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 Earlier this month we sat down with some of the members of Special Ed to discuss everything post-release of their album Lobotomy. Here's what the band had to say.
Thank you to Special Ed for the interview! Be sure to download their album Lobotomy!
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 Today we're having a chat with Firat, the guitarist and Omar, the drummer, of the recently signed metal band Objctve. Metalheads around the world having been grabbing their album. Here's the fresh interview!
 In order: David Dalla, Arthur Soares, Bruno da Silva, Gabriel Furiti
Randy: You guys signed to POM Records recently and got a lot of attention, in fact you are the most popular page on the site. How it is? David: It's a feeling of relief and accomplishment. But we're only at the beginning, there's a lot ahead of us. Arthur: For me it's a feeling of responsibility, because we have to deliver what people expect from Alcateia, and our idea is to make a sound inspired by Nu-Metal and Alternative Metal. Randy: So Plain Front really pissed off their neighbors and you guys are going to Canada to do the show with them. This is amazing and kind of crazy. Seriously, "Fuck the neighbors" haha. Tell us about it! Bruno: I think it will be a new and amazing experience that will make us improve our albums more and more. Gabriel: I'm excited for this, I'm really going to enjoy playing with the Plain Front guys, City X, Special Ed and Faceless Culture. Thank you Plain Front for inviting us! Randy: What's next for you guys? You guys have a lot to prove because there's a lot of good Brazilian metal out there, like The Divine Grace Beyond Gravity on The Corner. People are excited to hear your howls, I mean vocals! Arthur: Well... the Demo with vocals will have 4 songs, Fuck The World and Mute from the EP and two new tracks with lyrics inspired by Death and Black Metal, Help Me and Black Priest, they said we're going to play Mute, Help Me and Black Preist at the Plain Front show, I'm really looking forward to it as it's going to be our first live show. Randy: Alright, be sure to be at that show, cuz come on, it's @$#*ing FREE!
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Randy: Damn, what an insane big budget video! Social Asylum is one of the biggest and best music videos we've seen from Faceless Culture! Tell us about the behind-the-scenes! Faceless Culture: So with the success of Prisoner of Eternity and with how successful this new album is, all this money we've made we decided to put it back towards production. This is the best video we've made and not sure how my family is gonna eat this weekend but we'll worry about it later! Randy: Architect of Destruction has been out for a little over 3 weeks now. What's the reception been like? How are fans responding? It feels like your best album and that's crazy because it's hard to top Prisoner of Eternity. What are your thoughts? Faceless Culture: The reaction to Architect has been great. Definitely more than we expected. We didn't think we could top the Prisoner album but it's hard to not put out new music for the fans. We're gonna be like this forever it feels like. As long as the fans stick around, we'll still be here! Randy: Faceless Culture is the biggest and most successful band with POM Records. You guys have a huge legacy with the label and well connected with many of the other label mates, like 1st Assault. What's it been like to be on the label since signing back in late 2012? Do you guys feel like you're at your best now? Maybe you guys can take on Metallica! Haha Faceless Culture: We'll never be able to take on Metallica lol. I don't see any competition to be the best on the label but I definitely feel like we're one of the bests. It just feels great to be on the label for over 10 years and to be an inspiration to all the upcoming artists whether they're on the label or not, that's what means the most and keeps us going. Randy: How's touring going? Any cool or fun stories so far? Also anymore videos for the album? Faceless Culture: Touring has been good. I'd have a million stories to tell if I could remember them. I've got to cut down on the drinking maybe possibly. And we got some more vids coming for the album too. We plan on capturing a full performance and fully editing it and getting it on YouTube in the future. We got a European tour coming soon that we can't wait to announce the guests coming with us. Will be great. Randy: We heard some fans are getting in trouble because they've been blasting the album so loud around the country. Whatcha have to say to all the fans grabbing the latest album? Faceless Culture: If you're getting in trouble for blasting the new album, you may not be playing it loud enough. I don't know I'm not a doctor haha. We're grateful for the continued support from Untamed all the way to Architect of Destruction. We salute y'all for sticking around with us. Randy: Alright, thank you guys for the interview. You guys are bring in a lot of cash to the label, thus my bank account has never been better! Keep it going! Download Architect of Destruction NOW! DOWNLOAD NOW 
