On their ambitious second album HMLTD imagine an England swallowed by a giant medieval worm, populated by spineless feudal lords and chivalric counter-revolutionaries. Yet it is all, they tell Patrick Clarke, about the personal
Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about blazing a trail in hardcore, the uneasy switch from independent to major label and their complex relationship with Grant Hart, plus paving the way for Pixies and Nirvana. Cover portrait courtesy of Greg Norton