We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.