I love talking with Motionless In White, they are the most down to earth guys you’ll meet and the best thing (besides their music) is they are not afraid to speak their mind, this is why I was so excited to interview them this time around on the “Fearless Friends Tour”.
Take the time and hear what Chris and Ricky had to say.

Motionless In White Interview

Below is the transcript of questions I had for them.

Do you regret anything about Creatures?

What would you do differently?

Did you always want to do music?

Morrissey/The Smiths plays a big role with you, musically and lyrically, who got you into him and what was the definitive song that changed things for you?

What challenges do you set for yourselves as musicians?

Who inspired you to play music?

Being on the road for so many years, how do you keep from being at the throat of each other? How do you create a sanctuary so to speak for yourself?

What are some “rumors” if not already that you would like to clear the air of?

While being on the road you are guaranteed challenges along the way, what is your worst story individually or as a band?

Is creatures the album that would say defines where you want to be musically or is this only a stepping stone?

All bands have that song or songs they don’t know why they wrote it which one is yours and why?

What advice would you give aspiring musicians?

Not everyone as much as we would like them to knows Motionless In White, if you were to introduce yourself to them what song would you tell them to listen to, why , and how would you describe your sound to them?

How do you feel about the current music today, do you feel like a lot of bands today are cheating their fans out of good music?

Piracy, it’s a subject that’s been around for years and is an endless battle, how do you feel about it? Would you agree, that if media wasn’t so easy to access, a lot of bands including yourself wouldn’t be where they are today without people downloading their songs?

Can we expect any new works from you in the near future or is it too early to say?

Huge thanks to Chris, Ricky, Angelo, Ryan, Balz, Devin, Mike, Josh, and Alie! You guys and gal were amazing, Hope to meet up again real soon. Thanks to Ken for getting everything squared away for this to be possible.

-Nate J

I was stoked to meet up Beau and Eric from Blessthefall, and got a fantastic interview with them. You can check out the audio clip to hear what these guys had to say with every question I threw their way.

Interview With Blessthefall

Below is a transcript of the questions I asked…Enjoy!

There are still purists out there that prefer Craig over Beau, what do you feel about this and what would you say to them?

The Awakening sounds like where you want to be musically, or do you have a new direction that youre keeping a secret?

Your first tour with Beau probably wasn’t always open arms at every show, what was the worst thing that happened regarding the lineup change and where were you?

Do you have anything you regret about The Awakening?

What or who was your biggest musical influence growing up?

Would you ever have Craig do guest vocals?

Take the Crown, how was the transition from that band to this one?

What track would you say was the hardest to write?

Do you have a favorite track off the album?

If you weren’t musicians what would you be doing instead?

What is your most memorable moment while on tour?

Tell me about the photos on isanyoneup.com, How do you feel about them, and did you post them?

What are some words you would share with the fans who look up to you?

Do you have any advice for someone who strives to be where you are?

Would you ever do remixes of your songs? If so which ones?

How do you feel about the music that floods the shelves these days?

Do you have any thoughts on piracy?

Thanks to Beau and Eric for their time, and big thanks to Ken for getting everything set up.

-Nate J

We are currently featuring an original Christmas song titled. Mr. Life Saver Man, by Jonathan Jones. The track comes off his holiday EP titled”Christmas In Our Shorts EP.” Which you can pick up here.  This has become my new favorite Christmas album already, and I’ve only had it a week.

I asked Jonathan if he would  tell us the story behind this featured song as well as to why he chose to record a Christmas album.  You can read all of that below.  If you want to hear the song, just look to your right and click play!!!

TheInterlude: Jonathan, can you tell us what Mr. Life Saver Man is really about and how you came up with the idea for the song?
 
