Who would have thought that a resident Cerritos College band would have the chance to open up for one of its biggest musical heroes last weekend?

That’s what happened to fellow Falcons Christopher Griswold and David Simpson of False Witness at the annual Halos N’ Horns music festival.

Halos N’ Horns fest was Orange County’s largest music festival and featured more than 100 music acts and 13 stages of tunes.

Out of all those acts, False Witness was most excited to play with Southern California’s own headliner, Korn.

Both False Witness and Korn are relatively local, metal-influenced bands.

“We were all stoked when we found out we were opening up for Korn,” said bass player Christopher Griswold.

“I didn’t even believe it at first, I was shocked and amazed,” said Griswold.

An opportunity like this was more than the band could ever ask for but it still has high hopes for even bigger shows in the future.

“I liked getting on a stage that was legit,” said drummer David Simpson, “not just a backyard show.”

Much like his bandmates, Simpson thought opening for Korn was a huge cherry on top of their chance to be heard by thousands of festival-goers.

“I felt like a real band… I felt ecstatic… I was on cloud nine!” Simpson added enthusiastically.

Griswold said, “We worked really hard on our recordings to make demos for the show.”

The band spent countless hours preparing its demo, having a photo shoot, and perfecting its live set for its biggest show yet

Griswold added that after his band got on stage, they already had a big crowd gathered and more people kept on coming.

Simpson was glad the crowd’s response was possitive and everyone seemed to be enjoying the heavy tunes.

“I was happy because I would like my band to go somewhere and make music people really like,” he said.

Not only was the response of the audience great so was the attentiong they got from authoritative members of their audience.

Griswold stated that a member from KROQ contacted Simpson’s mother during the festival to schedule an interview; the word “tour” was even mentioned.

“An independent music channel also came up to us wanting to feature us on their channel,” he added.

The band played its first song in full costumes for Halloween.

“I was Pinhead,” said Griswold. “David was Leatherface, Joe was Michael Myers, Eddie was Jason, and Matt was Freddy Krueger.”

“I had to get that costume off after the first song because it was too hot and it was hard to see,” Griswold added. “But it was worth it, it was dope.”

False Witness never fails to mention the genre of musc that they created called “dopeness on fire.”

“Everyone going crazy for us was an appropriate response to our style of music,” Griswold added, “because anything that’s dope should be on  fire!”

To learn more about False Witness, its music, and its other band members you can visit its MySpace page at www.myspace.com/falsewitness.