E-TOWN CONCRETE INTERVIEW
November 13, 2004


Ed Martin for Prophecy21.com: How'd the first night of the tour go?
Anthony Martini Vocals for E-Town Concrete: It was decent. It was a realshitty club, shitty sound, shitty everything, but it was alright. So itwasn't too bad.

P21: How did you guys decide on the acts that you would have as support onthis show?
AM: It was partly because the guy that books us is part of Radiotakeoverand when he was booking us a tour for this album he wanted to get some ofthose bands involved and we've known Diecast for a while and Twelve Tribesand Devilinside I've heard a lot about. So they kind of just suggested ussome bands and we just rolled with it.

P21: Why did you guys decide to leave Razor & Tie?
AM: It was kind of like Razor & Tie is known more for their compilationsand stuff. We we're really one of the first bands they tried to sign in theway of working with real acts and stuff and that's just not where they maketheir money really. They make their money off compilations and stuff andthey're gonna just stick to what they know best and we get to do what wewanna do so it kind of works out well for both of us.

P21: When did you start Ironbound?
AM: Not too long ago just a few months ago. It's been an idea for a while,but didn't officially get everything together until like four or five monthsago.

P21: Do you have any other bands releases that you plan on putting out onIronbound yet?
AM: I'm lookin at some bands, but no I don't have nothin' definite yet. Theres some real good bands even right here in Jersey like this bandStrength in Numbers. Theres a couple good bands in Pennsylvania mostly justlocal bands im gonna look out and see if there is anyone good just lookinfor someone decent you know I'm not lookin for that huge band.

P21: How does the sound on this album differ from the last one?
AM: People will probably say that its more like the older stuff. You know,that we're going back to the heavier stuff. I think that the reason forthat is that the whole album is about things that are going on right now,like lyrically. Its not a concept album but it became very themed aboutpolitics and war and death. Writing about that kind of stuff the songs tendto come out more pissed off sounding and hard. Plus, I think it has to dowith that we were just on tour for something like 14 months straight and wetoured with a lot of heavy bands. We ended up like mostly every nightplaying a lot of our heavy songs. So this time around we wanted to write analbum where every song we could just like play the whole album live and noteven have to skip any songs and that's kinda what we did.

P21: What's the concept behind the artwork for the album?
AM: Nothing really.. it was just rushed (laughs). We wanted to get thealbum out before the new year and we didn't wanna wait almost two yearsbetween albums and again and we had all the songs written so we ended upgetting into the studio real quick and got the album done. So I called theguy that did the photography for our last album and he had some pictures andhad a concept for album art and he sent me some of the pictures and this oneI guess fit. It's not really war but it's hard lookin, ya know? I guess it'slike a symbol for conflict.

P21: Are you planning on shooting any videos for the album?
AM: Yeah we'll probably be doing a video for the song Wide Awake. The guywho did our Punch The Walls video is probably going to do it.

P21: How do you feel Ozzfest went for the band?
AM: It was alright... Ozzfest I think is more for... I mean we had fun and stuff,but I think it does more for your image then actually like increasing yourfan base. Ozzfest first of all, costs a lot of money to get on and itsreally not worth the money for any band, its like $75,000 to get on to thesecond stage. So unless you sell like hundreds of thousands of records itsnot really worth the money. So its mostly just to make a band seem biggerin other peoples eyes. We just did it cause we tried to get on it from thebeginning and they kinda dissed us cause we're rap rock or whatever, butthen at the end they had a bunch of bands that were sopposed to be on it thatgot dropped from their labels and they were like hey do you guys wanna geton this spot and we were just like lets do it.

P21: What bands have you been listening to lately?
AM: The last CD I bought was Lamb of God. Lamb of God is probably the mainone I guess, but I also got the new Mos Def and something else I can't evenremember.

P21: How do you feel the show went at Hellfest?
AM: Hellfest, I thought that was real good. Probably, I think, one of thebest shows we've played. Usually hellfest is a lot of those trendy hardcorebands and we're usually excluded from that scene. So we just did There Goesthe Neighborhood to kinda say fuck all that. Plus Elizabeth is our hometownso you know we had to show that. I think it actually got a real goodresponse. I had a lot of people that hated us before coming up to us sayinghow they always hated us and now they realize that we're good. That's thething I think that a lot of people hate us before they even hear us justbecause they think that they know what we're about. People are all likeohhh they're like Limp Bizkit, but really they don't know what we are untilthey actually hear us. A lot of the Hellfest kids are those people thathate us without even knowing what we are, so I think that show was goodbecause it put us in front of people that normally would never listen to usand showed them what we really are. I mean I thought we'd go over okay. Ididn't think we'd get anywhere near the response that we did. A lot ofpeople were tellin me that we got the best response out of anyone. It wasgood. It was definitely fun.

P21: How did you guys come up with the idea of going out to There Goes theNeighborhood?
AM: Well its kinda like what I was saying before about how we're kindaexcluded from that cool inner circle of bands kinda thing. So that song ifyou just change up the words a little bit its kind of how people feel aboutus. Like "Here come those fucking wiggers with those rock guitars." That's how people actually talk about us. So we kinda like did it as a gooflike just saying, "Fuck You" this is how we feel and this is what we'reabout. We just did it for fun, but a lot of people were asking about itafterwards so we put it on the record too.

P21: Thanks, is there anything that you want to add?
AM: Buy the album. Made for War, E-Town Concrete in stores now.