Jonathan:

Mr. Life Saver Man is a song that I’ve subconsciously been trying to write since 2006. I always thought it would be cool to write an original Christmas song about an ornament, but never really made the time. Mr. Life Saver Man is a song about the oldest ornament that’s hung on my families Christmas tree. The ornament was made in the 70′s by a student my mom taught in the San Diego City Schools. It became a beloved ornament largely in part because of how awkward it’s appearance is and the fact that the original life saver candy(that makes up it’s body) has long since evaporated. It’s become such a hit in the family that each year we rotate who hangs it up. It also, gets a major cheer when it’s brought out of the box and the same story is told about it’s history.

Remember Paris is working on pre-production for their new album.  Ben of TheInterlude recently sat down with guitarist T.J. Greer and talked about their summer on warped, leaving their label and what the band is currently up to.  Enjoy the read and look for treats to come in the future, as we follow the band during their entire recording process.

TheInterlude: Tell everyone who you are, what band you are in and what your role is in that band?

T.j. Greer: Hey! My name is TJ Greer and I sing and play guitar for Remember Paris!

TheInterlude: So, you guys were out following warped this summer, how did that go for you?

T.j. Greer: We met a lot of great people, and a lot of amazing contacts that will help us through this next year. The tour itself was just awesome, but we had the worst van luck in the world. Luckily, we had a lot of support from the fans and were willing to help us through the rough time of breaking down. At one point in time we were sleeping in the van in the Midas Parking lot next to our trailer for days trying to figure out how we were going to fix everything. Warped is a tour that will push every band too this limits, quite a test.

TheInterlude: you guys were signed to all about records, but that has seemed to have ended. what happened there?

T.j. Greer: Remember Paris and All About Records just grew to have different outlooks on a direction of growth for the band.  We had a blast being a part of that label and get the help we received, but by the end of the day, we need to do what is in the best interest for the band as a whole.

TheInterlude: So, you guys are currently unsigned.  What is the next step, currently being free agents?

T.j. Greer: Yes, for the record we are unsigned at the moment. We have been shopping around, looking into new management and label representatives for the next album we are working on now.  Doing what every DYI band does, the legendary PRESS KITS! We never took a step back, just finding a new way to put our strongest foot forward.

TheInterlude: Are you guys going to be putting out any new music soon, or have you started writing for the next album?

T.j. Greer: Now Ben, I can’t let all the secrets out! But I can say this, we have been talking about releasing a couple of the preproduction songs out for everyone to hear what we have been working on since we have been back from tour. Actually, we started the writing process for this album before we left for the UK Tour, and continued once we got back to Indiana

TheInterlude: So how many songs do you have in the bag right now? And how many do you want to have before you begin to record the album?

T.j. Greer: We currently have about 6 songs with all the music tracked out. They just need a few touches in editing to be ready for the vocals to be tracked. Ideally, the plan is to have about 13 complete songs and a few acoustic songs tracked and sent to John Naclerio at Nada Studios. Then he will touch base with us and go through his footnotes to tighten up the album.

TheInterlude: You recorded you last album with Naclerio as well. What made you decide to use him again?

T.j. Greer: It was a tough decision as a band. At first thought, we never second guess going with John. But then, we had multiple producers in contact with us bidding on the album. Through all the emails and phone conferences we had, we actually got a chance to still down and talk with John at Nada Studios on one of our one off days of Warped.  That meeting sealed the deal. John is a great friend of ours, and one of the best producers in the industry to date. The quality of the last album exceeded our expectations…so you can only imagine what this NEXT album will sound like right!?

TheInterlude: So how does your pre-production process work?

T.j. Greer: This time around it has been a VERY different process for us. A lot of the song we have are songs we have written in time of touring off of our last album “…But A Boy Can Dream”. Some of the songs were incomplete, so I tracked all the drums and then wrote guitar parts that weren’t finished. All the preproduction is being recorded at my house to save time and money.

TheInterlude: How does Ryan go about working on the lyrics? Do you do the vocal melodies too, or does he get the tracks and go from there?

