Collector Interview

Give a short explanation of the band's origins. (story behind the name, when you got started etc) 

The band started off playing shows as much as we could in our area (Columbus, Ohio). After we played a show with Carnifex and Oceano in April of 2011, Devin Shidaker, the guitarist of Oceano, talked with us and he soon became our manager. A member change here and there brings us to our current lineup and name.

What are some of the band's influences? 

Our influences range from many different types of music. When we write, we tend to get ideas from And Hell Followed With, whitechapel, Molotov Solution, Impending Doom and Thy Art Is Murder. But we love to listen to anything, pretty much.

What was your favorite show to play? 

Our favorite show to play, hands down, was the Third Jamboree. We had a huge crowd and an even bigger pit (someone put a whole in the wall) and we got to hang out with a bunch of our friends the whole day. It was so much fun.

What band(s) do you want to share the stage with in the future? 

We hope to share the stage with whitechapel, The Acacia Strain, Oceano, Chelsea Grin, Winds of Plague, Impending Doom, the list could go on forever. There are too many to choose from!

Can you give any details on future release? (EPs, singles, full-lengths - anything you can give)

We are releasing a self-titled, 5-track EP on August 18th at the Basement in Columbus, Ohio, sponsored by The Artery Foundation. If you buy a ticket from us, you get a free EP! We are going to be recording it sometime in the next month or so.

Do you plan to tour in the future? 

We would love to tour! We are currently working on getting a van and a trailer so that we are able to, but we are definitely looking forward to touring sometime soon.

If so, where do you want to play most?

One place I would love to tour personally would be California. Hot girls, sweet venues, and awesome crowds. What more could you ask for?

Where do you see yourself in ten years? 

In ten years, we hope to be touring the world playing our music to our fans. A tour bus, awesome equipment, and a tour crew so we don't have to load in or set up! That would be so great.

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Ephemera Interview

Give a short explanation of the band's origins. (story behind the name, when you got started etc)

We first got everyone together on the 14th of July, 2011.  Everyone in the band except Ryan and Dillon are from Shawnee and attended high school together.  Taylor knew Ryan from his previous band and recruited him.  Down the road after the need for a bass player arose, Ryan suggested Dillon, whom he knew from his previous band as well.  We tried coming up with a name for about a month, even resorting to Google for elegant-sounding words.  We all agreed on Ephemera, which means something that is beautiful, but short-lived.

What are some of the band's influences? 

We all come from a variety of musical backgrounds, and as a seven piece, the influences everyone brings to the table are extremely diverse.  We obviously derive a lot of inspiration from metalcore giants Bring Me the Horizon and Like Moths to Flames, but we also take a lot of musical direction from other genres. For example, Aaron is heavily influenced by Telle of The Word Alive, while Michael’s favorite band is Avenged Sevenfold.

What was your favorite show to play? 

Our favorite show would probably have to be the Ink for Your Letter Apparel Presents the Southern Swing Tour.  We recently won an endorsement with that company and we played our first headlining show for the release of their Spring line of shirts.  We got to play with some awesome locals and made new friends in Righteous Vendetta and Not One is Upright.

What band(s) do you want to share the stage with in the future?

We all would pretty much like to play with the bands that inspire us, most notably Bring Me the Horizon.  Motionless in White would also be monumental, as would The Word Alive and Haste the Day.  The greatest honor we as a band could receive would be to play with some of the innovators of our genre. Bands like As I Lay Dying and Underoath.  Really the list is endless, as we want to share the stage with as many bands as possible and to make as many friends as possible.

Can you give any details on future release? (EPs, singles, full-lengths - anything you can give)

We’re currently writing the last of the material for our EP, which we expect to record and release some time in the early Fall of this year.  We’ve discussed shooting a music video as well, but it’s only in talks at the moment.

Do you plan to tour in the future? 

While it’s still an early idea, we would all love to be able to travel the country (the world some day, hopefully!) and play music and meet as many people as possible.  That’s the reason we got together and decided to play music, because it’s the passion we all share and that drives us to do what we do.

If so, where do you want to play most? 

We would absolutely love to tour the west coast.  California is known for its innovative and thriving music scene, and we would love to see how the crowd over there reacts to our music.

Where do you see yourself in ten years? 

In ten years? It’s hard to say where we see ourselves in one year, let alone ten.  But we would like to think we’re still pushing forward, driving as inspired as ever to creating the music we love for the people that love us.

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Obliterationist Interview

Give a short explanation of the band's origins. (story behind the name, when you got started etc) 

We all got together as a band for the first time in December of 2010. Back then we were rather unserious about our band and we named us "Killing what's Lifeless" - a name only reffering to our first song named "A Soulless Monster".
As we wrote more songs and played local venues we noticed that we recieved more and more positive feedback, we couldn't believe it but people actually thought we were good!
We then decided that we would maintain our band more seriously and recruit a bass player which we had never had before. During this time it was the summer of 2011 and it wasn't until March of 2012 when we found our bass player. Shortly after he had joined we decided that we would pretty much start over from scratch and leave the "Killing what's Lifeless"-era behind us. We then named us "Obliterationist" which basically means "someone who has the plain ideology to destroy or ideas to obliterate, kill". A name we thought, and still do, fitted our songs and their meanings much better than "Killing what's Lifeless".

What are some of the band's influences?

Our bands influences are rather scattered although they are all in the metal section. We play deathcore/extrememetal that is a bit more to the deathmetal than to the hardcore. We are sort of a mix of Whitechapel and Chelsea Grin although people have said that we sound like Job For A Cowboy.

What was your favorite show to play? 

We haven't really played that many shows since we are newly established but our favorite show so far was when we played at a metal festival named "Entering Spring Festivalen" in the middle of April not too long from where we live.
We played together with larger Swedish bands such as Yersinia and Walking With Strangers and the crowd of around 300 people was amazing!

What band(s) do you want to share the stage with in the future? 

We would love to share the stage with any of our greatest inspirations such as Suicide Silence, Whitechapel or Chelsea Grin. You can always hope, haha!

Can you give any details on future release? (EPs, singles, full-lengths - anything you can give)

We just released our first EP and right now we are only promoting it continiously to build up a solid fanbase. We are looking at re-entering the studio by the end of this summer again to record some more. What it is we are not really sure about yet although pre-production songs could be submitted this summer!

Do you plan to tour in the future? If so, where do you want to play most?

We definitely plan to tour in the future. Right now it looks like we will be doing a tour or two this summer here in Sweden. On future tours we hope to be going to places all over Europe and also places such as the US and Australia.

Where do you see yourself in ten years?

We have fortunately no ideas of where we will see ourselves in the future as we are a newly started band. We are only wanting to maintain our band at a steady level, write music and bring it out to a supportive crowd to see wherever it takes us!