How about people saying/claiming you guys are copying or cloning bands like Anathema, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Opeth, etc?
It’s an unfortunate fact that due to our lack of popularity and publicity compared to those bands, and the fact that we hail from the U.S. as opposed to being from Europe or elsewhere, that we tend to fall under heavy criticism from people for those claims of being copyists or what have you. It is a matter of fact however, that we have been writing and playing the kind of music we play for almost as long as those aforementioned bands, so for people to say that we merely copied their style is unfair and not possible. We of course look at what they have done as an inspiration and we enjoy those bands too but we believe that we basically just shared alot of the same influences as those bands have, and we all set out on a similar musicial path. Just because we are not from England or Sweden does not mean that we are incapable of writing this music from our hearts. There have been similarities between some vocal or guitar parts with other bands, but ultimately things like that will happen f