Randy (POM Records): What inspired you guys to create this album? Sebastian Lukens: Well... Recently after our success we've been getting people coming up to us for pictures and all that stuff and its given me extreme anxiety as well now because me & my friends are people with eyes on them constantly now, and that's even more stressful because we're still in high school... I love all my fans and our supporters because we wouldn't be here without them but.. its just kinda stressful when we're just trying to go out and hang out and just take a break from the band for a little while, even Cade dyed his hair from green back to his natural color to kinda be out in public more without getting noticed as much. Also personal stuff in my life is kind of rough at the moment so this album has been me and my friends letting our emotions out into our art instead of bottling it up. Randy: What are some of the themes we can expect with this upcoming album? Sebastian: A lot of dark shit *chuckles* Me and Alec from City X were talking about albums we wanted to make and me and him had a lot of the same stuff he kinda wants to do. Don't quote me on that because I don't know if they'll release something like this so its not conformed, the themes for this album deal with suicide, heartbreak, mental disorders, and just beating yourself up constantly for shit you do.. Randy: How many songs will be on this album? Sebastian: Right now we have 10 but more could come but we don't know. Maybe we'll release a deluxe edition for people who want to hear the unreleased songs because we have a lot. Randy: Will we see more singles release off the album before the album release? Sebastian: Yes! We want to release either one more or two more singles we aren't for sure yet so we have to see what our manager says. Randy: Wyatt from League of Nations said that League of Nations and Plain Front are working on a split, is this true? Sebastian: Yeah! I was about to say some stuff about it. I wanted to do a split with a band I respected and enjoyed the talent behind and League of Nations was one I wanted to do it with, when I heard Worlds Collide I loved the band and its one of my favorite albums. When we were working on our album the band just so happened to be at the studio so I asked them if they wanted to do it and they we're down! we haven't finished it yet so no release date at the moment. Randy: Speaking of release date, does this new album have a release date yet? Sebastian: Not yet probably will be released half way through March but we're not sure yet. Randy: What's it like being apart of a big label with a lot of influential bands that you could work with? Sebastian: We're really thankful for Sushi signing us to this label and liking our music and just giving us a chance to be something big. I've said in another interview that im not really proud of SSDT (Super Secret Demo Tape) because its songs we're early songs we've made but the more I listen to it the more I appreciate it but I wanted to make this album as good as we could and I think we did it. Randy: Alright last question! I wanted to ask what ended up being the first song you wrote for this new album? Sebastian: Umm... It was probably either Devils Advocate II or the first song called in my diary I wrote. With Devils Advocate we we're just jamming and messing around with sounds and we ended up with something we really liked so we recorded and got it all mixed and mastered. For in my diary I wrote we made a song thats thats unreleased at this time and when we played the ending cords it just spoke to me and Gus, so we recorded it... I actually played the drums & guitar on that song and Gus played bass & guitar because Dominik and Cade we're out playing football for school and we skipped to work on music. Randy: Thank you Sebastian Lukens for coming down for this interview we cannot wait for this new album!  Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself (Tracklist) 1: in my diary I wrote 2: MPD 3: Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself 4: Bled Out In My Apartment 5: Devils Advocate II 6: I never meant to hurt you... 7: now you're gonna miss it all... 8: did you read the love letter you threw away? 9: Mind Blown 10: break free 
Alec (guitarist): Thank you for having us! Yeah man it's been crazy. When we took our break in 2013 we always had the vision of coming back. Micah (bassist): We just didn't think it would be 10 years, haha! Alec: Right! We got together around mid 2021 to kinda just jam, I had started playing the main riff for [A Cure for the Ache] and Brian was like "What is that?". That ended up being the first song we wrote for "Five"[V] and it kinda just took off from there. Micah: Yeah. It was like a bomb had went off in the studio. Everyone had something to contribute and it was just gold. Alec: That's what happens when you take 8 years off *laughs*.
