DAYS OF LOATHING with The MIC

Band: DAYS OF LOATHING

The Mic: What got this band together and started in
this business?

Days of Loathing: Well the band actually came together in 2004 while on our first deployment to Iraq. It mostly started off as just trying to learn our instruments hahaand got more serious when we figured out we could actually play a little bit.



The Mic:Who writes and produces all the material for
the band?

Days of Loathing: Randy, Andrew, and Chris write most of the music, however, everyone pitches in on ideas. As far as production, Chris has handled the logo, artwork, and show gatherings i guess you could say.



The Mic:The band played in front of or with any acts
our readers would
know from the Mainstream?

Days of Loathing: As far as mainstream is concerned, i don't think there are too many bands on the mainstream we would really play with since alot of them lose their original sound when fame is brought to them. But we have played with some awesome local bands, like our good friends in Decimation, Effigy of thought, Terror Tractor, and a few others. We didn't have alot of time to play shows since we deployed so quickly after the new line-up was established.



The Mic:Where can people access your music on the web?

Days of Loathing: We have a myspace the link is www.myspace.com/dayofloathing. The material on there is a bit old but i think people are really going to get excited with our new stuff with the addition of Andrew on lead guitar and Christian on bass.



The Mic:Any embarrassing moments on stage?

Days of Loathing: Well back in the day in 2005 - 2006 our live performance was terrible and pretty much every show was embarrassing haha. The shows with the new line-up were definetly awesome though.



The Mic:Any good stories you want to tell us?

Days of Loathing: Yeah one time after our last show, Randy and chris got all drunk Chris was outside smoking a cig and Randy came out to talk to him and while they were talking Randy had to take a piss and pissed all over Chris's leg cause he thought it was a telephone pole. That's what happens when you drink too much tequila. But we had several crazy nights with several crazy stories behind each one. Days of Loathing is a fun band and we do alot of crazy shit. We could probably make a TV show out of all the stupid shit we do.



The Mic:Who is the bands musical influence?

Days of Loathing: WOW that is interesting. Starting off in 2004 we had a huge In Flames influence but over the years it has changed quite a bit. I would say now especially with the new material we are writing for our full length LP it is heavily influenced by The Black Dahlia Murder, The Haunted, Burning Skies, At the Gates, and The Acacia Strain. We have a wide range of metal sound.



The Mic:How did the band get together?

Days of Loathing: Well Chris met the original guitarist Zip, at a bar in germany when they were stationed there in 2003 and quickly became friends. While deployed to iraq they decided the start a band and the original name was actually Bias Society.





The Mic:What is your musical background like?

Days of Loathing: Well everyone in the band has quite a unique taiste in metal, but we all listen to brutal shit. Chris and Randy are more into the death metal and metaldeathcore aspect of things, while Andrew, Christian, and Bobby are more into the thrash, heavy, and slammy stuff which makes for some very good influence in our music.



The Mic:Any other members in your family that are
musicians?

Days of Loathing: Yeah, there are a few. Chris's dad plays accoustic guitar and was an 80's thrasher in his days.


The Mic:What is the TOP reason why you want to play
music?

Days of Loathing: Well playing metal has such a driving powerful force and it is something that we all equaly hunger for and more importnantly enjoy playing probably way more than we should haha but i think the TOP reason is we all just get lost playing metal and we enjoy it so much so we play it. We consider music our first job and the Army our second, even though a majority of us are actually Sergeants which people never expect much less an entire metal band that came together in the army which makes it very difficult.
what's your stance on file swapping?

The MIC:what is the process of making a cd?

Days of Loathing: Well our experience has been going to the studio, doing our best to record and produce the album in the studio, then getting it copied and distributed with promotion and what not. Nowa days, almost everything is vistual so getting your music up on these mass marthe mass market is not as hard as it used to be.

The MIC:how do you get the word out about your music?

Days of Loathing: Well the best way i think is to play alot of shows, especially in a metal band. Nothing like getting a crowd moving especially if they have never heard you before and they are sold on your music after jsut one show. But we do mostly self promotion with myspace, word of mouth, and friends that like our music help us out when they can.

The MIC:how is your local responce to your music?

Days of Loathing: Well before we left lets just say we went from about 45 people at our first show with the new line-up in August 2008 to about 125 at our last show on Sept 24 2008 at the same place. I think that means something good.

The MIC:what is the farthest you have traveled for a gig?

Days of Loathing: I think the farthest we traveled was only an hour but we plan on changing that when we get back from iraq.

The MIC:What tune on the cd are you most proud of?

Days of Loathing: Well, on our Incineration EP, i would say we are most proud of Days of Loathing and The Release. We actually wrote the whole EP in a matter of 3 months and recorded it in just a couple days since we didn't have enough time to get real in depth since we deployed at the begining of October.

THE LINK IS : WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DAYOFLOATHING