Well, we all come from the hardcore scene, but we all listen to different kinds of music. From Metal, to Hardcore to Punkrock to Goth to Industrial. That are all influences to our music, but I’d say that mainly we are a metal/hardcore band. We have hardcore parts, we have breakdowns, we have metal-fast parts and yesterday there was even someone who said that we’re playing Trashcore parts as well haha! But I wouldn’t really call it Trashcore though.

 

Well, besides Britney Spears (she’s for the lyrics), I’d say bands like Integrity, At The Gates, Crowmax, Intombed, Crowbar, Pantera. Just pretty much we grew up with; we’re still listening to that stuff.

Lyrically, I think that Brandan gets his influences mainly out of personal issues in the past. 

 

Yeah, it is a real one. (Scott: it’s mine!) Yeah, we borrowed Scott’s heart haha! But seriously, it has something to do with being stabbed in the heart. And you can hear that back in the lyrics, they’re all about relationships and things that devastate you. But I think it pretty much explains itself.

 

 

Well, personally I’m listening to Cult Of Luna for quite a while and it’s definitely a band that I like, but it’s actually our management that makes such deals. It was like, our management talking to theirs and our management mentioned some other bands that were available as well but we were like: no, let’s take Cult Of Luna with us on tour! And this is only our second day of the tour but these dudes are awesome and it’s just an awesome band.

Well, last time in Amsterdam there was this guy running around screaming: “fuckingsuckingcandlesbananas”, that was kinda funny! But yeah, Amsterdam is always interesting; it’s a lot different from California. It’s a very cool place though.

Well, it’s quite a new thing, it happened only a couple of months ago. We haven’t really dealt with Roadrunner that much, we’re actually talking to Trustkill about everything.

 

Well, it’s only day two of this tour, so that’s kinda hard to say. But every show there’s flyers and big posters outside, so they seem to be doing their job. But overall, we haven’t experienced any big differences yet. So, no complaints so far.

 

Personally I think that DVD sucks! A DVD with a live show is way more interesting and these kinds of DVDs are more like a promotional thing. It’s just for that period that there’s no band coming up with something new and then these things get their release. You can only wait and see who buys such a DVD. 

Well, we already have one out. It’s just a live show on it, a hometown gig actually, and some backstage stuff. But we have some plans for the next DVD, that’s for sure. We’re trying to make a live DVD again with on the road stuff on it and it’s going to be about our new album as well. We’re going to film the recordings of our next album and that will show how we all deal with each other. The fighting process haha!

 

Marta: chick?!?!

Yeah, we do! Only because we’re a little bit different because of having a girl in the line-up, people sometimes focus too much on that but for us it’s cool. She gets a lot of attention though, ‘the famous Marta Petersen’, haha!

 

Haha, yeah that’s right, the other week sucks!

Scott: Yeah but with Marta it’s like three weeks that suck and one week is cool!

Marta: Wow! What a great interview .

Scott: Ahhh Marta! No hard feelings ok? Haha!

 

 

Wow, that’s a tough question! I just can’t see who would be supporting us.

 

Dudes! That’s really a tough question, you mean, like we’re playing after *NSync or something?

 

Really?!? You see, we don’t have that in the US. There was one festival once somewhere in the US, but you know what? Most of those pop artists we don’t even know. So we haven’t really experienced that situation so far. 

 

That’s just awesome! I mean, we played all Ozzfest (2004) dates with them and it’s cool to see them perform with all the original members again. I mean, they’re all about 800 years old and still rocking, they still sound awesome. That’s just great.

 

Well, I haven’t seen that either, but most of episodes I did see. It wasn’t a guy though.

 

Ehm, she got picked to play bass in one of our songs and she said that she only played bass for about six weeks. That’s why we picked one of the easiest songs for her to play. So we gave here ‘On Wings Of Lead’ and she practiced it the whole week and then she came up on stage with us some day and we just played the show.

 

No! It was absolutely the worst bass player! She was a nice girl though.

 

 

Personally I prefer smaller venues but at festivals it’s cool play for such different people and a part of them have never seen you before. But at festivals is a hassle, you’re always in a rush. And that’s not so weird, I mean, there’s about 100 bands playing on one day! How do you do that? That’s just impossible, there must be some problems rising up then. And besides that, at festivals you play a lot at daytime, which isn’t that cool either.

 

No, we definitely got the chance to see a lot of bands live and it wasn’t that bad for us on Ozzfest with the promotional activities. But that’s because we were on the side stage, and the press is more focussing on the bigger bands you know. Besides that, the festivals lasts the whole day long so the activities can be spread all over the day, which means you’ve got plenty of time left for yourself.

 

Marta: socks!

Brian: yeah socks, my I-pod and a shower. But to have good food is important too, because last time we were in Europe we ate at McDonalds everyday, and that sucks.

 

Well, we’re actually in the process of writing a new record now. We got five new songs and I think we’re gonna do two of them tonight. And besides those songs we’re gonna play some songs of ‘This is Love, This is Murderous’ and some of ‘Dust To Ashes’.

 

 

Well, we got a lot of stuff coming up. After this tour we’re gonna finish the writing and record the new album. Then, once that one gets out we’re gonna head over to Australia, going back to the States again, doing the ‘Warped Tour’ and then hopefully we’ll come back here.

 

Stay metal!

 

Thanks to you too guys!