Metal Magnitude’s Chelsea spoke with Austin Ingerman of Gunshine (and formerly New Years Day), when they released their EP “Checkmate” via Grove Records/The Fuel Music, discussing the formation of Gunshine, working with Producer Chris Collier, the art of self-recording demos as an artist, styles and influences, combining classic rock elements with modern guitar work, performing at WWE Wrestlemania with New Years Day, touring with Jackyl, Austin’s background as a musician and experiences living in LA, and more. 

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Stitched Up Heart recently released To The Wolves, their latest album via Century Media Records. I had the chance to speak with frontwoman Mixi just before To The Wolves was released, about the making of the album, the creative process behind the music videos, and more. Check it out below. 

Chelsea here, excited to be joined by Mixi from Stitched Up Heart. How are you doing today?

I’m doing awesome. How are you? 

Doing great, thank you. I’ve been listening to some of the hints of To The Wolves that we’ve been getting. It’s the third album from you guys, coming out on Another Century Records. Stitched Up Heart has grown so much so quickly, so congrats on the completion of your third album. Just start off with your feelings right now that the album is just about to be released. 

Yeah, we’ve done a lot of growing and still a lot more room to grow. I got all the emotions that you would get when you’re about to show people all of this work that you’ve been doing behind the scenes. And, you know, the lyrical content for me is coming out of places that I don’t usually talk about, so I sing about it. And I feel like it’s just a lot of emotions, good energies, nervous energies. I’m just really excited. It’s been about a year since we’ve been done with the record. So actually having people hear it is interesting because it doesn’t exist yet to most people, yet I’ve been listening for a year. So it’s going to be really exciting, and I hope people like it.

Definitely. I mean, people are already loving what we’re hearing so far, the three singles and music videos that are out. But yeah, that must be such a fun feeling to be holding on to it for a year, and then finally just kind of release it out to the world. 

It is, it’s so weird. It’s like you created all this stuff, and visuals and photos and videos and everything. And I was very focused on the visual aesthetic of the whole record with the lyrical content in mind. And so, it’s like one giant art piece that’s slowly being like, you know, shown and eventually revealed to the world. And so it just…I’m passionate about it. 

That’s excellent. I can hear the passion in your voice about it already. So can you tell me a little bit more about this lyrical content and where that kind of came from for you? 

Yeah, we were watching a lot of vampire werewolf movies. Let me just start with that. Can’t tell at all. But we were watching a lot of Underworld, and I wanted this record to be fierce and more of like…I guess I was feeling aggressive and I just wanted it heavier and I made everybody do that. *laughs* We were just very much in an aggressive headspace, and visually I kept pulling from different monsters like vampires, werewolves, and imagining the human emotion, the emotion of the monsters that we kind of have inside of us. They’re out for blood or they’re out for vengeance or whatever, I usually tap into a lot of human emotion. And I think that this was the more aggressive side. So the beasts and the monsters. I don’t think we’re all angels. And so I just felt like being authentic about the fact that yeah, I got a little devil on my shoulder too. 

Definitely. And that fits right in with the genre, of course, of rock and metal. But it’s also an interesting thing to explore, especially when you’ve got a lot of horror movies floating around you too, I’m sure. 

Yeah, I was really into Underworld and it was, I just kept playing it over and over, like all the movies over and over. I hope that they write another one, but it’s perfect timing with all of what’s going on with Wednesday coming back, and bringing back that dark goth kind of thing and The Crow and Beetlejuice, and I just feel like it’s a great time to love the darker aesthetics of the horror and stuff like that. 

Absolutely, and for all three of your new videos you had the same director, I noticed, Tony Aguilera, who has done some very cool visual art also along that dark goth kind of vibe, so how did you first connect with him? 

Well, it was actually kind of weird. So he’s in Arizona and I think that the label and management knew of him, and he just happened to be available during that time and we wanted to shoot as many music videos as we could with a certain budget. And we were like, all right, we’re going to put out like a week. We’re going to write, I wrote four music video kind of structures in three weeks. We had a week to shoot all four of the music videos. And it’s, I mean, I don’t know if you know, but planning a music video usually takes months and months, but he was just like, no, you could come in like in the morning and we’ll shoot a music video. 

Just dig right in. *laughs*

So yeah, he’s a super artsy creative guy. And he likes to play with a lot of camera angles, and different lenses, and broken glass and like…stuff like that makes it really cool. So he also did our photos as well, and we loved the photos so much that we decided to give them the music videos, and I’m so glad we did. 

