ENDO INTERVIEW
August 18, 2003

Ed Martin for Prophecy21.com: How's the tour been goin so far?
Joe Eshkenazi Drummer for Endo: No matter what time we play whether itsnine-o-clock in the mornin or like two-o-clock in the afternoon it's beengreat. Obviously we prefer the afternoon not so much cause of the crowds,but cause we're not really morning people. But over all the tours beenfucking amazing.

P21: How have people been reacting to your sets?
JE: For the most parts we've been doing our heavier stuff like Simple Liesor whatever. We definitely get a great response. Our energy is as high aslike any of those death metal bands get from the crowd.

P21: Was the experience of being on a big package tour like this what youexpected it to be?
JE: Yeah. I'll be honest with ya, I wasn't surprised by anything thatshappened to us on this tour.

P21: How would you describe the bands sound to someone hot familiar with youguys?
JE: Definitely very melodic. The drums are very rhythmic, we have sometribal sounds. And the guitars and vocals all have great melodies that lendthemselves to the tribal things we play. Zelick's lyrics are very wellwritten, very straight from the heart. This record is 100% emotion. Nobullshit, no tracks. Everything you hear is what you get. I mean obviouslyit'll sound a little different live but what you hear is what you get and Ithink people really, really, really identify with that.

P21: How do you go about picking what songs to play when you have such ashort set?
JE: Most days we play four or five songs I believe, so obviously with thiscrowd we wanna pick heavier songs. We wanted to come out on this record notscreaming though. So we try to pick songs that are a mix of both. Maybelike a heavy song with some strong melody in the choruses. We've played afew different sets and asked people who saw both like, "How'd this one gohow'd the other one go?" and we've tried to base it off that. Thatsbasically how we do it, we wanna show some diversity.

P21: What are your plans for after this tour?
JE: There's a couple tours right now that we've been told that we're gonnaget, I'm not gonna say exactly what they are cause I don't wanna jinx us,but they're both pretty big tours.

P21: How did you guys come up with the name of the band?
JE: They came up with it before I was in the band it's a proverb that meanswithin, which is pretty fitting for what we play.

P21: What's your favorite track on the new album?
JE: Clean Sheets and I Won't Die.

P21: How'd getting on the Daredevil soundtrack come about?
JE: The Firm our management company has a department that does justsoundtracks. Luckily they do Rob Zombie as well and thats how we got on. The CDs were printed before we we're even told that we we're on it. Actually the part that our song was supposed to be on it got replaced by theEvanescence song that sold like two million records or whatever. But thesong ended up not being in the movie, but still on the soundtrack which wentGold. We definitely got fans we see know us from the soundtrack becausethey all sing along to that song, so it has to be that. So, basically ourmanager called and was like the movies coming out with Ben Affleck and itsgonna be fucking huge and he named some of the bands on it and we we'repretty excited about it. It wasn't like the Freddy Vs Jason Soundtrackthat was all like crazy death metal it was a little more diverse. I mean ithas Seether. It had Nickelback, it had us, it had Lifehouse, who I'm not afucking fan of at all, but you know whatever.

P21: How do you feel the way this album was recorded compared to the lastaffected it?
JE: You know I didn't play on the first record, but they've told me thestories and that record was done independently within a year. A little bithere and a little there that type of thing. This record was done, writtenin Miami for about eight months, recorded in Los Angeles over about threemonths and we did it with Dave Shipman who's worked with like System of aDown, Audioslave, Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, and on all the albums he'sdone they all sound different. A lot of other producers out there also makegreat records but they all sound the same and that's not what we wanted wedidn't want to go that route, although our label did want us to. It workedout great, he was very very supportive of all of our original ideas and thenhe just went up with them and was like, "Let's do this that and that" orwhatever and it worked out really well.

P21: What caused the albums release date to be pushed back?
JE: Ozzfest.

P21: Who are some of your influences?
JE: Bands like Sabbath obviously, umm the Rolling Stones, newer bands. Igrew up in Miami so like bands that were big around there. Soundgarden,Rage Against the Machine, that type stuff. Lot of soul stuff like JamesBrown, Curtis Mayfield. Sometimes some David Bowie.

P21: How does the band go about writing do you do it individually and bringtogether or do you all sit down at once?
JE: Theres not one way that we do it. Some days one of us will come in witha riff and the rest of us will build off of that. Other times me and Eliwill write a whole song together. Me and Zelick actually never cametogether and wrote a song together but me and Eli wrote a lot of songstogether. Me and Gil have worked out some ideas together. Sometimes someone will you come in and be like I have one chorus or one verse. But thenthere songs like Simple Lies, that was probably written in literally like 10minutes the night before we went to record.

P21: The band started out as a cover band do you guys still play any covers?
JE: No.

P21: I f you were going to what would it be?
JE: We've dabbled in doing Waiting Room by Fugazi. I wouldn't mind doing aRage Against the Machine song.

P21: What bands have been some of your favorites to play with in the past?
JE: The Stereomud tour was good. Those guys don't have a deal anymore, butthat was definitely good. Static-X was good. I like playing withDisturbed.

P21: What bands would you like to play in the future?
JE: Deftones. Metallica.

P21: Thanks, is there anything you'd like to add?
JE: Did you like the record?

P21: I definitely thought it was better then the last.
JE: Yeah the first record is good. It's just more rock, more aggressive. Thishas a little more substance the songs are more structured there moremelodies. We're very glad with the reactions. Out of maybe 100 reviewsthat have been done maybe 95 were positive and like five were negative. Normally its like 50-50 as you know. So if thats any sign of things to comethen its all good, but you never know man, you never know.