You’re new record Unleashed got me through running my marathon, I hear that all the time now. Fans are always telling me its a fun record, its a good workout record and it makes them want to run further and stuff like that. We did that and I think that is why this record is very upbeat and it is very fun to listen to and I think the fun vibes of writing and recording it got on the music. So when I started writing Unleashed, I told my wife and my label, “you know what, we are gonna have fun with the record and I am going to write a record that is fun to listen to and I am going to write what I feel and what I think the fans are going to love.” It is just going to be that you will be hearing No from me a lot more. I didn’t hate the record but I hated making it as it wasn’t fun. You know all of a sudden you have a successful record and then everybody wants to be involved in the next one and they’re under the feeling of “man if that record did this good and we weren’t involved but once we get involved the next one is gonna be amazing, even bigger.” But then you got like ten cooks in the kitchen and everybody’s arguing about everything and it was just a real nightmare to make RISE, everybody was fighting and I wrote over 70 songs for RISE and the label wasn’t letting me record and saying we need more songs, we need this and it’s gonna take a little room. Which is that RISE was a very hard record to make, probably because we were coming off a very successful record before RISE with Awake. John Cooper: Yes it does, I think the biggest thing that was different with Unleashed, but you will have to hear a bit of a story about Rise before I get to it. Kristyn Clarke: Absolutely, Unleashed has been out for a little bit now but was there anything that was different in the recording process then the usual as it did have a bit of a different feel than RISE? John Cooper: Oh cool, well thank you for that. Kristyn Clarke: Absolutely, I love the fact that you mention that you guys still keep that kind of underground vibe because it is a discovery band because I always mention to people for example saying ‘have you guys seen Skillet?’ and they’re like ‘YES, they have this amazing live vibe’ but it still feels very very fresh and I think every time I see you guys it still has that freshness to it. So I am going to start using Korn to my advantage. People are like Skillet? I never heard of that, you ever tour? and I was like yeah we went out with Korn and they’re like oh you must be awesome then. First time with Korn though and Korn is one of those bands, that you get to brag about when you go on tour with Korn. We have gotten so many bigger opportunities, you know like Rock On The Range was awesome and this is our first time going out with Korn and we are very excited, We been out with Stone Sour before and they’ve became very good friends of ours. Some bands have that you got to see this band in a club thing, and we always love those kind of concerts in that small club environment but it has been cool that as we kind of grown that we still have a little bit of that underground vibe so the audience has thankfully gotten bigger. We have been lucky to get that underground following from just road doggin’. John Cooper: Yes, it has been but we have always been a hard touring band. I mean has it been like a whirlwind for you guys? Kristyn Clarke: You guys have been hitting the road really hard, We caught you guys at Rock On The Range which was an absolutely amazing performance out there, now it is the tour with Korn and Stone Sour.
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