1. Introduce yourselves, who are you what do you play?
Thomas Helvenstine, Vocalist Earl Standerford, Drums Andrew Hafemeister, Clean vocals/guitar Shogo Tabata, Guitar Sean Kelly, Bass
2. How did you start out? Who's idea was the band?
The band started out as an idea between me (andrew) earl and our first guitarist Eddie Allshouse. Earl, eddie and sean were about to disband their old band and I was looking for one to join to do vocals.
3. Who would you list as your biggest influence musically?
Between the 5 of us our music tastes and influence varies. Earls drumming is influenced by thrice,counterparts,misery signals. Thomas is influenced by a lot of Austrailian bands. I'm influenced from circa survive, a lot of progressive metal/djent bands. Shogo's backround is mostly metalcore and so is Sean's.
4. if you could play your dream tour who would it include?
the bands we would want to play with is actually a really hard question haha. the amount of bands we want to play with would probably make like a 5 day festival .
5. What's your guys favorite food.
We all love curry, and ramen. And since we have american blood in us, we love burgers
6. What's your writing process like?
The beginning end album was all written by Eddie. He would write the "blueprint" of a song at home and we all jammed out to it and through in all our ideas to make the song transition and sound fuller (leads, ect.) For the new album, I mostly write all of the guitar parts. Do riffs first and record a rough demo of it and sit with Earl and Thomas to see what parts need to be harmonized and what parts need leads. Then when thats all recorded Earl studies it to make drums and I teach sean and Shogo.
7. What's the best part of being in Japan?
The best part of japan would probably have to be the people. The people of japan are just so kind and humble, just nice people to be around. Oh dont forget the sites of Japan, wont see anything like it anywhere else.
8. Any plans for a US tour?
Still in the works about a U.S tour. Gotta see what happens with the next album and what kind of response it gets.
9. Repetitions was amazing, loved the clean vocals a lot reminded me of Saosin. When can we expect some new music?
Thanks man! Yeah grew up listening to Saosin and Circa, they'll always have a influence on me. New album in still being written. Gotta write a few more songs and we'll start recording. We want as much time as we can get just to get this album perfect and sound different from what you hear from other hardcore bands.
10. Anything else you all want to say?
We love and appreciate the support of all of our friends, family and fans that we have scattered across the globe. Without their support we probably would have thrown in the towel a long time ago. Hope everyone keeps giving their support so we can bless their ears with some good music!
Basically these guys are fantastic, great music, awesome guys. Follow them twitter, like them on Facebook, and download Repetitions!
http://shoresofficial.bandcamp.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/repetitions/id670615003?i=670615006&uo=4
http://amzn.com/B00DXMLJPW
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Thomas Helvenstine, Vocalist Earl Standerford, Drums Andrew Hafemeister, Clean vocals/guitar Shogo Tabata, Guitar Sean Kelly, Bass
2. How did you start out? Who's idea was the band?
The band started out as an idea between me (andrew) earl and our first guitarist Eddie Allshouse. Earl, eddie and sean were about to disband their old band and I was looking for one to join to do vocals.
3. Who would you list as your biggest influence musically?
Between the 5 of us our music tastes and influence varies. Earls drumming is influenced by thrice,counterparts,misery signals. Thomas is influenced by a lot of Austrailian bands. I'm influenced from circa survive, a lot of progressive metal/djent bands. Shogo's backround is mostly metalcore and so is Sean's.
4. if you could play your dream tour who would it include?
the bands we would want to play with is actually a really hard question haha. the amount of bands we want to play with would probably make like a 5 day festival .
5. What's your guys favorite food.
We all love curry, and ramen. And since we have american blood in us, we love burgers
6. What's your writing process like?
The beginning end album was all written by Eddie. He would write the "blueprint" of a song at home and we all jammed out to it and through in all our ideas to make the song transition and sound fuller (leads, ect.) For the new album, I mostly write all of the guitar parts. Do riffs first and record a rough demo of it and sit with Earl and Thomas to see what parts need to be harmonized and what parts need leads. Then when thats all recorded Earl studies it to make drums and I teach sean and Shogo.
7. What's the best part of being in Japan?
The best part of japan would probably have to be the people. The people of japan are just so kind and humble, just nice people to be around. Oh dont forget the sites of Japan, wont see anything like it anywhere else.
8. Any plans for a US tour?
Still in the works about a U.S tour. Gotta see what happens with the next album and what kind of response it gets.
9. Repetitions was amazing, loved the clean vocals a lot reminded me of Saosin. When can we expect some new music?
Thanks man! Yeah grew up listening to Saosin and Circa, they'll always have a influence on me. New album in still being written. Gotta write a few more songs and we'll start recording. We want as much time as we can get just to get this album perfect and sound different from what you hear from other hardcore bands.
10. Anything else you all want to say?
We love and appreciate the support of all of our friends, family and fans that we have scattered across the globe. Without their support we probably would have thrown in the towel a long time ago. Hope everyone keeps giving their support so we can bless their ears with some good music!
Basically these guys are fantastic, great music, awesome guys. Follow them twitter, like them on Facebook, and download Repetitions!
http://shoresofficial.bandcamp.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/repetitions/id670615003?i=670615006&uo=4
http://amzn.com/B00DXMLJPW
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