Project Description

Q&A With

REVOCATION

Interviewer: Kelsey Hentschel

 

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Was there a specific time or event that you could pin point when you decided that music was something that you wanted to make a career out of??

I can’t say I ever thought I’d make a career out of music, to be honest. I always just saw it as a pipe dream, especially considering just how niche the music I play is. I practiced all the time because I enjoyed it. I feel extremely lucky to be where I am.

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Your last studio album ‘Great Is Our Sin’ was released in 2016. Do you think your sound has changed again since this album?

Our sound absolutely has changed since Great Is Our Sin. We try to take our sound in a direction, whatever that direction may be, on each album. This time we went a little farther into the realm of death metal. The riffs are weirder, more dissonant but still catchy, and we ditched the clean singing for the time being. We are all really excited about this one.

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Can you give any hints about album number seven?

Hints about album seven? Well, there’s not much I can reveal JUST yet, but I think that people are gonna dig it if they like us at our most brutal. That’s not to say that there aren’t any melodic moments, there sure are, but overall, this album is our most brutal.

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What is something you would like to achieve career-wise that you haven’t done yet?

Maybe this is a vain goal but I’d like to end up on the cover of a magazine, haha.

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You’re about to embark Direct Underground Fest, as well as your own headline tour. Is their any show you’re particularly excited for?

Tough call! We’re stoked for all the shows for different reasons. We have a few headlining gigs in NZ with our friends in Blindfolded And Led To The Woods, there are shows in Australia with Ihsahn, Belphegor, Diocletian and Weigedood, then also a few gigs with Psycroptic. I can’t decide which shows I’m most excited about. Really, just being in Australia at all is exciting to me.

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Do you have any expectations or preconceived ideas about the Australian crowds?

The crowds in Australia are always good. I know the shows are gonna kick ass. Fans get into it, and we enjoy meeting people from around here at shows.

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You’re going to be touring with a bunch of cool bands as a part of Direct Underground. Are you familiar with the other bands?

Yeah we are! I really like all the bands on Direct Underground Fest this year. Ihsahn in particular’s writing in Emperor really influenced the shit out of me as a younger guy.

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Do you take into consideration how you’re going to play your live show when recording?

Of course! But we won’t simplify things just so they’re easier to play live. We lay it down the way it should sound, then practice like crazy later to make sure we can sing and play at the same time.

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So you now have quite an extensive list of material behind you now. Does this make it difficult to decide what makes the setlist and what doesn’t?

It absolutely does, haha. If we play ten songs live, and want to push one album more than the rest, as we would when a new album comes out, that means we can’t really play everything we want to off the other albums. But we’ll just keep making music so I don’t see that problem getting any easier.

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What one song would you recommend someone listen to if it was their first time listening to you?

Tough call, but I’d say maybe Communion, A debt owed to the grave, Chaos of Forms, or Witch Trials.

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When you first formed the band in 2000, did you think that you’d still be releasing music & touring so many years later?

I joined the band in 2006, and I always had faith in Revocation, but we ended up succeeding far beyond what I had expected. Luck plays a part, for sure, but I think that Dave’s writing and all of our dedication plays even more of a part.

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