EVERGREEN TERRACE INTERVIEW
June 16, 2005

Ed Martin for Prophecy21.com: How has the tour with Bane been going so far?
Josh James guitarist for Evergreen Terrace: Oh, it's been awesome. We'vedone two shows this is the third day. The first shows were both packed, theenergy's been awesome, the kids have gone nuts for all the bands. Allfour bands are awesome guys and we hadn't toured with any of these bands, but it looks like it's going to be a real fun time. Tonight we play inMemphis and it seems like every night the shows just get better, I knowwe've only done two dates but last night was better then the first and thefirst night was fucking amazing. Hopefully things can keep going in thisdirection and it'll be an amazing tour.

P21: How have people been reacting to the new material so far?
JJ: Actually really good. We didn't really know what to do in the way ofa set list for this tour so we just said fuck it. We're doing ten songsand like five are new songs, four are old, and one is a cover song. So it'slike half the set is shit these kids have never heard and usually when youplay a new song live, kids just stand there and like nod their heads orwhatever, but both these past two shows kids have just set it off wheneverwe played the new songs. And you can see which kids are the ones thathave downloaded the record off the Internet or whatever cause they'resinging along and that's cool cause at least they're singing along andsetting it off for the new stuff.

P21: What cover song have you been playing?
JJ: Zero by the Smashing Pumpkins.

P21: How does the sound on this album differ from the last album?
JJ: I think that as far as songwriting, it's a lot more mature. We tookour time writing this record. The first song we wrote for this record wewrote like a year and a half ago. Previously when we were writing ourrecords, it'd be like okay we're recording in two months, we need to writeten songs. We had to write two songs a practice and that's just fuckingstupid. You end up settling for shit that you know you could do betterthan, or you end up settling for shit that not everyone in the bandindividually likes. We made it a rule for this record to take our timeand that if you don't like a part of a song then just fucking speak up inpractice and we'll change it and we stuck with that and that's what wedid. I think everyone on a personal level is happier with all the songson the record. It's a pretty diverse record, there's more faster up beatstuff. Something else we focused on while we were writing was what isgoing to be fun for us to play live. With a couple of our older songs, kids would want to hear them live and we'd play them for them, but itwould be boring as shit for us to play and it would also be boring as shitfor people to move around to. So this time we were like what's gonna makekids wanna go nuts at the show and what's gonna make us wanna set it offwhen we're playing live. So that was the big thing, to make sure that thisrecord had more energy then anything that we had done before. As far asrecording goes we had always been super, super, fuckin stressed. We'vealways been given like four days to record a full length so we'd go thereand shit would get fucked up and we'd know it was fucked up, but wewouldn't have time to fix it. This time we had twenty-one days we were ina newer studio and it was all professional as shit. The engineer andeveryone that worked there knew completely what they were doing and werecompletely on the ball. The recording in my opinion just kills anythingthat we've done before the album in my opinion. It's just way better thananything we've ever put out before. We're actually this time around allhappy with the final product.

P21: What were your influences for the sound on this album?
JJ: Everyone listens to a few of the same bands, but then everyonelistens to some completely different shit. I think its just the same asalways, I think there is actually a lot of eighties influence in there.As far as like hardcore bands that I was into while we were writing, like;Zombie Apocalypse, 100 Demons, I mean even stuff like Rancid. I knownothing sounds like Rancid, but that's one of those bands we'd listen toand be like man... I really like how they do that. We should try to dosomething like that. It sounds nothing like that, but I dunno. It's toughto explain really.

P21: What was the idea for the artwork on this album?
JJ: We actually had a few different ideas at first and we wanted to gowith something that went with the title. If you look real closely on thefront cover in the bottom right corner there is kind of like the scales ofa snake and then the main thing is the guy in the suit and the title isSincerity is an Easy Disguise in This Business, so it's kind of trying toshow with the art that even if people look legit and like they meanbusiness underneath they could still be a total piece of shit fuckingsnake. So it's kind of like that and then there's a rotten apple insidetoo. The title is more or less a reference to the music industry and eventhe current music scene.

P21: Do you guys have any plans for a DVD in the near future?
JJ: We had a DVD come out in January, but the bad thing about that isthat all the footage was recorded in like 2003 on a summer tour and thenthere were just all these huge legal issues that caused the DVD not tocome out for another year and a half. I guess there was some stuff in theDVD that could've caused either the label or ourselves to get sued for.The thing that sucks about that is that kids are going to buy that andthink not that it's bad, but just they'll see it's a year and a half ago.So hopefully we'll get to do another DVD. It's not in the plans for thenear future, but hopefully down the road.

P21: Do you guys have any plans for another cover album to follow upWriter's Block?
JJ: I don't know. We have definitely talked about that before, but oneof the reasons we didn't put a secret cover song on this album was becausewe kind of thought that we might have played it out a bit. If we do endup doing that, it will definitely be a few years down the road. The realreason we did Writer's Block was because we knew we didn't have enough newsongs yet to put out a new album, so we thought it would be kind of fun adit would hold people and the fans over until we we're ready for the nextalbum. And that was another thing that was real rushed and looking backwe wish we would've spent more time on it or even not done it at all.

P21: What do you guys have planned for after this tour?
JJ: The day after the Bane tour stops, we start another tour with MostPrecious Blood and On Broken Wings and that's East Coast and EasternCanada. During the middle of that tour we're going to be going toDetroit for two days to shoot a video for track four its called "NewFriend Request". After that we'll be playing Hellfest and we'll be doinga two or three week tour based around Hellfest. Then we'll have a fewweeks off then we go to Europe with As I Lay Dying and Heaven Shall Burn.Then we come back to the states and tour a little bit more then in Januarywe go to Australia and Japan. So, everything is looking awesome.

P21: Are there any bands that you haven't toured with yet that you wouldreally like to get a chance to?
JJ: There's a shitload; Slipknot, Zombie Apocalypse, Hatebreed, Atreyu,yeah I mean there are a shitload of bands that we wanna tour with.

P21: What do you usually do to kill time when you're on the road?
JJ: Read. Yell at people on the side of the road. Strip clubs, jackshacks, burrito places. We try to do a good amount of touring stuff, butit doesn't always work out. We sleep a lot.

P21: Thanks, is there anything that you want to add?
JJ: Thanks a lot for the interview.