ADRENALIN: Who are you and what’s your purpose on Earth?

ROSS: I'm Ross Mallie, guitarist for Bourbon Breath, and outside of music I'm not sure that I have a purpose on Earth.

ADRENALIN: Southern Rock is a simple generic description of Bourbon Breath’s music. How would YOU describe it?

ROSS: Someone asked me this once before after many beers and I said "it’s sorta like southern metal stoner blues death rock". I guess that is a decent description.  We mix up a lot of influences. The newer material we are writing is getting more extreme in the heavy department, with more blast beats and breakdowns and such, but the southern rock and stonerish riffs are still there in abundance.

ADRENALIN: I have seen a handful of references to the band Soilent Green while researching a few things about you guys (wearing Soilent Green shirt at your show in Madison, top friend on myspace ect.). Do you have any kind of connection with them?

ROSS: There is a strong connection. I lived in New Orleans for about 2 1/2 years. While there, I got a job at an air conditioning company and their drummer Tommy worked there. We ended up becoming best friends, and I ended up being almost everywhere the band was while I was down there. I still talk with those guys all the time, mainly Tommy and Ben (Falgoust, vocalist, also of Goatwhore). It sucks only getting to see Tommy when they are on tour though, dude is like my brother. He is in Crowbar now also though

so hopefully he'll be on tour more often. I've flown down and stayed with him for a week once since I moved home, I'm too broke too go down there very often.

ADRENALIN: How would you compare your band to theirs?

ROSS: First off I would say they are fucking incredible and I can't imagine comparing us to them, although hellridemusic.com did compare us to them. Their guitar player Brian is a master of making riffs flow like an emotional roller coaster, and I think that is one thing I'm sort of able to do when I write simply because I studied him in their practice room so much. In between the riffs he would throw like a half measure of music that connected them, instead of just ramming them together. So I guess there is that similarity, cause we tend to do that often as well. I would also say that they are much more grindcore oriented than us, however like I said earlier the new stuff is going a little more in that direction. I would also say that they are fucking tight as hell live, and we are still working on that, as none of have been playing very long

ADRENALIN: Who/what else do you consider as inspirations?

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