DEVOTION (EN)
1- Hello, thanks for answering to our questions. What are you guys currently up to?
Hi there! We just started promoting the new record and managing the tour here in Italy, then we’ll maybe focus on European and Russian gigs
2- First off, could you make some history of the band?
We’re a bunch of friends who shared a common passion for the 90’s/00’s alternative rock music who decided to build a band and start composing songs according to all the members’ main musical influences. At the very beginning there were just 3 of us and the bass player (me) was missing. Thanks to some mutual friends, I knew about the project and immediately started rehearsing with them and playing the very first gigs.
3- How could you describe your sound?
We always try to put all our musical influences and blend them all while composing. We don’t really like to be “labeled” like this or that but we rather prefer to try something different when we meet in the practise room.
4- What are the band’s main musical influences?
There are basically a bunch of bands who connect the four of us such as deftones, will haven, helmet, korn, snapcase, snot, poison the well, tesseract and so many others we can’t even count. We all listen tons of music from every kind!
5- How is the feedback for your new album being?
The first single we put online got quite good feedbacks so we wish for the album to be liked by the fans.
6- And are your personally satisfied with the final outcome?
We’re definitely happy of the record, cause we worked on it like we’ve never did before. we took our time to record the instrumental parts and then we focused on lyrics and on recording vocals. It has been so damn cool to sit all together in the room and share ideas on this, too.
7- How could you describe this opus in just 3 words?
Words. And. Crystals. (HAHA)
8- How has the production process for your new release been?
As I told you before, we decided not to go in the studio like we did for the other records. we wanted this one to be more accurate and loyal to what we wished for this new bunch of song and we’re strongly convinced we hitted the spot someway, but that’s just our opinion of course.
9- And how do you use to work on the songwriting?
Mainly the song always start from a guitar riff our guitarist brings to rehearsals then we play it endlessly and start adding some further parts that can come from me or even from the drummer. It happened to write a verse or even a refrain from a drummer’s groove.
10 – Finally, what are you near-future plans?
We’d just like to follow our path and playing in more countries as possible.
11- That’s all from our side, thanks again for taking your time to answer our questions. If you now want to add some final words; feel free to do it.
Thank you for giving us this opportunity! We just like to invite everybody everywhere to support the bands they like and to go to the shows, that’s still the best way for us all to keep it alive.
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