After Destroy broke up I hooked up with Tattoo Shane and Trevor Trend and began jamming with a series of Drummers. We put up an ad at Extreme Noise and attracted Criminal Shane on Drums. Code 13 was an attempt on my part to move past the grind and metal influence on Destroy back to a more old school hardcore sound. Still, Code 13 is not a retro-80's band by any respect, although the 80's influence is there, many of our songs clock in at speeds undreamed of in '82. Code 13's music is hard for me to describe because we mix several different styles. I'm not saying we're particularly original or groundbreaking, but our music is far from generic as well. Simply put, we don't all listed to just one style of music so our playing isn't rigidly influenced by one style either. We mix sing-a-long 80's hardcore like early 7 Seconds and Youth Brigade with fast-core like Drop Dead and a touch of early DRI, Straight Edge Hardcore, Swedish HC/ Japanese Thrash, 80's Anarcho-punk and some grind/Powerviolence for a fast and pow