T.j. Greer: After I get done with the songs, I email him the track. Ryan is always writing, so he has material from our lives he sees and from what he as lived. He has been sitting in with me during the tracking sessions, getting an idea for the songs. And we have talked a lot about the direction of this album vocally that we want. Mainly discussing the play on words we want to use, all the harmonies we want. There will be more “back and forth” vocal styling’s for Ryan and I both, mixed with a lot of harmonies as well. I try and help as much as I can with melodies as much as possible, but generally just get the luxury of banging out harmony parts.

TheInterlude: When are you guys heading to the studio?

T.j. Greer: We are going to be back at Nada Studios in New Windsor, NY this Spring to lay out the new Full Length.

TheInterlude: Thanks for the update, we will touch base later on to see how the pre-production is going and maybe see if you will give us theinterlude viewers a taste of a new song

T.j. Greer: Thanks a lot TheInterlude! Keep in touch and we will give you some goodies here soon to release!

If you are unfamiliar with Remember Paris, check out the track Ok Dudes, But If Jen Shows Up I’m Outta Here, below which comes off the band’s current album “But A Boy Can Dream” which can be purchased here.

 
05 Ok Dudes, But If Jen Shows Up I’m Outta Here by theinterlude

I recently had the chance to sit down with Sea Swallowed Us Whole (sometimes referred to as SSDUB or SSUW) and talked with them about their upcoming album , “I Am Poseiden”.

You can listen to an exclusive track Everything’s The Devil off their upcoming record. Click Here to Listen

Tell me about the record.

SSUW:

We have a new cd coming out called “I am Poseidon”. Its hopefully coming out in 2- 3 months, we are currently finalizing the album artwork

How long did it take to write it?

SSUW:

We were getting  our band together to have a solid lineup after some members changes and it probably took us 8-12 months, and we were out of state a lot so we wrote it as we went along, on our tours and going through the changes we often made adjustments to songs, after constant tinkering with them on tour to make it solid while being on a deadline, and we are currently writing a new song and working on another new cd, while trying to release this one.

What musical direction did you take?

SSUW:

C sharp was used on the last record and we wanted to be heavier, so we made some serious changes to our sound, nothing like our current fans have heard yet even though we have played some new songs at shows from time to time.

Our influence for this record is from the local bands that we play with and just trying to be ourselves and start something new

Do you have any tour plans?

SSUW:

“Rock Yourself To Sleep” if we can, We need more votes! So go to our facebook and like us! Ha-ha

After the release of our cd we are going to plan a bigger tour but for now locals only.

Do you have a label or one in mind?

SSUW:

We left our last label, “label killers” and we bailed for several personal and business reasons.

So in all to sum it up, we fell apart from each other and left the label.

We’re currently looking for one that best fits us and is family oriented rather as well as business as long as they keep us on the road we will be happy.

What can people expect to hear from this record?

SSUW:

Get the feelings of life and its not all about partying and getting messed up, its more about brotherhood and trying to stand on your own.

Finding yourself, emotional distresses, and “FTW” type of stuff. Our lives as a whole, trying to show a light at the end of tunnel

Very catchy “pop” parts with some heavy breakdowns, our music just reflects what were trying to say in our songs. Just listen to our songs and have a good time.

Lyrics any examples and why you wrote them?

SSUW:

“The Index” this song has a lot of good meaning, and took me more time than the other compositions.  I got a lot of help from everyone in the band, to solidify the idea of the song and write it. All of our songs are stories from our lives as well as mine (Alfonso).

Any sponsors or any that you would like to have?

SSUW:

DR strings or Ernie ball strings would be nice sponsor to have on tour.

We basically want sponsors that would help us along our way or anyone that wants to help.

What was the overall issue with your artwork and other delays?

SSUW:

New graphic designer that we came across, cut us a deal with a t-shirt design and profile layout. We did not hear from him in 4-5 months, an ended up asking around to other bands about him, and apparently he’s done this to a few other bands that we’ve talked to, and kind of made off with our and the other bands money. Our member changes also played a part in this.

