Earlier this month at an Ozzfest stop in North Carolina, Lambgoat's Drew Ailes sat down with Bleeding Through guitarist Scott Danough to discuss his fans, experiences on Ozzfest, and his days posting on Lambgoat, among other things

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It's just a really good creative...aggressive and emotional outlet, pretty much. If people like it, then that's awesome, and if they don't, I don't care. I'm doing what makes me happy.

It's really flattering in certain aspects, but I think there's far more important things to obsess over. I don't know, even obsessing over something is kind of...not something I would suggest to anybody. But I mean, whatever, I've done it too. When I was growing up I was really big on all the thrash metal bands like Slayer and Exodus and all that. So you know, I'm in no position to judge anybody for obsessing over anything because I've done it myself.

It's kind of surreal. I've met Kerry King before and he's a really nice guy. You hear all these things about bands you may've grown up listening to, like, certain members being total pricks or whatever; I met Kerry King and he was seriously one of the nicest guys ever. It was really a surreal experience to meet somebody that you grew up loving and that influenced you so much.

[laughs] It's kind of funny, I just went to go hang out with some of the Unearth guys a few years back at one of their shows in L.A. We happened to be home. Kerry King was at the show and Ken from Unearth had met him before so he goes, "yeah, c'mon, I'll introduce you to him. So I went up and hung out with Kerry King. It was really cool.

No, I mean, there's definitely moments where it's awkward if dudes are just going too far with things, but for everybody in our band it's a personal choice. It's not like, some sort of vendetta that we're trying to push on everybody. So it's never created any problems at all like that.

As far as playing to the crowds, it's a huge opportunity to play in front of an enormous amount of people that would never know who you are. With all the good things there are, there's bad things too. Once you get done playing you have to go do the FYE signing for a half an hour or forty-five minutes, which is cool because you get to meet the people that buy your music and come support your band and go to your shows and that's kind of awesome. But from then on out, you're literally living the most boring day of your life over and over again for the next month and a half.

Sometimes it can. For the most part, it still doesn't really feel like a job. It's something I love to do, even though it is a job. It's one of those things where like, it's just the most fun job possible. You never expect something like this to happen to you. "Cool, people like my music." I get to do this and get paid for it, and like...how could I complain? There's no way you can complain about it, even if something's not going your way.

No, none at all that I can think of off-hand. Everything has been really positive. All the bands are hanging out together. Even the main-stage bands are coming down and hanging out with all of us. It's just been a real positive experience. It's been really fun for everybody.

It's still too early to tell. I think all of us have our own different perspectives on where we want to go with it, which will be cool once we actually start digging into the writing process. That many different opinions is going to make it just that much more stronger.

He was decent to us. When I first saw the guy, I didn't know he was The Tonight Show guy and I'm just thinking, "who the hell is this dude?" Someone's all, "dude, that's The Tonight Show guy," and earlier that morning I just found out that we were going to be on and I was like, "oh, okay." So yeah, he was cool to us. I was actually surprised that the dude was as funny as he was. He got up on stage and started blowing bubbles and did all this goofy shit with us. It was kind of funny. It was fun.

There are side-projects. Nothing that has been released yet, because as you said, we are committed to a pretty hectic touring schedule right now. Derek, our drummer, and I; I'm sure a lot of people on Lambgoat don't necessarily remember bands like Unbroken or A Chorus Of Disapproval, but Steve from Unbroken is doing a side-project with Derek and I. It's very noisy, almost Cursed sounding.

It's called March of the Damned. Once we actually get some time off to really dig into it then yeah, we plan on searching for a label and actually putting something out.

I would go as far as to say that they've been definitely inspiring to me as far as the sound that I'm aiming for with the side-project. It's not just limited to that. We're also taking influences from Nine, I don't know if you're familiar with them.

Right, right. And we're taking a lot of older nineties west coast hardcore. Obviously Chorus and Unbroken, they're in this band, so they're going to have somewhat of a direct impact on it.

It's one of those situations where it's not a day that goes by where me or anyone else in this band takes this for granted. All of us appreciate it to the fullest and we realize where we came from. Without these kids, we'd be nothing. If we mean that much to them, I'd absolutely love to do something for them.

[laughs] No, I'm not aware of that. That's kind of cool, though.

I don't really remember it too well, but I heard about it.

I mean, why not? If they gave me a hundred dollars to go blow on stupid shit, I'd probably do the same.

I mean, I would love to see that happen, but I'm not holding my breath here.

First thing I would buy...definitely a house on the beach. Newport or Huntington. Definitely an Orange County beach. That's definitely my favorite place. I've been all over the world with this band and still nothing compares to home.

I think if we sounded like Suicidal Tendencies more than we actually do, I don't think our fanbase would be as broad as it is. Suicidal...I grew up on them. A couple of our other dudes did too. As much as I love that band, there's no way that if we sounded more like them that we'd have the fanbase that we do. They're just not as accessible sounding in today's market.

It's been an ongoing joke. We're trying to convince her every day to go out with a keytar. That would probably be the highlight of this band. If I could actually get her on stage with a keytar...

Yeah, I'd be done with this band and say that I got everything I ever wanted out of it.

I don't think I could count that high. I don't think anyone could, even with a calculator. It's pretty ridiculous, which is one of the reasons I don't really post on there anymore.

I mean, there's only so many times before like, you just think, "dude, how many times can I mourn the loss of one person?" It's like Groundhog's Day over and over.

Exactly.

There's a few. Nine, being one of those bands, it bothers me that that band is not absolutely huge.

Yeah, I have some of the demo songs from it. They're even better than the last release they put out.

More touring...maybe towards the beginning or middle of 2007, we'll actually start digging deeper into writing new stuff. Hopefully get another record out, asap. I know it's not going to happen, but I'd actually like to get one out during the summer.

No. But whatever, I'm sure at some point we'll get the itch and it'll get out as soon as we can.

Yeah, you know what, I'll go back to the question of new and upcoming bands. There's another band called Hour of the Wolf, from Arizona, who are absolutely amazing. Almost Misfits sounding. And yeah, that's it.

That's awesome. It was a lot better than I was expecting from the source. I thought for sure that this was going to be an ambush.