ROSS: As for myself, I'm influenced mainly by all sorts of metal. I love it all, death, black, grind, sludge, thrash, you name it. Blues and southern rock are also huge influences on me. The other guys' tastes vary quite a bit.  Our drummer worships clutch (as do I), our singer is a big metal head and loves old country and Elvis, our bass player has an appreciation for all kinds of music as well.

Aside from music we are influenced by all the bullshit in the world that pisses us off. Corrupt politics, child molesting priests, war, racism, stress, depression, the fact that weed is illegal, etc etc..... These things all help fuel our fire when writing music and lyrics.

ADRENALIN: Ever get a chance to share the stage with or meet the guys of Clutch?

ROSS: I have never had the honor of sharing a stage with them or meeting them. That would be an incredible moment for us though if we did get to open for them someday. I saw them live on the "Blast Tyrant" tour though, one of the best shows I have ever seen for sure

ADRENALIN: Your self-titled CD was recorded in a basement and the quality is great. How was the set-up? Were there many complications with the recording process?

ROSS: Yeah we listed in the linear notes that is was "recorded in Paul's basement" which is true, but he happens to have a nice little pro tools studio in that basement. Our drummer was set up in his own room, I set my rig up outside of the mixing room, and our bass player went direct into the

board. Myself and Curt (bass) stood in the mixing room to keep things as quiet as possible around my stack, and then we basically just ran through the songs until we had solid drum takes. Once that was done I doubled my guitar lines and Curt and I cleaned up whatever needed cleaned up on our tracks. Billy did the vocals and that was that. The whole thing was pretty complication free. It did take us awhile though, cause we are kinda lazy, and because of Paul's (studio owner) busy schedule.

ADRENALIN: Did you shop this around to any labels at all? How have the reviews been for it?

ROSS: We sent it out to a few, I like to call them the "I have a dream" labels, like Metal Blade and Relapse and such. We have sorta decided that the newer shit we are working on is so much better than what is on that album that we aren't going to spend a billion dollars sending it everywhere. Metal Blade said we were interesting and that they would like us to send them any future recording but that they didn't feel like it was the right time to sign us. A very polite way of saying no. We have gotten a few really good reviews, hellridemusic.com loved us, metal-revolution.com really liked us, we have had some other positive ones but I can't really remember from where right off hand, various websites. Metal Maniacs said we were wooly fuzz rock that could be really solid of it weren't for our vocalist, which is funny because most of the other reviews loved him.

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