Happens all the time. I get interviews where people say they've never heard the last two cds, or even that the last time they heard us was on "Amid..." (I kid you not!) and then they want to talk about how we've changed or how we feel about the doom scene, or where we've been since 1999, did we break up etc.....I just feel like, man you really ought to do a bit more research on a band before you're going to write an article or review and pass judgement on them like that. We were on the cover of magazines like Metal Maniacs twice during that time, we've played numerous metalfests and even a couple of small tours since then, how is it possible that they could be so oblivious to not even at least realise we were still around? Go to our website, go to our myspace page, go fucking steal the damn cds if you have to hahaha, it's not that hard to find out what we've been up to.
As for the comparisons to these other bands, I'm going to just say it straight up......those people have no fucking clue, they have no ear. And it's more common than not that this is the case. They're the same people who think Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple "sound the same", and Kreator and Slayer sound the same, and Cannibal Corpse and Death sound the same, etc. I mean how does one compare bands like Solitude Aeturnus and Novembers Doom??? Because we're both "doom", to their mind. It's just a bunch of uneducated narrow minded opinions, and in truth, it really shouldn't bother us because it's so fucking ridiculous, if it just weren't so goddamn prevalent all the time *sigh*