…ell is this thing [laughs]?” It was such a brilliant PR idea, and it even made the headlines in Norway [laughs]! People thought it was real! It was like, ‘how many people have you killed, how many corpses are there – we will come clean them up,’ you fill out a form on the website. It was really brilliant. Dead Rhetoric: How do you describe Edder & Bile, from your perspective? Verbeuren: To me, it’s a link to the past. I wanted to approach it, when…
…lot of people could get into the music that we are releasing, for sure. Dead Rhetoric: What are you most proud of with We Follow or Lead the Way? Copeland: This is the first time that I have taken the mic to our songs. I sang on our EP that came out about 2-3 years ago, but this is the first time that I’ve really been the lead vocalist. So I’m proud of myself for making the jump as needed. We came about with the whole switch last year. We had rec…
…her while you were a student in college, correct? Rowland: She passed… I had graduated a few years prior to that. It was a difficult thing to process not only because of the place in my life I was at, but because more or less within a year’s time from then, Pallbearer was starting to take a big chunk of my time. It was pushing my life and all our lives in a way that I don’t think any of us expected. It provided a convenient buffer for me not to h…
…ople a chance to put their minds into something else other than the daily bad news. Dead Rhetoric: Were there any special lyrical or musical inspirations for Feel the Burn? Heino: Musically we wanted to do something a bit different without losing one bit of our identity as a band. We were after some poppier elements rather than steering towards more heavier direction. That doesn´t mean the music lacks power, quite on the contrary. As far as the ly…
…n it. We have had a lot of bands that we have grown up playing with, that had either female lead singers or female members in the band, and they have started to use the term too. It’s empowering to see people, especially women, joining together and saying that they can do this – we can be in rock music and roll just as hard as the boys. Dead Rhetoric: It’s funny you mention that. With heavier genres, there’s a lot of elitism and people saying that…
…nce. My producer, Tyler Williams, was such a gem this whole time. I’m so glad we had each other during lockdown. We really didn’t have anyone. I had my roommates and my partner, and my cat. He had me, the studio, and his mom. It was a very weird time. I think the fact that we could still go and do what we love. Even though the world was falling apart, we were both in the same place, recording music, and we were so happy. It’s a memory that I’ll al…
…lm deal. Now we have kind of determined where we want to go from the EP. Dead Rhetoric: I had heard that there was a long gestation period before the EP came out. Have you started really writing anything new then, or have you been focused on the release of Death of the Cosmic? Hurd: While there was a lot of planning, we have started writing. We have started doing some writing already. I’m pretty happy to say that. Dead Rhetoric: There’s a lot of m…
…d Wilhelmsson] and Nils [Molin] would be able to come. Johan [Andreassen] had already recorded the bass, but yeah, there were a lot of question marks. But the overall mood, and the need to create and realize that this is something that we can still do even though the whole world is falling apart – it made sense to us that for once we were in a really good position. We usually feel like the odd kids, isolating ourselves. Now everyone was in isolati…
…articularly in Europe – we toured for about three years on that record. I had already started writing music for Empire of the Blind back in 2012. The main reason for the long delay is that I got sucked into the Exodus vortex, and started touring with them heavily. I spent five or six years touring hardcore with them, I think Lee told me that was more touring then they had ever done in the past. That was the main reason, we didn’t have the time to…
…felt more confident because I had all of that experience performing it already. Dead Rhetoric: What drew you towards symphonic metal? Wolf: To be honest, prior to joining the band my metal exposure was extremely limited. Mostly, at the time, what we would refer to as screamo bands in high school. Early Escape the Fate, Hawthorne Heights, Black Veil Brides…that kind of stuff. Brad [Sturgis] and I ran in a lot of the same circles in Rochester, Minne…
