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Interview with 'Rockin' Group Decyfer Down

by Justin Camacho, Christian Today Correspondent
Posted: Monday, February 19, 2007, 16:02 (GMT)
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What you see is what you get with these passionate rockers from the States, who’ve already hit the top of US radio charts twice since the release of their debut album, End of the Grey. Take an inside look at the group through frontman Caleb Oliver.

Can you tell us a little bit about how you got involved with the band personally?

We were actually in another band, 3 of us – Chris and Josh and myself were in another band before this one. And we’ve been together since the beginning, about 9 years, but we started this band about 5 years ago when Chris, our other guitarist, came on board and kind of cemented our sound and so we’ve been in this band for close to 5 years now. And Josh, my brother and the drummer, we’ve just always been playing together, so it kind of worked out that way.

Do you write most of the songs?

We kind of write them all together, musically – we’ll get an idea, just a guitar riff or something like that, and kind of piece it together and start getting the arrangements, and then everyone meets up and kind of goes through it. And usually what happens is that I’ll take the music and go back and write melodies and lyrics on top of that. And that just seems to work best for us. And it’s amazing just to see everything kind of pull together like that.

Are the lyrics also a collective effort?

It’s more individual, just myself. But it goes through the gauntlet - everybody’s got to be down.



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