Dave Davidson
Revocation
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November 12, 2018
I've got a lot more lyrical ideas still involving that cosmic horror theme that I might use, it's such an expansive topic so we'll see if that ends up influencing the lyrical direction of the next record. I recently finished up reading the short stories of Robert W. Chambers so his literary works might end up inspiring some lyrics as well.
I listen to a lot of jazz when I'm home from tour and on the road. I love checking out originators like Charlie Parker all the way up to modern musicians like Esperanza Spaulding and Lage Lund. I also love classical music as well and find it to be a constant source of inspiration. Listening to composers from outside the metal genre opens up ears to different possibilities and provides me with some refreshing textures that I can immerse myself in. I find those genres to be great musical palette cleansers when I'm on tour getting blasted with about 4 hours of metal non stop every night haha.
I'm really digging the new Horrendous and Voivod albums at the moment. I also recently discovered a band called "Moss Upon The Skull" that I'm totally digging. If you're a fan of weird, proggy death metal I highly recommend checking out their latest release "In Vengeful Reverance"
I went through several musical epiphanies as a kid which I'm sure most musicians experience. Aerosmith came first for me, I became obsessed with them early on and Joe Perry was the reason I picked up the guitar. From there I got into heavier rock bands like Guns N' Roses until I discovered Pantera. Once I saw Dime play it was all over for me, I knew I wanted to dedicate myself to heavy metal after I saw him play.
We always try to push ourselves with each release and with "The Outer Ones" we wanted to further embrace the darker, more death metal oriented path that we've been going down. The added complexity was a product of the hard work and dedication that we've all poured into our instruments over the years. I think hitting the road with a lot of classic and influential death metal bands added to the heavier approach as well. We toured extensively during the "Great Is Our Sin" album cycle with bands like Suffocation, Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse so that sheer level of brutality was a contributing factor for sure.
It would be really cool to hit up some more countries in South America. We just got back from playing Knotfest in Bogota, it was our second show in Colombia and the crowds are always great there so we'd like to expand and hit up countries like Brazil and Chile among others. It would also be rad to play in Alaska one day, very few bands get to travel there so it would be cool to fly the Rev flag way up north.
It's a conscience decision, I remember putting a couple instrumentals on our debut album and I liked how it added a bit of a curveball to the track listing and was able to showcase a different side to our songwriting. When you don't have to worry about vocals at all you can do some creative things with song structures. I also use the instrumentals as a vehicle to spotlight different elements of the rhythm section in unique ways.
I enjoy cooking a lot, I'm a big foodie so it's fun to try to figure out dishes and add them to my repertoire. I like to cook for other people as well, I'm stoked to share a meal with friends or family and make them happy with my food. Other than that I don't really have any hobbies, I try to dedicate myself as much as possible to music so that I can continue to learn and refine my craft.
We're pretty easy to get along with and keep things pretty light hearted on the road so we get along with most bands we tour with. Some of our closest homies are probably the Black Dahlia Murder since they've got a similar brand of humor to us. We had a blast touring with them in Europe several years back, one night when we were all in Denmark we went to Mikkeller bar and basically closed the place out. Its funny thinking back about a whole gaggle of metal psychos descending upon one of the best beer bars in the world known for their refined ales and we're just drinking the place dry.
I'm definitely a fan of Arty B, but when Dan writes I think he tries to keep the Revocation aesthetic at the forefront of his process. Dan and I have a fairly similar taste in music so I think we end up checking out a lot of similar stuff that has had more and more of an effect on both of our writing processes over the years. Of course Dan is going to have his own style at the end of the day so I think his songs on our albums retain his personality but sometimes the lines do get blurred. I've read some reviews and seen some fans commenting where they think my songs are his and his songs are mine haha.
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