What's up all, haven't been on here for a while. I had to laugh at TDD....us trying to be all things to all people? pfffft
We do what we want when we write. All we care about is writing the best songs we can, and if it goes heavy with some death vox, great. If it's all clean vox, great. But at the end of the day, we write what we want to hear and don't really care about what the critics or internet trolls will say. And to me that is a FAR more 'progressive' attitude than recycling the same damn harpsichord arpeggio patch over the same damn generic power metal riff and double bass pattern, singing about elves or board games or whatever, and basically trying to re-create Images & Words or some old Gamma Ray album. Or we'd get a hot female singer, layer some strings over a syncopated chug, and go with that. And that is what most people call "progressive". And you all know it's true.
We don't even really consider ourselves to be a prog band....we describe it as modern metal with clean vocals. Some people get what we do, some don't, and that's totally ok with us. Having said that, the reviews have been outstanding of our new album, which we like to hear. But we're going to continue to do what WE like to do, and we're going to continue to work our asses off touring and recording in spite of there being far less than $0 dollars involved, and that's that. We have a lot of influences - power, thrash, prog, death, black - and we come by what we do honestly.
But trying to be all things to all people? Whatever, haha....if that were the case we wouldn't be playing metal at all. We'd be doing 80's cover songs and making a living at it. Not touring in a sprinter eating and showering at a truck stop every day.
I love you TDD, you're my buddy. I'll hook you up with some old vinyl, I think I have a Hawkwind album somewhere I can let you borrow. =)
