“They take me back to my childhood,” explained 46-year-old Anthony Maspero when asked, “Why do you love Helmet?” We chatted for maybe a minute, and he told me that he first saw Helmet when he was 18 years old at the Sunken Gardens in San Antonio. “What was the scene like back then?” I asked.
When Scowl says mosh, you mosh. When they tell you to stage dive, you plummet into the crowd. And when they say to dance, you dance like your life depends on it because when Scowl shouts, San Antonio listens. Scowl is a hardcore punk band hailing from Santa Cruz, California. When you think of hardcore,.