Andre Mihsin from ChartAttack.com spoke to INTO ETERNITY frontman Stu Block recently about of topics including this past summer's Gigantour run and the stress of life on the road. An excerpt follows:

ChartAttack: Playing in a band and going on the road seems like the high life. What happens on the road that makes guys want to quit?

Stu Block: "A lot of people don't really understand the realities of playing at this level that you do not make a lot of money. It's more of a lifestyle than a career choice at this point. It could definitely become a career. There are definitely doors that are opening for us and doors that hopefully will open that can make us quit our day jobs and make some cash that actually pay bills. Right now when we go on tour, we're doing OK. We don't come back broke, we're coming back with a few bucks in our pockets. We get to pay some of our bills. But we still need to have our day jobs. When your band starts taking off and you get to a level where you got to tour, tour, tour, it makes or breaks a person. People either can't handle the road or they can't handle the financial responsibility of the road and they can't handle being away from loved ones. There are so many reasons why people decide they don't want to do it anymore. I think this band is filtering those people out. I'm in it for the long haul. I live metal. I've always wanted to be a frontman for a metal band. Hanging around musicians and knowing the realities of it, I knew what I was getting myself into, so you got to just stick it out. I get to see the world. I get to travel with cool people. I'm making so many good friends. A lot of people don't understand that aspect of it. So I think that's why a band that does tour a lot, they start losing members and they've always got to replace this guy and this guy. It happens."

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