Syd Mead
The group has cited the influence of "artists like Syd Mead, films like "Eddie and the Cruisers" and "Streets of Fire", books like "1984" and "Atlas Shrugged"... those are the pretty obvious ones you can pull out of Acts I and II. But what you might not realize is that we own every Ernest movie ever made. And we watch them all the time." The band draws inspiration from diverse sources, including Sergio Leone's films, the song "The Mexican" and musical groups Radiohead, Styx, Toto, Queen and Alabama.