Seth (guitar, keys), Brent (drums), Jason (bass, lead vocals), Alex (guitar, vocals)

 

 

Alex: Ha yeah.
Brent: Thanks!

 

 

 

Alex: Well, we thought that it’s gonna be really, really cold right now, but it’s not that bad. Everybody said it’s gonna be really cold. And actually more people have spoken English than we thought it would. And we learned enough German to order coffee.

 

 

Alex: No..not yet.
Brent: I’m looking forward to seeing one cause I work for them in America and I just wanna see one, just to see it!

 

 

Brent: Well no, just to say to everybody at home that I’ve been to one over there, that’s kinda cool! :-)

 

 

Brent: I didn’t think that anybody was gonna be that nice.
Alex: Yeah...
Brent: Like you hear about "people hate American people", but everybody has been really really nice and I thought we were gonna have to really try to get all of our food and stuff cause we’d not really get fed, but everybody has been just so helpful and so nice and generous with everything. We’ve had so much to eat and we’ve had awesome places to play and all of the people have just wanted to talk, like they’ve been just so thankful for us coming. It completely exceeded expectations.

 

 

Alex: Yeah, most of the stuff I read was pretty positive so everybody is real excited and alot of the people that come to the shows Really know the songs. In America they’re kinda like, they listen to it and they might know the names of their favorite songs and would be like, yeah I like that too. But here people actually know all the words and stuff.
Brent: Yeah it’s weird.

 

 

Brent: I think they’re better than American fans. Like, they know more of the words and know more of the songs and they’re really intense, really excited and enthusiastic about all your songs. They want you to play more and they know more words than I do. It’s crazy. I think they know more words than Jason does.

 

 

Brent: They told Alex the other night that he didn’t play a song right, which was weird, they were like "You didn’t play the right notes!".

 

 

Alex: Yeah, one part of one of the songs I played an (hard to understand on tape) instead of an (insert musical expression here also) and the guy was: "Joo Doo Not Play That Right Like Itt Is On CeeDee!" and I said that I indeed don’t play it the same as on the CD and he was like "It Was Good Anyywayy!"

 

 

Brent: But it’s also in America they don’t care, they just figure we’ll do it however we need to do it, but here they’re like, they know all the parts and sometimes I think they’d probably do it better than we would. It’s been just amazing. It’s been awesome, I can’t wait to come back!

 

 

Alex: Yeah, alot of the opinions is that alot of the heavier, darker metal comes from Europe so we expected alot of Metal people here. More than in the states, in the states it’s alot of skinny guys doing hardcore dancing, alot of Metalcore.

 

 

Brent: Yeah, the kids also seem to get along better. We haven’t seen any fights or weird stuff. In America we have fights at our shows all the time, like if there’re not Metal kids and they’re hardcore kids they can’t get along really well...

 

 

Alex & Brent: Yeah!

 

 

Alex: Well, yeah...it’s true. If nobody’s out there doing what we’re doing it’s just going to continue being dark. And it’s tough because there aren’t really all that many straight-up metal Christian bands...there’s alot of Christian hardcore bands and that type of thing, I mean I don’t know how it is here but in America if there’s a guy who just listens to Metal and hears a Hardcore breakdown he just shuts the CD off. So you can’t reach that person, they never gonna get the message. And that’s really what we’re all about doing, and it’s been going pretty rule over here.
And even, there are alot of the guys that are super fans and alot of the guys that just heard the music and liked it and come to know that you’re Christian band at all.

 

Yeah, I’ve expected it kinda like that because Europe is so open for Metal but on the other side it’s really like, you wonder if people really get what band’s like you are about.

 

Brent: I had a guy that came talk to me the other day, he was an atheist, but he was probably one of the biggest fans of our band that I ever met and it was just like, it was neat to get to share a couple moments with him and just talk and I guess encourage him in his life even in a kind of a different way. We talked about Christ for like just a second and he was like "you know it doesn’t fit in my mind". And I was just thinking, I can understand that, like I might relate to you better than I do with some of the other people in their lives that are kinda at an indecisive moment, because you’re really sure, you’re really certain that God doesn’t exist - and I’m sure that he is active in life. You know, like I really respect that you can really say that there is no God and you might be at a closer place than these other people that are at other places accepting something uncertain. I was so encouraged that he was able to move over and get over the fact that we were a Christian band and like us, and still take something from us. We weren’t able to share the same things spiritually but we were able to connect. It was really good and it was just like, if I didn’t come over here I might not be able to touch that guy’s life at all, you know. We’re just here to bring light into whatever kind of darkness there is. We’ve been called to share the gospel to everyone and not just the one who wants to hear it.

 

 

Brent: Sometimes - like I was saying with this Atheist guy - it’s good to connect on whatever level it’s possible to do. We wanna bring light in any facet that’s possible. Like, if we can bring light in the musical sense then we wanna do that. We feel that with doing your best at anything Christ shows through, like in Phillipians it says "to think on whatever is good or noble or praiseworthy" or anything like that and it’s just like when you start thinking about something that’s good you think about the best. It’s just like if you think of us as a good thing then you think of like the best thing and then you give credit to the best thing. So I think it’s like if we can be good at anything, if we can be praiseworthy in anything then eventually...like they’re all "what’s better than that, what’s better than that, what’s better than that...", then eventually God is getting all the glory. And we feel like if we are praised for doing a good job then it’s only that God is receiving glory through that.

 

Having said that, do you have any things you would want to tell people who might be really into your music but don’t find the way to approach or find any connection to what you guys are about, like being an Atheist or something? Any message how they could maybe get an easier way to connect with you and what you’re about, as I’m sure there’s alot of preconceptions people have about Christians?

 

Alex: I think the biggest way, I mean really the only way that someone is reached is that they have to find something that speaks to them on their level and we’re out there trying to speak on the level with those metalheads. If the music reaches them, think about what we’re saying and don’t go necessarily right to a church or something like that where you’re gonna feel alienated and everything...there are closed-minded people and unfortunately sometimes freaky metalheads go to a church and get shut out. Start by talking to other Christians, go to other Christian shows and talk to some of them about their faith, and then if they have a place that they are comfortable maybe go with them there. Then you’ll have somebody else and just try to find out what they’re about. That’s probably the best way to do it.

 

 

 

Seth: He sings really good (points to Jason). There’s alot of blastbeats and faster stuff which he plays (points to Brent). More keyboards for me! Great clean singing by him (points to Alex). Lots more solos, lots more brutal, lots more metal, lots darker...

 

 

Seth: Yeah that’s the best way to say it. Our new CD is Lots Massive!!

 

 

 

Brent: Yeah it’s like the ocean, dig in deep and it’s still dark. The ocean is huge...
Seth: Lots Massive!! Haha ;-)