Throughout an look on the YouTube channel Sputnikmusic Opinions, Earshot vocalist Wil Martin addressed how because the launch of their debut album in 2002, they’ve usually been in comparison with Software.
“Again within the early ‘90s after they got here out, when ‘Undertow’ got here out, I f*cking beloved that document – as did hundreds of thousands of individuals. It was simply such a uncooked, gritty, darkish – however darkish differently that all the things that was occurring at the moment,” Martin began, expressing his admiration for the Maynard James Keenan fronted band.
“In these days, that document hardly ever got here out of my CD participant, together with all the opposite stuff I used to be listening to – Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, 9 Inch Nails. That was a time for music, and Software was one of many bands everybody was listening to.”
“Nobody else was doing what they have been doing, the best way they have been doing it on the time,” he added.
Regardless of Martin’s early love of Software, he grew to become disinterested in them as time went on.
“Reduce to shifting ahead all through the years – They kind of began to lose me. Not as a result of I didn’t just like the band, however as a result of their music grew to become extra of a dedication to take heed to,” he defined.
“The music lengths, the completely different components… I’m extra of a music man. I like issues which might be a little bit simpler to digest. I don’t wish to must assume a lot on a regular basis. That mentioned, I nonetheless recognize what they do. Numerous what they do is actually creative.”
With reference to followers and critics drawing comparisons between Earshot and Software, Martin mentioned:
“So, have been they an affect? I’d say their early information in all probability had simply as a lot affect on me as all the opposite bands I used to be listening to again then. I used to be by no means offended by the comparisons. At first, I used to be a little bit off-put by it, solely as a result of as an artist we wish to be recognized as our personal factor.
“It grew to become such a focus on the time, and I used to be proof against it. However I got here to know that most individuals truly meant it as a praise. Positive, some folks imply it as a dig, however by and huge, it was reward.”
