Greetings
to you and your readers! I guess it's my persistence and the fact that I'm
quite stubborn that kept us going for so long, taking into account that the
band was broken up sometime around 2010, and each of us went in his own
direction, but something got me, and I wanted to still keep on going. So I've
gathered some new people who were interested in being part of the new Defiant, and
we started working again.
There has been a short break, from 2009 to
2011. Was the idea of a new band still there in that period, or did you
consider going in some other direction?
I've partly already given the answer to that
question -I've never considered stopping making music, so the idea was still
somewhere there, and some new stuff came along with time. In our old setup, we've
tried to keep on working on something together, but there were a lot of
negative factors in that whole story, which in the end, resulted in a
"collapse of the system". Concerning the musical direction, it's
still melodic death metal, but somewhat more progressive and more brutal.
The name, Defiant, how did you decide to chose
that name and what inspired you to do so?
Defiant means bold, impudent, resistant - and
this is also symbolizes our resistance in doing what we love - we play metal
and live our lives accordingly. On the other hand I like the Sci-Fi series Star
Trek, and this is where the name actually comes from.
What
do you think, which song or performance may have been a turning point in your
career, the point in which people started recognizing your work?
We've played a lot of gigs at home, but also
abroad. Most people know us by the song "Bloody Roses" from the first
album, and from some bigger concerts where we played as the opening band for
some of the big names in the metal scene. Today, out record label Grom Records does most of the marketing
for us, and we're very much satisfied with their work.
What
we must ask - what's your view on the
Croatian demo metal scene?
There are some good bands in the demo scene,
but how many of them will survive is difficult to say. What matters most, is
that the band is a team, because without that, it would be very hard to get out
of the "demo-scene-box".
The focus of our interview is your European
tour that starts in April, so it would be great if you could give us some
details, where you will perform, how did you get the gigs, what do you guys
expect from the tour, how do you arrange the transportation and everything else
for the tour?
The tour starts on the 11th of April and ends
on the 25th of April, so we expect to have a blast around Europe, with the band
Mardraum from Osijek. The plans for the tour started at the beginning of the
year, and all went just as planned. The two bands, Defiant and Mardraum,
"share" some of the members, we all get along great, so the
arrangements for the tour were no problem at all. We expect to have a good
time, meeting new people, playing in clubs we've never visited before, and last
but not least, we're real beer-lovers, so we've looking forward to drinking all
sorts of beer in large quantities.
Tour dates:
11.04.Szeged(HUNGARY)
12.04.Sosnowiec (POLAND)
13.04.Brno (CZECH REPUBLIC)
16.04.Pirmasens (GERMANY)
17.04.Mechelen (BELGIUM)
18.04.Birkenfeld (GERMANY)
19.04.Beverwijk (NETHERLANDS)
20.04.Liege (BELGIUM)
21.04.Berlin (GERMANY)
23.04.Klodzko (POLAND)
24.04.Hradec Kralove (CZECH REPUBLIC)
25.04.Komarno(SLOVAKIA)
We
want to keep the interview short; our
goal was to introduce you and your tour, but I'd like to ask you one final
question, and that is will the guys go immediately back to the recording studio
when they return from the tour?
There are no plans yet, we won't record
anything before next fall, but we're working on some new material, which could
come out next year, but there's still time till that. We'll do some gigs in
summer, and also play on a big festival.
We
wish you a great and pleasant tour, a magnificent audience and wish you all the
best in your future career!
Thank
you very much!
Kris (Defiant)
By: Marija Viljušić
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