The Brazilian progressive death metal pioneers Psychotic Eyes are still searching for a new drummer to replace Alexandre Tamarossi that was forced to leave the group recently. The new member will come with the responsibility to record the band's new studio album that once again will be produced by the Kataklysm guitar player, Jean François Dagenais.
Even without a new drummer, the remaining Psychotic Eyes members, Dimitri Brandi (guitar/vocal) and Douglas Gatuso (bass) keep working on the pre-production of the new album and also playing live. Yes! The band was invited to play on the official release party of the compilation "Ainda Respira! - O Melhor Rock do Brasil do Século XXI", that brings some of the highlights of the current brazilian rock/metal scene.
According to Dimitri Brandi, as they did not want to waste the opportunity to perform at the event, the idea of doing an acoustic show, without a drummer, emerged.
"I suggested to Douglas to take our acoustic guitars and start working on acoustic versions of some Psychotic Eyes songs", Dimitri says. "We're going to do something different in comparison with all the bands that have explored the acoustic format, since we almost rewrote the arrangements to adapt our riffs and melodies to two guitars. We'll not have the aggressiveness of distorted guitar or the pulsating bass or drums. But we still are a death metal band and we kept the growling vocals and our melodies will emerge stronger."
Also according to Dimitri, the occasion will eventually become historic, since there isn't, until now, any registration of other death metal band that played an acoustic show.
"So far that I know, we are the first death metal band to try something like that, and the experience will be very interesting for the music lovers in general, it's going to be like dissecting our music to show how it is when (almost) all aggressiveness is removed. "
The event with the Psychotic Eyes acoustic show will happen on the next September, 27th at Galeria Olido in Sao Paulo.
For Further Information:
www.psychoticeyes.com
www.twitter.com/psychoticeyes
www.facebook.com/psychoticeyes
[url="https://www.youtube.com/psychoticeyesbrazil"]www.youtube.com/psychoticeyesbrazil
[/url]
