Civil Disturbance:
Nikko on Drums
Dan on Bass
Kris on Guitar
Matt T. on guitar
Matt E. on vocals

MetalHeadRadio: Whats the origin of your band name? Civil Disturbance: We had a lot of different band names and this one seemed to fit with how we felt the direction of our music was going. You know the old good versus evil thing. MetalHeadRadio: How long have you all known each other? How did you meet? Civil Disturbance: Well Matt E. and Kris are the only original members left and well it was kind of fate

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Matt was singing a Tantric song at a bar during Karaoke night and Kris’ woman Jamie heard him and the rest is history. ( we later got to open a show for Tantric….just goes to show you how fate works) and that was all about 5 years ago.

MetalHeadRadio:
I hear you have a new DVD coming out soon!
Can you tell us about it.

Civil Disturbance:
We have this great LIVE DVD coming out in the next few weeks, we had a professional
producer come and do a five camera layout and our recording engineers come and run a
channel for channel live feed, they are being synced up as we speak. We are very excited
because if you have heard our CD its good but when you get the songs and the show we
put on its all together a whole different experience. Oh and Deuce you haven’t seen the
good version yet!

MetalHeadRadio: What is your music background? Civil Disturbance: We all have very different musical backgrounds, I (Kris) actually started playing the trombone at about 9 years old and of course was really bad at it. At the age of 15 I picked up my first guitar and the rest is pretty much history, love at first site. MetalHeadRadio: Who are your musical influences? Civil Disturbance: Honestly any musician out there doing what they love is an influence because everyone who plays

an instrument has that one thing that they are good at, and when you see them play it live there is so much raw emotion being released that it is hard not to be influenced. That is why so many musicians who go and frequent other bands shows always want to be playing when they watch someone else play... It just drives you!

MetalHeadRadio:
What are your immediate music career goals? (Next year or so)

Civil Disturbance:
We would definitely like to finish our upcoming CD. Of course getting a record deal and
making this a full time job would be great (if it happens) but with the success we have had
locally in the past year; our main goal has to be to continue on the path we are on no matter
where it leads us.

MetalHeadRadio:
Who handles your daily business activities? (Bookings, promotions etc.)

Civil Disturbance:
Generally Nikko has been taking care of most of the bookings although Kris has been
slowly getting in the booking process as of late. The other daily business is distributed
for the most part pretty evenly amongst the band members. We try to keep everyone
busy with stuff so it is not always just one person doing it all.

MetalHeadRadio: Do you have a record label? Are you a member of any music organizations? Civil Disturbance: Nikko actually has his own record label called Villiacci Records, he has released other than our CD I believe 6 or 7 other CD’s under that label with the most recent being this great Metal band named “Apothis” check those guys out, they are on our top friends on myspace. We are part of the Maine Music association, which is an organization that has a lot of members and covers a lot of area in Maine.

MetalHeadRadio:
Where have you performed? What are your favorite and least favorite venues?
Do you have any upcoming shows?

Civil Disturbance:
There are so many places we have played it would be very hard to come up with
a list off of the top of my head. A few of my favorite venues are “The Station” in Portland;
“Wardens” in Lewiston, Mixers In Sabattus, and because of the crazy friggin people
Rumors in Skowhegan, Although not much can compare to playing in front of over
5000 people at the Skowhegan fair Grounds.

We have a few shows left that complete our summer season off. On July 28
we are doing a benefit for CAMP P.O.S.C.A.R.D at the Bangor State Fair,
Then the following Saturday we are Playing a show at Club Texas in Auburn,
then on August 9 we are playing at Rumors in Skowhegan and the very next night
(Aug. 10) we will be playing again in front of thousands of people to defend our
WTOS battle of the bands title at the Skowhegan State Fair.

MetalHeadRadio: Where would the "ultimate" venue for you to play be? Civil Disturbance: It wouldn’t be a specific place, the ultimate venue for us would be any SOLD OUT arena. That would just be amazing; we have played a few outdoor shows that if were inside an arena would sell it out but we have yet to play an inside arena. There is something about going to a concert that is indoors and hearing the roar of the crowd enclosed in an inside setting. MetalHeadRadio: Which songs do you perform most frequently?

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Civil Disturbance:
For the most part we usually try to play all of our songs live at shows. Sometimes because
of set times we may have to cut out a some songs but we really enjoy to play and if we
could we would play them all at every show.

MetalHeadRadio:
Who writes your songs?
What are the main themes or topics for most of your songs?
Who comes up with the most song ideas?

Civil Disturbance: Matt E. writes all of the lyrics and the band writes all of the music. I believe most of our songs in essence are always about past experiences Matt has had in life, and they always seem to have some sort of good vs. evil concept. Whether it came from an experience from an ex-girlfriend or a struggle he had to pull through at a particular time. The thing that’s nice about the rest of the band sort of having full control of the actual music is that we have the ability to take our feelings and emotions and put them into the song in a form that may only make sense for us, and what I mean by that is we know how each song drives us and how we were feeling on that particular time that the song was written and that is a nice feeling.

MetalHeadRadio:
What are your fans generally like?

Civil Disturbance:
Kick ass!!! That pretty much sums them all up in a nut shell. The one thing I like is that
they are there for us, we are constantly talking to them and they are always just so
great to us. We’ve gotten customized artwork form one girl named Crystal which
was sick and you can see that stuff on our myspace site. But the one true thing is
that people know we are a very approachable group of guys and if you take the
time to get to know us we get to know you, and lots of fans have become great
friends to us and that is a very important aspect of how things work with us.

MetalHeadRadio: How has your music evolved since first began playing together? Civil Disturbance: Currently on our newest album (yeah! The one that is under construction in the studio) we decided to give our music a fresher taste with better guitar tracks and bass and drums as well as more produced vocals; since we have only two original members. The group we have now is completely different than when we first started and the music soon to come out reflects that a great deal but you can still tell it is Civil D.

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MetalHeadRadio:
What advice do you have for people who want to form their own bands?

Civil Disturbance:
WORK,WORK,WORK! It is not an easy task to form a band but when everything
feels right it is, don’t settle for anything less, and always remember what your assets
and limitations are, and find members that have close to the same playing ability you
do because when your band starts developing so wont you and the other members.
Remember it doesn’t matter how great your are at your instruments its about how
good the music is and how you treat the people that listen to it.

MetalHeadRadio:
What is the name of your most current CD?
Where can it be purchased?

Civil Disturbance:
“The Battle Within” and it can be purchased at all Bullmoose locations throughout
Maine and New Hampshire, or at any live show we are at.

MetalHeadRadio:
Do you maintain a webpage or myspace page? If so what is the URL?

Civil Disturbance:
www.myspace.com/civildisturbance1070