Live-Metal.net recently talked with WARBRINGER guitarist John Laux about getting signed to a label, their new release and what they bring to thrash metal in 2008.

The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: Give us a brief history of Warbringer.

A: "Just some kids who met each other in high school and wanted to get a band going. We worked hard to get gigs in L.A. and once we wrote enough music, we released a few EPs: Born Of The Ruins and One By One The Wicked Fall. The rest is history."

Q: I obviously hear lots of thrash metal influences. For a band so young, how did you guys get into thrash metal in the first place?

A: "We liked heavy metal a lot and started digging around for as much real metal as we could. Thrash metal is a well documented style, but what caught my attention was the number of underground bands. From there, I became really absorbed into it, scouring the Internet for as much thrash as I could find."

Q: I mean, you guys look and sound like an '80s thrash band. Was this a conscious effort by the band to embrace these great bands and their sound, fashion and appeal of that era?

A: "We really only aim to embrace the sound. Writing the music comes very natural to us because it's what we have grown up listening to. Also, we don't just try to emulate the old school music. We want to try to carry it on from where we feel it was cut short. For example, we think KREATOR's Coma Of Souls is an awesome thrash record that's much more technical but just as heavy as any prior Kreator releases. We want to carry thrash on in that direction."

Read the full interview at Live-Metal.net.