Description
REGRET – Hardcore Punk band from Hong Kong
“The initial idea for the band was through a rekindling of friendship between myself and one of my old drummers from a band I used to play in called King Ly Chee (荔枝王). The drummer that I’ve always stayed in contact with is my old friend Egas who lives out in Macau. The summer of 2020 we started talking about how we both just want to play in a band that feels way more straight-ahead – a very much “plug-in and play” type of band. We talked about how we miss the MESSINESS and RAWNESS of hardcore punk so we started throwing some ideas around back and forth literally via Whatsapp.
Our borders have been closed to each other since February of 2020 (that’s also why my other band Dagger has been on hold because the drummer of that band, Ivan, also lives in Macau). As we started getting a bunch of songs together, I knew INSTANTLY who was going to play bass – the amazing and uber-talented Kuro who has done time in so many Hong Kong punk rock bands from Oi Squad to Defiant Scum. She not only plays bass in the band but sings in it too which is fucking MAD exciting to lifelong hardcore, punk, metalhead like myself! To have her voice on these songs opens the music up (hopefully) to more than just us men…hardcore, punk, metal belongs to all of us regardless of gender (binary and nonbinary).
Many months later we recorded all our stuff and today we present to you the first taste of our debut EP “Regret”. – Riz Farooqi – (Regret, Dagger, Unite Asia online magazine)
