MetalSucks reports:

Fresh off their signing with Metal Blade Records, Vancouver, Canada-based stoner metallers BISON B.C. headed out on a tour in support of 3 INCHES OF BLOOD and PRIESTESS. At the band’s hometown stop of the tour, MetalSucks writer David Bee Roth caught up with guitarist/vocalist Dan And, where he spoke about being signed to a label and how that came about, life on the road, and how real dog barks made it onto their sophomore release, Quiet Earth.

Excerpts from the chat follow:

MetalSucks: I’d say it’s been a pretty big year for Bison. Would you like to tell us a little of what’s been happening?

Dan And: "Just playing all the time, getting signed to Metal Blade, recording our new album and getting them to put that out, and just touring as much as possible."

MetalSucks: You got signed to Metal Blade over the summer. How did that happen?

Dan And: "Sarah Lutz, who works for Metal Blade in Toronto, she was in town while we were playing a show and she just happened to come by and check it out. I guess she totally loved it and went back to Metal Blade and was like “You guys have got to get into this." It was kind of weird because nobody else at the label had seen us play. They’d heard the album that we did on our own but she was like, “You got to see them live!"

MetalSucks: Congratulations on Quiet Earth. What was the recording experience like for that album?

Dan And: "It was awesome. We recorded in the same spot with the same guy, at The Hive just outside Vancouver with our friend Jesse Gander. He’s amazing, he’s recorded hundreds of Vancouver bands. He used to do a lot punk bands and he hasn’t done a ton of metal. He did one of the old 3 Inches [of Blood] recordings. He’s a friend of ours who recorded James' [Farwell, guitar/vocals] old band, S.T.R.E.E.T.S., and we loved the way Earthbound came out and I think Quiet Earth turned out just a hundred times better. We had more time. Earthbound was like four days to do everything, mixing, mastering, all that stuff".

MetalSucks: The first album is called “Earthbound” and the second is “Quiet Earth.” What’s the reference to the earth in the title mean?

Dan And: "We’re just a fucking bunch of hippies [laughs]. It’s kind of a story, not like a concept album but it’s a story about this race of Bison warriors on another planet. A lot of James' lyrics are like “the earth is fucked, doomsday is coming”. So its an idea that this other race of conquering warlords taking over our civilization at the peak of its collapse. We were just joking about this just like with the violins, but it’s the story about these guys traveling through space to conquer the earth. Earthbound was like their home world and you can see the earth in the background and this one is them sending out this mage to declare war."

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