How does DTP fit in the hierarchy?
A2. Ha, well, Troll rock is something that Matt Chandler likes to call us, where bands like Spinal Tap have magical lawn gnomes and mystical orbs on stage and they sing about how the Orcs are tearing up your Elven kingdom. Seriously though, stoner rock typically is used to refer to that Desert rock sound, drugged up hypnotic, heavy rock, bands like Fu Manchu, Queens of the Stone Age, Monster Magnet, Clutch maybe… but Doom is influenced more directly by classic European metal, from Black Sabbath up to bands like Electric Wizard. One’s almost party music, the other being like a funeral procession in mood and temperament. I don’t know where we fit, but we like metal, doom, and stoner rock, and we try to fuse it all together into our own thing. Q3. The fact that you’ve had to overcome significant health issues is pretty well documented. How have those experiences impacted you artistiscally? A3. I couldn’t say artistically, but personally, it’s been something else, and still being here ma
