Metalcore titans Witness The Broken has as any other band
would "goals"..... With that they wanted to have fun with making
music and see where it would end up it just so happened to lead them to record
a EP then play some showcases and continue to write on towards their next goal
and just whatever else may be heading for them. The band discusses with me
their beginning’s upcoming plans, and just who Witness The Broken is.
1. What type of band are you?
Metalcore!
2. Tell us the brief history of your band.
The band started with three guys among them current vocalist
Kyle Carpenter. The goal was really just to write a few songs for fun and there
really was no ambition beyond that. We recorded our EP and then later met our
current members at school. From that point on we have started playing a lot of
shows and started the writing process back up.
3. Who are your musical influences?
We are lucky that all of our members have a pretty diverse
taste in music ranging from hardcore punk to death metal. I would say style
wise we fit more into the Miss May I/Devil Wears Prada genre, but we definitely
get influences from all types of bands.
4. Who writes the songs, what are they about?
We all take a pretty active part in the writing process, as
everyone pretty much writes the parts that they play. Lyrically the songs are
really focused on people who have obstacles to overcome. I try to write songs that
tell people its okay to have problems, but encourage moving past them.
5. What's new in the recording of your music?
Currently we are working on a new single titled
"Heathen" with Battleground Studios, which we should have done in the
coming weeks. From there the hope is to begin work on our first full length
album.
6. Have you recorded any previous CDs or posted any audio
files on the Internet?
We recorded our EP (Roman Numeral 5) with Chris Baldwin at
The Process Recording last spring. That can be found on iTunes and on our
Facebook page at www.facebook.com/witnessthebroken
7. What type of recording process did you use? Who produced
your recording?)
As I said all the songs on the EP were produced by Chris
Baldwin at The Process. We did record a single titled "Revenge" with
Matt Cooley at Battleground Studios this winter and he actually ended up
becoming our guitarist recently.
8. How do you promote your band and shows?
We keep everyone up to date with shows on Facebook/Twitter
that is a huge tool for us. It makes it really easy for fans to look and see
when and where we will be playing and things like that!
9. Describe your show, visual and musically.
As a young band our first goal was to get everything down
musically. I think we really have gotten there, our show sounds very tight and
close to the sound you hear on the recording. Once the music was down the focus
became the visual aspect, which is something that we grown on with each show.
We really do play shows to have a good time and I think it shows in the way
that everyone moves around and gets into it. Our goal is that whether we play
for 10 people or 1,000 that everyone gets the same experience and with that in
mind we try to make every show our best.
10. What advice would you give to fellow bands?
Don't forget why you started making music. That is a problem
that we ourselves have run into at points. People make and listen to music
because it is an escape from the stress of everyday life. If you don't have fun
making it nobody is going to have fun listening to it.
11. What are the biggest obstacles for bands?
Finding members who have similar goals as you do it’s really
difficult at times ya know? It is hard to find the right mix of having fun and
growing as a band. We are getting there as a group and have really made some
strides in the past few months. But if you have a group that has the same goal
in mind and enjoys being around each other then everything else really takes
care of it.
12. Anything else you'd like to say or add?
Thank you so much for taking the time to interview us!
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