Shadow's Fall: "We Look up to Bands Like Maiden"
SHADOWS FALL frontman Brian Fair recently spoke to The Free Lance-Star Publishing Company about the group's sudden surge of success, like debuting at No. 20 on The Billboard 200 chart, and selling nearly 250,000 copies of their latest album, "The War Within"."Yeah, it's crazy, man," he said. "We've been a band for almost eight years, with a few lineup changes here and there. We've just been working hard. We would play anywhere, anytime for years and we kind of slowly built this thing up, and it's just cool to see where it has gone, because we know it was one step at a time on our own terms and through our own hard work as opposed to getting signed to a big label, getting a million dollars dumped into you and just breaking overnight. And it's cool because we have always, the bands we always looked up to were, say, bands like IRON MAIDEN. Twenty-five years later, still touring, still putting out records. They never had a hit single, they never had major commercial radio play, but they never turned their backs on their fans. That's kind of how we have gotten here. We never tried to catch up to anything cool and try and guess what's going to hit. We were always doing something which for years was pretty uncool [laughs] And we were, like, the only band at the time with long hair and guitar solos. It was funny; we were the token thrash band at every hardcore show for like four years [laughs]."
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Source: Blabbermouth.net
3 Comments
I really respect bands with their kind of attitude 
...even though I've never heard them...
I guess I can respect them for that attitude, they aren't all that great however, just like every other thrash band out now.
QUOTE(Maiden Madness @ Apr 22 2005, 12:50 PM)
I really respect bands with their kind of attitude ...even though I've never heard them...
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Oh yeah!!!!!