"Music gets convoluted with movements," Milano notes.
The album also points out harsh realities. "A someone who has always done what I want to do, I had no intentions of doing what I did with this." Indeed, the album is a balls-out, hardcore x punk rock accident. "Here I am, in my '50s and a grandfather, and I wrote the best record of my career," Milano exclaims. If I do it as a job, I am going to fucking hate it." So he proceeded with Busted, Broke & American without ever treating it like it was a job and the album is devoid of any and all pretense.īusted, Broke, & American is an album that will resonate. It's like cooking - it's an extension of me. "I don't give a fuck, but I like playing," he reasons. Still, music remains something he loves doing And he still operates off the zero fucks given principle. He's admittedly still cynical, but has learned to temper it by being more caring and forgiving. While Milano may be older and wiser these days, he's not any softer. I had no goal to get back to the industry." But he's is and he's armed with an album that demands to be heard. 'I've never been happy with the falsehood of the music industry," he says. The only way to be with him was to sit there and play guitar.
"I wanted to run and play with my dog, and I couldn't. "I just started playing guitar, while sitting there, looking at him, giving him medicine," he says. As anyone that truly has forged a deep bond with a canine can relate to, Milano turned to his trusted instrument to help him endure the pain of watching his friend wind down his life. I started jamming again, anticipating something quick, but it wasn't."īuster was a huge part of Milano's life, having toured with the frontman. My dog Buster, an American bulldog, got sick with cancer and I started to play guitar again while staying home with him. "We had done 100 shows for Red, White & Screwed. and their new album, which finds the band returning to original label home Megaforce Records after two decades, there was no pre-determined mission. You'd be mistaken to assume anything when it comes to Billy Milano. At the center of the sonic storm remains Milano, who has never been known to shy away from speaking his mind.īilly Milano, a voracious reader, avid cook and a Proud and Loud Republican, inadvertently resurrected his hardcore punk rock band in a time when he needed it most. The words "I'm sorry" are not a part of the album's vocabulary. It also mixes hardcore, punk rock, and thrash and the end result is a thoroughly combustible collection of songs. are putting their unabashed and unedited thoughts and feelings out there for all to see and hear with their new album Busted, Broke, and American - self-righteous and politically correct social justice warriors be damned!Īs to be expected, Busted, Broke & American is fast, it's furious, and it makes no apologies. In fact, it would be a logical assumption that Milano and co. shorthand for Method of Destruction - and their founder and fearless leader (the artist formerly known as the Legendary Billy Milano), aren't masking their intentions on their new album. With song titles like "You're a Fucking Dick", "Busted, Broke & American", and "All Out of Bubblegum", you would think that M.O.D.