A Life Once Lost Interview

A Life Once Lost started off as a vicious metalcore band that came roaring with a technicality and musicianship that commonness metalcore bands aspire to attain. Following their first full length "Open Your Mouth For The Speechless" the band's sound began to transform which became "A Great Artists" it was at this time the band began to take on a heavier but more intelligent approach to their song writing.

In 2005 "Hunter" hit and blew everyone's minds, the band have been touring relentlessly since its release and are gaining new crowds, new faces, and new friends. The road can bring a lot of things for a lot of bands and for A Life Once Lost the road has been treating them quite well as singer Rob Meadows spilled to The Gauntlet.



The Gauntlet: You guys have been touring quite a bit, who are you on the road with now?

Rob: Right now we are on the road with As I Lay Dying Norma Jean and Madball. Then we're off in January then we are heading back out in late January with Darkest Hour.


The Gauntlet: Are you guys used to so much touring?

Rob: Not really this is our first year of hard touring. We want to go home once in awhile usually everyone is on same page putting up with stress.


The Gauntlet: Is there any new material in the works already?

Rob: When we're home we'll play with riffs and stuff and decide where we want to take the next album, we're not focused on the next album, we're focused on this album and pushing it as hard as we can. That's our main concern right now; focusing on the record on hand then we start writing next December really hardcore and release the record the following spring 2007.


The Gauntlet: I hear some of you guys are quite the drinking type and smoking too.

Rob: I prefer smoking over drinking, drinking upsets my stomach.


The Gauntlet: Do you guys play stoned often?

Rob: The first time we ever did it, it was weird as hell but ever since then it brought us all together. It just sums up what we do the best. The drummer smokes the hardest over all of us, drinking wise it's the other dudes minus the drummer he likes to smoke more but one day I'll smoke him under the table haha.


The Gauntlet: Who would you say has the best?

Rob: California usually has some good chronic, we were in CA with Unearth and Dillinger we picked up some good stuff in Albany, it was grown on a farm. California is always great, CA is usually hydroponics, it's usually fancier really crystalline and colorful just brutal. In Canada we played in BC, we were smoking amazing chronic with a bag of keef and a bag of hash, we are starting to get that reputation as a stoner band now haha. Kids come up with us to smoke with something already rolled it's a good way to break the ice with us.


The Gauntlet: What would you say has been your most enjoyed tour thus far?

Rob: I don't know, we're pretty lucky to be on some pretty good supporting tours since April. With Bury Your Dead and Red Chord we went to Europe. Unearth and Dillinger was a lot of fun, they are all great guys, then it was Every Time I Die and Haste the Day, now we're on As I Lay Dying and Madball so we're very lucky to be on these tour every band that goes out. We are usually hesitant to hang out with bands but Dillinger are an honest amount of individuals they are very humble and polite and supportive for what were doing. You always hear about bigger bands with egos, every tour we've done every band looked out for us.


The Gauntlet: Will you guys ever play any material off of "The Fourth Plague Files" or "Open Your Mouth For The Speechless" again?

Rob: Nah it doesn't flow with our stuff that we write now, we are concentrating on a great artist and hunter type sound now and the old stuff just doesn't represent what we play now.


TheGauntlet: What was your most embarrassing time on tour?

Rob: Ah lets try to think of what I can say and not say, usually just getting pretty wasted to the point where we played a show in Tijuana with dead to fall and it was out of hand, we were drinking some tequila and basically it was so bad that our merch guy wasn't even selling our merch because he was drunk and fell own stairs and he got spiral meningitis.


TheGauntlet: That sounds threatening, what's the treatment for something like that?

Rob: They stick a needle into your spine, I know it does not feel good, its pretty painful he was quarantined for a period of time because he's so sick and it's highly contagious and we're super fucked up we get back to the house we were staying at and I had to go to the bathroom really bad so I shit right outside the van and it was just really disgusting pooping outside and after that I got pretty sick puking for hours on hand probably, that was probably the most disgusting moment.



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Dave Huffy    December 08, 2005