Ive been busy as hell but cant complain!

I am guitarist and co founder of the Massachusetts metal band Within The Ruins.

It was a pretty incredible tour, great attendance each night, great dudes on the tour, and on top of all that we were out in support of our newest release 'Phenomena' which came out late July. I have to say the workload on a tour like this is overwhelming sometimes, long drives, early 10am load ins, lots of waiting around until you play your set. Overall very worth it though!

We've been touring for about 7 years now. This was our second time being a part of this tour (last time was 2011). It as great to be back in the line-up, proud to say we were apart of this tour once again.

I started the band with our drummer back around 2002 or 2003. We've been at it ever since. It's just something we love to do and something that has continually been progressing in every aspect since we started. I always cite metal bands like Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth as my very early influence.

Absolutely. That is why we are still here. This band is a 24/7 full time passion/job. Playing and creating music will never go away for me.

The idea was to start something new from the ground up that I am passionate about, like I did over 10 years ago with the band. The best part is if you had asked me 10 years ago "Where will this band be years from now?" I'd have had NO clue how to answer that and NO idea we'd be where we are now. The band has become a business and it is smooth sailing now. We have management, label and a team of people behind us. I never knew a thing about the music industry when we started. Now I feel like I know everything. We just learned through experience. So that all makes me miss the whole "struggle." That 4-5 year or so of struggling so hard to get ourselves signed, or out on tour, or whatever it may have been. Just figuring it out as you go and learning a trade. I want that again. It keeps life challenging and interesting.

My partners, who are my brother and a close family friend, were out one night enjoying some craft beers. We got back to the house and said "Dude, lets order one of the beer making kits, we could just make it ourselves!" Figured it'd be one of those things you wake up and forget about the next morning, but we all brought it up immediately the next day. It just started too small. It was just a random idea. We got really into it though, did it for years at my house. We eventually had too much equipment to even brew at my house. Moved into a warehouse and decided "Hey, we could really make something out of this." So here we are, with a little help from my band promotion-wise and some motivation, we're trying to go big!

Right now just concentrating strictly on beer. Some of my favorites, which are up pretty high on the list for the first mass production next year are our Smoked Porter, White IPA, Oatmeal Stout and Pale Ale.

I would say the go to beer would be our Pale Ale. It's very balanced but has a serious citrusy hop flavor to it.

No sir, I never expected my life to be anything the way it is. Believe me I plan, I look ahead, but I like to just accept the challenges, and especially take advantage of the opportunities life presents. I was never the type of person to be like "oh, I'll graduate, go to college for this, then I'll get X job, and then that will be my life."

Right now it's working out pretty great having us three involved. We just became an LLC. We are in the VERY early stages of this, so for now it's nothing too stressful. When I'm gone, the other guys run the ship, when I'm home from tour, I step up and let the guys take some time back. It's a balance that works for now until we start to see how big we can actually make this company.

Thanks so much! I appreciate your time. All that I can say is that it is never too late to start a new venture in life.