From Ruins We Rise

Your Butcher shirts are out of medium sizes. Hook an average brother up, won’t you? In all seriousness, any plans on new merch for the upcoming album?

Yeah there will be a grip of new merch soon. Check this bad boy out:

I just shelled out 200 bucks of my own hard earned money to buy that design, it will be printed soon. More to come.

After this album is out, do you guys plan on doing any extensive touring or just some small tours here and there?

We are in it to win it man, we didn’t pay a fuckload of money for a tour van (our 3rd one actually) and a trailer for nothing. If our management and booking can keep us on the road 400 dates a year that would be great. We will gladly play 3 shows a day on some days if possible to meet that quota haha. We just love playing shows, its great to see all the hard “work” (I say that because its not really like work since its so fun) of writing music really pay off when you get a reaction out of the crowd and you get to interact with the fans. We are all really personable people and love meeting and hanging out with fans, just as long as they don’t get too gnarly fanboy on us because we are merely human, after all haha (listen to Too Short’s song “Get Off The Stage“, he rips on superfanboy dudes really hard. It’s hilarious)

Would you ever consider doing a tour diary (possibly called “Conducting From The Road”?) for a certain blog that brings the heavy? *cough*

Possibly man.

The Calming Effect

What do you think that the future holds in store for CFTG?

Hopefully at least a few more albums of shredding metal that we can be proud of and maybe some people out there will be able to stay captivated by in this super watered down genre. I’d like to say I see huge sold out tours in our future but in my experience in this “industry” there is no telling what will happen on the business side of things. So many really awesome bands work their asses off and go no where and so many no talent ass clowns achieve superstardom (although I’m sure too many people out there think we fit into the category of no-talent ass clowns haha)

Anything else you’d like to add or mention that we might have skipped over?

I’d just like to say thanks for the interview and thanks so much to any fans out there that might be reading this and that have supported us by coming to a show, buying our album, or buying some merch we really appreciate so very much.

Also I’m giving guitar lessons via webcam, if you can pay 30 dollars for an hour long lesson and can pay me via PayPal hit me up a metaljohnx(at)hotmail(dot)com. I can teach you everything from theory, sweeps, scales, technique, gear, tone, and even if you want to learn about the music business and how shit works for a touring band, my knowledge is yours!

Oh yeah and if anyone plays Starcraft, Diablo 2, or Defense of the Ancients on Warcraft 3 my screen name is EternallyGutted on there, lets kill shit.

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