It's always a different story when touring in another country, especially when it takes an plane flight overseas for the run. Back in Australia, the Red Shore are at the top of their game, influencing a whole new bread of death metal bands. As the band learned on their recent trip Stateside with And Hell Followed With and Suffokate, however, it's almost back to square one for them.

"It's a completely different world to back home," guitarist Roman Koester told Noisecreep. "We had to almost start again, as in all the years of work and touring back home, didn't really matter to the U.S. audiences seeing us for the first time. That was a really humbling experience. Having said that, every show surprised us by having fans come up and say they had been following us since the beginning and waiting for four years to see us live!"

The demand for the Red Shore to bring their own breed of tech-metal to the States has been in high demand, and rightfully so. Since 2005, nothing has stopped the band in progressing past breakdown-based beginnings -- even various member changes, including the untimely passing of former vocalist Damien Morris and roadie Andy Milner in 2007. The band has pressed on.

"We wanted to keep everything as natural as possible, no triggers on the drums and not much editing at all," said Koester, who also acts as producer, describing a key element in the pummeling sound to the band's newest release, 'The Avarice of Man.' "We really focused on getting the takes for all instruments really tight and the best they could be; no fads, just straight up technical death metal."

Koester explained that being a producer has helped him and the band in song writing over the years. "Knowing how a drum beat or riff is going to sound on record beforehand definitely shapes the way in which we write, but the main thing we strive for is always being able to produce the music live. I think a lot of Pro Tools edits are making bands sound a lot better than they are these days."

This most recent U.S. jaunt will surely not be the last, especially due to all the milestones they hit -- both as a band and personally. "Visiting ["Dimebag" Darrell Abbott's] grave was really amazing, something I'd wanted to do for a long time," says Koester. "Also Times Square was larger than life, but the highlight was meeting and making new friends from the States. All the bands we toured with were amazing guys, and I'm sure we will be staying in touch with many of them."

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