after the death of man

big thanks to the Mjolnir for the chance to rant on about how great everything is. :D
heres a copy of the interview:

Read on to learn more about the incredible instrumental fusion that began one of Arizona's most masterful extreme metal bands in the underground.

After The Death of Man reaches beyond your typical metal boundaries, in the process transforming the genre into something more aptly defined by the term, art.

Interviewed by Mjolnir, USBMS Texas Chapter

1) Having made your start humbly auditioning via the internet and doing so with extreme specifics for the band in mind,

Would you say it was difficult to bring After the Death of Man together?

Brandon: ha, 'humbly'. I placed an ad on craigslist that Derek called I believe 'the biggest asshole post' he had seen or something like that. Looking back, I wasn’t very polite though *laughs. It was literally a call out for ONE person of the jillion online... if that one person DID exist. I was looking for the 'him', the 'that guy' that could literally play everything I could imagine... and better than everyone else. So... I don’t know it was a shot in the dark because I was being so outrageously specific and diverse about what I wanted... but it worked, through some bizarre twist of luck that eventually formed ATDOM. So no, I would say it wasn’t difficult at all. It was damn near impossible and angled that way for a reason... but I got lucky and found everything I ever wanted despite the odds and shit played out brilliantly... I find that’s the case with most great shit in life, if you dive full force towards what you truly want in your heart and the universe will bend to make it so. Granted, we hit our bumps and had moments of 'oh fuck'-ness, but the story kept telling, and with 6 months we had a full band with a lineup that I could have never imagined, releasing incredibly powerful sounds.

Paul: Putting ATDOM together certainly was not an easy task, but fortunately, every member of this band has put their best foot forward for the sake of the music. And after only 6 months of hard work, was able to put something together that was unique to the scene, both the artistic side and business side of ATDOM has started to move forward.

Derek: I mean in a sense, yes. The starting of this band or any band in that case for me was very difficult. Being as how I had just moved here went and jammed with a few bands and no one was up to my standards. At least until I met Brandon and Paul. I posted some pretty asshole-ish ads on craigslist man. *laughs* and just no one could keep up or wanted to play what I wanted. But as luck would have it Brandon posted a similar asshole-ish ad and I responded immediately. As soon as I had that one person I knew it was a lot easier. Brandon and I hit all the same points that we wanted to play. It was just this amazing moment. *laughs again* I went to his apt which was right down the street from me and met him and his awesome gf Noelle. They straight gave me cupcakes and treated me like I was already a close friend. And I had just met these people. So I start warming up, and Brandon is telling me I have to meet his buddy Paul. I’m excited because I see things progressing.

So in the next few days I meet Paul. I adjusted his guitar to my tuning and we just talked theory scales modes. This dude was EASILY up to my standards. Honestly his playing abilities scared me. And I WANT THAT. I want to be challenged and Paul does that very nicely. So we had the three of us. Brandon knew this guy Andrew *drummer/guitarist of local death metal band depraved heretic* and said I should check out his band with him. So we went to their jam spot and met up. Me and Andrew clicked and jammed easily together. There I met Flynn. Now Flynn just fucking impressed me immediately.

My former band bodies left burning never had a bass player because no one in Havasu was good enough or liked our style. So seeing this dude rip bass I was just blown away.

Initially Lloyd *singer from depraved heretic, monumental torment, and she was dead when I got there* was going to jam bass with us. But Lloyd was tired and took a nap on this couch at the spot and Flynn asked if he could jam with us. So me Brandon Paul Flynn and Andrew started writing a song. The beginning of what would be locus of control.

Things were going awesome I thought. But writing with Andrew was getting difficult. He saw himself as a guitarist and we wanted to write the riffs and have the dude kill it on drums. And believe me, Andrew is an amazing drummer. So we went our separate ways. Now drummer less me and Paul holed up in our apt and just started writing the next few songs. We jammed out like 3 more songs in like a week or something. It was ridiculous. Then I was out of town. And Flynn and Paul wrote song 5. When I came back, I wrote 6 with Paul and Flynn. it felt good having Flynn in the writing process. Honestly idk what we never really had him in the other ones. Not to say dude didn’t write his own bass lines.

