NEW YORK - LIVEFASTDIE

Livefastdie is named after a tattoo GG Allin had on his chest and is made up of four dudes named Camero Werewolf, Viking Thrust, Shadow Falcon, and Time Cop. If that doesn't already put them in the running for All-Time World Champions of Vacancy, please consider the seven-inch they put out with a photo of Camero barfing as the cover, or the fact that they accidentally named their first album for a genre of thrash they apparently didn't know existed, or the fact that their MySpace page lists seven additional drummers named Sweet Joey, Cocain Donkey, DTrain, Penis Von Wrinkle, Z-Man, Joe Tampoff, and Lucky Luke Sniper.

In the tradition of GG, they make really fast and fuzzy and obnoxious songs with titles like "Pissing on the Mainframe" and "Passing Out in Front of Children" that are actually about the things in the title. They are basically teenagedom squared.

Vice: Why did you name yourself after a GG Allin tattoo?

Camero: I'm from the same town as GG—Littleton, New Hampshire. I heard his music for the first time when I was 11, before I heard any other punk music. Living in Littleton, there's always some older kid who's proud of being from the same town as GG. I actually picked up his step-dad while he was hitch-hiking once. He tried to convince me to get an eight ball with him in St. Johnsberry, Vermont.

Viking: I grew up in Atlanta, and the only icon we have is Jesse James Dupree from Jackyl.

Come now, there's a lot of great bands in Atlanta these days—the Carbonas, Black Lips, Ying Yang Twins, Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz--

Viking: Lil Jon is not a band.

Yeah but he has a band. The East Side Boyz

Viking: I'm not going to split hairs with you here, but Lil Jon is a hip-hop act.

Camero: I thought Lil Jon was a producer.

Yes, but he's also got a band. They did that song with Bad Brains.

Camero: Shit, even I could get Bad Brains to record a song with me. I actually partied with HR the night I turned 21. I was hanging out with Nick from the Coydogs in Burlington, Vermont, and HR invited us backstage to smoke some joints with him. Then security kicked us out of the place and I woke up at some guy's house watching a dirt bike video. I gave HR my parents' number because he had said he wanted to play at my house the next day. I was always scared that he would show up at my parents' house when I wasn't there.

OK, let's talk about your songs. What is "Camero Shit the Bed" about?

Camero: It's actually about me shitting the bed in Atlanta at the Red Roof Inn during the first Livefastdie tour. We drove straight from Memphis.

Viking: We drove from Chicago, played in Memphis, left Memphis at 3 AM, then drove to Atlanta. Then we partied all day and all night.

Camero: We were sleeping at some Red Roof Inn. I thought I would be cool by pulling up the sheets and farting outside the sheets, but I ended up spraying shit all over the goddamn bed. I tried to wash the sheets in the sink, but that just caused it to spread. The next morning, we went and got a coffee and threw it all over the sheets so the hotel staff would think it was coffee instead of shit, but they must have known it was shit.

What's "Razor Rat" about?

Camero: It's about this game called "Ratbag." When you're walking down the street with your friends and they're on the sidewalk and you're in the street, you kick a garbage bag and 7,000 rats fly out at your friend. That's what it's about: Rats coming at you.

What's "Fat Guy with an iPod" about?

Camero: That's an unfunny story. There was this fat fuck getting off the train at the and he was shuffling through the songs on his iPod while I was running late for a surprise birthday party. I'd just seen the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry David shows up late for a surprise party. I can relate to that guy. I was stuck behind this guy on the escalator while he shuffled through his shit, and I wrote the song in two seconds, right there in my head.

What inspired "Art is Faggotry"?

Camero: That was inspired by a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with my girlfriend. I got a phone call and some asshole security guard ran up to me and told me I couldn't talk on my phone. And I was like, "OK, that makes sense. It's a one-sided conversation and I'm talking loud. It's cool." Then some fucking bitches from fucking cheese country were ranting and raving about some goddamn fucking painting—"OH muh Gawddd! Oh this is so good! Oh, I'm having an orgasm over how good the painting is!" These fat fucking broads can talk about how good this painting is as loud as they want, but I can't talk on my phone?! I'd have been fucking psyched to not have heard half the shit these fat bitches were spouting.

What is "Weapons" about?

Camero: Weapons is about weapons.

Are you big into weapons?

Camero: No, but I'm from a state that encourages militias. It turns out that in this day and age, ideas are more effective than weapons. I should have called it "Ideas," but no one would have thought that was cool.

What about "Troglodyte City"?

Camero: That's a song written because Jimmy Hollywood from the Tirades really likes songs that have words spelled out in the lyrics. I was originally gonna write a song called "C-I-T-Y, USA" but I realized that was too stupid an idea, so I wrote it as "Troglodyte City". Somebody told me it might be construed as racist. Troglodytes are Cro-Magnons who live in the center of the Earth. I don't play Dungeons and Dragons, but my friend's brother does and also does a lot of acid and he knew what a troglodyte was. I probably didn't spell it right.

What about "Can I Get Some More"?

Camero: Rich kids whose parents give them money for drugs and booze. It's about how you want to hang out with people who have free drugs and booze, and when they run out, you leave them and try to find more.

What's "Amputated" about?

Camero: Matt Bohan, who now lives in Germany to avoid paying taxes in the United States. He got a big cash settlement and spent all his money drinking and forgot about paying taxes, so he moved to Germany and put his money in Swiss bank accounts so that the government couldn't get his money. It's more about how he falls down stairs when he's shitfaced and bleeds all over the place. It's a reference to your head falling off when you're that drunk.

What's "F Train" about?

Camero: It's about me falling asleep on the F Train and waking up in Coney Island and on Union Turnpike and on 173rd Street numerous times. I've probably fallen asleep on that train 150 times and I've never been messed with.

What's "Passing Out in Front of Children" about?

Camero: My cousins are older than me and they had some kids. I don't think their kids are as smart as my cousins think they are. All they eat are Big Kats and Diet Pepsi. So I said, "If you don't eat your fuckin' vegetables, you're going to go to Hell and you're not going to get any shit." My parents didn't appreciate that, although my dad thought it was kinda funny. Maybe it was fucked up of me to scream at these kids, but whatever. I was blacked-out drunk in front of these kids and then they drove us to some Long Island bar called the Irish and I screamed "Fuck you guys, I'm outta here!" It was pretty stupid. Originally, the song was gonna be called "Pizza Ninja."

Like the Ninja Turtles?

Camero: No, I don't think it was inspired by the Ninja Turtles.

DICK GRAZIN