Apartment 213 vocalist joins Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Guy from Rolling Stone already writing preemptive negative review
Steve Makita, vocalist for Cleveland powerviolence bruisers Apartment 213, has joined Agoraphobic Nosebleed after contributing to Agoraphobic’s side of an upcoming A213/ANB split release titled Domestic Powerviolence. In addition to the core duo lineup of Jay Randall and Scott Hull (also in Pig Destroyer), ANB has Richard Johnson, Carl Schultz and occasionally Pig Destroyer’s J.R. Hayes on retainer as additional vokillists. “Jay has always been a supporter of [Apartment 213], and he kept asking me to do vocals on their side for at least a song,” Makita says. “I flew up here and did some vocals, I was goofing around like ‘hey, let me do vocals full time,’ and he said ‘Yeah, that’d be great, let me talk to Scott.’ And there it is.” Makita explains that with four throats to choose from, “I’m not gonna be on every release or every track, but I’ll be on a lot of them. I like the way they switch it up with vocalists, but it’s awesome with just Jay singing too. I’m glad to be a part of it.” In addition to double duty in Apartment 213 and Agoraphobic, Makita is doing “actual singing” in a Current 93/Death in June-style industrial folk band called Wolf Prayer with his wife Karen, also his partner in the noise project Lockweld. “It’s me on vocals, my wife does the noisy atmospheric stuff and our guitarist Jim plays acoustic and electric guitar,” he says. Inverting A213’s serial killer obsessions, he calls Wolf Prayer “music for killing yourself.”