He did. Just me and Paul wrote the structure and initial ideas of how the song would sound.

So being drummer less... this is where shit was starting to look really bleak.

We tried out a few guys. Some were just not metal enough. Some had other commitments that we felt would interfere with our band. So I started programming drums.

We thought basically if we got this badass song and showed it as something drummers would have to play they would feel challenged and want to jam with us. No such luck. *laughs* but we were lucky that Lloyd lived right across from Joes uncles place. I guess our buddy Lloyd heard some dude laying down some blasts and ridiculous drumming. He went to knock on the door or garage to get the dudes attention. And the drummer just played louder and faster. It took a while but we eventually met up with mystery drummer.

Joe tried out. He is the final piece to this monster called after the death of man or simply ATDOM it was a pretty long effort but in the end it was so worth it. And we have just started. I am much honored to be with these dudes.

I knew one day I would find a band to take over the fucking world. And I see this band as the one I will do it with.

Flynn: No, not really. *sits back and reclines

2) Derek Ryan, former member of Bodies Left Burning (Havasu, AZ) and present guitarist for ATDOM,

Had an interesting initial response to your approach for the band, would you tell us a little about that?

Paul: Well Brandon was the first to discover Derek's amazing talent via craigslist. After having sat together for one session, Brandon made this suggestion of Derek and I meeting up to see if something could be put together. After only one night of jamming, we began working diligently on writing material and finding other members of the band.

Brandon: I think Derek immediately recognized my vision for the project. We have many of the same influences and likes... as well as dislikes and guilty likes... when we first met we played the ill show you mine if you show me yours game and saw that we were worth working together- after that it was all down hill. Down hill is good, right? I mean to say... shit just relentlessly flowed.

3) You mentioned Converge and Nachtmystium in praise, are either of these bands influences to After the Death of Man?

Brandon: OF COURSE! Both converge and nachtmystium are staples of the atdom audio diet. The violent progressiveness of converge and alt-black of nachtmystium were huge keys in the sound I initially set out to find. You know... thinking back... when I first met Derek, he had nachtmystiums tour shirt under his converge hoodie. Fucking hilarious. I guess it just goes to show...

Derek: FUCK YEA! For me converge is one of my all time favorite bands. They have always just been so original in making a sound that pushes your concept of how music should sound to the limits. I have a huge respect for them and I hope that feel or vibe comes through in our songs. Same with nachtmystium, granted I haven’t been into them as long as converge but the idea is the same. They play black metal. With delay and atmosphere like a psychedelic feel and it’s just fucking genius. I never heard black metal played like that before and that’s something I want to do in music. Make people think FUCK THATS GENIUS! That’s my goal in this band. And I think it’s the same with the other guys. We want to push the boundaries of what metal is; of what music is. we want to take everything we love whether it be jazz, funk, blues, black metal, post rock, ambient, progressive metal, tech shred stuff, sludge stoner doom, slam death, and make music that makes you say THATS FUCKING GENIUS.

Flynn: not for me in particular, but for some of the other members yes.

Paul: Id say yes, but there is so much good music out there that has helped us write this first album, and so much more music that is influencing us to write the next one, that it is a little difficult to say exactly what the next influence will be for us.

4) How large a part do you feel image and style are to an extreme metal band's presentation?

Brandon: HUGE. I mean, like freakin huge. Obviously. If shisty bands present themselves well, they’re generally well received and likewise if ultra bamfs present themselves shittily they’re not gonna get the reception they deserve. It’s kinda shitty, but hey, it’s the digital age. Anyone can look up atdom and watch us, listen to us, read about us, from their home, work, phone etc. you gotta have yer shit packaged well to retain interests and peak curiosity. Not that I feel that’s what makes a great band great... cause there’s a lot of bands that just look good holding their guitars making big waves, while underground super killers are just that- underground.

