Band: Dividing The Element
Genre: Death Metal / Deathcore
Q. Where did you get the band name
"Dividing The Element" from?
The idea of the name Dividing The
Element was pretty much inspired by Tetrasomnia or Doctrine Of The Four
Elements known as water, air,fire and earth. Each element divided was
said to cause an imbalance in creation and spiritually as well, therefore the
name Dividing The Element.
Q. What one band has played the most influence on your music?
We as a band have various inspirations
and more than one specific taste in Metal music. Naming one specific band would
be hard to say but the few bands we all have in common are The defiled,
Whitechapel, Chelsea grin etc...
Q. How is the local metal scene in Harare, Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe never really had a metal scene
up until now, Dividing The Element was the first extreme metal breakthrough in
the countries history. The country itself mostly revolved around punk, jazz and
blues before but only recently a metal movement started progressing. A few more
metal bands have been emerging from all over the country side and a few bands
from our neighboring countries wanting to perform with us as well. So the
future is very promising for the metal scene here, its only getting started but
quicker than any of us expected.
Q. Your EP, Revolution Among Oppression, recently released. How has the feedback been?
The Revolution Among Oppression
EP definitely took a lot of people by surprise. know
one expected a deathcore record from Zimbabwe in the first place so its
gone pretty far. Unfortunately as a self promoted underground band we could not
invest in promoting it world wide through a label but we have done our best
with our resources and have not had any negative feed backs. Seeing as it was
our first release we didn't expect much from the public but the responses
took us all by surprise. This really has inspired us to work on more material
and progress as a band to as far as the music takes us.
Q. Does your family and/or friends support your music endeavor?
When the idea of a metal band first
came to mind, everyone was pretty much skeptical about it. Seeing as its
never been done before in this country. We had a lot of
negative responses towards the idea and as a band ourselves we too
knew this was very risky. But we went ahead with it anyway because we loved the
music. We managed to pull it off successfully and since then we've
had a lot off support from friends and family.
What are your plans for 2013? New album?
2013 is going to be a very busy year,
we are currently working on new material for an album release which will
probably be released closer to years end. Were taking the time to craft our
sound and hopefully make a bigger impact world wide with this upcoming album.
Apart from the album we have a few scheduled gigs lined up with a few
bands from our neighboring countries. we only hope this will help build a
following beyond our borders and expand the fields in which we hope to spread
our music.
Q. Any shout outs to give?
Would like to give a shout out to to
the Pig Squeals And Breakdowns's team for giving us this chance to get to know
us better as well as all our followers for the support they've given us.
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