The Autonomy Within

Metal music has always had an underlying theme of struggling against hardship. The best songs in any genre, metal included, are always written straight from the heart and about the issues that affect the songwriter. We as a band feel that recently, this method of song writing has been abused, especially in the metal genre, with bands writing songs about issues and hardships that they never have or never will endure, such as drug addiction, child abuse etc. As the members of our band are fortunate enough to have never encountered these issues in our personal lives, we feel that it would be hypocritical and disrespectful to write songs about these themes. As a band, we are influenced by “concept bands” such as Mastodon and Protest The Hero and it is our goal as a band to create a series of conceptual E.Ps/L.Ps that link to become one greater concept story. We plan to do this over the course of five releases. This has been our goal since we first started writing as Iconoclast and it is our goal to bring these five concepts to life, regardless of any interest from the music industry. As musicians, we are all trying to push ourselves and this is a medium in which we can push our creativity as well as our musicianship. The first installment of these concepts will be our debut E.P, which will be available before the end of 2009. Our intentions live are to capture the seismic intensity that you will hear on the CD and deliver it with unrelenting energy. However, that doesn’t mean we’re here to play like cardboard cut-outs. We’re here to party, have a good time, get wasted and go home deaf and bleeding! As Ken would say, “it’s going to be rad to the power of sick!”Love,ICONOCLAST X