THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Guitarist Brian Eschbach: "We'll Probably Be Looking For Another Drummer Pretty Soon"
November 20, 2006, 18 years ago
The Metal Forge (themetalforge.com) has issued an interview with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER guitarist Brian Eschbach, conducted by Justin Donnelly. The following is an excerpt:
With the mention of their current line-up brought up in the conversation (currently consisting of vocalist Trevor Strnad, guitarists Brian Eschbach and John Kempainen, bassist Bart Williams and drummer Pierre Langlois), and knowing the dramas surrounding their constant changes in the past, I had to ask Eschbach just how well the current incarnation of the band were holding up.
“It’s pretty gruelling on the road sometimes, and since the release of Miasma, we’ve hardly been home for any great length of time. Sometimes it is a hard road, and other times it’s not. It takes a certain type of person to do this full time. If you can go without a lot of things, you can do this touring thing very easily. But if you’re after security, it’s not particularly the right place to be in. We made the couple of newer members (Williams and Langlois) we found join the band as permanent members back in April. Prior to that, they had been playing with us for the whole year pretty much. So since April, things were looking pretty solid for the band. That was until recently. We’ll be probably looking for another drummer pretty soon, because Langlois’ not exactly into doing the whole road thing. Our previous drummers (Cory Grady and Zach Gibson) were let go because they weren’t taking the band as seriously as the rest of the other band members were. This time it just happens to be different. We’re extremely happy with the way Langlois plays. We wished that this was something that he really wanted to do, but it would seem that he would rather go home and be a civilian. It hasn’t been made official yet, but between all of us in the band, it’s been the hot topic of conversations with him. I think after being on a pretty regular tour schedule, he knows what this life is like, and he doesn’t really want that. We’ll just have to see what happens.”See the full interview at this location.
