At War With Androids is easily the hardest working band of their genre here in South Texas. Along with their incredible sound and stage presence, they’ve done an outstanding job promoting & establishing their name here in the 956. Working with AWWA makes perfect sense. Rock-solid logic.
-Geo of Dontgetemo Productions @geoo (on twitter)
How is the summer treating you guys? ITS FRICKIN’ HOT! (laughs) Explain the meaning behind At War With Androids and what brought you all to form? The name actually was inspired from watching movies like Terminator. I was thinking of names and it just kinda clicked. What brought us to form was all of us having that strive to make music that was more technical, progressive, and different from everything else. What sound are you all trying to achieve? We’re trying to achieve a unique sound so that we don’t sound like everyone else. We still use breakdowns and in some of our older songs, we use 2-steps. But we’ve come a long way from when we first started this band over 2 years ago. We are trying to incorporate complex rhythms, the use of different time signatures (aside from 3/4 and 4/4) and trying to make the music sound more progressive, while still maintaining a heavy sound. Our sound
has definitely changed and advanced over time. We even started incorporating 7-string guitars into our new material!
If you could pick a tour to be a part of, which would it be?
You have been playing a ton of shows lately, do you think it’s still necessary to play as many shows as possible?
Well we just recently played the All-Star Tour, complements of DGE. Another one would have to be Periphery’s tour, “Frak The Gods” with The Contortionist and The Human Abstract.
No, it’s not necessary. But we’ve been playing a lot of shows because we love to perform. We want to get as much exposure as possible and try to take advantage of every show opportunity that is offered to us. There’s no better feeling than knowing that people will go to a show to watch your band perform your own original music. What’s AWWA’s take on the current state of heavy music? When people say heavy, they sometimes think just breakdowns, but many complex artists use a variety of elements to bring together amazing music. For instance, Periphery, Veil Of Maya, Animals As Leaders, The Contortionist, Born Of Osiris. We do the same and put together mixtures of all.
Zeus, you have played with your share of local metal acts, how does this one differ from the rest?
maybe be signed.. to a label! Who recorded your demo and where can we hear your music? We recorded at The Attic Studio with our good friend Rolie. His studio is located in Hidalgo. Our music can be found on our Facebook page (Facebook.com/awwatx) You can contact us to our Facebook or Twitter at (twitter.com/awwatx) if u are looking for a demo.
To be honest when they asked me to be in the band i was kind of skeptical about it. Haha! The music was very challenging to me and the guys are very great musicians. Coming from bands that are always in normal time signature and moving to a band that has complex breakdowns, fast riffing in odd timing was very hard! But i managed to learn and adapt to their style of playing.
If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be and why?
Where can you see At War With Androids in 5 years?
Before we go we just want to make a quick shout out to everyone who has supported us in the past and now. We thank you and appreciate every single one of you. We hope to see you all at our up coming shows!
We will definitely still be making music. but 5 years is a long time from now. So we would hopefully be touring the U.S of A and
I think as a band if we could collaborate with anyone it would have to be Periphery. They basically have everything in there music. The clean vocals, the guitar work the music in general is amazing. They can structure any style of metal into one and still make it sound heavy as fuck!!
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