Justin: We're not really giving ourselves an exclusively thrash tag, we've got all sorts of sounds - metalcore, heavy metal, death metal - but there is definitely thrash in there. I dunno, I mean there's a wide variety of ages in the band and thrash was the common ground, like the music we had all listened to. Our thought from day one was "let's make the band we always wanted to play in", so we just started out to make the heaviest band we could, a band that we really wanted to be in and listen to.

Justin: It's cool, initially we shopped our record on our own for a little while, we had recorded and pressed it on our own long before The End came around and we sent it out to some labels, sold it at our shows, out of the trunks of cars type thing. The End was really cool, they were the first ones to come and talk to us and be really straight with us from the beginning, they talked to us like people, not like children and they were really cool about the music, they weren't so concerned with the business side of it. It's really cool; at the same time they are growing as a label we're trying to grow as a band…we're one of the only bands on that label that are really adamant about touring. We're really trying to be the tightest and best band we can be and they're really helping us out, them and our management. It's a very diverse label and that's cool, it lets every band standout and make a name for themselves with the world and their fans, I think it's going to help us take the next step, becoming even better as a band.

Justin: Definitely proud of the album, with the budget that we had it came out really well, we did it on our own before we even had a label. We're really proud of it but since then we have really progressed as a band, we've gotten so much heavier, way, way tighter. We also have two new members, who are bringing their own ideas and sounds to the mix. So yeah, we're happy with the album, but we're definitely due for a new album. We had all these problems with touring last year, things would be confirmed and then just before the tour they got cancelled and so we were kinda laid up doing nothing, so we've had to tour this album to get people into us as a band, leave people with something to expect for the next album, everybody's working better now than we ever have, we're all getting along really well and everything is primed for a great experience.

Justin: Both, really we don't have a whole lot for us at home, everybody's put everything they had into this band, physically, financially, emotionally, mentally there is no real choice, we have to do it, we love to do it, we just love being out there and being the tightest band we can be. It's encouraging to play for 500 or 5 people, we need to work, and we feel more at home in the van than we do working our 9-5 jobs.

Justin: We did a lot of shitty tours last year, the first tour we ever did however was definitely best one, it was the one that helped us get signed. It was with Kittie, Candiria, 36 Crazyfists and 12 Tribes. It was our initial big step, we played for 500-1000 every night, it was a great experience. Then last year we went to Japan which was amazing.

Justin: With our experiences last year, we don't really think anything is true until it's happening, but yeah, we're trying not to think about it, not to psyche ourselves out, it's a total dream come true though. We never thought it was going to happen and it's happening, we've never done anything this size, I mean this is a gig that any band would kill for. Put it this way, it's a tour I couldn't pass up if I wasn't playing it, like if it was coming anywhere near me, I'd have to go and see it.

Justin: Metal is kinda coming back around fullcircle, which is a good thing to see, you see all the hardcore bands merging with metal bands and there are all these different labels, things are getting more heavy,more aggressive, the kids want something more intense, more heavy and more aggressive. With Slayer coming off a new album and Lamb of God getting so big, things are becoming really exciting and it's good to see the old school metal bands reviving and all these young bands coming out, it's very cool to see.

Justin: The metal scene in Canada is not as strong as it is the US but there are a lot of bands that are coming out recently that are doing it. It's hard to tour in Canada when you are just starting out, that's why we started in the States.

Justin: Right now were supposed to be finishing the writing of the album but we couldn't turn down this touring, we finished half of it before we left for the winter, after the UA tour we'll do one more run, then hit the studio in the winter, and have an early release in 2007, musically we're getting heavy and faster, more aggressive, all this touring has made us tighter and its really going to show on the album.