This was actually a big issue for me with ATDOM. Don’t get me wrong... demons and devils are cool.. blood and guts is cool.. raping and killing is cool.. But I really wanted to

Present this project with a spin as unique as the sound. I’ve been in other projects that we marketed in the genre specific fashion and I didn’t really dig it. I mean, I really wanted

To tie a visual concept to this project that hadn’t been played out by every other extreme metal band. With that mindset I started moving artistically towards more abstract and impressionistic imagery, lyrical and visually, to more closely mirror the sentiment of the music being represented. As a result, I’ve made at least a dozen different faces for us...

I’m still working on finding something that is just... WOAH. I’m sure ill find something.

That brings me to another point regarding 'image and style'. What the fuck do you call us? Where is atdom's genre? In some chronic haze I stumbled on the phrase 'progressive blackened post' that seems to be sticking. Shit's progressive as fuck... heavily influenced by BM but is also creating a unified sound in the after thought of 30 years of metal.

Lastly, I just gotta throw this out there- all of us are a bunch of fucking weirdos. None of us are 'cool' or care about our image or have ever been very popular. We're not uber tough DM fucks, pissed at the world, who are too evil to laugh or smile. We don’t buy into that shit or take ourselves very seriously at all. We’re video game and internet nerds that wear sweat pants and sandals and smoke a lot of pot- a bunch of grossies and perverts.

But maybe that’s why we feel soo good together. *high fives

Paul: Well they say image is a big part of any band, and we all work together to bring an idea of an image to the table. But I'd have to say Brandon works the hardest as far as our image goes out to the world aside from the music. He designs all of our artwork, and all of our social network sites. Not just that, but he has done graphic work for a many bands at this point.

Brandon: thanks Paul.

Flynn: I think that it is somewhat important, because the image will help portray not just the audio aspect, but visual as well. And that will give the overall feel for the band.

Joe: Extreme metal is so watered down with ego and image, ideally image for the underground shouldn't matter. when I think of 'style' is think of the types of metal. if you claim to be a specific genre then fulfill those obligations or better yet push all boundaries.

Derek: I will just speak for myself when I say that I think that image isn’t as important as the music. Unless you’re talking about something like visual display: album artwork, a fucking sweet video or slide show during your set. Ya know something to help convey what your music is about... but like... imagery as in what you’re wearing or how your band looks....

Does not appeal to me music is music. It doesn’t matter what you look like or how young or how old. If you play from your heart and you have a passion for what you play then

That’s that matters. I am so sick of this supersaturation of deathcore, metalcore, mallcore, twilightcore fucking bands. I don’t know them and it’s harsh of me to judge. But if they are just doing it for the trend and for the money. Then I don’t give a fuck about them. I don’t want to hear 248136489645734 bands playing the same fucking scales notes and riffs. It’s getting to be so annoying I don’t really buy new music. Not to say I'm one of those hipsters that listens to only 1960's and 70's music. But I do believe before MTV and songs being marketed as singles and music videos. That people wrote music from the heart. I could be wrong. BUT I WRITE MY MUSIC FROM THE HEART and I have a strong passion for what I play, and I know the other guys in this band do as well.

5) Generally, experimental and unusual genre blending in the metal community can be seen as a shot in the dark and yet ATDOM flawlessly incorporates its numerous occupations seamlessly; what went into culturing the band's incredible and unique sound?

Paul: A lot of hard work and tireless effort. We knew what we were getting into when we decided to write the style we did, and in all honesty I (Paul) wasn’t sure how the scene would respond to the music. I just knew that out of all the music I listened to, I wanted to create something more. After having released our first track and seeing the amazing response to it, and after playing out first shows in Prescott and Tempe and having great success with it, we are excited to move forward again and continue writing amazing material with influences of all genres of music.

