ION INDIE MAGAZINE September 2015, Volume 16 | Page 103

Marcos: We grew up in a very small town so all we ever had was music. Our outlet was music, and we always wanted
to play those bands. Then the Nu Metal came around—KORN, SLIPKNOT, MACHINEHEAD--and we played them. I say
this all of the time…I think we are like 60 bands rolled into one. I pride myself that we can move a Heavy Metal
audience like this with our music. We can also attack the radio market, not just with our heavy stuff, but also with
our ballads. Some of the biggest bands in the world have been able to do that successfully, so that is what we are
trying to do.

Dagda: SHATTERED SUN came from a very small town in the Corpus Christi area. How were you able to get heard and
be part of MAYHEM FEST today?
Marcos: It really is a Cinderella story. I know some people just say that, but it truly is. We come from a town where by
the time you have graduated high school, your girlfriend might be pregnant, and you are going to work for an oil field
company until you are 70--that is your life and it is accepted. For us, we said, “F**k that! We are not going to be
that!” That is not the life we wanted. We knew we wanted to do this, but trying to explain what we want to the small
town mind, they really could not grasp it. There is so much pressure when an oil company offers 60 dollars per hour
and you are playing a small club with very little people in it. That created so much self doubt. We had a lot of that.
We went on to tour and we “met a guy” who said that he could get us to another level. He needed a certain amount
of money and we gave it to him. He then screwed us over pretty bad. Right after that, the members of the band were
blaming each other and were not in a very good place. A few of us said that we never wanted to do this again. They
wanted to go home, have a family and make money. Through that moment we made stronger friendships and created
an album that made it to MARIA FERRERO’S desk. It just so happened that was the same moment they were forming
BREAKING BANDS. We got on and they said, “We really like you--do you want a manager?” I said, “What does that
mean?” She said, “Let me get back to my associates and if they like it, we will see where it goes.” Sure enough, we
received a phone call from CHUCK BILLY and JON ZAZULA. They wanted to manage us and flew down to Texas that
weekend. It was unreal. To this day we ask…how? I do not know how, but through the worst moment that any local
band can go through, came an opportunity to make a friendship that months down the road got my CD on the desk.
It was fate and was supposed to happen.
Dagda: I am looking around and I see that you brought a full weight set (I was standing in front of the van with Marcos
looking back at all of their equipment).