The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza guitarist Josh Travis has answered the burning question regarding his current status with the reunited mathcore outfit. Despite appearing in the promotional material’s for the band’s pair of live reunion shows this year, Travis was not present for either. Further clouding the matter, the group also welcomed guitarist Eric Berngruber for those performances.

Speaking on the newly debuted episode of ‘The Totally Legitimate Business Podcast‘ (see below), Travis revealed that while he remains involved, much of his absence presently comes down to scheduling. Not only does he remain a member of Emmure, he has also taken on a behind-the-scenes role with A Day To Remember on the road during their various touring.

Pressed directly for his role with the band now via this podcast, Travis replied [transcribed by theprp.com]:

“What is my current status? Well, I would say over the last two months, I guess I have learned that we have a new guitar player. This guitar player will basically be handling anything that I do, or have done, anytime I’m not there. And I’ve also been hearing things like, maybe we just have three guitar players? So I’ve been kind of waiting to see what’s the… is my role here again? I’ve been kind of waiting to see, I don’t know if I’m gonna have to be a second drummer. Like I don’t know what’s going on yet, but one thing I do know is I don’t have to do vocals and I don’t have to play bass. I do know that for sure. So what is my status?

Well, I will definitely be here. It’s just little harder because I do still play guitar and Emmure, and I also work for A Day To Remember. [With] A Day To Remember my schedule is like typically set out pretty far in advance. So I’ve been trying to balance just the these two, you know, between Emmure and A Day To Remember, and that’s like, hard enough as it is. So then when Danza‘s stuff started coming into it, it was kind of like, ‘I’m probably gonna go jump into a river or a lake or something’, and then, you know, like, we’ll just see what happens from there. But so we were lucky enough to be able to get Eric in here, who doesn’t know how to play any of the songs properly.

But, he went in and he taught Layne [Meylain, guitarist] how to play all of the songs improperly. So, um, we got they got that going for us. Everything is wrong. We got that going for us. Um, also, same thing with Emmure I have a fill-in over there, his name’s Chris [Dombrowski, of Sentinels.] He’s been handling everything over there. But so now, we’re just kind of at this point where it’s like, okay, all of this stuff is slowing down. This is all slowing down. And now this is the first time I have laid eyes on Eric since… 2012…”

As for the topic of the band’s long-awaited follow-up to their 2012 album, “Danza IIII: The Alpha – The Omega“, it would appear that the door is currently wide open. While the group communicated that they weren’t too far along collaboratively yet, they did state that they have been having fun with their newfound creative freedom.

One current hurdle they face is navigating the physical distance between themselves and Travis, who lives out of state. They also went on to say that they haven’t been drawing from their expansive past archives of unreleased song ideas yet, instead focusing on crafting all-new material so far.

Asked about the prospect of potentially launching a full-scale tour, the group largely shot the idea down due to their various careers and family life’s, stating they would prefer to stick to festival’s and special one-off appearances and such. However, when presented with the chance to embark on a dream tour, the group put threw out some surprisingly nü-metal-oriented suggestions, from Deftones and Nothingface to Coal Chamber and more, plus the likes Meshuggah, Vision Of Disorder, Candiria and others.