ION INDIE MAGAZINE January 2015, Volume 8 | Page 9

What we are talking about here is what bands call 'the next level.” SUH is there--at the
beginning of the next level--where the four years of nonstop work--blood, sweat and
tears-- start to coalesce. Where doing all of the shows and tours for years, where
building a fan base and hauling merch and gear around the country and working social
media and taking names and kicking ass, all starts to come together to the point that
people take notice. Well, people HAVE taken notice--and like I said, SUH has the
numbers to back it up. Their Facebook page has garnered almost 138,000 “LIKES”.
Their ReverbNation ranking is consistently in the top10 (I’ve seen them at #3--a
LOT!), in Hollywood, CA in the Rock/Post Hardcore/Hard Rock genre (which can't be
easy), boasting over 42,000 song plays (I wish!). And, not to mention their 97,000 plus
Twitter following. Seriously, I don’t think this momentum is going to slow down. In
actuality, I think that it’s going to speed them on to the next level.
When pressed for details about all of the surprises coming ion 2015, Mixi sticks to the
guns of her recent FB video post promising huge things to come, but that we'll all have
to wait and see. She did talk about the direction of the material for the next EP (Shit, I
forgot to ask her if she thinks the LP is dead--damn it, I do--anyways). “It's definitely
more positive.” she laughs. “’Skeleton Key’ was kinda dark.” And with songs like
“Marionette” about suicide (one of my current favorites), to other tunes just about
general all-around Hollyweird-ness. “I want to make people happy, I mean; I like to
make people happy.” She pauses, ”It’s like when someone tells you that they were
listening to one of your songs and it made their day, and it makes you feel like, ‘Yeah, I
just totally made someone happy!’”.
She explains that the material is just more positive in general, more optimistic. Mixi
also let us know that recording is scheduled in Denver, Colorado. She then let me in on
a little not-so-secret, um, secret--“We didn’t want a producer that was going to act like
we were making some demo.” So SUH took some time and did some homework—and
found out what some bands they “dug” did, and lined up Producer Jamison Boaz.
Jamison is an experienced, yet fresh as hell Producer, who has worked with some
pretty killer bands--including the last two albums by PSYCLON NINE. They all pretty
much want to go NOW and can’t wait to get into the studio in mid-January. I mean, I
totally know how they feel. If you don't know, once you book studio time, it’s all you
think about until you get there. (Shit! I need to book the CHERRY PIT!).