for this next batch of music we're creating too. So, a lot of things, a lot of things going in the future if that works out.
Anzzia: Quite exciting! Let's talk about your creative process real quick. Because I am always interested in how you guys come together and you put the music together from nothing and then you create something amazing and people are out there singing and dancing and jamming along to your music. What is your creative process like when you are writing something new?
Damien: We can all go around with this one but, definitely my creative process is just seeing everything that happened in everyday life and taking a few of those inspirations. Sometimes setbacks you have in your life and using that as motivation and really putting it into a song. Then seeing with the rest of my group mates when I bring that idea to them and see what they can bring to the table. Sometimes you can create like you said, something from nothing. Which is I think the most amazing thing that I can do in a band and that is something that I love. A lot of inspirations are from everyday life for me and things that I experience. Then I bring them with the bandmates and we just made some songs. Hopefully, we can reach other people and they can feel it and feel the experience that I felt in my life. That's my creative process.
Andrew: To be honest, this record coming out is probably the most time and effort we've put into a release. Also, like I kind of said earlier, we actually kind of had to learn how to write music together because of different personalities and interests. When the band was first started almost five and a half years ago, when Damien and I first started, we had our way of writing music. It was just Damien and I in a garage and we would worship ideas, you know? We would think anything could be a song, you know?
Anzzia: Yeah.
Andrew: We would just write like, all day. Then we started adding other interests and personalities and we all got to learn how to write music together and now it's grown o the point where we're feeling more comfortable doing it. Where the last record, it came out amazing, but we kind of were rushed and we didn't necessarily get our footing in writing it.
We were trying to prepare it like a couple of
weeks before. We had to learn from that
experience to never do that again. So,
we're prepared way farther ahead of
time this time and we're really
letting ourselves grow and
develop a sound, rather than
just say, let's make this
song or, let's make this
overall work of art or
art piece. All of
the songs
together like,
how they
all flow
together
and really
find our voice
and that's been
unique because every
single record that we've
released has had a different
lineup. This will be the first
record that has the same line up
as the previous record. Even when
Tyler, our drummer joined the band and
we went into the studio, he had only
been in the band for a few months. So, he
wasn't even able to put his spin on those songs.
So, this will be the first time that we will all be
able to do that and we are so excited about it! It just feels right. We're doing it the right way, finally this time.
Anzzia: Yes! I love it! /laughs
Mike: In terms of how our creative process has kind of started this point, it sort of has been someone brings an idea to the table that is just a basic skeleton. It might just be a verse. It might just be a chorus. It might be both. But, putting the idea out there, seeing what other instruments might start to add to it, and from there we just construct this body of a song that's just maybe bare bones, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge and then simmer on that for maybe a week. Then we come back and