Yeah, some great results there, and it’s cool that you guys are also involved hands-on. You said that you wrote the structure, do you have a storyline in mind or just maybe a general aesthetic in mind when you’re getting into these? 

Yeah, so you know you have the performance parts of the music video, which I feel like you need to have that in the heavy music. And then a little storyline that kind of goes in with the lyrics, and since I kind of understand my lyrics more than anyone, I tried to just come up with the concepts and just storyline/performance, storyline/performance, storyline/performance. And then Tony just worked his magic and really brought what I was trying to explain to him to life. We only talked to him the night before we were about to start everything. I didn’t get to go over anything. So the fact that it came together as amazing as it did, we’re very lucky. 

That’s great. It’s kind of like one of those things where the stars align and it all just plays out. 

Exactly, it was perfect. So Tony Aguilera, if anybody’s in Arizona, that guy rules. 

Awesome. So the most recent single and music video we’ve seen is “Immortal”. I love the style of the song – musically, like Alternative meets Heavy Metal meets Metalcore, it’s just a great blend. So can you talk about some of the ideas behind that track?

Oh, yeah, it’s so much fun. That song is so much fun. We just, we really wanted to push our boundaries of how heavy we could go. There’s never been a song that I almost predominantly scream the whole thing. So we just wanted to try and see what would happen. And I’ve been working on my screams and trying to get the lows and the highs and the mids and different placements, and so with that song we were just like, “All right, let’s go as heavy as we possibly can”. I mean, I’m sure we could go heavier, but this was as heavy as we’ve gone so far, so maybe this is the segue. But it’s like one of my favorite songs, because it’s just so much fun. And I think “Possess Me”, our guitar player is very much into the Industrial world, and he loves Black Metal and Death Metal, and we just wanted to bring all of that together. And I do understand that, yeah, it’s kind of weird to be in a metal band and throwing synths in like, programming and stuff in there as much as we like, but that’s just what we like. And at the end of the day, we’re never gonna make everybody happy, so we have to make ourselves happy and write what we like, whether or not somebody doesn’t like synths. That’s the music, don’t listen to it then. *laughs*

Exactly, right? That’s part of it, that’s part of your style. *laughs* In general, I think you guys use melody very well because every track, no matter how heavy it gets, manages to have a hook, a catchiness that’s memorable and something that people can sing along with at shows. 

Yes, I feel like for me personally what I like is, I really like a lot of screaming with a catchy melody that you can sing along with. I feel like there needs to be for me what I personally like. I feel like having, even if it’s just the chorus or it’s just a bridge part or something, you know, some Killswitch Engage kind of thing, where you sing and scream. I love hearing the dynamics of that. And, you know, from the belting to the soft vocal to just dynamics in general, personally, I like, and having something that’s memorable, like a melody that’s memorable, that you’ll be  humming it later and be like, “Oh, it’s stuck in my head”. And that’s when you know it’s a good song, you know? 

Definitely. Although at live shows, I’m sure you also hear people trying to scream along with the screaming parts. I know I hear that in metal shows a lot. 

Yeah, it’s great. Should put the mic up to their mouths. We all sound amazing in the car. 

Yeah, that’s when the best vocals come out, right? Well, it’s good practice anyway, when you are a vocalist, it’s definitely good to just scream it out in the car as much as you can. 

I do. I actually, that’s how I’ve been working on my screams a lot lately. I was listening to a lot of Motionless In White. I was listening to a lot of old school Asking Alexandria and stuff like that to just work on…My vocal coach is just a singing vocal coach. So she helps me with that end, which I still have work to do. But when it comes to screaming, I feel like if you try to emulate how they’re doing it, it’s gonna sound different with the microphone, live and stuff, but if you can kind of try to feel where their voice is when you’re screaming, you can kind of sense where the placement is. And so if you can pay attention to it, so you can learn just by singing, screaming along to your favorite band. 

Definitely, and if you have the foundations of getting that singing training and coaching, you can make sure you’re not also hurting your voice along the way while you’re trying to get into those screams. You’re not forcing it, you’re using your own techniques and just kind of expanding it. 

Right. And I’m the worst when it comes to being technical, yeah, I’m so bad at that. I’m the worst, like a vocal coach’s worst enemy, and  it’s like, “Great, I gotta teach this girl how to sing?”. Just joking aside, but no, you can get yourself in some trouble with the screaming and with especially all those dynamics, the high notes and the belting and stuff all together if you don’t take care of it and do it properly.

