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very pop and hip-hop, which is fine. Not a lot
of rock music, so we weren't sure how we’d be
perceived, and it was fantastic. We had a great
crowd, everybody was excited. It was a
diverse crowd, as far as ages go. I think there
were people who knew our band and knew a
few of our songs. So that was cool to kind of
present that to people, what it is that we do.
Mosh: What gave you the idea to release 12
Bloody Spies?
Sam Loeffler: 12 Bloody Spies is really a compi-
lation of, I want to say B-sides, even though it
isn’t B-sides. But it's songs that we didn’t get to
put on the records. Not songs that didn’t make
a record, it’s just songs we didn’t put on the
records because we had too many songs or
whatever. It's probably the most diverse, as far
as albums go. The songs just span all these dif-
ferent genres and it’s very cool music that
would be better in one place, which is great.
But now they are.
Mosh: As far as the new album goes, do you
have any ideas of the concept, song titles or
direction of music in mind?
Sam Loeffler: We actually have eight songs fin-
ished. We went in with Joe Barresi (Tool,
Queens of the Stone Age) in Pasadena earlier
this year for five weeks and we got eight songs
finished. We have a couple more songs to do
with him when we find the time when we’re
not touring. We should definitely have a
record out next year and possibly a single in
(the) Fall. So, that's the plan.
Mosh: Do you ever get tired of the Tool com-
parisons or are you flattered?
Sam Loeffler: Every band wants to be original.
And I do believe that we sound like us. But
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people have this thing where a lot of times
they're not attracted to something in music
unless they recognize something that they
know, and they just have to be able to put it
into a category or something. It's just what it is.
Tool’s a fantastic band. I don't think we sound
like them, but they're a fantastic band. They do
their own thing and they have very much their
own thing. We're writing melodic hard rock
songs that I think are entirely different. But
comparisons are just bad. They're compar-
isons. There's so many bands that have to deal
with that stuff. And usually the bad part of it
comes from people who heard one song, and
it's not people who know the catalog or this
span of somebody's work. So, I take it with a
grain of salt.
Mosh: What would you like fans to remem-
ber the most about your legacy as a band?
Sam Loeffler: That's a good question. As far as
our legacy goes, I think it’s probably what
most people want. You want to have that cata-
log of music that you put out into the world
that inspired some people and made it a little
bit better of a place. And the fact that we did it,
we wrote these songs. This was our project
from A to Z and we had good record labels,
good management, had a good crew that
worked for us. We've had all those people
whose supported us and it’s been great. I think
it's important of the fact that we do it the way
we want to do it.
MOSH-WORTHY RELEASES: Pathology Reborn to
Kill (Pavement Entertainment), Misanthropic
Rage Towards the Greyscale Aphorysm (Godz ov
War
Productions),
Horrific
Demise
Excruciating
Extermination
(Comatose
Records).