KK: Tell me about your song writing process. Do you guys come into the studio with pre-conceived ideas about what your music should sound like or is it more of an experimental process.
RF: It’s always experimental. The way the songs are being written – I’ll come up with a bunch of ideas, and once I have a lot of stuff pieced together, we’ll take it to the rehearsal room. The band will start piecing them together and see what works and all the guys would start adding their parts to it; we’ll try and arrange together a song. If we come back together the next day and play the song and it still sounds exciting, then we’ll know we’ve got potential for something that might make it to an album some day.
For the last album, we did it slightly differently. We came in with all these ideas, and instead of bringing them into the rehearsal room and working them into finished tunes and then recording, we brought all the ideas straight into the studio and we made the record into the studio. It was a great experience, and everyone was able to spread their wings a little bit. It was a really fun time and all of us were in the studio from nine in the morning to nine at night!