Flynn: ATDOM is everyone in the bands influences combined. We don’t all draw from the same influences so that adds a lot of diversity.

Derek: I think we just write what we feel. If were pissed we write fucking slam. If we are in a spacey mood we write like ambient jazz. I mean we all listen to a lot of different

Music so it comes though in our songs. I love it man. It's great to know that all our favorite types of music can be played in this band. We are even working on playing more obscure shit. Me and Paul have been on a big chord thing lately. Using lots of 7ths and dominant 9th stuff. That sound like blues and jazz but trust me you will know its ATDOM.

Brandon: you know... while people segregate themselves into their perspective camps, the fact is whether its shitcore, country rap, or ethio-jazz, it’s all music. And were all human. We can express that humanity through a harp or upside down pots and pans. I think that true for all art. It’s an expression of the human spirit. Having said that, our music expresses us. Sometimes were ecstatic and full of wonder, others depressed and dismal. We feel love and hate and aloneness and meaning and write music that portrays that.

I know with a lot of music, going back to your previous question... I know with a lot of music, they depict one face of that humanity i.e. EXTREMELY PISSED OFF or whatever that applies to the music their creating. We set out to create music that describes humanity as a whole and thusly have music that incorporates all our individual feelings and moods and mindsets. Our music is diverse, because life is diverse. You can’t speak your mind if you only use half the alphabet. You feel me?

6) Brandon Shobe, vocalist and founder, describes his past as filled with dead end attempts at formation. Would you say that After the Death of Man successfully fulfills the vision you were seeking all along, or did the vision come later?

Brandon: *laughs. ... *laughs again. Yeah, you know... I had never given myself any credit when I first started playing music. It was something I did with my friends between bowls.

We jammed. But that’s a deadly alley for a musician. 'Jamming' I mean. If all you do is jam, yeah, you’re not going anywhere but your living room. Which is fine, if that’s all you want.

Once I realized that I could possibly have something to contribute to the music community, it became a different game. I had to find, or create a project that would take me where I wanted to go. Which was DEFINITELY past my living room. So I wouldn’t say I had a lot of dead ends, but I definitely had my share of 'jam' bands and now ATDOM musically and otherwise fulfills me peachy keen.

Paul: The vision definitely came first. We had a strong idea of where we wanted to go and how we wanted to do it even before the first song had been written. After ATDOM was complete and all the members had the same vision of moving forward, we began choosing recording dates and booking shows to move forward. We took it as a dead end was only one road, and there were still so many paths to choose from that all that mattered for us is that we helped the music move forward.

7) You have a lot of ties with Depraved Heretic (Kansas, MO /Mesa, AZ), do the two bands ever collaborate or perhaps plan to?

Brandon: I LOVE LLOYD! *laughs hysterically. We both started seriously into the brutal DM scene around the same time and have had a lot of similar life experiences. If I could have a brother, that would be him, he is my only vocal peer and I respect his life. When he hooked up with the death machine depraved heretic and I got to meet all of them through him. As a result, we actually share Flynn on bass in both bands because he is fucking ridiculous and Andrew was our first drummer and helped write Locus of Control.

We play tons of shows together and have rowdy obnoxious good times. In my last project, gringos locos, Lloyd would do guest vocals for 'no bitch I will not have sex with you' while I would guest for Depraved's 'I am'. It’s a lot of fun. ACTUALLY we now are doing dual vocals on a new melodic tech project, She Was Dead When I Got There, and shits straight beast. We all play together and have a few mini side projects with various members of atdom and depraved but our main focus are our main bands. SWDWIGT is the only serious collaboration currently, but don’t be surprised to see more intermingling with depraved in the future. We love those guys. Our sister band if you will.