Well, I also wanted to ask you about your choice to sing and play guitar for your live shows as well, especially since for a lot of the music videos, the focus is more on you as a vocalist. So did you always do both singing and guitar, or did one come before the other for you?

Yes, I got my first guitar at 15 years old, got lessons and everything from my dad. And I learned, you know, some basic stuff on the guitar and started writing songs in my bedroom. I was too nervous to play them out in front of people. So I would like, you know, force myself three nights a week to just go to open mic nights in Florida and just play acoustically in front of people. And it was nerve-wracking because it didn’t come naturally as far as playing and performing in front of people, but the writing was always there. So I just had to force myself and the more I did it, the more it kind of turned into a separate person that goes on the stage, versus me who’s awkward. And then when the band started, everybody’s so good. I mean, it’s like metal guitar. It’s not like power chords and the stuff that I would play, open chords and things like that. And so I wanted the guitar parts to be more intricate. So I just kind of backed away from that for a while. And I realized some of the songs are not that difficult to play on guitar, and sing and play at the same time. So as long as I don’t have to switch guitars, I don’t have to retune everything like crazy, then I can sing and play at the same time. It’s really not as hard as I thought it would be. 

I mean, it definitely comes across as intimidating as well. And I feel like drums have always looked intimidating to me too, because you’ve got all limbs working at once. It’s like anything where we have to focus on multiple parts of different instruments, it could definitely be challenging. But you definitely pull it off, it doesn’t seem challenging when you’re doing it. 

Oh, thanks. Well, the songs that I play are pretty easy, but *laughs*, but I’m never going to play “Immortal”, I’ll practice it till the day I die, and I’ll probably never play that one live. 

That’s okay, you’re just focused on your screaming for that one, you’re good. *laughs* So also, I want to talk to you about the production side because Kevin Thrasher from Escape the Fate produced To The Wolves, and now you guys are going on tour with them soon. So tell me about the connection there, and what do you feel he did for the band as producer?

Oh my God, so our management is Powerline Management, and Escape the Fate’s under the same management. So we kind of grew slightly friends over the pandemic because we were on Twitch and streaming and stuff. And Kevin is, you know, he’s producing for Machine Gun Kelly and he just did Gwen Stefani’s new single. Like he’s…definitely kicking some butt out there in producer world. So he cleared out his schedule for two days and we went over there, and we wrote two songs, “Taste for Blood” and “To the Wolves” really fast. We bounced off each other so fast creating those songs as far as the structure, the skeletal structure of it goes. And then we were talking about features, and I brought it up to management like, hey, why don’t we just have Craig on it? I mean,Kevin’s on it. So then, together, it’s Escape the Fate pretty much, like half the band. And Craig was totally down, which we both didn’t expect, because he just did a bunch of features. So it was super, super cool of him. And then he came in and did the music video, and now he’s taking us out on tour. And I’m like, “Dude! I owe ya, big time”. So yeah, he really went to bat. 

That’s great. I mean, I’m sure he appreciates you guys’ talents, and realizes that you’re a good band to be helping to bring up on the way there as well. So I also saw some pictures on the Stitched Up Heart Instagram that you guys met Danny Elfman the other night, and he’s such an icon. That must have been such a fun show, just wanted to ask you about that. 

Oh my goodness. That was so random. So, our guitar player is very much into film scoring and composition, and television and trailers and music in film. And Danny Elfman is obviously one of his favorites. His sister’s an actress and she is dating this director that is really good friends with Luis Guzmán, who’s the dad on Wednesday? And he got tickets to the show, but he couldn’t make it, so he asked him if he wanted the tickets, and it was last minute. Yes, of course. We’re going to the show. But, we didn’t realize it was like, VIP backstage, all the things. So we were sitting next to crazy cool people, I don’t know what any of them do, but they look like they do stuff. And it was just a wild performance. I mean, Danny Elfman is just ripped now. He just turned 70. The man is just swole and tattooed to the brim and grew out his hair. Like, he really took that pandemic seriously and killed it. He killed it. Like, if I can do that at 70, that’d be sick. And then we just ended up backstage, and the publicist for Luis came up to us and she was like, we didn’t know what to do. I don’t want to talk to Danny. I’m so awkward. Why would I just go up and talk to the guy? I need people to approach me because I’m just, I don’t know, weird. And she’s like, “what are you doing over here? Danny’s right over here, come talk to him”. And I’m like, “okay!”  And then the weird thing is this – our guitar player, Merritt, before we were on our way there, I was like, “what would you say to Danny if you met him?”, not thinking we would actually meet the guy. And it’s like I predicted it. 

