One of DCist’s favorite Three Stars alums, Caverns had an inarguable 2009. They played with legendary locals (Frodus, Clutch), heavy-hitting out of town acts (A Place to Bury Strangers, These Arms Are Snakes), headlined a Fort Reno show, and released a music video for “Dance, You Son of a Bitch!” They’re starting out this year on a pretty good note, having just released a new EP, We Lied. They’ll be celebrating the release of We Lied tonight at 10:30pm at Comet Ping Pong with Detox Retox and Prisms. In honor of this release party, we asked guitarist (and Buddyhead contributor) Kevin Hilliard a few questions about the new songs — and pizza.

What do you think are the main differences between We Lied and Kittens?

We Lied is a pretty big left turn from Kittens!, mainly due to the presence of vocoders, synthesizers and electronic drums which we’ve never used on a previous release. We focused more on creating atmosphere and texture on We Lied, whereas Kittens! was meant to be a more cathartic, live sounding record. The whole idea stemmed from a desire to expand the bookends of our sound, so our band can’t be type cast as any single thing. We had been getting the “instru-metal” tag a lot after releasing Kittens!, so it was a natural next move on our part to put out something that actually had vocal melodies and went far away from metal (or really hardcore and punk which is what we’re actually influenced by) to keep people guessing. This doesn’t mean that future releases won’t reincorporate the immediacy of the material on Kittens!.

Who in Caverns eats the most pizza?

Ha, definitely Pat. Dude loves him some Pizzeria Angelico. He also enjoys Papa Johns and Pizza Hut, though we don’t live near a Pizza Hut so he doesn’t get his fix as much as he’d like. I enjoy Red Dog Cafe’s vegan pizzas and Comet makes a pretty great cheese-less pizza as well. I don’t see Ross eat too much pizza, but I think he’s pro-pizza when the mood strikes him.