Paul: We are all really great friends, and we all look forward to playing shows together. Brandon has been running a festival, second year in a row, called Slaughterfuck,

In which Depraved Heretic and ATDOM will be playing together. But Depraved had a good hand in forming ATDOM with Flynn on bass and originally Andrew on drums. After a short time practicing, Atdom was ready to find its own drummer and move forward but kept Flynn on bass, as without any single member of the band doing their part, the sound came up empty.

Derek: I mentioned this a lil earlier, but basically we are just like great friends. We kinda stole Flynn from depraved but he is still a very active member and they are trying to be just as professional as us. Or more like we are trying to be as professional as them *laughs* as far as collabs go. We all jam with one another. But I have my main focus on ATDOM. I Brandon Andrew and Lloyd tried doing a very straight forward black metal project. But when I write material and I really like it. I wanna use it for ATDOM.

So Ill jam and stuff but I won’t write for them. *laughs*

Flynn: Well I am in both bands and we do plan on doing many shows together but nothing more.

8) It was mentioned previously that Derek Ryan and Paul Benson (Guitarists) instrumentally played in a mysteriously similar manner,

Do you feel that the band has an overall natural cohesion which contributes to the rich songwriting, or does each member build on the others?

Paul: Yes, we have some similarities in their songwriting in the past and both wanted more for the future. I have amazing knack for writing riffs and a basic understanding of theory. Derek had all the technique that I’m still working to achieve. And since the sound in both of their heads brought out the amazing compilation that we now have, we can only look forward to the future of ATDOM and how those songs will progress.

Flynn: I think that it is a little bit of both.

Derek: I’m getting in on this ha. Me and Paul just click. I don’t know what it is about it. We both have very different styles but we play so well together. Same thing goes for all of us.

And typically in an ATDOM song I am playing something completely different from Paul. And Flynn is playing something completely different from either of us. I call it the rush factor. In rush Geddy writes all this intricate bass lines that go over Alex’s guitar lines and its finished with the AMAZING drum skills of Neil Peart. That’s how I view us. Or like emperor ha to be more metal in my answer. Sammoth and Ishan rarely in later material played the same thing. And it adds this amazing fullness to a band. That’s why rush being a 3 piece sounds so huge. We play the same but different idk.

Brandon: yeah, talk about two peas in a pod. Or better yet, 5 peas. Were a regular fucking garden salad *laughs. more good luck for me I guess *laughs some more, giant retarded shitgrin.

9) You spend an extraordinarily large amount of time putting in for the band.

How much of this has already been spent on your upcoming (October 1st release) EP "Interpreter of Preterhuman Intelligence"?

Derek: All the material for that album musically has been written. But we still work on polishing it up every practice.

Brandon: shit, we rented out a practice pad for the last 2 months and were putting in a good 4 to 6 hours a day 6 days a week. So there at least 250 hours or whatever. All the songs were actually written pretty fast after we formed. Since then we’ve taken it a bit slower but id say we still practice at least 20 - 25 hours a week as a band, and all individually are constantly shredding during the time between. We like music, it's what we do.

Paul: We have been putting in a large amount of effort into this first album. We had it written in about 3-4 months (6 songs) and had all the members working on it and solidified by month 6. We do plan on doing a live EP and because of it; we have begun working on our next album (12 songs) which will be a concept album and almost unlike anything having been seen in the industry just yet.

10) After the Death of Man acquired Flynn Hargreaves (Bassist) and Joe Dashee (Drummer) later on in the band's history,

Drum and Bass are typically a unified force; would you say that the two brought the band to its potential after completing the lineup?

Flynn: Damn straight i’m the fucking bass player.

Brandon: without them, we wouldn’t be a band. I mean we would be... but we'd be the living room jammers I talked about earlier. Dudes with guitars... Flynn jumped on board almost from the beginning... well, no since the beginning. He’s been pouring his heart into this since the first atdom practice like Derek mentioned. Joe was really the integral missing element after that. We found him through more dumb luck and honestly couldn’t have found anyone better. First of all the cats fucking cool. I don’t dig douchebags. But beyond that, he can keep up and will happily blast at 240 bpm for 6 hours straight. I couldn’t ask for more. Both Flynn and Joe also bring very different musical backgrounds that helped solidify our sound.

