Byron - 'Bout fuckin' time. (laughter) It's cool; we're happy to be on it. We were fortunate enough to be one of the bands that they decided to grace the Ozzfest stage this year, so we're just going to try to get up there and blow it up everyday.

Byron - Yeah, we've done a couple tours with Darkest Hour. It's going to be a good time, you know? Those guys are funny characters.

Byron - Not really. All press is good press, whether it's good or bad. So, whatever. We're there, we're going to prove ourselves and that's all that really matters. I mean, there's a lot of people that would like to be in our position. That's life; knuckle up.

Byron - I think right now they're really starting to realize that the music really hasn't gone anywhere. People are just getting tired of the cookie cutter shit they were being fed for a long time and this day and age with what's going on in the world, people are just ready to let all their aggression out and underground music has always been that driving force. So it's just a matter of them trying to capitalize on everyone who's been doing what they've been doing for years and trying to put their spin on it and make some money off of it. It's going to happen; the music world is always a circle. Right now it's this time for this music. Hopefully, we'll have a couple of years before it dissolves back into the cookie cutter shit again or everything gets absorbed with third and fourth generation copy-cats of what's going on now. Right now, we've just got to strike while the iron's hot.

Byron - I think so because it gives you more opportunity to hear what's out there instead of finding what you're hearing on the radio. It hurts, but at the same time, it helps more because those kids that go out there and investigate will always find more music on the internet. Some of those kids are the people that will go out to the store and buy your shit. So it definitely hurts and it helps. At the level that our bands are in, it's really not hurting us, it's just giving us more exposure.

Byron - My guitar player works at Guitar Center with him, so we were kind of friends with him, plus they're from New Jersey. A lot of musicians in New Jersey share that common "help you" attitude. He was more than happy to be on there record for us and we were glad to have him on there. We've always had guest people here and there on our records, so it's not anything new, but for what we needed, he was the right person for the gig, so he graced us with being on our record and we thank him for that.

Byron - Nah, no one's ever said anything about that. You're actually the first person to bring that up.

Byron - Yeah. I mean, what they going to do? Fire us? (laughter)

Byron - It was cool. We filmed it the day after we played Saratoga with Machine Head. I can't remember the date, but it was the following day; a Monday. We filmed up in Long Island; it was really cool, we had some people come down, some fans, some friends to be in the video. We were there for twelve, thirteen hours, doing a lot of shooting for the video. It's going to be an amazing video when you see it. It's definitely putting us in the next realm of growing and alertness to people.

Byron - Some dude called up our management, said they were putting together this tribute for Guns 'N Roses and asked if we wanted to be on it. Doc's a big Guns 'N Roses fan, so he was like "hell yeah," so we just picked our song, went in and did it. But we did it God Forbid style.

Byron - I think he's a freakin' moron. (laughter) I think that he comes from a privileged class. I think he's a lucky dude because he was put in a good situation and he's just destroying it. I don't have anything really too positive I need to say about him, nor do I want to, nor do is there anything he's done that it positive, so he needs to hurry up and just get out of office. We need more awareness in people to get them out there to vote so we can make a change, because he's definitely going to send us on the wrong path. But since he's been president, he's definitely helped the underground because with everything that's happened, a lot of people are very mad, so it's making our music more viable to a lot of people.

Byron - I really have no comment on that, because I'm friends with both parties, but let's just say that it worked out in our benefit since Arch Enemy dropped off, so I'll leave it at that.

Byron - No Problem.