HEAVENS FINAL WAR - Lubbock Crossover Hardcore Igniting the Flames

First off, the typical, please tell the readers how and when the band came about.
A few of us were jamming in a couple of other bands from Lubbock and we wanted to start something new so we just all came together and started writing.

The band name sounds as if you are a religious band. Can you go into more detail regarding the name?
The name comes from an Integrity song off the To Die For record. We're all fans of Integrity and we were having trouble trying to think of a name. It was tossed out as a suggestion and we all just decided to go with it. Lyrically we write a lot about religion amongst other things but we are in no way a religious band.

Although you are a hardcore band, there are some definite thrash metal/crossover influences. Parts of your songs bring me back to 1989. Tell us more about your song writing and influences.
When we start writing a new song we usually just go into it not knowing what we're gonna do with it. Israel starts with a riff, Eli starts putting drums to it and we go from there. We take influence from a lot of different bands from the 80's, 90's and today. Probably our biggest influences though are everything Sepultura Chaos AD and before and All Out War.

Coming from Lubbock, what is the music scene like there? What other bands reside in your area?
Lubbock has a really small hardcore scene currently. It's been all over the place. The people that are still here and contributing work hard and give a shit about what happens within our scene and it's awesome. It's overlooked a lot but that just makes us work harder for what we have and it's something we don't take for granted. We're all proud to be from here. There's not a whole lot of bands going at the moment. Judiciary is from here and Israel plays guitar in that as well. We have another band we jam in called Dirtnap with a couple other friends which is just slayer and sabbath worship. We have some other bands that we've started working on but nothing ready to start playing yet. This is all most of us have so we just try to occupy our time with it as much as we can.

Your debut release, Demo 2015, has a powerful sound. Currently, to my knowledge, it is a digital only release. Do you plan on doing a physical release?
We're going to have tapes here fairly soon. The tape is coming out through Wrong Ones Records from Oklahoma. We'll have them for sale on line and at shows. They'll also be available through the wrong ones webstore. Digitally you can listen to it at heavensfinalwar.bandcamp.com


What future goals do you have for the band?
We plan on writing more songs and getting them out as quick as we can. Probably write a 7 inch and see where it goes from there. Touring wise we're going to try to do as much as we can when we can. We all have full time jobs or a family so we're pretty limited to when we can go on the road. If we could we'd be out all year but that's just not in the cards for us currently.

Thanks for the interview. Please have the last word.
Thanks for asking us to do this interview. I've never done one before so it was pretty cool haha. We'll be playing a lot around Texas and surrounding states throughout the rest of the year. If we're in your area come check it out and chill with us. You can check us out on Facebook under Heavens Final War and Twitter under @HFWtx.