F— the Facts Hit the Road With Five Essential Items

F--- the Facts actually took its name from a track on the self-titled Naked City album, which was fronted by acclaimed saxophonist John Zorn. Considering the Relapse band that carries the name is some of the best grindcore you can find north of the American border, one can only imagine the variety of music appreciation amongst Topon Das and other members of F--- the Facts.

After founding the project in the late 90s, other musicians started joining the band around 2002, and the project has since been dominating the underground Canadian grindcore scene with a large amount of splits and brilliantly brutal studio albums that have been released across a handful of labels. Now with the early June vinyl release of 'Disgorge Mexico' out on the table, the band is headed out for a hearty serving of tour dates. We asked lead member Topon Das for the top five items F--- the Facts cannot tour without.

5. Morning coffee: "When you wake up from sleeping on someone's dog shit covered floor in a house that smells even worse then it looks, to drive 14 hours to the next show; a solid coffee is the only thing that's going to keep you from driving the van straight off the closest bridge."

4. iPod: "Perfect for ignoring your band mates, playing hours of Peggle and irritating everyone by putting all the garbage music you have on shuffle."

3. Cellphone: "Actually using this thing regularly and outside of your country can work out to insane bills that no one that plays grindcore should be able to pay, but pretending that you're talking on your phone can get you out of dealing with a lot of shit and talking to people that scare you."

2. A solid list of excuses / scapegoat: "Things are going to go wrong on tour and most likely it's your fault. Just because you forgot to do something that seemed too stupid to do at the time it needed to be done. But there's always enough reasons that it's not really your fault and most definitely there are more than enough booking agents, promoters and label people you can blame it on instead."

1. A non-band shirt: "Ever notice how silly it looks that everyone is wearing some sort of band shirt at shows? I have."