Update – December 07th 11:04am:
The band have since clarified some misinterpretation from the interview in which people thought they were lumping in Killswitch Engage as a ‘bargain bin fucking deathcore band.’ That was not the case, as they have since stated:
“respect and love to killswitch engage.were honored to tour w them”
Original Story:
Code Orange have a clear vision of who they want to tour with and it doesn’t involve the usual scene bands that seem to be continually packaged together (one would suspect that includes Asking Alexandria.) Instead, the band hope to tour with more of their idols and fellow artists they respect. Vocalist/drummer Jami Morgan recently told Metal Insider:
“We just toured with Deftones and that was really cool. Our goal overall is to do something different. We aren’t running from our world, which is hardcore. We aren’t trying to escape and get in to some bigger world. We want to take our world and meet it with a lot of this other stuff. Roadrunner has done it in the past with everyone from Sepultura, Type O, to when they were doing Madball, Earth Crisis, Life Of Agony, bands that are more influenced by hardcore, but they were doing something a little different.
That is something we really look up to. For us, it is band to band, You can’t have anything but respect for Deftones. That was a dream. We got to tour with Killswitch Engage, but we don’t feel like, even if they are big, we don’t want to be touring with these bargain bin fucking deathcore bands. You know what I mean? There is nothing in the future for it. It is a quick buck. We are not looking for a quick buck. We are not here for a quick buck. We are here for the long haul.”
Later referencing a tour earlier this year that saw Lamb Of God and Anthrax take out relatively less established acts Deafheaven and Power Trip, Morgan went on to say:
“That’s also the reason we need more of that. All those bands, they are starting to realize it. Much respect to Lamb Of God and much respect to Deftones, these bands giving these young bands a chance. There are a lot of other bands that are not doing that because they just care about the short term.
They just care about what they are getting that night. What is going to make their lives easier because they are older guys, but the culture doesn’t move forward. The next couple years I feel like that is going to change. I feel like those bands are in for a rude awakening because the bands that have been putting on all this shit they don’t draw a dime and it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work long term.”
For more from Morgan and guitarist/vocalist Reba Meyers on the band’s forthcoming new album “Forever“, which is out on January 13th on Roadrunner Records, hit up Metal Insider.
