Shortly after the band finished their mind-bending set opening for THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, TESTAMENT and CHILDREN OF BODOM at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom, MetalSucks had the chance to talk with BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME singer Tommy Rogers and bassist Dan Briggs. The guys spoke about the band's new DVD Colors Live, their rigorous touring schedule in support of Colors, sharing the stage with their heroes in Dream Theater on the summer's Progressive Nation tour, and what the next record is going to sound like. An excerpt from the chat follows:

MetalSucks: So are you guys writing any new material yet?

Tommy: "Yeah we're just slowly starting to. After this tour we're going to go full force with it and hopefully try and record next year sometime."

MetalSucks: Do you guys write on the road at all?

Tommy: "No, hardly ever. We talk about it, but it never happens."

MetalSucks: Do you ever get into a room and jam it out?

Tommy: "We're not really a jam kind of band at all."

Dan: We just sit in our [own] room all day and not talk to anybody and see what happens and then send it to everyone else.

Tommy: "We all kind of write on our own. We tried jamming once, and it kind of went bad. Some members of the band aren't into jamming at all."

MetalSucks: So any thoughts in the direction you are going to take it?

Tommy: "We're just going to take Colors a step past that. I think with every record we really progress and push ourselves and our music. I think we're going to continue that with the next record. The next one will crush Colors."

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