We barely found one that can handle the art we need done in a timely manner, so hopefully in the next two months it will be done and ready for press.

We feel the music scene now days isn’t about bringing out the outcast to have somewhere to go, to share our passion with us, and have support with each other. We can be there for them, and them for us  we just want to have it to so its all about the music and the people who support us.

We would rather have it be for the 10 kids who care, than 1000 who don’t

Smaller crowds have been our best shows for this reason, because these kids are pumped on what were doing as musicians and our music.

What do you wish you could’ve done different on your first EP?

SSUW:

We got forced to write it and was rushed and we were not happy with it , we just had no time to make it sound like we wanted, and no time for production , just not how we wanted to do things.  We wanted to be different that that and wasn’t what we could’ve made it , this is why we’ve been taking our time with this one.

Just focusing on our music not the product

What are some hardships that you can give advice on?

SSUW :

Don’t tour if you’re not ready with your music

Plan ahead, and expect the worse to come and hope the best to work in your favor.

Playing local areas is awesome, just be yourself as if you weren’t playing locally confidence.

Don’t be lazy, and play a thousand local shows expand your grounds, and push yourselves.

Promote yourselves.

Great communication.

Never rely on anyone you can trust them, but always have a backup plan.

Its not about religion, it’s just about music god is not in it.

Always have an emergency fund.

No matter how big of a band you are, you will have issues on the road GUARANTEED.

Do what you want, not what you think you should do.

Be yourself.

Think for yourself.

Make sure everyone has the same passion as you in your band.

Give it your 100% or don’t do be in band.

Who you know can help, but its you who gets your band where you want to be.

Do it because you love it, not because it’s cool or you want to be famous.

Work for your paycheck, it’s much better than just sitting around waiting for the lottery.

Piracy and what are your thoughts?

SUUW:

Download our cd anyway, you can share it, burn it, we don’t care and we wont tell no one Ha-ha.

Two songs form our new cd is on our bandcamp at name your price,  also itunes as well. If you want to listen to our new stuff go to our facebook.

LINKS

www.myspace.com/seaswalloweduswhole

www.facebook.com/seaswalloweduswhole

www.purevolume.com/SeaSwallowedUsWhole

www.reverbnation.com/seaswalloweduswhole

Seaswalloweduswhole.bandcamp.com

Twitter.com/SSUWofficial

I had a chance to sit down with Joshua of We Came as Romans and get the inside scoop of what we can  expect from their second full length “Understanding What We’ve Grown to Be”

Check it out!

I want to thank Joshua for taking time out of his busy day to talk with us!

-Nate

You can check out their latest singles and more at the links below!

Links:

http://www.wecameasromans.com/

http://www.facebook.com/wecameasromans

Hey guys!

I had a chance to talk with Matteo Rocca the vocalist of this amazing upcoming band “My Breathing Harmony” from Brescia, Italy.

The boys of My Breathing Harmony have an upcoming EP “The Night Is Over” and we got the scoop on it.

These boys of Italy have played alongside with some pretty great bands. You can find out who as read along this interview!

about the end of the month

hopefully around September 10th

we’re just waiting for the final mixing.

-END

Nate Johnson

This band is really one to watch, you can check out and download their current EP, from their facebook page. Found here My Breathing Harmony Official

I will following up with My Breathing Harmony when the “The Night Is Over” EP is officially released!

Be sure to check out the other great bands mentioned in this interview

Hopes Die Last

Upon This Dawning 

I sat down with Alexia and Anissa Rodriguez of ESTK, and went over a few things check out my interview from this years Warped Tour!

Eyes Set To Kill

* I apologize for the background noise as it is warped tour there was a lot going on behind me.

Mike – Hey what’s going on, this is Mike Hobb from Emmure and I play drums.

Zac – So how’s the tour going for you guys so far?

