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As road warriors DevilDriver continue on their winter tour with Suffocation, Goatwhore and Thy Will Be Done, Dez Fafara checks in with MetalSucks.net's Axl Rosenberg to talk about the road, his non-stop touring lifestyle, and the band's latest setlist.

Writes Rosenberg. "When DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara called me this past Friday following a tumultuous, multi-day bus ride between stops on the band’s current tour with Suffocation, Goatwhore and Thy Will Be Done, I was expecting him to be an exhausted mess. But a decade and half of the touring life has made him a hardened veteran, and he clearly hasn’t lost any of his passion for playing live – clearly still riding high on the success of 2009’s Pray for Villains, Dez sounded like he was ready to jump on stage at any second. DevilDriver shows are a full-contact sport with Fafara presiding as the main instigator, and it’s clear that the man loves his job."

Dez explains his setlist process, telling Rosenberg, "During our touring process, we’ve become aware of whichs songs are the stand-outs, which ones people wanna hear. We know what works live and what doesn’t. We try to throw other stuff in that we haven’t played as well. We tend to go back over the last records and choose what we know is going to work, and then we throw some other little things in there as well... we’ve been playing “I’ve Been Sober,” and that’s really fun. We’re playing “Back With a Vengance” even though we’re going on after Suffocation. So we’re taking some chances, we’re putting ourselves out there."

Read the whole interview right here, and check DevilDriver's latest tour dates right here to catch them on their current run.

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