JOB FOR A COWBOY Vocalist JONNY DAVY On Upcoming Album, Internet Detractors

MetalSucks recently conducted an interview with vocalist Jonny Davy of Arizona-based extreme metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

MetalSucks: "Doom" and "Genesis" are two vastly different sounding records. Can you explain why?

Davy: We wrote "Doom" when we were, like, 15 or 16 years old. Then we went on tour after that, and that's when everything kind of hit. We had a couple of member changes and just touring and progressing and growing up and developing better taste in music. When you are 16 or 17, that's when you start to learn about metal, and that's kind of what happened there.

MetalSucks: What changed in your tastes? What are you into now? What really changed you?

Davy: Oh, the name-dropping question. I listen to everything. As far as metal goes, I listen to the new PSYCROPTIC a lot. If I had my iPod now, I could tell you. I don't have it on me. I just try to keep up with everything in the death metal scene.

MetalSucks: You guys are working on a new album, right? Is there going to be a drastic shift with this one and "Genesis"?

Davy: It'll be a little bit of a shift again, but nothing too drastic. We definitely are coming in with new influences with the next record. It's still early on, but it'll sound a little different than "Genesis", for sure. We're just learning from our mistakes and nitpicking everything and evolving as a band.

MetalSucks: Do you have any idea yet of what we can expect? What it's going to sound like?

Davy: I don't know. We got a new drummer [Jon Rice], and it's going to be his first time recording and playing with us. It's been going awesome so far [The band has since announced the departure of guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju and named Al Glassman as his replacement. — Ed.]. It's still really early in the works. We just have pieces of the puzzle laying around. We're just going to have to put it all together at this point. I don't know it's hard to say. I don't know how to pinpoint it.

MetalSucks: Is it going to be a concept record?

Davy: No, I don't think we're doing a concept record. I think with the next record we're going to go a bit more into politics. I want to write about parts of the world that are fucked up. Like Northern Korea is blocked off from the entire world. It's its own little society. I'm just trying to pinpoint and find little things that are going on in the modern day and age. There are things that are so fucked up and nothing is really being done about it.

MetalSucks: Your band has a large number of detractors. All of them are ridiculously vocal and obnoxious from what I've seen. Why do you think that is?

Davy: I don't know. It's kind of humorous to us at this point. I think it's just the death metal scene, and people are becoming more elitist because the genre started out small, and when the bands break out of these walls, kids are like, "What the fuck? I don't want anybody to know about my music." I think that's the whole thing. I think if I wasn't at the point that I am right now, I would be the same way. Being in a band really gives you a perspective on things, with the touring. It happens with every band that gets recognition. You just have to roll with it. The bigger you get, the more shit you get.

MetalSucks: You guys are significantly younger than most of your peers. How do you think that has helped, or does it make a difference?

Davy: I think it definitely makes a difference for us, because the kids realize how young we are and younger kids can get into us. I think for younger kids it is harder to attach themselves to someone in their 30s or 40s. So it might be easier for them with a band that is around their age group. It might make them think that they can do it, too.

Read the entire interview at MetalSucks.

Metal Mark from SkullsNBones.com conducted an interview with Arizona-based extreme metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY on December 6, 2008 prior to the band's concert in Atlanta, Georgia. The four-minute clip, which includes performance footage, can be viewed below.