Mike – The tour has been awesome, all of the dates have been really really good. We’ve honestly just had a crazy draw from pretty much everybody on the tour. I feel like you know it’s a pretty eclectic package and there are a lot of different sounds going on with each band that’s on the tour. You know even the band that’s opening up, Lower than Atlantis, they’re much much different than we are, but they’ve got a great sound, and they’re attracting a lot of fans that might have just come to see Asking Alexandria, or just us, or just Chiodos. It seems like we’re all just kind of crossing over in that way, so far the tour has just been really awesome.

Zac- What is your favorite song from the new album so far?

Mike – My personal favorite song? Umm, I think is probably, I don’t know it’s hard to say.  I really enjoy Children of Cybertron, just because it’s very simple, it’s heavy, it’s to the point. I love that. You know the message is very clear, it’s got that sing a long type vibe to it. I also love playing Demons of Ryu live, I think it’s a great song its got a good melody mix, you know, it’s fun on the drums, and all of that kind of stuff with the samples and everything.

Zac – I don’t know if you write any of the lyrics, but which was the hardest song to write?

Mike – Well, that would definitely be a question I guess more for Frank. I think the thing is he does do all of the lyric writing. I’ll sit there and go through his lyrics and decipher what I get from it. But you know, I think personally I can’t answer for Frank, but I think you know it’s a pretty natural process where he just has a slew of topics that he’s interested in talking about. He’ll just sit there and make little notes, and again what I noticed I like more about the album, I think vocally he’s kind of cut a lot of the fat away. You know it’s like a little bit more simplistic, to the point, but still has good content. It’s just not 50 lines of song with all of these different kinds of spewed out thoughts.

Zac – Yeah, each song pretty much tells a different story.

Mike – Yeah, and it’s kind of collective, you know?

Zac – Out of every song you guys have ever written, which one do you most enjoy playing live?

Mike – Out of every song? I think I enjoy playing When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong most, just because it’s usually the closer for the set, it’s a pretty popular song, and for me personally on the drums it’s got these cool little breaks and little fill things that I get to do, and its just got a great overall feel live and it’s fun to play.

Zac- For everyone out there who doesn’t know, what does Emmure mean, where did you guy get your name?

Mike – What Emmure means, it’s actually a French torture technique, I believe it’s spelled with an “I” though. So like to be Immured is to be buried in a wall. I guess the whole poetic message behind it, at least for what the French ordained it with is that it’s like a personal prison, you get to live in your own prison. And that is what Emmure is supposed to mean, is like every body has these things in their own life that is like a prison of sorts, make you feel like you’re stifled in life or not living up to your potentials.

Zac – That’s really awesome.

Mike – Cool, thank you.

Zac – Do you have any pre-show rituals?

Mike – Yeah, you know everybody does his or her own thing, we stretch, try to work out if we’re not feeling too fucking lazy. A lot of people have a couple of drinks, I personally don’t drink before I play, and Frank really doesn’t either. A couple members of the band will just like to have a drink, chill out, get loose, other than that we’ll do a hands in type deal usually, and have a kind of like saying for the day, count it off, go on stage and try to turn it out as best as we can. You know, nothing too unusual, no sacrificing or anything too ritualistic.

Zac – Yeah, that was kind of a weird way to word the question.

Mike – Nah it is what it is.

Zac – How does it feel to have all of these kids to be looking up to you that listen to your music?

Mike – OH, it’s amazing, we get to impact so many different people in such an interesting way, and what I think is cool is that kids get fuel behind the music when you actually get to meet them or you interact with them, it’s just all more personal. You get to hear what some people have to say and a lot of times people will exceed your expectations as to what you think the music really means to them and how it’s translated into their lives. People say it’s gotten them through their toughest times with their break ups, or I know people who serve in the military, a lot of people listen to us there and they say it helps them through and all of that kind of stuff. So I mean, we’re making real real impacts on people’s lives and that segways into just being able to hopefully get things all the more close, you know what I mean? As far as what we’re doing here. The music is the message and we just want to reach out to people and make them feel loved and accepted with what we’re doing.