I was going to say, you must have known, some part of you knew that was gonna happen. 

It was so strange. And it was like, he hadn’t played in 30 years, performed live. So it was super cool. And we both didn’t know what to say. I started talking to him about tattoos, because he’s all inked up now. And I would have talked to him for hours. I feel like we could have hung out, but there were so many people that wanted his attention. I couldn’t take the whole night from him, you know? So hopefully we’ll meet again. 

Well, that’s still fun though. You had an experience, you got a story now, and you got to hang with Danny for a while. So that’s cool. 

So cool. 

So back to today and upcoming, To The Wolves, what’s up next for Stitched Up Heart right now? 

We are gonna get out there and tour, probably as much as we possibly can. If it was up to me, I would be out every single day in every single state and city in the world and country. And I just wanna be out there on the road right now. I miss it. And yeah, that’s the plan. Just get out there and play these songs. 

Good stuff. Well, it’s definitely something to look forward to, and right now we’ve got three amazing singles and music videos to enjoy. We’ll look forward to seeing you guys out on the road! 

Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for chatting with me.

Thanks for joining me today, I appreciate your time.

Nonpoint is heading to the release of Heartless, their new EP set for the fall of 2023 via the band’s own label, 361 Degrees Records. I spoke with Nonpoint frontman Elias Soriano about the latest happenings with the band. Check it out below:

Chelsea here on the phone with Elias of Nonpoint. Thank you for joining me today.

Howdy!

How are you doing?

I’m wonderful, how are you doing?

I’m doing awesome. And you’ve got a lot going on in the Nonpoint world. Got some killer new music to talk about, so I’m excited to dig right in. So let’s start with “A Million Watts”. Of course, that’s at the forefront for Nonpoint right now as the latest single and music video, so talk to me about what brought Nonpoint to this point and this track.

Well, this track was our party song. We wanted to have a good time. The last couple runs have been really fun, we’ve been having amazing tours, amazing times with the other bands on our tours. It’s been such a family atmosphere, literally for the last year. It kind of leaked out into the song and we really just wanted to have fun with the song, hence why the video is so much fun. People know us backstage and around the touring scene to normally be walking around with smiles on our face and normally we travel together as a band. We hang out quite a bit, so seeing that normally makes people go, holy shit, look at these guys. These guys are actually friends and they actually like to hang out with each other. So “A Million Watts” has that kind of come join the fun, have a good time with us, come out to the show kind of feel to it, and it translates.

That’s awesome and, absolutely, it translates into the energy, the music video, and just the energy of Nonpoint overall. I mean, you guys have been together for a solid amount of time, so I think liking each other is definitely important for that longevity, but also just appreciating what you do and having fun.

Yeah, it’s a good time. It’s a good time, and I guess this song is all about being grateful of that.

Earlier this year you also had the track “Heartless”, sort of a slightly different vibe, but it’s still part of the upcoming EP out on November 17th, so can you talk to me about the ideas behind that one?

Yeah, “Heartless” was still down the line of the Emerald Cities concept that has carried over in both EPs. “Heartless” is a deeper dive into that tin-man character. What he’s going through in his head, all of the imagery of, you know, the day-to-day life, suburban idea model, all the cars are basically Pantone or, you know, tan, black or blue, and all the houses are the same color kind of feel that, you know, kind of makes you feel like something that’s comfortable and that you should be going after. There’s so much life and everything that you’re also having to get through to get to that. And then a lot of those people, they get there and they’re not as happy as they thought. So that’s really where the whole Emerald Cities vibe and that whole concept is actually starting to tie up with the song “Heartless”.

Got it, that makes sense. And then also just kind of tying into the actual EP, is there going to be a sense of that running theme going through it?

Yeah, at least through the end of the EP, there’s a couple other songs on it. I mean, I could drop the names of them here. I really don’t mind. We have a song called “Golden Gloves” and another song called “Wannabe King” that are both touching on that same Emerald Cities thing. “A Million Watts” is really a standout song that just kind of came to us that we couldn’t help but release.

That’s great. Yeah, of course. It’s got plenty of energy and it felt like the right time to you guys to release it, it doesn’t necessarily have to be that specific concept, but I think it’ll definitely be a good vibe, and also to kind of break up the tone of Heartless and give it a new kind of energy.

Absolutely. It just fits because it’s part of the story and perfect to the timeline right now, for sure.

