The amps are turned up until the sound breaks. There's nothing fake involved.

It's a lot more warm and live sounding. It doesn't sound crystal-clear, picture-perfect. That's what we tried to avoid, so I'm glad we recorded the way we did. It feels better to us that we didn't have to use a computer to record our songs to get them perfect.

Yeah, it's a dry, raw recording. That's what we want people to hear: a rugged--not a polished--album. So much of today's hard core is nothing but trigger drums and Marshall amps. Most bands can't pull off their sound live, so why use that stuff?

I'm excited. I think we're all excited. We're anxious to get the record out there and let people hear it.

We just wanted to play music and have fun with it. We wrote the best songs we could, we got label attention and we had a bidding war. Finally we decided on a label mid this year. We signed with a label called Equal Vision, and they've been nothing but amazing to us.

It had nothing to do with rust. (Sunday), (the Steelers) had the breaks, they played well. They played well enough to win.