When you have such a strong influence from a band or genre and you stick to practicing what made them sound good, you have already set yourself a limit. The trick is, in my opinion, to not set yourself limits, not to replicate what everyone else is playing because it made the perpetrators popular, but to experiment with sounds, genres, instruments and fuse together a sound, accompanied with lyrics, that you can call your own. Any artist will take inspiration from what they see, hear or feel on a daily basis, but there are no boundaries in music to prevent you from colouring outside the lines and maybe doing something a little more abstract to what people are used to, unless you set them yourself.
From the first time you turn on an amp in a garage to the first time you step out on stage in front of two thousand people, the sound you create is yours. If your vision you create is polished you will gain the respect you set out to find, regardless of the amounts of disrespect you have to plough through along the way. People are the harshest critics and your biggest fans.
I could take this biography to tell you about how great I think Silent Descent is, or how unique I think we are, but the truth is, I'm bored of reading band biographies as if I were a record label executive - after all, my opinion of the music isn't going to be changed by what a band writes about themselves, and nor is yours.