Interview: Walls of Jericho by bushman God brought down the Walls of Jericho with a thunderous vengeance. How appropriately named is this Michigan unit. Tearing apart the middle ground between metal and hardcore, the music attacks on most levels. Aggression battles against speed, but a structure of determined riffage and empowering breakdowns elevates the band above the simpler approach of many of their hardcore peers. And the throat for this musical assault is a hard as nails girl from the Midwest named Candace Kucsulain. While the uninitiated might smile thinking, “Oh cute, the hardcore band has a girl singer.” those thoughts are put to an abrupt end once they hear the gravel laced anger she spews forth. It’s a physical presence that apparently carries well into the live setting. Just days before this interview, Candace caught a fist to the face at a live show and busted up her nose pretty bad. But she finished the set, broken nose and all (remember, she’s singing through that broken nose, not to mention squaring off with a hardcore crowd that just busted said nose). How hardore is that? Harder than you. Speaking to Candace, she doesn’t come off as hard as the image, but there always seems to be something bubbling just below the surface. Like it wouldn’t take a whole lot to switch from her natural sweet girl disposition to something that will most likely kick your ass if you disrespect.