Zac – I heard a rumor that you guys were supposed to be on Warped Tour again this year, and I saw that you’re not.

Mike – No, we’re not.

Zac – So you were never planning on it?

Mike – There was a time that we thought we would like to do it, but the way Warped Tour works is they want to give as many bands as they can a chance. Some bands they ask back, some bands they don’t. We felt that we probably could have done it at a certain rate. It just looked like, between that, mayhem, and what we were trying to put together with our name for us to head line and maybe try to compete with these things. To just have a place amongst them, we thought that was probably the best thing to do, we just tried to set it up ourselves and maybe next year with Warped Tour or we’ll do something like that.

Zac – Are there 2 or 3 items that you pretty much couldn’t live without while touring?

Mike – Yeah, I think so. I would definitely say my phone is one of them, my passport for the most part, other than that, you know I like having a drink in my bunk, you can get parched, wake up in the middle of the night and need a bottle.

Zac – Is there a best/worst venue that you can remember off the top of your head that you’ve played?

Mike  – Yeah there have been so many different ones, I think that as far as best and shittiest, one of the better venues that I’ve played and this is just because of the setting, The Gorge in Washington that we played on Warped Tour, because its just over looking this beautiful gorge of course, and it’s just got this little private island where all of these rich boating folks go down and party and you can see it from a distance and they’ve got like fighter jets that come and do a run by, it’s crazy its just so open and so vast. So that was really a cool experience to see, kind of like a Heaven on Earth type thing. And as far as the worst venues, I mean we’ve played so many seedy and dingy little bars and stuff like that. I mean this place was a good venue, but it was like just completely fucked and it was just crazy. We just recently played this place called the Rickshaw Theater in Vancouver, in Vancouver, they have this thing where basically the street that the venue is on houses all of the degenerates and all of the lower forms of life. It’s like drunks, drug addicts, like crack heads, heroin addicts, and they are all in one place.

Zac – That doesn’t seem like a good idea..

Mike – Yeah, it’s completely crazy. And the thing is they have this building right by the venue that is a government funded like meth clinic. They give needles to these people, like clean needles so these people don’t spread diseases or whatever maybe. The night we played there we saw somebody get stabbed in the middle of the street, two bums were fighting and stabbing each other. Some dude was getting his fucking dick licked for like an hour by some crack head just standing by a dumpster, people just pissing and shitting in the streets. It was just crazy.

Zac – That sounds insane!

Mike – I mean the venue wasn’t too bad, but the whole surrounding area was like Sodom and Gomorrah. It was like fucking biblically insane and it was just crazy.

Zac – That actually sounds like the next question, what is the worst experience you have had while touring?

Mike – I’ve had a lot of really good and bad experiences while touring, it just all varies. At any given point in your life there are just so many different things going on in your life whether they be right there or at home. I guess Vancouver was one of the more interesting ones, but I survived, I wasn’t too immersed in it, I wasn’t like “Oh, I’m never getting out of here”. There’s that, and I’ve had times on tour where we’ve ran into people who are homeless and need to get back somewhere. Even just the other night I felt bad, like I’m lucky, I feel like nothing too terrible has happened to me personally. Count my blessings and so forth, but you meet so many people that have unfortunate circumstances on the road, that you feel bad and wish you could help people more. Even look just around here there are a lot of homeless people. It’s rough; it’s a rough time to live. I feel all the more fortunate because I’m healthy, I’m happy for the most part.

Zac- you’re doing what you love.

