We’re currently on tour with From Autumn To Ashes, Maylene, and The Sons Of Disaster.

How’s that going?

Good. Really good. Really good turn outs and we’re really happy with the way things are going. We released our new record in March.

Tell me a little bit about that new record.

It’s called Pressure The Hinges. It’s out on Solid State Records.

Tell me about when you guys were writing it and what the mindset was behind it.

I guess we started writing it last summer and we really wanted to write the kind of music that we wanted to play.

Are there any particular songs that you did the main writing on?

Yes, there are three songs on the record that I had written. “The Minor Prophets”, “Needles”, and a song called “Chorus Of Angels”. I was really happy that the band let me have a part in the writing process because I was new to the band and I didn’t really know exactly what they were going to allow me to do. I didn’t really know what the rules were as far as their writing styles but I just wrote them anyway and I brought them to the band. We ended up using them on the record.

I bet that made you proud.

Yeah, it made me pretty excited.

Tell me what the three songs are about.

“The Minor Prophets” is a compilation of some things from the Bible. “The Minor Prophets” actually are just some different prophets in the Bible that had to do with Israel and Israel’s return to God. Just relating it to modern day and coming back to God. The song “Chorus Of Angels” is along the same lines. It’s based around Isaiah 6 where Isaiah saw a vision of God on his throne in Heaven with angels around him and how powerful that was. “Needles” is a different kind of song. It’s about a house that someone stumbles upon in the forest. Somewhere random that’s abandoned. It looks like the people just got up and left from this house. As you walk through the house different things are revealed to you by yourself.

That’s some pretty deep shit there.

It’s a weird storyline throughout the song.

Are the vast majority of your songs religiously influenced or is it half and half?

Half and half. A lot of them are about different situations in my life and the rest of our lives. There’s a song called “Stitches”. Me and Brandon wrote the majority of the lyrics on the album and there’s a song we wrote together called “Stitches”. It’s about loving someone who is throwing their life away with drugs or alcohol and how important it is to tell them that they’re worth more than this. They’re worth more than the situation that they’re in.

That’s also the song that you guys released as a single. Are you going to do a video for it?

Yeah, we made a video for it. The video is based around the same thing. There are two different situations going on. There’s a family and the dad is an alcoholic and then there’s a group of friends playing cards and one of the friends is a drug addict and as the video progresses, the song shows the friends and the family reaching out to the person.

How long have you been in the band?

I’ve been in the band for about a year and a few months since last January.

How have you enjoyed that?

I love it. It’s awesome because I’ve gotten thrown into a group of better guys. We just go together as people. Musically we all go together well.

How did you get hooked up with the band?

I was in a local band in Denver called New Day Awakening. We had played with Haste The Day a few times and when Jimmy had left the band they gave me a call and sked me to fill in for their European tour.

There’s also a special edition of your record that has a DVD with it.

Yeah, it’s a pretty random DVD of just footage that we shot of ourselves being retarded and being our goofy selves. There’s some studio footage of us recording the record and there’s some footage of the tour we did right before Christmas. The Twelve Days of Christmas. Then there’s Jimmy’s last show and a few other shows on the DVD. Also on the CD there’s a bonus track that’s like a B-side to the record and then two demo versions of some of the songs.

How has the record been selling so far?

Really good. We’re really happy with the way things have been going.

How much longer do you have on the tour?

We’re actually about halfway through this tour. We’ve got five more weeks and some change left on this tour.

What do you guys have planned after that?

We’re going to do a little Canadian run with Protest The Hero and then we’re going to do Warped Tour. The first half of Warped Tour.

Warped Tour is awesome.

Yeah, I’m really excited about it. We’ve never really done Warped Tour before so we’re really excited about it.

I bet you are. You sound pretty excited. You said half your songs are religious material. Is your faith really important to you?

Yeah, it’s the main thing in our lives. Our lives revolve around it. Even if we tried not to have our faith come out in our music, it would still come out because it’s such a main part of our lives that of course it’s going to come through. The way we live and what we write.

When you go on tour, do you tour with other religious bands or it doesn’t matter?

It doesn’t matter. We typically tour with non-Christian bands and that’s where we feel we need to be.

Does that work out pretty well?