The happy Dead to Fall interview about the Holidays

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The happy Dead to Fall interview about the Holidays 

Thanks for the interview!  I'll be quite honest with you it was actually a fun one
to do.  It's pretty rare an interview does that for us haha.  Appreciate the good
questions, keep them coming sir.  We're incredably stoked on this record and are
excited to do this kinda stuff this time around.   I think you'll understand once
you are listening!  Make sure to let us know if you have any problems getting a
copy.

Thanks again, happy holidays guys

Tim

Dead to Fall

1. Would you say your albums are getting more metallic and more

ambitious?

Absolutely, metal is one of the
strongest genres in music in a sense that it is always evolving and
growing.  It would be worthless and exhausting, like kicking a dead horse,
to not take advantage of that and remain the same identity and sound from
record to record.  Although

we would never abandon the roots that brought us to whatever level we may

reach, we as musicians have a strong appreciation for creating inspiration

out of the work we put into expanding our horizons with each record cycle,

and being inspired is key for finding joy in pushing the envelope.

2. Anything
conceptual on this upcoming album? Anything epic-like on 

the

last album?

The whole record is based on the concept behind the title “Are You
Serious?”. The title works in a million different ways. In fact, you can pretty
much find a way to relate it to anything and everything happening in each and
every one of our lives. One strong example of how it works for us is with all
the questions we ask ourselves every day: “How did we get here?”, “What is this
whole industry we are involved with…really?”, “What are we going to do next?”,
“Why do we exist and why do people care?”. Any question you ask is overwhelming
from a broad enough perspective, just like wondering if there is life out there
beyond our galaxy. The other main focus of the concept is to capture and make
everyone understand exactly the level of seriousness behind our band and our
music at this point. We can write songs that surpass our old songs and satisfy
us as critics and musicians, but at the same time we are a bunch of goofy dudes
that like to party and live life.   We’re
not Shakespeare and we’re not out to crack the eternal bleeding sky or
whatever. We’re doing this because we have a great fucking time doing it, and
we’re trying to show that through the music. In conclusion, there is some very
epic stuff on the new album, but it’s epic in a completely different manner.
It’s epic to the brain, and to the soul, not epic just to the ears because the
symphonic orchestra makes it that way. You’ll see.

3. Have you recruited
anyone for this new album that we should know

about?

Actually yea we have a
sick new guitar player that accompanies Logan
better than we could have imagined.  Phil
Merriman not only brings a sick Mohawk and a wild entertaining stage presence
to the band we’ve always been striving for, but he has a tremendous talent for
picking up playing styles and site reading some of the craziest notation and
tablature we’ve created as a band.   So finally having a dude that is comfortable
in that position opens endless possibilities because you don’t need to teach
parts for hours and hours. Instead you are allowed time to further the ideas behind
the riffs as a band and develop emotion and dynamic to actually create some
life to the songs.  I think part of the
thing missing from The Phoenix
Throne was a strong sense of character and identity.  Now that we actually have
another musician in
the band to help us create the picture in our heads, we are comfortable pushing
boundaries we haven’t pushed before and it definitely shows on this
record..  I honestly don’t think there is
a listener or musician out there that won’t be able to fully embrace Phil’s
Jimmy Hendrix style aura on stage. 

We also had this crazy dude Arthur
Harrison from the DC band "The Cassettes" come in to jam a theremin
on one of the tracks.  Theremins were created in 1920 by Leon Theremin and
are known as one of the first electronic musical instruments.  They are
incredible to watch in action, very strange and serial looking, but very
fitting for the futuristic theme of the song.  Just imagine two robots
having a conversation with no words!  You can watch Arthur in action in episode
6 of our episodes of "Staying In The Fade" at
www.youtube.com/deadtofuckingfall.  Also stop by
www.harrisoninstruments.com for more information on prices and the  history of the
theremin.

4. Are you or will you be ready to headline your own tour on a bigger

level?

I think we have been looking to take
that step for quite some time now.  Being a band that pulls a lot of
weight as a headliner requires a lot of responsibility and respectability as
musicians and as people of business.  I feel that we have been doing a
great job as far as growing together as a unit on and offstage.  Yet we've
been able to create identities and characteristics as individuals at the same
time.  This has allowed us to realize how important it is to take advantage
of the new technologies each of us is good at working with. 

We all know now where the music business is at and will continue to go in
terms of marketing, promoting, and networking through the internet.  But
as far as surviving as a live band the one and only thing that matters is
selling tickets.  I can't stress enough the importance of growing and
striving to put on a better show each time you come through town.  There
will always be a fluctuation in record sales because we are always adapting to
a new generation reaching the top of the charts through new technology.
But if you use those tools such as live video and lighting to create more of a
memorable spectacle than just the 4th or 5th group of sweaty guys running
around on stage in jeans and a black tshirt you will always make it worth the
ticket price.  And that my friends make ticket sales possible.

5. Why drop your own site and let it be just Myspace? Aren't there a lot of Myspace
haters out there you could be missing?

Actually we are
currently in the beginning stages of getting www.partymetal.com up and running.  It
will serve as our home page because we ran
into issues with the ownership of deadtofall.com a little while back.  But I really
think in this day and age it is
very possible to run a band strictly off your myspace page.  Sure there are people
that haven’t and
probably never will bite the myspace trend.
But think of the world of possibilities they are missing out on just
because they give myspace a bad rap.
There are so many bands out there, including ourselves, bigger and
smaller that are able to talk to each and every fan personally through such a
slick system.  It really is a perfect
business tool and it’s a shame some people can’t get past their ego and realize
that.   I’m sure it was the same thing
when email became popular and made people uncomfortable that they stopped
receiving phone calls and physical letters in the mail because people had started
adapting to email.  Goes to show changes
are not permanent, but change certainly is! 

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