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Crusher Magazine interview/review

NYC’s Sweet Cyanide, fronted by big dreaming rock guitarist/vocalist Sal Scoca, are a top notch band who make every song count. Like the recent releases from Confederacy Of Horsepower, The Compulsions and even Brooklyn’s Stalkers, Sweet Cyanide know how to wed classic elements of garage, punk fuzz and retro-attitude to sleaze and solid songwriting. This is [...]
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Modern Guitars Interview: Guitarist Sal Scoca

Sal Scoca is a man on a mission. After forming his new band Sweet Cyanide, with fellow Crashbox bassist Angelo Fariello and guitarist Joe Salvatore and drummer Mike Bambace of Moment Theory, Scoca is looking to bring back hard rock to the East Coast scene, something that many fans of the genre will welcome with [...]
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Hidden Agenda interview with Mike

Interview with Mike Bambace (Drums) of Sweet Cyanide July 2009 Please tell us who you are, and what you do in Sweet Cyanide. My insane asylum wristband reads: Mike Bambace and I play drums in Sweet Cyanide. Where are you guys from originally? The four of us live near or around the NYC area. When and what was [...]
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Maximum Ink Magazine

CD: Sweet Cyanide by Alexandra Radel July 2009 With songs titled “Suicide Love Machine,” “Certain Shadows on the Wall,” “Crash Theory,” and “Heartbreaker” these four New York rockers put a new spin on sex, drugs, and rock n roll. Sweet Cyanide is an electric collision of two respected New York bands, Crashbox and Moment Theory. The band consists [...]
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Sal interviews with Rock in a Hard Place

Sal Scoca from New York’s “Sweet Cyanide” joined us on ROCK AND A HARD PLACE. These guys are amazing, if you like Classic Rock like Queen, Bowie, The Beatles, Bad Finger or others, and mix that with an 80’s edge you’re going to really appreciate this band. They have some amazing vocal harmonies and melodies [...]
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Interview with STILLCODA

There is a time where boundaries are broken and instincts are the only thing that remains. Pushing the limits, undermining contemporary traditions, chaos at its best, and being something more than original, is what one band is all about. I found it hard to believe at first, but thus I was mistaken. Preconceived notions are [...]
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Interview with Thrash Magazine

Can you briefly summarize how the band formed and what you do in Sweet Cyanide? Mike- We have been running around the same local circuit for years, did some regional touring together, and always wanted to work together. I got a call from Sal to come in and help out on some drum tracks and the [...]
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May The Rock Be With You interview

Born of the fires of Mercury, raised by the spiders and diamond dogs, versed on the beliefs of the electric light, they were given the power to be the gods and goddesses of thunder with the mighty rhythm, they march through continents across the seven seas on a path of sonic construction crushing the boundaries [...]
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Artist Spotlight: Sweet Cyanide Review/Interview

Sweet Cyanide is a Vaudevillian laced blend of David Bowie glam meets Guns N Roses grit. The band cites the aforementioned artists as major influences and undoubtedly encompass the sleazy, aggressive yet theatrical characteristics of classic rock that reigned within the timeframe of these super star acts, except with a modern flair. Although a new [...]
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