The Evolution of Pain with THE MIC

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

The Evolution of Pain: started as a solo project of mine(Jay). I got underway with some songs, and realized that i really missed playing out, so I contacted Joey our old guitarist, we had been in a little garage band together a few years prior. He came over, and we wrote some shit, he still had 6 monthes left in the Marine Corp. so we agreed while he was gone I'd assemble a band. The first person I contacted was Jeremy. I used to work with him, and always thought he was pretty cool. It didnt hurt that he had been in a fairly popular band named Sluice. He joined, and that's when shit started to really take shape. He brought in Jason (ex-Sluice) on bass, and after a couple of drummers we found Eddie. After a year we parted ways with Joey, and found Mark. That Brings us to the current line-up.



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

The Evolution of Pain:We all put in. Hell everyone of us plays the guitar. So we are never hurting for riffs. lol. I (Jay) do alot of the lyrics.



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

The Evolution of Pain:We have been very fortunate. We just opened for Psychostick last Friday. We have played with Flaw, The Dreaming, Genuflect (formerly Reveille), and a bunch of up, and coming acts too... such as Blue Felix ( Minn), Horse Called War (OKC), Saetith (KC), and Seasons After (Wichita)to name a few.



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

The Evolution of Pain:Myspace---www.myspace.com/theevolutionofpain

we got half a dozen other sites, but myspace has been the shit for us!!!



The Mic:Any embarrassing moments on stage?

The Evolution of Pain:PLENTY, but fuck it...what are you gonna do.



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

The Evolution of Pain:Well if Jason was here he could tell you about breaking 3 bass strings in a row on 3 different basses within 5 minutes on stage. Now thats some Karmic shit. My stories usually involve being drunk on stage, and dropping the mic, or some stupid shit like that.



The Mic:Who is the bands musical influence?

The Evolution of Pain:American Headcharge, Machine Head, Metal, Hip-Hop, Country, Punk, and so on.



The Mic:How did the band get together?

The Evolution of Pain:I covered that one already.



The Mic:What is your musical background like?

The Evolution of Pain:Well i (Jay) grew up in a country household. My grandfather was a country musician. I just happened to like Metal more. I started playing guitar @ the age of 13, was in a shit ton of garage bands. I started singing at about 19, or 20 by default (we kept going though singers in my old band so i said fuck it, i'll do it.)

Jeremy played in a few bands, and gained popularity with Sluice.

From what i hear Jason started playing bass in high school, and has been pretty bad ass about it since he picked it up. I think he's one of those people that just gets it. He's been in a bunch of bands also including Sluice, and Blaze Orange Gangstas.

I don't know how long Eddie has been playing, i know he won 2nd place @ the guitar center drum off a few years ago. He has played in a few fairly popular bands before us such as Muddnut, Four Degree Tilt, and Amongst Nothing.

Now Mark, I dont know awhole lot about his back ground except for that he played in 4 degree tilt with Eddie. He's very influenced by Max Cavalera.



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

The Evolution of Pain:I'm sure the other guys got musicians in their families, as i stated earlier my grandfather was a country artist.



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

The Evolution of Pain:We fucking love it!!!!!!

The Mic:what's your stance on file swapping?

The Evolution of Pain:could care less

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

The Evolution of Pain:long and painful

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

The Evolution of Pain:any way we can, internet, we have a street team that actually passes out paper fliers (remember those?)anyway we can get people to listen we do it.

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

The Evolution of Pain:it's fair. Wichita is really more into the radio friendly pretty boy bands, and im ugly, and say Fuck alot, lol. We do have some really cool fans here though.

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

The Evolution of Pain:a couple hundred miles so far.

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

i really like Psychotic Episode, and 9mm Pill.

Unspoken Thoughts will be the first single off the cd, i think it will go over pretty well.