So Heartless is, of course, coming out on your own label, 361 Degrees Records. So can you tell us about what gave you guys the initiative to start your own label and just how everything’s going with it right now?

Everything’s going really great with it, actually. It’s  getting easier to drop stuff, and the team is a great team. We have a good plan ahead, we definitely set up marketing and set up you know plans and make sure there’s things like touring and things like that to support it. So we’re still working like a regular business would under the major label model but we’re just doing it through a distro partner and through our own funding, and it makes things very fluid, makes decisions easy to do and easy to make, makes things like cross promotion and backpacking things and bootstrapping things together, like touring and releases, and things like that a lot easier for us. It works well for us and we’re definitely lucky that it does.

That’s awesome. It’s definitely really important to be able to just kind of reign over your own domain and do things on your timeline and when you feel is right. And also to be able to, like you said, backpack onto other things, and reach out in terms of tours and organize things your own way. Did you guys just kind of figure that out?

Yeah, it was collaborations. Yeah, we had to figure all that out. We had a million questions that we came into this asking. Luckily, we had the right people around us that were caring enough of us that allowed us to get the real answers and then based on those answers and what we were willing to invest, we just started to make some hard decisions.

That’s great. Do you feel you know what you’ve learned by handling a label yourself besides being on a label over the years? What do you feel like are some lessons you’ve learned now that you’re kind of taking the reins for yourselves?

I don’t envy the labels and I really respect them. People should take that the most out of this conversation. The amount of workload, the number of cogs that it takes to make something like this actually happen and work well, it takes a lot of hard work, so hats off.

Definitely agreed here, for sure. You’ve also been working with Chris Collier as the engineer, so can you tell me about that experience, and what do you think he brought to the table in studio?

Well, producer/mixer. Rob is engineer or co-engineer on some songs, I don’t know which ones are which, but I know these last couple he basically engineered. But yeah, Chris Collier is definitely one of those new cogs and he was like a really gigantic cog that for some reason fit right in the middle. And it literally locked in with every other tooth of every other cog that was surrounding it. And he helped us kind of glue some of our musical ideas together in a way that made them sound fresh and exciting to us. So, you know, we really lean on Chris, really for his opinion. You know, he’s sort of our Rick Rubin right now. We really respect his opinion and his perspective. And he’s a player, man. He plays every single instrument and does it amazingly, and that gains a lot of respect from all the players on this side of the field. It’s a valuable partner to have.

Definitely. So, outside of the Nonpoint world, about a month ago, a video surfaced of you with the band Taproot, featured on their new single “Favorite Song”, so how did that connection come about?

Yes, and that “Favorite Song” is…actually I’ve got to give credit where credit’s due, Steve was talking about me on socials and I wasn’t getting the messages, and my guitar players saw a reel on Instagram of him talking about trying to get Elias on this track. And I’ve been trying to get on a Taproot track for 23 years now. So, I immediately jumped on Instagram, reached out to Steve, got in touch with him, and he sent me music and I immediately got to work.

So it worked out on both ends because you guys both wanted to work together, and it just came together at the right time.

Yeah, for real. It was great. And then, you know, they’re doing a couple of shows with their comeback here in the Midwest, and I live up in the Midwest right now. So it’s easy for me to just bounce right over and play. We shared the stage together at Taste of Madison for the first time in years, over a decade. But we got to play the song there for the first time. It’s great.

So you also just got off the road from a crazy tour with Mudvayne, Coal Chamber, Gwar, and Butcher Babies. That’s one hell of a lineup with you guys in there too. So how was that on the road?

That was one of those family tours that you know, “A Million Watts” was really all about. It was great. We know 90% of the people that we were touring with, we became, you know, dear friends with a whole new group and slew of people and bands, you know, between Coal Chamber and Gwar, we knew them in passing, but really never got to be as close as we were. You know, I was close to Dez for a couple shows in Australia while we bounced around on Soundwave together. We became acquaintances there, good friends, and then kind of lost touch for about a decade, and then ran into each other again on this tour. And then I ended up becoming dear friends with all the other players. Mikey is one of my dear friends. I almost talk to him daily. Same thing with Meegs and Nadja. It was a great, great tour. Their entire crew, everybody. It was a nonstop family atmosphere. The parking lot parties on all the days off, and Roadie Friday, all of the end of tour antics and good times, the pictures were insane. Lots of hugs, it was a great, great tour.

What great energy, and I love the positivity that you have overall, just talking about who you’re working with, what you do, it’s a great energy that you bring.

