UN: How did the deal with Prosthetic come about? It seems like a pretty big step up for the band. Were you surprised when they showed an interest in the band?

Justin: Oh yeah definitely. We were on Lovelost Records before and they put out our first EP, "The Scars of Ages". It did pretty well at the time so we wanted to push the band a little further and go to the next level. We actually never shopped our CD out to anyone although a few labels contacted us but nothing really interesting came along. Things were really getting frustrating at the time so we sent e-mails to more well-known labels that we wanted to work with and Prosthetic happened to be one of them. Jerry, the promotions guy at Prosthetic, responded back to us and said he was already really into us and that he would put in a word for the band. A week or so later we recieved a call from them, started negotiating the deal, and everything else is history.

UN: You guys have had two line-up changes recently bringing in a new bass player and drummer if I’m not mistaken. Would you say that this is the strongest line-up yet for the band?

Justin: Yes, without any doubt. We actually never had any problems with the band's line-up until we signed with Prosthetic. I don't know, I guess some people are scared to commit to a full-time touring band. It's all fun at first but when it becomes your job touring full time with 4 other guys in the van constantly with you...It definitely takes a certain type of person. Our previous drummer quit right before a 2 month tour leaving us with a week to find a replacement and our bassist quit during the tour and took a plane home. We worked with fill-ins until the tour was over and then posted that we were looking for new members. Our current drummer Josh, who moved from Kansas, actually sent us a video of him playing our songs and we knew that's who we wanted since. We have Jake from Arsis playing bass for us now since Arsis aren't doing any extensive touring. Our lineup now is really dedicated and we are all good friends and that's an important factor for a band.

UN: Bloodlust is an intense and blistering metal album. Do you guys feel like you’ve kicked things up a notch with this new album?

Justin: Yeah, I would say so. The song writing and structure on "Bloodlust" is more focused. Instead of focusing on the same formula as before, we kind of explored and combined all the elements of metal that we love. We also spent more time with the writing as well as the recording process and we are very happy with the outcome. It's definitely our heaviest record yet.

UN: I would say that the band might be lumped into the metalcore genre, but it’s pretty clear that you guys come from a much more death metal angle then a typical metalcore angle. Is it important for you guys to stay away from using the common breakdown riffs, or clichés of the genre?

Justin: We try to stay away from doing the same thing the next band does; we try to out do ourselves. You know, we like to push things beyond. We have a more extreme sound than most of those bands because we have a lot of death metal influence. We are into a lot of the earlier death metal, European metal, and even older thrash. The problem is most metalcore bands are influenced by whatever is cool at the moment so it starts to sound redundant. A lot of bands nowadays aren't really listening to the bands that started this to begin with and it shows.

UN: Are you excited to see where this new album will take the band? With Prosthetic behind the band and an album as brutal as Bloodlust it should only be a matter of time before the band catches on like wildfire.

Justin: We can't wait actually. We have been working very hard to make this happen so it will be good to finally get our material everywhere. We have a dedicated fan base already and it can only get bigger with a label as big as Prosthetic pushing it. This is our best record to date and we are very excited to see the response. We plan to do a lot of extensive touring for this album and there were talks with the label of going to Europe sometime as well so we'll see what happens!