The Pit Unsigned March 2014 | Page 16

Do you have any hobbies away from the band?

We all have jobs and families and use most of our free time towards our band not a lot of time for hobbies. Our guitarist Joey is trying to get his apprenticeship to be a tattoo artist and is probably the only interesting hobby in the group, but Jesse does all our lyric videos and fliers so the digital thing is kind of his hobby.

Where does Anthems of Imperium mainly play their shows and what is your favorite venue to play?

We play anywhere there are

ears listening and appreciate

any venue giving a metal band

a chance there are limited

venues it seems for metal bands

locally but the few that do in our

area like The Hideaway, The

Casbah, Poor Richards, and The

Mecca Loungeare highly

respected by us for letting our

band and other metal bands from

other metal bands from the area come out and perform. We just got our 6x10 trailer and we are about to head out of town and state on weekends for now so hopefully we will find a lot of venues that can be added to our favorites list.

I know it is tough being in an Unsigned Band. What are some of the obstacles you face?

It's tough as a new band making our debut because there are so

many great bands out there so it is just trying to find our way to

stand out in the crowd, we do work giving out demos inviting people

to shows, sacrificing a lot of time and money for what we feel is a

good cause, and that is making our music heard. Most troubles can

be summed up by financial but we don’t worry about that we just

worry about the next song the next gig and improving ourselves as