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!).