"We left the Berklee College of Music, because we wanted to focus full-time on music and felt we needed to do it on our own."

The American sextet Daath shall drop a bomb over the contemporary death metal world with the band-new album "The Hinderers", scheduled for release on March 19, 2007 via Roadrunner Records.

More about the band and the the musicians involved in it - the former Berklee College of Music students Eyal Levi (guitar and synths), Mike Kameron (keyboards and additional vocals), Emil Werstler (guitar), Jeremy Creamer (bass) and Kevin Talley (drums) - shall be revealed by Daath's vocalist Sean Farber.

Vassil Varbanov: Hello Sean, how are you?

Sean Farber: I'm doing great, how are you?

V. V.: Good, thank you! Where are you at the moment?

S. F.: I'm on a highway travelling to Rochester, New York.

V. V.: Ok then. If we read the stuff that's been written aboutВ Daath on the Internet, it seems you're a six-piece band formed by three friends - Eyal Levi (guitar and synths), Mike Kameron (keyboards and additional vocals), and you, Sean Farber (vocals). How should we consider the 3 other guys like (guitarist Emil Werstler, bass player Jeremy Creamer and drummer Kevin Talley) - like bandmates that can be changed on a regulr basis or what?

S. F.: No, we're all pretty tight. Some of us have known each other a lot longer than others, but we all are definitely elements of the band.

V. V.: We can also read that the three of you that I mentioned were in the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but you decided to quit to form the band. Couldn't you stay in college and still have the group?

S. F.: The reason we left the Berklee College of Music varies for each of us individually. However, we wanted to focus full-time on music and felt we needed to do it on our own.

V. V.: Well, you are the vocalist, the throat. What's your role in the songwriting? Are you as much involved as Eyal, Mike and the others?

S. F.: What happens is we start from a particular format: Mike usually starts off, then Eyal lays down guitar tracks, and then everybody comes in and lays down their parts.

V. V.: One of the things that's been put to advertise your new album, "The Hinderers" (due on March 19 via Roadrunner Records), is that the famous James Murphy was taking part in the production. To what extent did he give you something you couldn't do without him?

S. F.: He brought in many, many years of knowledge of the music industry and things like that. Being obviously a lot younger and newer on the scene, we let him kinda guide us.

V. V.: Another American, Colin Richardson, also got involved to some degree in the production of your album. Is your music inspired mainly by U.S. stuff, or you still keep an eye on the European metal scene as well?

S. F.: Oh, definitely. European metal plays a huge part in our music, as being one of our influences - a lot of the melodic metal from Sweden, plus bands such as Dimmu Borgir and their orchestral elements, and plenty of industrial things as well.

V. V.: Actually, how old are you, Sean?

S. F.: I'm 29 years old.

V. V.: So you're not that young, he-he! Do you like to dance?

S. F.: Nooo, I'm not a dancer. I rock out!

V. V.: I'm asking you this, because one of the songs on "The Hinderers" is called "Dead on the Dancefloor". What stays behind this one?

S. F.: That's more of a satyre, I'd say. It's not necessarily that we like to dance or anything like that. It's kinda making fun of a certain scene of people that you see in clubs, something like that.

V. V.: Ok, man, have a safe ride!

S. F.: Thank you! Bye!

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