Honesty is the best Policy

Luckily for us, In regards was breaking up and our good friend Bradley (aka Sadly, Madly) Smith wanted the job. He quickly took to it and started playing shows with a lot of fervor. That year we recorded our first ever EP titled, "A Saint Among Theives" in Deleware with this guy Tom. He was really weird but he did In Fair Verona's EP and their's came out decent so we decided to do ours there too. It was cheap and we spent a weekend there. It was definitely a learning experience for all of us. We banged out five songs rather quick though. After getting it mastered and pressed, we released it in late 2005. It wasn't great. I'm not happy with it and I still refuse to play most of the songs on the album, but it was something to start us off. From there we spent the winter and spring planning our first ever East Coast tour for the summer. Two weeks of bliss, or so we thought, on the road and searching for substance. Six dudes packed into a gold mini-van that had no air conditioning. You don't know sloppy until you wake up on a man sweating, no sure which limbs are yours. It was gross. Our friend Brian (now drummer of philly based hardcore band, Petition) accompanied us and acted as merch guy. He's a solid dude and tried to keep us level headed even when we wanted to kill eachother. Some highlights of that tour, highs and lows, that should be mentioned so I don't ramble on about it:

1.) Sweat
2.) waking up to some inbred Hick in Kentucky telling us that the Big Lots parking lot wasn't "No Hotel Motel."
3.) Brian falling asleep in the middle of conversations and directions...twice.
4.) Dan Champa getting us lost in Washington D.C.
5.) being called SunsetUnfold
6.) Providence, RI - sweet city, lots of gays, awesome CD/Comic book stores.
7.) Showering being almost impossible.
8.) Mine and BJ's Fist Fight over a ultimate Frisbee game.
9.) Kyle screaming he's ugly and BJ snapping on him, telling him to go get some food if he's hungry
10.) The Great Lakes
11.) sleeping in the van's trunk - clostrophobia
12.) Me stopping short, John falling off the front seat while sleeping without waking up until half an hour later only to ask why we pushed him onto the floor.
13.) Camping/Awesome older woman who gave me a massage no strings attatched.
14.) Some girl showing the guys her boobs for a tshirt
15.) Some drunk women in Massachussetts who kept asking us if we had seen her sun.
16.) Me ripping my shorts on stage during our set while wearing no underwear.

I'm sure there's more but I'm just forgetting them at the moment. Anyway, after that tour we took a small break. We needed it, we were mentally drained. It was a strain on all of our friendships but a month later we came back together and started playing shows and writing again. We started playing more out of states shows and were able to get a van thanks to the deer who totaled John's civic. By Mid 2006, we decided to lay down three new tracks with Tom again who had moved to another location in Delaware. They came out pretty good and we liked them. It was a step in the direction we wanted to travel. It was more metal then our last release and things only got heavier from there. After recording that three song demo we headed back out on the road for another 2 week summer tour. This time our friends Graham and Joel from In Fair Verona/Nations of Mire accompanied us. They're awesome dudes, really laid back and love just joking around. Most of the time in the van was spent verbally abusing one another. After a week though we began running out of money and decided that we had to turn around and head home. We paid for gas out of our pockets. It was the worst ever. None of us wanted to, we just had to admit that we were defeated. The tour had been lackluster at best and we had more fun goofing around then playing shows. We got home and were worn but not broken. We decided from there to take a little more time off from playing shows to write and recuperate. A bunch of shows later and a whole lot of bullshit later, Bradley left the band to pursue other opportunities. We were bummed but it seemed to lighten our load. We gained a lot more wind in our sails because it felt like a monkey had been lifted off our back. Not that we didn't love BJ but it was this constant battle to get him to practice and he felt that he wasn't being listened to creatively and didn't feel like a complete member of the band. It was just stressful because we didn't want to lose a friend but we wanted more commitment. So when BJ left it felt that the burden of deciding on what way to go was lifted from our shoulders. With our spirits lifted we started writing. Don't get me wrong it's a long process considering we're constantly at school and busy with our lives but we're trying so hard to get our shit together. We started recording The Alchemist with Graham Nielson and we are almost finished with TITAN. I love these guys. I love this band. I love the music we make. Sometimes I asked myself what I would do without this band defining me. It seems that I'm Bob Brewster of Skysetunfold. Then I realize that I will always be defined by the guys in this band. I will always be defined by this band. I will always remember this point in my life. The struggles. The pitfalls. The mistakes. The arguments. The love I have for making music and writing. I have no problem with being remembered for being in a band that did it for the love of music, that showed up to shows to play because they would have fun. We have adapted to damnation and are now recording the experience. New SKYSETUNFOLD album in the future. be ready.

We're SKYSETUNFOLD, don't get hurt, don't hurt anybody, have fun, be well.