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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 3404268" data-attributes="member: 27051">Well, we were more in the vein of doom than death, although I've always thought that those categories weren't very useful in the long run.&nbsp; I've always been fond of Cynic and Death, and enjoyed good old Paradise Lost and Carcass and Opeth really impress the hell outta me.&nbsp; I love the whole sweeping atmospheric thing.&nbsp; I have a lot of time for thrash (Bay Area stuff like old Exodus and Testament) so I was always trying to get more of that groove into our music.&nbsp; I think that the vocals of many death and doom bands can be self-defeating at the end of the day - we suffered from that problem a bit to be honest.&nbsp; I remember trying to explain that to the interviewer in the same interview that I was rambling on about Depeche Mode in, actually.&nbsp; He looked at me like I was insane - the other guys in the band were like &quot;yeah, ok Mark, you can shut up now!&quot;, lmao...I have to add Bjork, Jamiroquai, old Motley Crue and Goa Trance music to my Shame list as well, in all honesty.&nbsp; At the first Dynamo festival in Holland there was a guy with a homemade t-shirt that said &quot;Motley Crue is disco, and disco is sh*t!&quot;&nbsp; Funny stuff.&nbsp; I probably shouldn't mention Stryper at all either...&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 3404268, member: 27051"] Well, we were more in the vein of doom than death, although I've always thought that those categories weren't very useful in the long run. I've always been fond of Cynic and Death, and enjoyed good old Paradise Lost and Carcass and Opeth really impress the hell outta me. I love the whole sweeping atmospheric thing. I have a lot of time for thrash (Bay Area stuff like old Exodus and Testament) so I was always trying to get more of that groove into our music. I think that the vocals of many death and doom bands can be self-defeating at the end of the day - we suffered from that problem a bit to be honest. I remember trying to explain that to the interviewer in the same interview that I was rambling on about Depeche Mode in, actually. He looked at me like I was insane - the other guys in the band were like "yeah, ok Mark, you can shut up now!", lmao... I have to add Bjork, Jamiroquai, old Motley Crue and Goa Trance music to my Shame list as well, in all honesty. At the first Dynamo festival in Holland there was a guy with a homemade t-shirt that said "Motley Crue is disco, and disco is sh*t!" Funny stuff. I probably shouldn't mention Stryper at all either... :p [/QUOTE]

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