GOD FORBID's DALLAS COYLE: 'Everything That I've Learned I've Learned From Being On The Road'

October 16, 2008

GOD FORBID guitarist Dallas Coyle has written the latest entry for his weekly column on MetalSucks, "The Hard R." This week Dallas addresses the controversy surrounding last week's blog, in which he called John McCain a racist for his "that one" remark in the second presidential debate. He also takes a look at the level of success the band is likely to see surrounding the release of their new record, which is due in early 2009. An excerpt follows below.

"Let's take a look at GOD FORBID. Our band is a good metal band that has a career. Back in the beginning I thought we were going to be the biggest band in the world. Once my world view began to dawn itself upon me, my realistic nature has hit me in ways I never thought. Now I believe our band will probably stay as big as we have been. I doubt we'll get much bigger or much smaller. Why? We have the same elements in play every single record cycle. We don't change much. Our label doesn't change much. Our music may get slightly better with each album but that has proven to not matter in today's musical climate. GOD FORBID is the same five guys from ten years ago, the music business is in a worse place than it was than when we started and we're the old guys in the game now.

"The way I look at it, not much will change for our band with a new record. The people who like our band will LOVE the new record because it's slightly better than the last one. But as far as breaking out and having a cinderella story, it's not in the cards. Hey, maybe it will happen, but the way I look at it we're a band that does a little more or a little less each time as far as sales are concerned. That's my prophetic take on things GOD FORBID.

"Everything that I've learned I've learned from being on the road. I never went to college but going on the road is like majoring in communication. We've done really well by being good people and making sure we're in good standing with musicians, agents, managers, etc. Also, we play kick-ass shows. And we see massive amounts of people per tour. Every day we're out there campaigning. When you're that deep in something for so long you're able to attach yourself to a pulse that exists within our society. The pulse is the same for politics, music and film in my point of view. Seeing regular people every day doing regular things you get an idea of what they want or are attracted to. We get to do extraordinary things just because we're in a band and we learn about the world in different ways, which I think creates a healthy world view."

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