Christian.
NS: Do you feel that Christian
prejudice has dissipated?
RH: Yes I think it has. Especially when
bands like Underoath and Norma Jean
have broken into the mainstream, where
people see them on TV, people can go
‘OK this music is good, even though
they are a Christian band they aren’t
going to try to suck me from the chest
and pull me to believe what they believe.’
NS: Can you recall when you first
knew your faith was real?
RH: I grew up in a Christian home, I
went to church and I never back slid
away from church and Christianity, but I
experienced that through friends who
did. For me there was a point in my life
where I had to come to a conclusion of
is what I believe in my heart, what I say
I believe as a Christian, is that really real
to me or is it just something that I am
told to believe and I believe. And I still
came to the conclusion that it is still
something that resides in my heart
everyday.
NS: What is the biggest difference from
the first record to the new record?
NS: Do you feel that Christian
prejudice has dissipated?
RH: Yes I think it has. Especially when
bands like Underoath and Norma Jean
have broken into the mainstream, where
people see them on TV, people can go
‘OK this music is good, even though
they are a Christian band they aren’t
going to try to suck me from the chest
and pull me to believe what they believe.’
NS: Can you recall when you first
knew your faith was real?
RH: I grew up in a Christian home, I
went to church and I never back slid
away from church and Christianity, but I
experienced that through friends who
did. For me there was a point in my life
where I had to come to a conclusion of
is what I believe in my heart, what I say
I believe as a Christian, is that really real
to me or is it just something that I am
told to believe and I believe. And I still
came to the conclusion that it is still
something that resides in my heart
everyday.
NS: What is the biggest difference from
the first record to the new record?
RH: We really didn’t know what we were
doing with the first record. We’d write a
guitar riff, laugh at it, and then say ‘OK
let’s make a song out of it.’ The second
time around we still wrote guitar riffs and
laughed at them but there was a little more
thought put into it, then the first time
around, and we definitely have different
influences driving this record, but the
southern style always comes out of us.
NS: It seems the southern style comes
out more on the new record.
RH: That was unintentional; we actually
did not expect that. I think we expected it
to be a lot less Southern influenced, it just
kind of came out that way. One of the
country songs that’s on there [II] I had
help from Cornutt [Josh Cornutt guitarist]
we wrote a song that turned out to be a
country song. It’s a straight flat out
country song, that’s what it is. However
that was never my intention it was meant
to be a slow acoustic song and that’s just
the way it came out. Things come about
in the studio too, and our producer is
good about bringing out our different
influences.
NS: On the cover of the new record
there are four men dragging the
bodies of the guys in the band through
the woods, what’s that all about?
RH: The four guys are actually bounty
hunters. In the story we are actually
caught. That’s what the second record
actually leads to, us getting caught. We
get caught, we get killed, that’s what the
video [Dry the River] and the album
follows through, we are outlaws on the
doing with the first record. We’d write a
guitar riff, laugh at it, and then say ‘OK
let’s make a song out of it.’ The second
time around we still wrote guitar riffs and
laughed at them but there was a little more
thought put into it, then the first time
around, and we definitely have different
influences driving this record, but the
southern style always comes out of us.
NS: It seems the southern style comes
out more on the new record.
RH: That was unintentional; we actually
did not expect that. I think we expected it
to be a lot less Southern influenced, it just
kind of came out that way. One of the
country songs that’s on there [II] I had
help from Cornutt [Josh Cornutt guitarist]
we wrote a song that turned out to be a
country song. It’s a straight flat out
country song, that’s what it is. However
that was never my intention it was meant
to be a slow acoustic song and that’s just
the way it came out. Things come about
in the studio too, and our producer is
good about bringing out our different
influences.
NS: On the cover of the new record
there are four men dragging the
bodies of the guys in the band through
the woods, what’s that all about?
RH: The four guys are actually bounty
hunters. In the story we are actually
caught. That’s what the second record
actually leads to, us getting caught. We
get caught, we get killed, that’s what the
video [Dry the River] and the album
follows through, we are outlaws on the
run, and we get caught.
NS: The new video
for Dry as the River is pretty
intense.
RH: It is, it was pretty intense
making it.
Intense is the best word for Maylene I was
going to get a quick interview with Taylor
for a few words on the new record.
However the band’s tour manager told me to
give Dallas a minute because he was talking
to his brother, whom he hasn’t seen in over
a year, now that’s intense, but for these
guys there’s no other way to do it. In case
your wondering Taylor was still considerate
enough to give me my interview, because
the last thing he is, is rude tune in next
month for an interview with Dallas Taylor.
NS: The new video
for Dry as the River is pretty
intense.
RH: It is, it was pretty intense
making it.
Intense is the best word for Maylene I was
going to get a quick interview with Taylor
for a few words on the new record.
However the band’s tour manager told me to
give Dallas a minute because he was talking
to his brother, whom he hasn’t seen in over
a year, now that’s intense, but for these
guys there’s no other way to do it. In case
your wondering Taylor was still considerate
enough to give me my interview, because
the last thing he is, is rude tune in next
month for an interview with Dallas Taylor.
