Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly recently spoke to Buzznet about some of the band and his future plans.
Rickly had high praise for the Japanese hardcore act saying:
Envy's been [one of] our favorite bands for a long time. A lot of stuff on [2006's] A City by the Light Divided was sort of influenced by Envy in a certain way. …When I heard them, it reminded me of the whole culture we started in – doing basement shows with Saetia, and You and I, and Usurp Synapse, and GoGoGo Airheart, all these bands that used to fill me with so much love and excitement that I don't really get from as many of the bands that we tour with now.
When I heard Envy, I was like, "Oh, sh––, this is it. This is what we're trying to do. But here's this band that's taking it that next step further, like, to where they're actually kinda creating a new genre and, like, just making something super–beautiful out of it."
He is also hoping to line up a tour with Thursday, Envy and Converge. He also talks about his grind side project, United Nations:
United Nations has 10 songs recorded. Three of them are still missing bass tracks, and one of the members who has a billion other bands has recorded about half the stuff. So we're pretty close. I think that band will release the record this summer. I hope, at least. It's going really well. The first record is going to be a full–length on Eyeball [which released Thursday's 1999 debut, Waiting], and then we're already doing a 7–inch on Deathwish.
You can read the interview here or watch the entire thing on video here.