“Kill the Drama” Part 2- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

What are your worst habits?

Probably spending too much time on our Myspace, Facebook, and YouTube.. we reply back to our friends and fans as much as we can and that means we usually don’t sleep much. We work normal day jobs, write music, practice, make videos, run our own merch store, support our management, run campaigns on the internet on these networking sites, and currently do all our own media amongst so many other things. That leaves little time to just relax and enjoy life a bit. But we’re focused on what needs to be done to get us to the next level in our careers, and are focused to sacrifice what we have to to make it happen and.

What drives your music and your passion?

The synergy of four talented musicians together in a room, injecting their ideas into a new song, fighting it out, and making something that we can enjoy and others will as well. Its all about our own original music that inspires us to make more. We think also, our messages are pretty apparent in our music and connecting to all these people around the world and them believing in what we do, telling their friends, passing the word along, drives us immensely. Its like a pat on the back anytime we play a live show in front of a crazy crowd or simply check our fanmail. And then there’s always another driving force, being that certain people around us gave up on us or expected us to fail. We live every day to prove them wrong.

How do you write your music?

All kinds of different ways, but a lot of it starts with an idea on guitar
that we formulate out to an instrumental. Then Bryan gets to work on the melodies and Steve often helps out with the lyrics. It’s a collective effort and there are always songs that start with bass, or Jason pieces together out of musical fragments we’ve worked on. Each song is different, with a different formula. That’s why no two sound the same, but all of them have something similar binding them to the Kill the Drama name.

What have you go planned for the rest of the year, you playing any festivals?

Touring. Recording a new album, or at least a few singles at first, just to satisfy our fans that want more right now. We’ve sold enough albums on iTunes that its time to get more music out there and we’re writing all the time to get the best group of songs together to make our second record better than our first. We have about 10 songs right now and we’re hitting our stride in terms of writing now that Mars is getting used to how we write and is getting in the mix after he joined the band last fall.

What advice had you been given before you started this journey and what advice would you give someone just starting out?

That the drama never dies. Once everything seems to be going great, you’ll have a failure… and once everything seems hopeless, something positive will happen that you never planned. The idea is that you keep going forward doing whats most important, making great music and let the other things fall into place. Bands think its all about the money and the success and that they’re so great that it should come easy to them and they should be rich and famous right away. Most of the time, this isn’t the case. There is always someone working harder than you, or is better than you, so you need to be on top of your career at all times, pushing further. Once most bands see the road isn’t so easy, they quit, or if they make it to the top easy, they are consumed by the ease of the success and fail in the end anyways. When all is said and done, all a band has is each other and the music they make. That’s it. Its what you have to set yourself apart from other bands, and it makes the legacy you’ll leave behind. So to that end, simply said, no matter what happens, don’t give up… and don’t give in. With talent and a little luck you’ll get where you want to go.