MUNTAH : INTERVIEW WITH GxUxTxS (SKATECORE FROM CZECH)
- Interview, Muntah, News
- November 6, 2025
From cracked concrete to blown-out speakers, GxUxTxS carved their noise. They lives in distortion and defiance. Inside, we talk about sweat, sound, and staying raw when the world polishes over pain…lets check it out!
1. Can you introduce the band members and tell us what instruments each of you play?
Alesh: Hi there everyone. My name is Alesh and I‘m vocals. Then we got Alex on guitar, Alena on bass and Martin on drums. We’re called GxUxTxSx coz we’re a Gross Unit of Thrashin’ Skaters.
Alex: Sup shredders! My name’s Alex and I play guitar. Next up we’ve got: Ales (vocals), Alena (bass), and Michal (drums). We’re GxUxTxSx
2. How did you guys first form this band?
Alesh: I started as a vocalist back in ‘97 but then early 2000s I started playing drums and have been doing so in multiple bands since then. Right before covid I almost started singing in my then new band Skiplife but they made me play drums again. So finally with GxUxTxSx I’m back at what I really like – cause ruckus and jump around. And whole band inception is me running into Alex in a skatepark while he was shredding hard and wearing an old Agathocles t-shirt which to me is very uncommon, to see a young gun with one of the bands my old band used to play with and was very much influenced by in the 90s. So we start talking about possibly jamming together but I refused to play drums and called my dear friend Martin who’s a prolific drummer in our scene, an owner of a great music venue back here in second largest city of the Czech Republic named Brno and most importantly a rad as fuck guy and a dear friend for last 20 years. On bass we first tried my bassist in two of my other bands but due to his busy job we had to look for a replacement very early on. And everything finally clicked when I asked the bass player in Skiplife and also my dearest and oldest friend Alena. She live in my small town and has been playing bass in extreme hardcore bands since she was 17. And we also have been booking shows together since late 90s such as R.A.M.B.O., WHN? Or Shank. So we’re a tight crew of old friends and new and love what we’re doing.
Alex: As Alesh already said, it was quite a coincidence how we met. We ran into each other at a skatepark — he rolled in with his son and a boombox in one hand, and I was wearing an Agathocles shirt. From there it just went on. I’d actually listened to a podcast with him about a month earlier where he talked about tour managing some of my favorite bands: Sleep, High on Fire, Melvins, and so on. So I instantly knew I wanted to do something with him. Originally, I wanted him to play drums,since I knew him from Gospel of the Future, where he plays drums. But he insisted on doing vocals instead. He reached out to Martin to handle drums, and Alenka joined us a bit later on bass and it was just a perfect fit.
3. Why did you choose the name GxUxTxS? What’s the meaning behind it?
Alesh: Our drummer came up with the name GUTS after seeing a horrible accident with deer that was hit by a car. But the band name has already been taken, hence the acronym and always with “x” instead of a dot. I love band’s with acronyms and also love to come up with new meanings for it. So we’ve been Great Uprisal of Total Swine or Give Us The Snacks and keep changing it, for fun. Also our fans and friends help us with coming up with new meanings from now and then and we love that.
Alex: We brainstormed band names for a while, and Martin came up with Guts, he was driving when he saw some roadkill, and the animal’s guts were sticking out, haha. Morbid, but we liked the sound of it. Alesh came up with the final form. We don’t really stick to one meaning, every now and then we give each letter a new one. I like personally the most “Give Us The Snacks”.
4. Why did you name your album Skatepiracy? Is there a certain concern or frustration within skateboard culture that you wanted to address?
Alesh: There for sure is a concern and frustration but it’s more like an old guy yelling at clouds frustration as very often I’m the oldest guy at almost any skatepark I come to and feel very detached from modern skate culture. But actually the album name is more of a wordplay on the King Diamond’s album Conspiracy which is very important to me personally being one of my very first purchases as a kid in early 90s. I came up with the album artwork concept as an homage to Conspiracy and also an ode to Lance Mountain who’s our hero, we mention him in lyrics on one of our early tracks “Fountain of Youth”. I personally admire him even if he’s on Nike which I fucking hate for what they did to skate shoes industry and skate shop culture. And I am also trying to put this in context with having a spoken word intro to the whole album by none other that legendary Glen E. Friedman who actually granted us the permission to use it and was very happy receiving the final product which is our LP. Glen is the legendary photographer behind your favorite skate or punk and hip hip photo. He also is Lance Mountain’s friend and at the same time very openly against some friends exploiting our culture. So what I love about skateboarding we can have very different world views and competing ideas but we can still be friends if we keep our core values cos the one thing we love the most is the actual act of riding a skateboard.
Alex: The name was also of wordplay on King Diamond, Conspiracy. There’s a certain kind of frustration in it, like Alesh mentioned.