Mike – Yeah, doing what I love and just trying to keep a positive outlook on life in that way. So yeah, I think it’s more so just seeing what other people have gone through. I’ve seen people get hit in the face with fucking velvet rope poles like getting smashed and kicked to death. Crazy shit. It just makes you all that more much appreciative that there’s a comfort zone where you can play music and get so immersed in people’s lives, experience real life from the other side and make it out alive. The road can be a monster. There’ve been days that I’ve been sick, I’ve been injured on the road. One time I was touring with my old band in Jacksonville and I was staying at the promoter’s house, this guy Jesse and he had a bunch of spray paint cans on the stairs and I went down to get something from the band and fell down like twenty fucking stairs and sprained my ankle so bad, I thought it was fucking broken. We had to play a gig the next day, so I just taped my ankle and played and I got better in like a week, I really lucked out. That was back when we had no money, no health insurance, we didn’t know what was going on. I’m like, “I guess I’m gonna do this shit!” Things have improved since that point.

Zac – Coming from someone with experience in touring, do you have any advice for the local bands who are just getting started touring and playing shows and such?

Mike – Absolutely, I mean the best advice I can give to any local bands that are trying to make it or break it is to just be persistent. A lot of bands won’t even make it out of the game because they’re trying, they see that it’s difficult and they break up just trying to put songs together and whatever else is going on. If you can be persistent and if you can really believe in yourself and believe in the music you are putting out there then things will inevitably fall into place. You just have to always show your face and always put yourself out there and say, “Hey, I think this is worth it”. I mean you can come to terms with things to yourself and say “You know look, I can play at such and such times, I have a real job, I love doing this” because touring isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be, its a lot of hard work, its a lot of monotony and down time. There’s a lot of driving, I mean then again we’re [Emmure] just so fortunate that we’ve gotten passed that point. It’s still difficult. But I think that difficulty should inspire people, you shouldn’t become complacent, you should say to yourself the difficulty is where things become so fun. You just go to yourself, wow I have to put all of this work to get all this way. But in doing it, it’s just such an intense and all encompassing process that it becomes you. You just love it, the way you wanted it to become you and you want to do this music. Inevitably not giving up on the process you will become a part of it whether you’re the local “weekend warrior” type where everybody is just like damn this is the sickest shit I’ve ever heard, I wish you guys had a record deal, or you put all of that work and shop yourself around and print up your own shit, put it online, tell all of your friends and have them tell all of their friends, and just hope that word of mouth works in that way. And again, just be persistent.

Zac – You guys just put out Speaker of the Dead, you’ve been touring, have you thought about the future? Are you guys going to start writing a new record soon?

Mike – Yeah, the band is always thinking of the future and just trying to put as much stuff as they can out there. I think with the way the industry is today, people love hearing these things, and they identify with these things. The more you put out there for people to identify with and to consume on the other end, its only better for you as a band. So we’re looking forward to writing a new record and carrying on our careers. We don’t have anything solid yet, I mean, the guys will be riffing, or I’ll have ideas on my mind or Frankie will have something and everyone just goes to their computer and does their own thing and then we figure out what we are going to use from there. All of those gears are turning but nothing is like “alright this is definitely the new single, this is definitely what we are using.” We’re just at the beginnings of what we’ve just released, you know we’re touring on that for a while and we’re going to figure out what other live songs we want to integrate into the set from that record, you know switch things up. All that stuff is coming together as well as creating new things.

Zac – Okay well that’s all that I have for you, is there anything you have to say to the fans that you’d like to close the interview with?

Mike – Yeah, of course. I mean always anybody who is nice enough to listen to us, and listen to what I personally have to say and what the rest of the band has to say. We just really appreciate everybody being supportive, you know being at the live shows because obviously that is how we are able to make a living through this for the most part now. We just appreciate people buying the records and showing the record company that we continually appreciate what they do for us, and the kids really do enjoy what they’re getting and what they’re listening to. So all in all, just keep on doing your thing and we’ll keeping doing ours, and we just appreciate the opportunity to play for you guys.

Zac – Well thanks for the interview! I’m Zac with www.theinterlude.com and this was Emmure.