Hailing from Detroit, The Black Dahlia Murder have been ripping people apart from coast to coast with a relentless melodic death metal attack, touring extensively with the likes of Cannibal Corpse, King Diamond, Vital Remains and Unearth. Their next album, "Miasma", set to be released July 12th on Metal Blade and their upcoming appearances on this summer's Ozzfest set the stage for The Black Dahlia Murder to reach the next stage in their musical career.

Brian: We're doing all right with it. We just recorded a new album which is going to be what a lot of the Ozzfest sets are going to consist of. So right now, we're stoked on this King Diamond tour. It's kind of a new crowd; we've played with Cannibal corpse before, we've gone out with Vital Remains before, so you know…

Brian: Unearth, which is kind of a different gear, but the King brings out more of a classic kind of crowd that's been around for a long time, people that have been listening to metal for forever. It's cool; some people aren't into it, some people just aren't down, but its definitely cool to be here. Nile is awesome and Behemoth is always cool. We saw 'em once a couple years ago and then we did a couple dates with them and Suffocation and they were really cool and they've been great on this tour, so we're not feeling a whole lot of pressure, you know? Just doing our thing.

Brian: The least is the fact that if people want to see us… there's a good chance there'd be some other bands there they'd want to see, but we're playing something for the first time where, I don't know what the average ticket price is, I haven't been to an Ozzfest before, but I know I couldn't afford it before. I don't know; to me that's he suckiest part, the fact that people are going to drop a lot of cash and we're going to be a part of that. But the upside is you're playing in front of a much larger audience and it's a chance to get the music out. We're not a super accessible band, so there's no way we're going to come back a year later and be selling as many albums as Mudvayne; its not going to happen, but it does gives us a chance to show a couple more people our sound.

Brian: Pimp that? (laughs and then briefly does a pimp voice) Man, it's like sweet, our new drummer Ed Gibson is insane. The kid's perfect and it was such an awesome experience in the studio, so we're really excited for people to hear it. I think more so on this album, every song has a more unique character to it, so we're excited.

Brian: I know never know what Trevor's going to sit down and want to write about. But this album I know is much more personal for him, so not in the immediate future. But we're all still horror buffs, so, you know.

Brian: (after a brief pause) Positive aspects… I don't know, I've never really thought about it that way considering I figure I'd get chomped on pretty quick. I'm not really connected to anyone who has access to underground hideouts or anything like that and I wouldn't make it in the mall, so… I guess the Earth could start anew and everything just start again, because at some point the zombies die out, right?

Brian: Oh man. (laughter) I can't say that right now.

Brian: A lot of waiting. I mean, even when you're just sitting in the van, you're kind of waiting, waiting to get somewhere. Then you get there and you wait and then you get pumped up for the show. We usually search for fast food a couple times a day, which they say is really not healthy, but anyone who's seen us before knows most of us are really not healthy. Unless we have to drive overnight, we get real boozed up and go to sleep.

Brian: Oh man…

Brian: It was going to be a weird fest for us. I mean, there were other heavy bands there like Converge, Himsa, As I Lay Dying, and Burnt By The Sun, but for the most part, it was kind of a different crowd. So we weren't exactly sure that we would go over all that well at the fest, so we just figured we were going to have a good time, I'm not exactly sure on how we decided on doing that, but I know that was the base of it, that we were just going to screw around and have a good time.

Brian: No, no. We joked about having my girlfriend, who drove down to Cleveland, 'cause it's only three hours from Detroit, we joked about having her dress up like Chun Li, but I never really mentioned it to her. Just how things go sometimes. We had a rather hefty friend of ours selling merch on that tour (laughter) and we were trying to talk him so bad into being E. Honda. And then our sound guy who's usually out with us, Andy, he definitely looks like Zanghif, so we were trying to talk him into wearing red briefs and red boots and stuff, but neither of them were into it as we were. And it was ultimately the stupidest thing we've ever done, but we did get some cool pictures.

Brian: I thought it sounded cool, but if you want a much more thorough answer on that one, Trevor is right over there.

Brian: Oh my god. (yelling) Hey guys! Come here for a second. (laughter)

Brian: Here we go!

Trevor: It scared me when I learned about it and I was like, "this is pretty intense stuff, it would make a pretty awesome band name." It wasn't really the act of murder itself, because that itself is cliché, there's people killed everyday. But there's a lot of mystique to the whole case and was more of what we were into. It's kind of a fucked up moment in history because if you look into it at all, you'll find that over a hundred people have confessed to it wrongly and there are countless different written accounts as to who the killer was and there are still investigators obsessed with the case. So it's pretty fucked up shit. It was the last fucked up thing I could find, because everything else had been taken.

Brian: It was cool.

Trevor: I was glad with it. I still like it.

Trevor: No problem.

Brian: Hey, thank you.