Band: Blast Rites
Genre: Deathcore / Death Metal
Q: Why did you choose the name "Blast Rites"
for your band?
There wasn’t any particular reason for choosing this
name. Our idea was to come up with something short and catchy which could at
the same time be connected with the atmosphere of our music. I must say, it was
kind of a struggle, but eventually one of our friends coined this name and it
seemed to fit us perfectly. We really liked the combination of last rites and the word blast. Later on we found the same phrase
being used as a title for an article about an appalling number of victims who
died in some terrorist bombing attack. The title phrase did convey the message,
and thus became even more meaningful for us.
Q: When did you get the motivation to start
making/producing music? Any particular life moment or reason?
Each of us had been involved in numerous other project
when we started the band. What is more, each of us had played totally different
kinds of the so-called heavy music including metalcore, death metal, trash
metal, hardcore punk and so on. The band was started in the late 2008 when
Michał (guitars) and I (vocals) decided that we wanted to create
hardcore-influenced death metal music. At first we rehearsed at home with
computer-programed drums. Our first rehearsals with the complete line-up began
in the mid 2009. The simple reason to start the band at that time was the fact
our previous projects had simply split up and we just wanted to keep on making
music. The motivation has always been to create the music we would like to
listen to ourselves.
Q: Your EP, Suicide Solution, released a year
or so ago. How was the feedback when it released, and do you still get feedback
now?
The feedback has so far been nothing but very
positive, which, I must say, gave us even greater motivation to carry on. When
Suicide Solution got released, very few people had heard of us, so all these
positive comments were really surprising. People shared our songs online, and
thus the word got spread. In general, people did like our style, especially riffs
and vocals as well as the general intensity of our tracks. So far the EP has
got reviewed only once but we know there is definitely more to come. Although February
2012, when all the songs were published, was the time of the highest activity
on our online profiles, we still get discovered and people still give us their
support.
Q: You're currently working on your debut LP, what can we
expect from this album?
We don’t know yet whether it’s going to be an album, a
mini album or just another EP. Everything depends on how many songs we’ll be
able to produce by the end of this summer, when we want to begin a recording
session. This deadline’s been set because we simply need to publish at least a
few new songs if we don't want to be forgotten. We are hard to please and very
slow at putting new tracks together. Sometimes we find ourselves getting rid of
some track having rehearsed it for a couple of months. As for the content,
there’s going to be some change in terms of musical genre.
The songs from Suicide Solution can be described as the
fusion of death metal, deathcore and grindcore (so far we’ve got numerous
definitions of what our music sounds like e.g. deathcore trash or deathcore
without breakdowns), while the new material is definitely going to be more
abundant with deathgrind influences. There’s a lot of blasting and fast-paced
rhythms mixed with groovy parts, not typical brekadowns though. At the moment
we are highly influenced by such bands as Misery Index, Dyscarnate, Burning Skies,
Man Must Die, Murder Construct etc. Naturally, we are trying to add some
personal touch and style to it.
Q: What is the local metal scene like in Poland?
The scene is definitely growing very fast as there are
more and more bands and a greater number of kids getting fascinated by the heavy
music. Year by year we have bigger and more professional concerts and festival
as well as big bands putting Polish cities on their tour schedules. Despite the
fact that some bands want to be associated the underground, the heavy music is
getting more popular among youngsters and gets much more recognition in the
media than in the past. There is also great solidarity among band, I must say, as
they help and promote each other and organize gigs and tours together.
Q: What are your goals and plans for the rest of this
year?
As I said earlier, our priority now is to finish composing
and get our new songs recorded at the end of the summer. We are working very hard
on this and that’s the reason why we aren’t playing many concerts at the
moment. Sooner or later, I think, we will also start looking for a label. Once
the new material is published, we want to promote it to a much greater extent
than was the case for Suicide Solution. We’ll
definitely try to play more gigs, maybe a tour, and there will also be a new video.
Q: Do you have any shout outs to give to the readers?What can I say, just stay in touch with us and be prepared for some crushing tracks that are to come this fall!
(All interview questions answered by Sosna, vocalist of Blast Rites)
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