OneMetal.com INTERVIEW:
Steve Holt, 36 Crazyfists

OneMetal:But it was still leaked onto the web before hand ?

Steve:Yeah, absolutely

OneMetal:Do you think that harmed you at all?

Steve:Yeah, well it had been out over here since June, and it didn’t get out over there ’til November, and we did a bunch of tours over there during that period, and at that point we were just telling people to download it, you know? we don’t care. (laughs)

OneMetal:So you are quite happy with people downloading, do you think it harms the industry?

Steve:Yeah, yeah, I think it harms the music industry, but it’s just the way the business is now you know. It’s not like technology is going to go backwards. It’s just the way it works now. It’s shows and stuff now where bands can hopefully make a little bit of money (laughs)

OneMetal:So you don’t think it was a case of Roadrunner losing faith in you ?

Steve:I honestly don’t think that Roadrunner America has ever had any faith in us for some reason. It’s just the way it is, and I understand that it’s a business and you got to make money. We’re just a smaller band over there, for the label you know? They got some pretty decent sized bands over there, and we’re lucky enough to make two records on that label just because of the sales expectancy of bands.

OneMetal:Yeah, I see, so the new album, it’s a bit more melodic. It wasn’t because they heard it and for want of a better word considered it a sellout?

Steve:No, no, I think Roadrunner America would be the exact opposite, you know, their bands are like Nickelback and stuff like that. I mean if anything they’d be like “these guys aren’t radio enough” or whatever. It’d be like pretty much the opposite to over here. I don’t know, I’m not really sure what it is, there are people in the label that like us, but there’s no-one that really wants to work for us.

OneMetal:Do you get any say in it, or do they just tell you that’s what’s going to happen?

Steve:Well they were kind of just feeding us along, “ok we’ll put it out” first it was June, then it was end of July, August, September and so on, then they were like “next June”. We were like ok, no way, like we’re not going to sit around on a record for a year.

OneMetal:So the more melodic approach. Was that a conscious decision or was it the way it naturally progressed?

Steve:I think it kind of just happened that way. I mean I cant think of any conscious effort to do anything. You know we always just start writing stuff , and Brock’s a little more comfortable with his vocals these days, you know, it’s not hard for him to sing stuff now. So I think it just kind of happened that way.

OneMetal:Yeah it has got a lot more clean vocals from Brock?

Steve:Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

OneMetal:The first album, Bitterness The Star, that was mainly your older stuff wasn’t it?

Steve:Yeah, yeah, absolutely. When we got signed in ’99 I want to say. It was mostly from then, I think maybe three or four songs between the time we got signed and started recording were written. So it’s mostly old stuff, some of the songs on that record, are from like ’97, really old stuff. It’s kind of like a mish-mash of a record, but it came out alright for our debut you know.

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