Randy: What's it been like to grow as a band? I believe your first releases were about 12 years ago. How has song writing changed for you guys, if at all and tell us about the process making "V" and "iPledge". We also heard the band has been mentoring some other bands as well, such as another newly signed one to POM Records, League of Nations. I think that says a lot about how mature and experienced City X is now. Do you guys see yourself doing more of that? Micah: That's an Alec thing right there. Alec: Haha, yeah. I love helping people, especially with something we're so passionate about. League killed it with their EP and I can't wait to hear more from them... I mean yeah, we've definitely been around the block. With each album we're always trying to outdo ourselves. I think that's something every band tries to do. With us, however, we try not to stray too far from our roots. Every album has a theme, but sonically I think they're all pretty similar, they just evolve. I think iPledge is the biggest step forward we've taken so far and we can't wait to capitalize on that. We've been taking the last couple months to experiment with new sounds and better ways of recording. So far I think it's going great and it really allows us to stand out. Randy: You guys probably shocked a lot of people when the band's name showed up again all over the media and on the label. Is there any message to all the fans out there? And also, what's next for the band? What can fans continue to look forward to? Any tours? Micah: *Gestures* Buy the album! Buy the album! Alec: Haha! Yeah man, I'm pleased to announce we'll be joining Faceless Culture on their upcoming European tour! I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say yet in terms of special guests, but it's gonna be awesome. Micah: They show boobs on French TV so we can't wait for that. Alec: Can we get a fact check on that? *Laughs* As far as the future goes, we just re-released "The Show" so touring is going to keep us busy for the next few months. New music? We've got something small in the oven right now that we'll get cracking on once we get back from tour. We'd love to get working on a 6th album, maybe even have it out this year. Micah: Yeah, man. We love getting in the studio, especially now with Alec's home setup, so we can work on our own time. Alec: Definitely. We wanna thank everyone that's been supporting us over the years! We love each and every one of you and can't wait to share more memories in the future. *Lifts beer* Here's to the next generation of POM Records! *Drinks* Totally not contracted to say that by the way *laughs*. Micah: Mr. Schultz is in the corner with a gun *laughs*. Thank you to City X members Alec & Micah for joining us tonight. It definitely wasn't a forced contractual obligation type of thing....no...never *sweating..*. Be sure to keep up with City X not just on here, at POM Records, but their Youtube channel too: 
Sebastian Lukens (lead guitarist / frontman): “We already mentioned our hopes for this new album but now we have an idea and we’re in the process of recording it, we want it to be even better than SSDT (Super Secret Demo Tape). SSDT was like a starting point for us and we just wanted to write fun songs that you could listen to.” Gus Farmer (guitarist): “We want it to be story focused and it’ll be a little different but different is okay and I think our fans will like it.” Sebastian Lukens: “Yeah, I think so too. A lot of us struggle with mental health stuff-” Cade Caldwell (bassist): “Me and Gus are really the only mentally sane ones here” the band laughs Sebastian Lukens: “But yeah.. um a lot of us struggle with mental health stuff and we want to tell a story with this album that people can relate to, so this album will be dark and gritty but we really want it to hit emotionally for people.” When asked about the story of the album, Sebastian said he wants to keep it under wraps and keep it a surprise for listeners. We asked them some questions about touring and doing shows. Sebastian Lukens: “We’re pretty tired from doing shows” Dominik Roylance (drummer): “Yeah, been doing shows constantly trying to get some recognition and we’ve finally hit our big break and I'm done taking ice baths for awhile" laughing Cade Caldwell: “We definitely want to tour in the future.” Sebastian Lukens: “Yeah of course! We also don’t know how the emotion of this new album would translate for our fans who love mosh pits and having fun so I guess we’ll have to see.” Dominik Roylance: “Mhm but I feel like we’ve earned a break from doing shows for a little bit.” the band agrees Cade Caldwell: “I’ll probably dye my hair again for the tour or I'll dye it for every show."  Thank you to Plain Front for having a chat with the label. We're excited to see and hear what they release and how fans of the label will respond.  Randy (POM Records): League of Nations recently joined POM Records and released their 8 track EP, how's it feel? League of Nations: It always feels good to release music. There's no denying that. This release is special to us, as it got us signed to POM Records, and we truly couldn't be happier about it. Randy: Worlds Collide sales are rolling in and it seems like people are really digging it. Did you think it would be so popular? League of Nations: We thought it would sell decently well, though we weren't expecting it to become the most sold album of 2023 so far. It has been selling like wildfire and no one expected it at all. I remember I told Nigel about the stats and he freaked out like "Holy shit! We blew up!" We're glad everyone likes Worlds Collide, and it gives us confidence for the future. Randy: What was the song writing process like, which song was the favorite or hardest? League of Nations: Umm... the writing process was actually fairly quick. I was able to contact my old bandmates and ask them for a couple songs we wrote, those songs being Worlds Collide and Fire in the Sky, and they gave the songs to us. My personal favorite song on the album is Third Degree, and the hardest song to make had to have been Mission Statement. Overall, we enjoyed the process. Believe it or not, City X was monumental in getting our album together, and we thank them for helping us get our start. Randy: Will the band be touring? League of Nations: We don't have a tour planned yet, though that may change soon. Randy: Any music videos coming out? League of Nations: Hopefully if we know how fricking make them. We were planning on music videos for Knife Through the Spine and Third Degree, we just haven't found anyone to help get those done yet. Randy: What's next for the band? League of Nations: No one can predict the future, so we don't really know what's next. We're enjoying living in the here and now, but based off the popularity of Worlds Collide, we're excited to see what's to come. |
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