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new album?
Greg Burgess: We're not scientists. I'm
sure if a scientist really looked into it, we
might be completely wrong. These are just
facts that we researched. We'll find a topic
and then we'll go find articles and
YouTube videos about it. We just talk
about the topics and then research them
on the Internet, but staying away from
Wikipedia. NASA has a great website.
Mosh: What's ahead for the band? What's
next, any new touring plans?
Greg Burgess: We're going out with
Chimaira in August, then we have a tour
in September that hasn't been announced
yet. I'm so excited about this tour because
it's like a guitar hero tour. After we do
that, there's two possibilities in October.
There will be a lot of touring. There's
about 90 days straight and then we come
home after October. We've been told we're
going to Europe after that. So fingers
crossed because we really want to go
there.
Mosh: Are your sites set on conquering
Europe?
Greg Burgess: We play more of a
European style. Everybody just thinks
we'll do better in Europe. We don't really
have break downs. That's where we hit
resistance here (in the U.S.). We have
amazing fans here and this is not degrading them by any means. But I just think
there are more people that will understand what Allegaeon is all about over
there. If you look at European metal ver-
sus U.S. metal; the guys there have really
long hair and there's not really any breakdowns. I don't think I know about a "core”
band coming out of Europe. There might
be one but I can't think of one. Here, when
you say melodic death metal, people just
think it's metalcore. It just gets lumped
into that and because of that, we get
lumped into the metalcore/deathcore
thing. Melodic death metal here in the
U.S. got crushed by As I Lay Dying and all
that, and it got twisted in an American
way to be "core.” We just think we'll be
better in a less "core' environment. Hence
the whole reason to try and get to Europe.
MOSH-WORTHY: Lecherous Gaze Zeta
Reticuli Blues (Tee Pee), Mastodon Once
More ‘Round The Sun (Relapse), Crowned
By Fire Space Music For Cave People
(Chrome Mountain), Grave Digger Return
Of The Reaper (Napalm).
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