Derek: Definitely. We didn’t really sound like a band until the 5 of us played together. That’s what’s so intense about our music. If one guy is missing it sounds really empty.

Paul: Yes, Flynn had been with us from the beginning, and even though it was unknown to the rest of us at that time, would become a key member in the bands overall sound.

ATDOM had been struggling to find a drummer, so they did the next best thing. Derek Ryan programmed all the drums with advice from the band to create the sound of Locus of Control. After having met Joe, and only 2 or 3 practices later, Joe had taken the influence of the tracks that had been completed with drums, and added his own color to them, bringing ATDOM to the beginning of its full potential.

11) Your lyrical approach and theme are not restricted to the usual ideas found in extreme metal,

Especially for a style as masterfully conceived as ATDOM's, fill our readers in on the band's concept and the origin behind its name.

Derek: *laughs* here we go guys what do we tell them. The truth? I recall Paul coming up with the name back when Andrew was still in. he fucking hated it man. *laughs I loved it because it sounded like what I felt the music would be. After the death of man what is left. Like after the death of his reality. After the death of his comfort zone. What lies beyond in the cosmos in nature? That’s what it is for me. But yeah I think Paul was watching something on discovery. *laughs*

Paul: Well the origin of the name is a little amusing. Paul had caught a stomach virus and was stuck on the couch. After having watched an all day marathon of History

Channel’s LIFE AFTER PEOPLE, Paul conceived to call the band After the Death of Man because the images on the screen reminded him of his own music. After getting confirmation of this new name, the other band members agreed, this music is an afterthought of everything we had listened to, and everything we had conceived before. Thus contributing everything into the sound that is ATDOM today. As for lyrics...

Brandon: well... I think most lyrics are shit. I mean. Not be an asshole or anything... but to listen to a dude talk about chopping some bitch up or whatever seems really gay to me

Because odds are, that dude has never cut, killed, raped, or eaten anyone, and so everything he’s talking about is misogynist bullshit- probably because he can’t sexually satisfy a woman. And like I said before, I love gore too... but I couldn’t seriously sing about it, because I have never dug up a body to fuck it or whatever. I eat meat. That kinda turns me on... same thing for the devil. I love satanic imagery, but I couldn’t sing about how god is a lie and the devil is king, because to me, it’s all the same. It’s contradictory to believe one half of the Judeo-Christian folklore and reject the other. It’s the same. NOW I KNOW EVERY BM FUCK WILL HATE ME FOR SAYING THAT, but its true. Gods and devils are a duality- to accept one is to accept both. Don’t get me wrong, I love the romanticism of hate and rebellion. But I'm personally burned out on and apathetic to that scene.

So, if I don’t sing about killing or the devil what’s left, right? *laughs

Like I mentioned before music is an expression of humanity. So that’s what I write about. My OWN humanity. My search for meaning and truth. My emotions. My thoughts. It leaves the stage wide open for all sorts of ideas to arise. For instance in Locus of Control I write about my journey to find myself and how it’s separated me from everything I knew before and now that I have what I wanted, I’ve lost what I had, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. In Tendered for Substance I write about how disgusting, close minded and self preserving we can all be, 'still blinded, misguided, thought controlled - an utter waste of time... YUCK! So hung up on yourself'. In Anthropocentric I talk about a vision I had while meditating of a burning woman explaining that I was the mouthpiece of an autochthonic intelligent life that spoke through light and had awaited release through me in the physical world. So, while I do incorporate a lot of poetry, myth and colorful phrasing, I try to keep the lyrical theme as a simple expression of my own humanity. I think people can relate to it easier. in the past, I've always tried to write the GRAND passage that would unify and illuminate the universe, but I’ve gotten off my high horse and am writing just about my personal experiences, growth and insight on the world.

