Pillar Interview
Here is the interview with Pillar’s Rob Beckley, which went into the preparation for their Nov/Dec cover story. Perhaps you can read through this and pick out quotes you would have used instead of the ones that ended up in the article. Either way, enjoy!
Tell me about the creation of this album. What went into it? What stories lay within it? What were the roadblocks overcome in its making? What did you discover about yourselves as a band in making it?
We recorded this album over the course of almost a full year. So, it’s not just one story. Lyrically, it’s very broad. Numerous things happened over a year. The one thing that was the true theme was to find resolution in your hurt. To bring closure to things that you’ve held a grudge towards or people that you haven’t been able to forgive or things that you’ve done that you know you need to take control of. That was the one true thing that we wanted to make sure… For me personally, I needed to make sure – for therapeutic reasons, really – to make sure that I poured my heart out on this record. The irony of how some of the things we went through that I had to deal with this morning, actually, from somebody that told us that they wouldn’t play our music because we weren’t ‘spiritually mature’ enough. Now I’m able to laugh instead of just holding that grudge, you know?”