UN: The members of Trigger Point are from different parts of the US, how did the band come together?

Taylor: We all moved to Hollywood in the weeks following the 9/11 tragedies, with the exception of Dave because he already lived in the Los Angeles area. I am from Texas, Mike is from Michigan, and Paul is from San Diego. We had all moved here to go to the same school, and I was jamming with a group of guys and the drummer introduced me to Dave who was jamming with Mike, everyone was talking about how bad ass they sounded so I asked to come by practice and see what they were working on and we clicked right away, we haven’t been separated since. For the first 2 years we had a different bass player until we picked Paul up in 2003. Paul had been my best friend and neighbor since we had all moved to Hollywood and he was the perfect addition to our band.

UN: How did you guys become involved with Corporate Punishment? Are you guys happy with what the label has done for you guys?

Taylor: When we recorded "A Silent Protest" we were just rushing into the studio to do and album so we could sell it on the road. We were not trying to make a good album we just wanted the best of what we had written in our career to be put on disc so we had something to make money. We never expected it to sound like an album, we were really just thinking it was going to be like a really long demo but as the recording process went on it starting sounding like a real album. So when we were mixing it Logan asked if he could call some friends and have them listen to it, Thom the head of the label loved it and we decided to go with them.

Taylor: We have been very happy with what they have done with us. It is kind of a pain in the ass some times because it is a new label and everything is being done for the first time and no one has ever heard of us or them. But considering those things a lot has happened. We all feel that CP is eventually going to be like another Trustkill or Roadrunner and its exciting to know that we are the font runners who are going to pave the way for the bands to come.

UN: What was it like working with Logan on A Silent Protest? Judging from his background he must have really known what you guys were going for.

Taylor: Working with Logan was a dream come true, and not because he was in Machine Head or Soulfly but because he is a true artist in the studio. We had never worked with anyone who really knew what they were doing, and to say Logan knew what he was doing is an under statement. Like I stated earlier we were not trying to make an awesome album so we didn’t do any pre production with Logan, there was no dissecting songs and stuff like that, we told him we just wanted to record our songs straight up because we were in a rush to get it done and get on the road. But he made everything sound amazing and I have compared it to bands that spent upwards of 100,000 on their records and I think we have beat them out. For the next record we have already singed on to work with Logan again and this time we are going to utilize him to the max. We plan on doing a lot of pre production and really taking our time and being objective. None of us can really wait to start working on the next record.

UN: I was curious to ask when the album was originally released. I read 2004, and I also noticed that the cover on the copy I received was different then the cover shown on the website.

Taylor: It was originally released in November of 2004, that was 2 months after we had signed with Corporate Punishment. We had all the artwork done ourselves, Corporate Punishment really had nothing to with the record at all now that I think about it, they weren’t there when we recorded it and they were barely in the picture when we did all the artwork. But we released it through them Online through their store. The didn’t have distribution at the time but they said it was on the way. Finally they signed with Navarre and asked us if we wanted to release it the right way and we said yes. So everyone decided new art work was in order since it was already a year old. So we did the new cover and a new booklet, I think the new stuff looks awesome although the first cover was pretty bad ass too. Not many bands can ay they had two really kick ass covers for one record.

UN: The bio describes the band as a soundtrack to life; do you find that it is important to write about topics that people can easily relate to?

Taylor: I don’t think I ever really think about it as writing for what other people can relate to. I write for my self first and for most, and a lot of the times its about things happening to me in my life. Which are all things that most people can relate to, I try to be as honest as I can in my lyrics. A lot of the songs on this record are very old to us as a band, some of them we have been playing for almost four years now so its kind of weird. This record is kind of like the soundtrack to our lives because from the day we first met and wrote "Away" which was the first song we ever wrote to the night we wrote "A Silent Protest" which was the newest song on the record, we have been on a very long journey and every time we hear this record different songs take us back to different times in our lives over the past four years.