You bring up the "victims" thing, and we obviously got a lot of backlash back then, especially from the death-metal community, which was interesting to say the least: being a 17-year-old and seeing all of that thrown at you. I think we released a "Knee Deep" demo before Doom, and that's when it really started picking up. You guys were kind of-victims is the wrong word because you weren't victims you were beneficiaries of the online hype of Myspace. It came out on a local label and then on Metal Blade. I think we ended up playing a bunch of random shows to make up the money for it. I remember being in the studio with the guys, and we're just trying to figure out what to do.
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There were situations like that when you're young, and you don't really understand the full spectrum of money and the business of it. We were in the middle of recording and realized we didn't have enough money to pay for it. I remember when we first started recording the Doom EP, we didn't know how much it would cost. It's kind of the generic story you typically hear when a bunch of kids start a band. Was there anything you did during that process you've since learned is super unorthodox or not normal? You were so young during the creation of Doom. It's kind of your baby, so you keep molding it to what you want it to be for many, many years. It just seems strange, still, in hindsight. And now, many records later and wrapping up another one, it's just crazy that I'm still doing the same thing I was when I was 15 years old. However, once this bloomed and blossomed into this weird beast,, "Hey, let's just go on forward and keep having fun with it." It just kept snowballing and snowballing. It's weird to think about in hindsight because maybe half of us were deep in thinking we were going to college this was just a fun little gig. For whatever reason, we posted some songs on the Internet, and it blew up. We started off just playing in our parents' garages and playing as many local shows as possible-kind of a weekend warrior situation in between school and whatnot. Job For A Cowboy would have taken up more than half your life now, right? And no, he doesn’t remember where that girl-screaming sample in " Entombment Of A Machine" came from. Davy, now 33, digs into the release, the break and especially the place from which they came: their genre-defining EP Doom. Now, six years later, they're ready to continue their ascent-those tomatoes are all rotten by now, anyway-with their impending fifth album. Their rise stopped there, however, as they would play a single festival show and go into hiding. In 2014, they unleashed progressive death-metal monolith Sun Eater, eschewing speed and labyrinthine vocal patterns in favor of a moody atmosphere. The band would spend their entire career slogging it uphill while getting pelted with tomatoes from the top of the death-metal heap. As far as the detractors? About the only cowboy who passes in death metal is Morbid Angel's David Vincent (OK, and Eric Wagner, aka The Dark Cowboy from fellow Arizonians Gatecreeper). They evolved album to album with more concern for appeasing their thirst for evolution than any fans they'd leave in the dust. They'd quickly shift sounds toward modern death metal (and subsequently increase the technicality).
This pigeonholed Job For A Cowboy as eternal posers and vocalist Jonny Davy as their pig-squealing sheriff. Critics simultaneously praised the brutal release for its extremity and denounced it.
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