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When, where and by whom was your band born ?
It started as a colaborative project between me and the other guitarist
Boyan over the internet. We were sending ideas back and forth that seemed to work well together and not
much later, in may 2009 we set out to record an EP which eventualy ended up as a full lenght
album.
Did any of you, past and present members, play in any other bands before
joining up in your band ?
Our drummer played in a punk/rock band called Spot prior joining us so
it was a huge change of gears for him, he have never played in that fashion before. Boyan used to play
bass for a hardcore band called Garrotta and I was in a death metal band some years ago.
Why did you choose that name and which bands were you influenced by ?
The name is related to the idea to bring something to one's mind, bend
it and make him believe as in a religion and that particular phrase sounded like if it's the ride to
experience this. There are lots of influences, but maybe the ones to be pointed out that
influenced the album material the most are Bulb and his band Periphery, Animals As Leaders, Textures and
mothership Meshuggah.
How is it to run a band in Bulgaria these days ?
Not easy I'd say, you have to deal with the absence of the two major
factors - time and money.
Your one and only album so far; Drawbacks & Benefits was released last
year. Please tell us more about this album.
Well as I said we started the recording process in may 2009 and at the
time we had like two complete songs and a bunch of random ideas that we had to tie in a way. It was far
not well thought-out composing and we tracked the most part of the album in the first two weeks, so it was
a rush for a debut I think.
The additional layers, solos and pre-mix took more than a year though. It
was our first time to do something of such a scale and doing it all by ourselves there was a lot of
trial and error so it was necessary to revisit everything over and over again. We've gone through
issues not only production wise, but of personal character as well and that's where the album title came
from, the drawbacks and benefits of every action one takes and the results that follow. The bottom line is
we're happy with the result and to complete the picture, Tymon from Exivious joined with a mind-boggling
solo at the end of the CD.
What have you been up to since the release of this album ?
Rehearsals. Pretty much this. It's our main priority now to put this to
life on stage and we still have a lot of work to do.
For those of us unknown with your music; how would you describe you music
and which bands would you compare yourself with ?
The goal of the band is to be an open-source thing, where everyone can
put his ideas no matter where they originate from, no trends to follow or musical genres to fit. Yeah at
the time of the release this kind of music was already well known and defined as the genre of "djent"
and therefore not that original already, but that's the concept. So I don't know really how to describe it,
there are influences from metal through breakcore to fusion, but in the most part it's syncopated
low-tuned riffing with salt and pepper. As far as bands we're similar in a way, since we're all
instrumental band, maybe artist like Chimp Spanner, Animals As Leaders, Bulb, Red Seas Fire, although the later
have a vocalist.
What is your plans for this year and beyond ?
On the first place it's to bring the band on stage and hopefully at the
end of the year we'll start working on our sophomore album. There's more, but too early to
discuss.
To wrap up this interview, is there anything you want to add to this
interview ?
Well we're a tiny not well known band who wants to continue making music
and fans are the most valuable thing for an artist so I'd ask people to visit our facebook and myspace
pages where we've uploaded our whole album for streaming recently, we've also shared two of those tracks
for free download so you can get familiar with our music and if you dig us, you may support us by
commenting and spreading the word or purchasing our debut album "Drawbacks & Benefits" which is available on
AMAdea Records, iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby. Thank you!
Thank you to
Stilian Kasimov for this interview
Their PA profile is here and their homepage is here
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