We decided to go with “PREY FOR US” as the title because you can also apply it in other ways to the themes of the album, which I’ll get into later in this interview...it works!
3 What does the cover of the CD represent?
Ok, the big guy on the front with the skull and the suit/tie and the tentacles coming off of its head, I have dubbed him the “Corporate Overlord.” The little guys at the bottom have lined up at the feet of the Overlord and the Overlord is throwing them around like toys he has to play with. You also see a crumbling city skyline and money getting thrown around, too. The little men need money, so the idea is they are letting the Overlord have his way with them in order to get paid and survive. This ties into a few of the songs on the record...in relation to the album title, I guess the little guys are the “Prey!”.
4 Could you tell us the most important aspects of "PREY FOR US", Is it your second recording?
Yes sir, this is the second recording for Incontinence. I would say the most important aspects of the album are as follows: First, before we officially signed up with UMP to do the album, we had our “demo” album that we had released (Infecting Paranoid Minds) but no additional songs written, just little ideas here and there.
However, I was confident that there were enough “little ideas” that would become 6 or 7 songs and that we would collect additional ideas to get it up to 8 songs. Because of the “style” we have, the songs tend to be a little longer, like 5-6 minutes on average, so we ended up setting a goal of coming up with 8 quality songs for a proper full-length. And I think we did it!
Second, this was definitely the “fastest” we’ve put together songs, both the music and the lyrics. All of the eight songs were written, rehearsed and recorded over the course of around a year.
Third, one of the keys to the album was the use of eight-string guitars and the dawn of Dave M’s guitar building. Before we wrote anything for this album, Dave M had just started building his own guitars, something he has always wanted to do but never had. Turns out he’s really good at it! He had told me he was going to “build an eight string guitar for you so you can write some super chunky riffs!” And he did! I now own the 3rd guitar he ever built. So the guitars you hear on the album are mainly the ones he built, the eight-string ones, and you hear those on 7 of the 8 songs. Our goal from there was to use the 8-string axes to add an extra layer to our sound with a gnarly ultra low “E” tuning.
5 What can we say "INFECTING PARANOID MINDS"?
That is our first release. We totally “did it ourselves!” It was officially released by us in September of 2014. It also represents my first efforts at a few things. First, playing with more than 6 strings...half of this album was written with 6 string guitars while the other half was written with 7 string guitars. Second, it is my first effort ever at being both a guitarist and vocalist. I pushed myself to learn how...Dave M already had experience both playing and singing with his prior project Dry Heave, so I decided that if I could learn like he did, we could avoid having to get a standalone singer and simplify the band structure in the process. We ended up having a fantastic dual vocal attack on this album in addition to the twin guitar attack! I’m proud of Infecting Paranoid Minds...I think the songs are all really good, although you can definitely hear the progression on the new album Prey For Us. At some point, I hope to “reissue” this album along with some bonus songs, but that’s a thought that’s way off in the distance right now!
6 - How to make the composition in INCONTINENCE? And what is the theme of the band?
All bands collaborate differently, what works for us doesn’t necessarily work for everyone by any means! Basically I’ll take my own riff ideas along with ideas from the other guys and work on them until I come up with a complete song structure with two rhythm guitar parts.