we give away to everyone at every show we play and just, in general, to everyone that wants one, although it can also be downloaded through our Facebook page and our ReverbNation page. 08. HAVE YOU GUYS EVER PLAYED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY? A. Unfortunately not as of yet, though we are extremely interested in getting over to Ireland at least as I grew up in Ireland and Nelly has family over there also. We are also intrigued about getting over to mainland Europe at some point, though I would imagine that’s quite a long way off yet, but we've heard such amazing things about the scenes over in various European countries, that it sounds like an absolute BLAST!

09. HOW DID THE SONG ‘SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM’ COME TOGETHER? A. Slave to the System Musically speaking was born out of a 2 hour practice session in the Grandads Bedroom where the band used to practice before the opening of some local rehearsal studios; it began with just a simple guitar riff and pretty much just wrote itself on that side of the song. Various tweaks have happened over the years we’ve been playing the song, be it mistakes which actually worked better or new ideas in the practice sessions, but the essence of the song is still pretty much what is after the initial two hour practice. 10. FUTURE PLANS..? A. Plans for the foreseeable future pretty much involve playing the hell out of everywhere we can get ourselves into, more music will DEFINITELY be on the horizon, that much I can tell you, although we have an awful lot of surprises coming up over the next few months that we hope will get everyone (fan or not) very excited, because we sure as hell are excited!

11. THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT. ANY LAST COMMENTS? A. We at Outright Resistance would like to thank you MASSIVELY for your time, as well as to anyone reading this, thank you for reading! Check us out at www.OutrightResistance.com for all of our social network links and various other awesomeness!