Marc caught up with Night Verses at Hevy festival to talk to them about the festival, their past and what they have planned for the future.

Have you seen many bands this weekend?
Douglas: Yeah, we caught up with a lot of friends from back home. We've seen some really cool stuff and we're all big Meshuggah fans so it was nice seeing them. This Is Hell are a band from New York that I've known for a long time, and it was cool to see a bunch of friends, and it's cool to see a bunch of friends working here that I haven't seen in a while and what not.

This is your fifth gig, so were you excited to play Hevy festival?
Douglas: Yeah it's our fifth gig ever, which is pretty crazy.

And the crowd were starting to pack in as the set went on, we've been around all day and you're one of the bigger crowds we've seen so far today.
Douglas: Awesome. Yeah it felt really cool to notice that, you know. I mean it's not like we were looking for any specific amount of people we just wanted to play. It's really cool that people started to come in and see people getting a vibe of what we doing which is just playing our hearts out you know.

Aric: It was cool to see people stay too, because at festivals people wonder off and see everything. It was just cool to have people stick around and see the whole set, when they came.

Are you getting that sort of reception everywhere?
Doughlas: Yeah, this is our fifth show and the four before have been equally as impressive crowd reaction wise. It seems everyone's really catching on to what we want to put out and the first three shows back home in the states have been pretty much sold out. It's pretty cool doing it the way we want to do it and having it work out the way we want it to work out.

Is the ep going down well with fans and press? You've got it available for free download, have many people signed up?
Douglas: Yeah

Arik: Definitely I mean we kinda just put it out as a representation of all the stuff were working on. We're working on a bunch of stuff right now. We just were kinda curious to see how well it was received and the fact it's been received and the fact it's being received as well as it is, is just awesome. We did our best to try and fit as much of a range of our sound in the four songs which is tough considering all of our influences, but yeah were all happy with it. And we're happy the reviewer's seem to be getting it.

Does that mean you're planning on doing a full length album soon?
Douglas: yeah. We have some stuff in the works and we've been talking with some people, some labels and what not. We have a bunch of song that we want to show people but at the same time we're keeping them more under wraps, getting people to come and experience the live show. Then slowly giving people proper news and letting people know what we've got going on. We actually have a video coming out soon for our song Be Happy With Your Self (I'm Staying Here In Hell) and that comes out really soon. That's the next piece of the puzzle. Right now we're focusing on the future but were doing it very strategically because we love playing music, and we'll play anywhere but we also want to do it smart. Let kids work out what's happening on their own and come in.

Has that come from your history with The Sleeping did you have issues there and want to sort it out early this time round?
Douglas: I think a lot of it came from The Sleeping but a lot of it also comes from meeting these dudes. Joining together and ironically without even meeting having the same exact vibe for what we want to do. We all came together, we're all very very appreciative of music, you know, we're not like trying to do it to impress anyone. We're not trying to do it for any other reason, we just love playing music. We met just talking about bands we loved, and the all of a sudden a year and a half later we became this band and we all get what we're doing. It all came so naturally, I think that's where it came from.

It really shows on stage, you look like your having a great time on stage. We're hoping to catch you later in the tour, are you really excited to be playing all over the UK? you're playing some smaller intimate venues like Plymouth White Rabbit so that could be crazy.
Douglas: Yeah totally. Yeah we were saying we were stocked for Hevy, but were really stocked for the headliner too because it's cool. It's a headliner for our first time here. Either way whether its big or small we just want to play, we want to do it on all levels you know. Work our way up and work our way to where we want to play.

Aric: We love this, it's awesome to play a venue as big as this but playing smaller venues I think we play off of each other more than the audience. But getting to see the repercussions of that and getting the audience getting into it with us is awesome. I feel like you can feel that even more in a small sweaty room and just have everybody forced into it. We want the audience to experience it like we do, whether its in my bedroom, on stage here or in a tiny venue, we're stoked for wherever we can play.

You got anywhere particular in the UK your really excited to play, anywhere you've Idealised?
Aric: Everybody keeps saying the underworld is the place to be, I mean he's been to the UK before but for me it's the first time with a band. So I'm looking forward to that but this was also something I was defiantly looking forward to just cuz this is a different vibe than me Nick or Reilly have really been into and it's been an awesome experience.

Douglas: I love Scotland. Scotland's a really cool place. I've been there a bunch and it's always a really nice time to hang out and enjoy the sites and stuff. I'm really stocked for that and London as well. I'm really stocked for everything in the sense that this is a new energy and it's a new unit. I just feel like experiencing this together early in the game is even more of an inspiration to go back home and write more, get ready for more and play together more. We just want to be able to do this forever.

Where do you see your selves this time next year? Do you want to come back and play Hevy?
Douglas: Yeah. We want to do anything honestly. I wouldn't lie, I wouldn't ever lie to you and say we don't want to be this entity that everybody respects and enjoys. We want to reach out to as many people but our main goal is to play.

Aric: It's kind of hard to pin point because everything has been cultivating for so long. We've been writing so much music together and meeting so many people, we've been playing these awesome shows. It's like we're kind of trying to organise our plan as we go. We have more than enough material for a full length album so we definitely want to do that in the future but we also want to tour as much as we can. We're trying to be as smart as we can about everything.

Would you rather be a Zebra or a Giraffe and why?
Aric: I like heights so I would be a Giraffe. I duno I like heights, but I don't want to drop out of my mum when I'm born which is kinda disgusting.

Douglas: I've never really thought about it.

Aric: I think it's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in my life, so I think I'd pick a zebra so I don't have to fall 10 feet when I'm born again. I'm assuming I being reincarnated as Zebra or Giraffe.

Douglas: I think I'd want to be a mountain lion.

Aric: you've got a better one already.

Douglas: Just kind of do my own thing, just kind of rage out. I'd probably say a mountain lion.

going off the board.
Douglas: That's defiantly want i want to be, or an alligator or crocodile.

Aric: That's not fair now.

Douglas: Nah I want to be a mountain lion. I'm sticking with mountain lion.

Interview by Marc Rich