What are your major musical influences?
My musical influences are mainly Metallica AC/DC and eighties heavy metal and NOFX as for Lewis and Derick they love bands like Bad Relgion, Strike Anywhere, Pennywise, Lagwagon stuff like that. Ike was listening to Fall Out Boy shortly followed by Underoath so we have a broad influence of bands!
Why did you decide to be actively involved in creating music?
2 Music is our life why do people breath? I don't know we just do we call come from screwed up lifes not bad lifes but just hollow lifes that we could honestly care less about but we will always have music and each other Ahhhh. how special! but music is our life we don't know what else to do!
What do you find to be the best part about touring?
The best part about touring is not being the local band on the bill we also love to see our friends from other towns and play shows with new faces! besides who doesn't like traveling and partyig?
What inspires you to write music?
Every day life inspires us to write music! We mostly just say what's on our mind and play what's in are hearts depending on the mood we are in it's like a release of emotion! Ahhh. Relief of emotion how emo!? Alsop people we hate and the goverment are always a good reason to write a song!
When performing as a group, do you find there anything in particular that helps your creativity?
When we play and perform songs it's like a family thing so if we aren't getting along it comes through in our music but if we are getting along it comes through in or music. So being positive helps more creatively than being in a funk!
What are some of the albums that have influenced you as a performer/writer?
Lagwagon "Hoss" Metallica and AC/DC "any album" Good Ridance and Only Crime "Any Album" Pennywise "Bro Hyme" and all the punk bands that ever believed in their own sound!