Your sound manages to encompass a number of styles. What are your major influences, and how do you manage to combine them?

We have a lot of of influences, mainly swedish melodic death metal, experimental rock, post metal/post hardcore, stoner rock, some dark pop bands, and electronic music (electro, drum & bass, deep, minimal…), but we don’t ?copy and paste? all that styles in order to compose a song, if you combine them as puzzle pieces you will only get a copy of a band, style or sound. To compose we only use the feelings that cause inside us all music styles we like and we show our own point of view with our musical language.

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Matt (musicGeek.org): Okay, so, why “Three Month Sunset” for a name?

Gabe (Three Month Sunset): there’s not much of a story to tell about that… my friend was always coming up with names for bands and I kept that one in the back of my head. i liked the dreamy abstraction of it. and also the sound of the vowels together…

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What sort of music was present during your formative years?

My early influences in the mid 80’s were bands like Joy Division, R.E.M., The Fall, Velvet Underground, and The Clash. From there I started listening to different genres of music from Soundtracks to 60s French Pop to Speed Metal. I like select cuts from almost every genre.

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What have been your musical influences growing up?

As strange as it sounds I was heavily influenced by new school punk growing up. It’s definitely not apparent in our sound and isn’t what I listen to anymore but I think I’ve kept a lot of the ideals that punk introduces you to. The idea that independent music not only exists, but is actually better that what you hear on the radio or see on MTV. That music is being made that leans more towards art and less towards commerce. That it was possible to write and track your own records. All of these ideas were heavily influential to me at a fairly young age.

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What type of music did you listen to growing up?

Rocky:I bought my first album when I was six, It was piece of mind by Iron Maiden. After that I liked Guns ‘n’ Roses for while. When I was eight i started listening to Nirvana, and then stuff like the Pixies and Radiohead and the Boo Radleys. I didn’t really get into keyboards or electronica until I was sixteen. I saw three bands, Mina, Salaryman and To Rococo Rot, I thought ‘I have to get a Moog’

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