NO WARNING || HARDCORE FOR THE DECADES

Photo Cred 📸: @angelaxowens

This weeks spotlight is on a band that really put ONHC on the map, a Hardcore band from Toronto, Ontario, the legendary No Warning. This band made an incredible impact on the Hardcore community provincially and internationally. Ill Blood became their landmark album and to this day is still held to high standard in the community for both new and old members. We sat down with their guitarist Jordan Posner to chat about their recent return to the stage playing in Baltimore’s Disturbin’ The Peace Fest with Trapped Under Ice and End It, the band is hinting that’s not all to expect from them in 2023.

WHERE DOES YOUR NAME NO WARNING COME FROM?

Ben, Matt and I were in a band called As We Once Were, a very posi youth crew band. The name was horrible and we got tired of playing that style of hardcore, so we decided to break up. We wanted to play stuff that was more influenced by the heavier NYHC bands. For picking a new name, we liked something with the word “warning” in it because of Agnostic Front’s “Last Warning”.

We wanted to be called Fair Warning but since we were like 16 years old, we didn’t know there was a 1980’s hc band from Montreal with that name. They were awesome btw.

So we settled on No Warning. Haha. Plain and simple. 

WITH ILL BLOOD BEING RELEASED IN 2002, NOW OVER TWO DECADES LATER IT’S STILL INTERNATIONALLY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN HARDCORE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. DID ANY OF YOU EXPECT THAT ALBUM TO BE RECEIVED ON THAT LEVEL?

We knew we were sitting on something we were proud of and couldn’t wait for everyone to hear it, but we weren’t really expecting anything else beyond that. We saw the record making people’s album of the year lists and stuff like that, and then noticed more people coming to our shows and reacting to those songs. That was enough to make us happy.  The fact that after this long , an album that we made when we were a bunch of teenagers would be regarded like it is today, it means a lot to us, and we’re all very appreciative. 

WHO ARE YOUR FAVOURITE LOCAL ONTARIO HARDCORE BANDS?

Past and present... 

The Swarm

Rammer

Trigger Happy

Sabotage 

Wildside

Friction 

WHAT IS YOUR WORST TOUR MEMORY?

Anytime I’ve broken a limb and decided to finish a tour. It’s happened more than once. 

AFTER STARTING OFF 2023 PLAYING AT DISTURBIN’ THE PEACE, DO YOU HAVE ANYMORE PLANS FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR?

I think a short Europe run and a local show is in the works. That’s about it. We’re not trying to do too much right now.  

Checkout their Bandcamp here: No Warning

Writer : @bertnay

Editor : @just_reidz

02/03/23