Well, it’s got to be, got to show some level of gratitude when you get to wake up and do what you love.

Absolutely. And yeah, I feel like that’s also kind of one of those things that happens when you’re in a band that’s so established and so appreciated. Things kind of cycle back around. You reunite with people, you develop new bonds. There’s all kinds of great positivity that can come out of that as well.

Yeah. Well, I mean, it’s understanding that your story is going to change. And being around for 23 years, it always hasn’t been a climb up. There’s been dips, and deep dips, and valleys, and ups, but this has been my only job for the last 23 years, it’s all I’ve done, and that’s a blessing. I take care of my family. My wife is a stay at home mom with my daughter, homeschooled, and we get to travel. My daughter has been to over 20 states and she’s 12. You know, she’s seen Megadeth five times before she was, you know, four years old.

Raising her right.

Yeah, yeah. What I’ve learned is you really can’t compare your life to anybody else’s life. And it goes for everybody that’s listening right now. You have to find the value in what you’re doing and the happiness that you get out of your life, because of the life that you live, because of the job that you have, because of the apartments and the neighbors, all these things that you are just there living around, that’s your environment. You’ve got to find what you love about it so that way you’re waking up every day with the right state of mind. If there’s something else that you want out there, you’ve just got to put your mind into it and go.

That’s awesome advice and, you know, all you can ask for as a musician as well. I mean, just being able to have fun, also make a living, also being able to have your family and the whole package there. And of course, it’s not always easy. It’s not a steady road, like you said, of just having that consistently. But the gratefulness, and just understanding the little victories along the way is super important.

Yeah, always, always be thankful.

Definitely, and just keeping on the topic of tours as well, I mean, since you just got off the road and now you’ve got the Million Watts Tour coming up, can you talk about what led to this lineup?

It came together real fast at the end. Sumo was definitely down to do it again, H.E.D. came in very late into the game and we were excited because we wanted somebody else that, again, it’s going to bring that party vibe, because that’s what this whole tour is gonna be about. And you know, they got the same kind of bounce and groove that we got. Same thing with Sumo. And then when we heard VRSTY was down, it was like, you know, last box checked. And we were ready to go. Those boys are amazing to hang out with and play with, especially for an entire tour. And then across the board, the entire lineup is insane when it comes to music values. So we’re just happy that we got a ticket that as soon as people walk in, they’re going to have good music all the way up until the end.

Absolutely, that’s perfect. So you do collab with bands a lot, like we’ve been saying, you featured vocals on Taproot, and then Fear of Water is another band you had a recent feature with. So in general, what are some bands that you’re really digging right now that we’d find on your playlist?

I’m a really huge fan of a lot of the young bands coming up right now, and luckily I befriended a few of them on Shiprocked where we really got to hang out for a couple days, repeat the camaraderie and the brotherhood and sisterhood. But Dropout Kings, outstanding bands, just amazing people to be around. The Nova Twins, I’ve watched them literally explode over the last few months. But not even the last few months, just the last couple years. Those girls are just oozing talent and so much fun to watch. And they have amazing songs. The new Skindred is just a testament to what everyone else considers a legacy brand, like they consider our band a legacy brand. But for some reason, always feel brand new. So a lot of British bands, right? I’m into a lot of British music right now. Yeah, it’s funny because I’m really into…I think it’s Drill, which is British rap. Just a lot of good music coming up from every single genre coming out of the UK for sure. And then when it comes to bands here, your bands like your Bad Omens, your Dropout Kings. Yeah, just good bands to watch live. I’m excited about the future of music.

And again, with the positivity, I love that you’re looking forward to the future of music and finding really cool niches of it and everything, whether it’s coming from here, or international…it’s always good to keep your mind open with different music. Well, this has been awesome getting to know you and what’s going on with Nonpoint right now. So can we wrap it up with what’s on the horizon for Nonpoint?

Yeah, like you said, the release of Heartless comes out in November. We have the A Million Watts Tour that already has two sold out shows and a third fast on its heels, and it hasn’t even been a week, so I would just suggest to everyone, if you’re in any of those cities, get your tickets now and then we’ll see you guys in the new year. We have a bunch of great shows that we’re about to announce that we’re very excited to be a part of, and then there looks to be a future of a second leg of the Emerald Cities tour, and possibly another small leg of the Million Watts tour, so you’re definitely going to get a chance to see us live. Everyone asking if we’re coming to your city, I would say most likely.

Great stuff to look forward to. Thanks for taking the time to talk with me today.

Thank you!