Furthermore I have always been venomously entranced by the metaphysical universe and spirituality. While I don’t believe anything is inherently possessing a 'spirit' I do believe I have, like all matter in the universe, an unseen counterpart which makes up the majority of my most influential and relevant self. So I tend to polarize about that. People have sadly let the various institutes of religion dictate their spirituality, but true spirituality deals with creating your own 'heaven' and not getting into or destroying someone else’s. I am dictator of my own experience. I am responsible for my own thoughts. I am in my heaven, all is right with the world.

So for the tl;dr crowd: I talk about life and shit. *laughs

12) The USBMS is proud to spread the word about "Whorals", your upcoming full length album.

The idea behind this release is massive in it's complexity, please tell us more.

Paul: ATDOM's upcoming album (no release date as of yet) Whorals is going to be a concept album with more extremes in every direction. We want to be faster, slower,

Heavier, calmer and above all else, capture the true essence of the story that follows the album. We have already begun work on these new songs and have put everything

We can into making them more amazing. We love our first album and think that it is great, but we also know that we are capable of so much more, and want to share that side of us with everyone now as well.

Brandon: so, this is a concept we have been discussing for a while now, an entire experience set to music. the basic premise is, without giving too much away, there is a world of darkness where people become more concerned the idea of life rather than actually living, and in that dazed state are used for energy to fuel synthetic gods. The story moves between the three perspectives of a new life entering that world, the ruler of that world, and the synthetic god being created. There’s A LOT more to it than that... but I don’t want to spoil it for anyone. The moral of story I guess is a simple message of self acceptance: you are your creator, your adversary, and hero- all pushing you to evolve to become yourself. If that makes sense *laughs

13) Did we hear that your live set release will be free and online for download? What inspired such generosity?

Paul: The most important thing to us is the music. We know that people enjoy buying music that they like, but what they don’t enjoy is hearing one song off of an album, buying it, and then being angry that they spent $10-20 on a CD that only had one song on it that they liked. We see it as, people will like this, and if they do like it they will come hang out with us at shows and help support our future releases. Needless to say, we wanted to give the first album away because we plan on being around for another 10-20 years playing the music we love.

Brandon: it’s the digital age. I don’t pay for shit. I expect others don’t either. But if I like a band, ill buy their shirts and go to their shows and blab on about them to everyone.

I expect that people will do the same for us. Well, they have been. Why waste the money on printing CDs when you can give out a free download link and accomplish the same goal? If they like us, they’ll support us. Besides, honestly, who buys CDs? When we release Whorals, it will not only be music but come with an entire graphic novel, a DVD, some sort of patch or sticker set... cool shit like that- shit that’s worth buying and physically having. If I'm going to charge someone who’s as broke as we are for something, it'd better be fucking great, you know? And for a demo, it’s just a better marketing strategy to get it out to as many people as possible, rather than make a few bucks. I mean, I know it’s all about building a perceived value to your product, but we decided that this was the route we wanted to stroll.

14) Where can fans locate ATDOM merchandise, your heavily anticipated upcoming full length Whorals, and other releases from the band? Where is the best place to contact you?

Paul: www.atdom.tk is a link that will send people directly to our myspace, which also has our online store. As of now, we have one shirt design that is available for purchase.

But we have large plans and other designs, not just completed but also in the works, for more merch and other releases. Any contact for booking or other general information

Can be reached to us via myspace, or at afterthedeathofman@gmail.com

Brandon: yeah we got all sorts of shit online, youtubes, reverbnation, lastfm, facebook, myspace, twitter, bigcartel... shit just goes on and on its hard to keep up with it all.

Our gmail is the best way to get a hold of us. We do all our own booking and promotion, as well as recording and production. We are a total DIY band and I think that’s hot. Other than that, were all super approachable, creeps, but approachable so come say hi and party with us, we're down for whatever you’ve got.

09 December 2010

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