On Friday, July 12, Devour the Day will launch their newest assortment of recent songs, Fragments of Us. Ahead of that, founding members Joey “Chicago” Walser and Blake Allison joined Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights to have a good time all that’s occurring in the lifetime of the band.

“When you’re young, you dream of all the different things like being onstage and having music on the radio and those things,” Walser advised Chuck on Tuesday night time (July 9).

“But I think for us, there was always this lifestyle that we would be able to get up and make music every day and then watch cool movies and eat good food and go to bed. And somewhere along the lines, it turned into that.”

Walser admitted that what he’s doing right this moment with Devour the Day — together with collaborating and dealing with different artists — is a dream come true.

Allison agreed along with his bandmate as he mirrored on the begin of Devour the Day again in 2012.

“At the time, we were writing new songs for the next Egypt Central record and the band broke up and we just shifted gears and knew that we were not going to stop creating,” he defined.

“We’re going to keep going.”

Walser added that it might have been detrimental to them in the event that they determined to cease writing and creating music for one easy however extremely vital cause.

“Once you establish 10 years of therapeutically dealing with your life through writing songs,” he mentioned, “it would have been really strange to just stop doing that.

Why Devour the Day Are Grateful For Their Fanbase

As Allison and Walser prepare for Fragments of Us, they took a moment to tell the Loudwire Nights family why they’re grateful to still be here releasing new music as Devour the Day.

“Our fanbase and the people who hearken to our music and hook up with our music, they deserve all the credit score,” Walser said.

“If it wasn’t for them listening to our music…we would not have the ability to proceed.”

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Allison agreed, but he also shared another reason that’s made it easy for Walser and him to keep working together years after Egypt Central initially broke up.

“He and I are finest mates and I believe that has been an enormous a part of all this,” he said.

“Joey and I’ve been working collectively on music and something associated round music day-after-day and that simply comes with a dynamic the place if we weren’t finest mates, it might be that a lot tougher.”

What Else Did Devour the Day’s Joey Walser and Blake Allison Discuss on Loudwire Nights?

• Why the band decided to release an EP rather than a full-length album
• Why “Empty” is a good indication of what fans should expect from the rest of Fragments of Us
• The meaning behind the new song “Outsider” and why they hope it connects with their fans

Listen to the Full Interview in the Podcast Player Below

Joey “Chicago” Walser and Blake Allison joined Loudwire Nights on Tuesday, July 9; the show replays online here, and you can tune in live every weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you can also see if the show is available on your local radio station and listen to interviews on-demand.