I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?
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I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?
ADAM RICHI 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.
ADAM RICHWe knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn’t gotten into melody and things like that.
ADAM RICHBeing on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.
ADAM RICHSo you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it’s like the right deal for you… not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.
ADAM RICHEverything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.
ADAM RICHYou have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.
ADAM RICHWe have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
ADAM RICHYou don’t want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
ADAM RICHMusicians don’t respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.
ADAM RICHWe really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.
ADAM RICHWe 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.
ADAM RICHHopefully people can look at our band and see that we’re a heavy rock band.
ADAM RICHWe’re definitely not a metal band, but we’re a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.
ADAM RICHI really didn’t think about song writing.
ADAM RICHBeing a new band, I just can’t think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
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