ENGiNEER interview 
    If you are into hard and heavy music you will like this band... another band from Hex Records
    US you might not know, so give them some time and read! 
 

    fRk: First of all… please introduce the band to those ones who don’t know yet! 

    Engineer is Mike AuClair (drums), Bob Gorham (vocals), Brad Gorham (bass / backing vocals), 
    and Ryan Gorham (guitar / backing vocals). 

    fRk: Engineer was formed in mid 2003 and the band entered the studio in October 2003 
    to record "Suffocation of the Artisan"… seems that you guys are pretty good songwriters, 
    aren`t you?!;) 

    Ha ha. I think it's just because we work really hard and really well together. Since 3/4 
    of us are brothers, it's not hard to tell each other when something sucks and then just 
    move on. We're just constantly writing and working on new material along with 
    practicing everything else. 
 

    fRk: Let`s stick to the point… what`s your process of songwriting… 4 guys entering one 
    room, leaving with one song… how do you write songs and what are your influences? 

    We usually start with a concept/idea of how we want the song to go or how we want the 
    whole song to flow.  And then we just go from there. I (ryan) come to practice with a riff 
    or two and then we all just build off of that. Everyone has equal input in the song writing 
    process. I think most people would be surprised how much input our vocalist has to offer. 
    Even though he doesn't play an instrument in Engineer, Bobby's a really strong force 
    of creativity behind Engineer. 
 

    fRk: Actually if you were forced to compare yourselves with some other artists… 
    please start namedropping to make it easy!;) 

    If you were to combine aspects of Deadguy, Knut, and Breach, you might get something 
    along the same lines as us. 
 

    fRk: Over the years you released some stuff… the last thing was called “Reproach”. 
    Unfortunately I havn`t had a chance to listen to it yet… so how do this recordings differ 
    from the old ones or are there no remarkable differences? Usually time means progress… 

    We made a lot of progress with Reproach. I feel that it's way more developed in song 
    structure and musicianship. We took a lot of time writing it and working on how the album 
    worked together as a whole. Our split with Achilles I think we treated more as a mini full 
    length with the intro, outro, and instrumental track rather than just a short/strong release. 
    With Reproach, we had a lot more time to develop and expand on our ideas and the 
    direction we wanted things to go in. I feel it's our strongest and most cohesive release yet. 
 

    fRk: Can hardly imagine that guys making such music listen all of their time to similar music…;)
    so what are you currently listening to?! 

    I'm currently listening it Torche, Cursed "II", Examination of the. . ., Grails, and Radiohead. 
    Harkonen, Breather Resist, and Hum are always in heavy rotation as well. 
 

    fRk: Just had some words with your label mates on Hex` Achilles… just like them you 
    joined Bloom:Explode from Germany. So tell us` how did this happen? 

    Chris from B:EX got in touch with us at the end of 2005 about a European tour and or 
    a release. Since we were entering the studio to record Reproach, it worked out great that 
    Chris was interested in putting something out for us. Since Hex was releasing the cd version, 
    we still had the lp version open for anyone. Ever since then, we've been working on getting 
    this together. 
 

    fRk: I know this Chris from B:EX does also booking activities… aren`t there any existing 
    plans to come to Europe? 

    We don't have any plans as of yet to come to Europe, but we definitely will eventually. 
    We've had a couple offers that we've had to turn down due to finance issues, but once we 
    get that end of things together, we'll be on our way. 
 

    fRk: If not… what are Engineer`s general plans for the next months? 

    We'll be playing shows and weekends all through the summer up until our major tour this fall. 
    And any down time we have, we'll be concentrating on writing. We can't wait to be back on 
    the road. But at the same time, we can't wait to be back in the studio. 

    text: frankie