5. Do you have any favorite HC/punk albums? Or ones that became references for you?
Alesh: Wow there would be too many to name. And most of my favorite bands I have been lucky to catch live or even made shows for. So I’m only gonna drop one name which is my foundation for my vocals, my attitude, great inspiration and a band I have never seen live and would fuckin love to…. And most importantly they released the best 10” record in hardcore history and also on the same label, 625 Productions, as we did and it means the world to me. The band is GSMF aka Gordon Solie Motherfuckers with Clevo’s finest Tony Erba on vocals, an absolute bomb of a record called “Power Bomb Anthes Vol.1”. If you haven’t heard it please go get it and watch some live videos, you life will be changed.
Alex: I come more from a stoner rock/thrash background. Some albums I always come back to are: Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley, Annihilation Time – II, Municipal Waste – The Art of Partying, Melvins – Houdini, Acid Bath – When the Kite String Pops, and many more.
6. What music albums have you been listening to a lot lately?
Alesh: Again too many to mention, but very recently the new Caustic Wound record “Grinding Mechanism of Torment” was on heavy rotation and also went to see them live very recently, good shit.
Alex: What I’m listening to right now is kinda weird, haha, Neil Young – Harvest and The Herbaliser – Very Mercenary.
7. Besides making music, what do you usually do in your free time?
Alesh: I’m a father of two, a husband, a skater and a CEO of a company. I wish I skated more but my body fucking hurts man. So besides all of this and not making music I think mostly I’m in tour as I also work as a tour manager for couple bands and that is very time consuming. Right now it’s end of October I’m packing for a tour that starts in few days, flying to the States in two days and will hit all of North America, Canada included for a month and then South America for another string of 6 shows and be back home 5th December, out for 6 weeks, too long. All the bands I work with are amazing and I’m feeling blessed to be doing this. Go check Boris (Tokyo, Japan), High on Fire or Dinosaur Jr, all sick acts.
Alex: Outside of music, I mostly… do more music, skate, hike, sometimes cycle, smoke weed, and play video games.
8. How long have you been skating?
Alesh: Since 1994 I think, very different times but the feeling is still the same, love at first push. I used to do contests, started a small skate company, run a skate shop, built some ramps and loved every minute of it cos it always comes with great people and best friendships I made come from skateboarding.
Alex: I’ve been skating for around 15 years with some breaks.
9. What do you enjoy the most about skating?
Alesh: It would probably be the community feeling, everyone with a hole on their sneaker was a friend back then. It may be different these days but my old friends, we are still the same.
Alex: To me, skating is about freedom, zero-fucks-given attitude, and that big-family feeling.
10. Who’s your favorite skater, and why?
Alesh: Wow your questions are so tough man, how can you pick one. I was always into high ollies, I used to win ollie contests back in my day everywhere I went. So Kien Lieu was an early inspiration. I saw Tom Penny on my own eyes annihilate a mini ramp and my life was changed. I got free Santa Cruz stickers from Ron Whaley when he noticed I had his pro deck when he was in the Czech Republic with late Tim Brauch who I also loved, RIP Tim. Este brand was amazing, him and Salman Agah. There’s too many, it would be easier to ask who I don’t like. I love them all and have been closely watching and still fond of it. I used to distribute Thrasher magazine over here in the Czech Republic and was lucky enough to visit the High Speed HQ in San Francisco. I also got one of my favorite boards, one of the first boards I saw in an ad in 90s German skate mag, Monster Skateboarding, from Jake Phelps himself, when he had an extra reissue deck of REAL Skateboards Jim Thiebaud’s “Hanging Klansman”, that might be my most precious possession.
Alex: Favorite skater? Dustin Dollin for sure. He just does whatever he wants and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. PD crew at it’s best.
11. In your opinion, how important is it for a label/brand to be “skater-owned”?
Alesh: It is crucial even if I understand that it might be one of the reasons why skate brands come and go, cos skater owned doesn’t mean smart about business side of it. But whenever suits get involved it usually sucks donkey’s ass and I’m not interested. I just love to buy products with a story and legacy. I am an example of trial and error, I have started and bankrupted a few skate related ventures, small brand and skate shops, but I was loving doing it and I need to feel the same from a company I support.
Alex: For me, skater owned means building and supporting the local community, helping each other reach your goals, and having a place where you can truly be yourself.
12. How important do you think “skate schools” are?
Alesh: No idea, never been to one, never seen one and probably wouldn’t send my son into one. He’s 16 now and a total skate rat. You just need to drop your kid aa a skatepark and let them do their thing, they’ll be fine.
Alex: I don’t mind them. I actually think they’re a good thing — some people are shy or just don’t have the right people around to teach them. Better to have a skate school than a fucking scooter school, lol. You have to find your own way to get into it and it doesn’t really matter how you will manage.
13. What are your thoughts on skateboarding in the Olympics?
Alesh: I checked it, sucked as I knew it will, probably not gonna watch it again. Ain’t got the time for that.
Alex: Not a fan but you know what? Things evolve, brands come and go. This was just a matter of time. That’s what I love most about skating you can do or think whatever you want. If you wanna be a dirty skate rat, do it. If you wanna wear leggings, and suck your energy drink sponsors dick do it.
Big thanks to our awesome Guts friends for joining the interview sesh! You guys rules, See ya next time!
