Tobias Buck
Neaera
The pleasure is mine. I'm doing great. It's pretty exciting. Yesterday was the release of the new record. It's finally out after all this work.
There are many reasons. One reason was, that our priorities were shifting. New jobs, starting families and so on. We did 6 records and we were burnt out and we thought this a good time we put the band to rest, while we still can control it. We did the farewell tour and that was a great closing point for us.
Yeah, absolutely! We got the offer and thought, ok let's try. This could be fun. There's nothing to lose. But the reaction was overwhelming and that brought the fire back I think. Two months after these shows I started demo recordings the first ideas.
We will see. We don't know what the future holds for us. For now, we are really excited and we're looking forward to the next shows and play some new shit. That is always exciting.
Well, we still have a contract with Metal Blade Records. But they liked the idea of a new NEAERA record. And so we started working. Metal Blade Records did a great job so far.
For me musically, I wanted to go back to the roots. To that feeling when and why we started this band in the first place. So there's a lot of end 90's early 2000's Metalcore riffing. I got a lot of inspiration from that time. Bands like All-Out War, Earth Crisis, Day Of Suffering, Heaven Shall Burn. But I wanted also integrate my other love for heavy music like Death and Black Metal. I wanted to go back to the essence what NEAERA is to me and why we started making music together.
I think it's more clear to us what the band is about. We wanted to keep it simple and create songs that go "straight to your face", you know.
I wander, with a lot of bands nowadays, somewhat straying from the Swedish driven Melodic Death Metal, of what I relate to as a second wave as we aren't in the early 90s anymore, diving more into Hardcore rather than the Metal element, what still drives you to continue with it? Do you think that it is more than merely in your blood?
It's the style of Metalcore or Metal, or whatever you want to call it, that we are good at. For me, it's the music I like and the music I grew up with. If it's Metal or Hardcore.
We are always writing the music that we like. I think there is sometimes some experiment in our songs but it's not that obvious. It's something that happens quit natural. It's not planned.
Everything started at my home. Just playing guitar and jamming. When I thought I had something good, I went to our producer Tristan Hachmeister and we worked on the demo. And after a while we had finished demo songs.
I'm a fan of guitar solos but I'm not that good on my instrument. ( hahaha )
In the past we wrote all songs in our rehearsal space. This time, because we all are not living in the same city anymore, I worked with our producer Tristan Hachmeister and a drum computer to write the record. That was a new way of working for me and very productive.
Glad you mentioned that, that was something we did in the end of the writing session. The song was done but we thought there is something missing, and Stefan came up with this killer lead guitar / melody for the chorus. That was the missing piece. "Resurrection of Wrath" was the first song written for the record.
On the musical side I would say, we try to keep the flame alive. With the music we play. But there are other bands out there who do the same. The lyrics are about your ability to be the flame in a world of darkness.
We're really happy with the sound. It's the sound we wanted for this record. That's why we wanted to work with Jacob again. Since I had this "back to the roots" feeling for this record, it felt quite natural that Jacob had to do the mixing and mastering. I'm glad that he took the job.
We will see, I can't tell. But we are really happy how things came out and we can't wait to get on stage and play the new material.
It's too early to say. I hope we'll play some more shows.
Thank you!
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