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tastic. What was the most important thing you
focused on going into the studio?
JC: Everything had to be perfect. We'd never
done the professional approach before. We’ve
done tons of recording, but it was always just at
my place. So, everything had to be perfect. We
were really figuring out the tempos, and it took
us, like, 12 hours. “Destination Death” has seven
or eight tempos in the song and we didn’t know,
we just jammed. When we recorded it with Matt
Motto - we went to him, specifically, because my
other band, Act of Destruction, recorded with
him. If you’re familiar with Scars of Armageddon
from McHenry, Matt recorded their record, and it
sounded phenomenal. He also plays in Dissona.
But we went to him because he was able to do it
perfectly. He came by to do the drums at my
apartment because I have a jam room. Everything
had to be natural to us. I think it came out awe-
some.
Mosh: The album has so many diverse influ-
ences. Who or what made the most significant
impact on you, and how would you describe your
sound?
JC: On purpose, in the beginning, all we wanted
to do was play stuff that we wanted to hear. And
we didn’t know it’d be so complicated when it
came to recording it because there’s so much stuff
going on. One of my favorite bands ever and a
huge influence overall in my life is Broken Hope.
Gorgasm, too, from Chicago. Macabre's the shit.
We’ve been compared to bands that I’ve never
heard of before or ones we don’t follow. We were
once compared to Pig Destroyer, which was awe-
some. We come from old Atreyu, Underoath,
Unearth, Hatebreed, and Slayer above anything
else. There’s thrash shit all over the record. I grew
up listening to King Diamond because of my dad,
who still comes out to the shows. We listen to all
of that. We cover Fates Warning's “The
Apparition,” even though our music doesn’t
sound like it. Slayer’s the shit; I know all their
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stuff forward and backward. I play Tama because
I grew up loving Dave Lombardo. I have a Tama
Swingstar. I still use the same kit from the eighth
grade. All we do is go watch bands, listen to
music and play music.
Mosh: As far as the band’s trajectory, do you
think you’re on the right track?
JC: Definitely, I’m doing everything I possibly
can. All I do is work for this band. We just want to
get our name out there. The CD package itself, I
met the artist, his name is Anthony Duran, and he
came to me to print stickers for him. I do printing
during the day, and I loved the theme, and I
asked him if he did custom stuff, and I practical-
ly begged him to do this CD book for us. All the
lyrics are there, all the pictures, everything we did
was in-house. Nobody did anything for us, ever.
We’re just looking to snowball this band as big as
we can.
• MOSH-WORTHY RELEASES: Mortal Decay A
Gathering of Human Artifacts (Comatose Music);
Six of Swords Regime Decay/Polar Vortex
(Redefining Darkness); Pounder Uncivilized
(Hells Headbangers).
• MOSH-WORTHY LIVE: Hatebreed, Obituary,
Terror, Cro-Mags, Fit For An Autopsy (Concord
Music Hall 04/11); Psycroptic, Cannabis Corpse,
Gorod, Micawber, Roman Ring (Reggie's 04/16);
Whitechapel, Dying Fetus, Revocation,
Fallujah, Spite, Uncured, Buried Above Ground
(Concord Hall 04/25).
• MENTION-WORTHY: Des Moines-based psyche-
delic/stoner metal trio Druids have beem under-
ground for nearly a decade but are now poised to
have a breakout year with the release of
Monument on April 19.
Phoenix-based Okilly Dokilly, the Ned
Flanders from the Simpsons "nedal" band just
dropped its sophomore record Howdilly Twodilly
in March.