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I certainly appreciate you taking the time to talk
to us today. You guys are currently on tour with
Disturbed, Alter Bridge, and Saint Asonia. How
is that all going for you so far?
Ben: It’s going great.
It’s going great, eh? I guess that says it all.
Ben: Ya know, we’ve known all those guys for
a long time and most recently got to know
Disturbed. Everybody has just been really
awesome to us, and we’re really grateful to be
on it with them.
So, how did it all come together? Did someone
reach out to you guys and say, ‘Hey, let’s do this’,
or what happened?
Ben: I think in the beginning, it made sense to
package us together with Disturbed because of
our music genres. And then to sort of aid that
along, our album cycles are sort of on the same
time period. And we’re both coming off of a
long hiatus, so it made a lot of sense to do that.
The other bands, like Saint Asonia and Alter
Bridge, we’ve always been fans of both bands.
So, it just made sense to sort of take those guys
along, and they were available, so it worked
out.
Excellent, excellent. It looks like you guys are
having a pretty good time so far.
Ben: It’s been excellent, yeah.
You guys released Dark Before Dawn, what was
it a year ago?
Ben: Yah, around then.
What’s in the harbor at this point? Do you guys
write on the road? What’s the plan? We know it’s
only been a year, but fans love new music.
Keith: Yeah, we’re always writing, you know. It’s
not something we stop everything for to just
write right now. We always have ideas rolling
around and try to record demos whenever we
can. Right now, we still have a little bit of life
left in this one, and we’re going to keep playing.
Hopefully in the next little bit, we can really get
for real into the writing mode and start to lay
some stuff down.
I guess with the writing process for this record,
how do you guys put it all together in terms
of writing and participation from each band
member? How does that work?
Keith: *to Ben*, well I think you already have a
couple little doodads ready to go…
Ben: Yeah, I mean in the past – this is a new
line up with this album and this tour and
everything – and so, in the past, I hadn’t really
gotten many contributions as far as whole
songs are concerned from beginning to end
from anybody else that I used to play with. I