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New Beginnings With ENGRAVED · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I am Dan and I play guitar were Engraved. I am Corey and I
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  play guitar for Engraved. I'm Pander and I play my voice for Engraved,
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  and I'm Phil play bass. Ellie, dude, gentlemen, No, it's
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  a bad day in hell, indeed when Phil's the only one who sounds normal
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  when they make the introductions. How you doing, gentlemen? Well, but
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  to talk to again, it's been a while, yes, very long it
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  has, indeed. So we've got a hell of a lot to get through
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  tonight, guys. So we'll start I guess with your headlining show as part
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  of Beyond the Darkness at the back Room in Brisbane on September fourteenth. So
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  the show is a benefit concert for the g I Cancer Institute, featuring Yourself,
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  Sentiment, Void Matter, wild Ash and Effigy, a Herou and Moore.
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  So it sounds like a pretty good gig. Sounds like an excellent gig.
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  I myself am quite excited. It's be a lot of fun. The
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  last one was great. The last the last Beyond the Darkness gig was actually
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  my first gig with the band. It was kind of like trial by fire
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  and we went out and very very quickly. All of our like skepticisms and
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  nerves disappeared really quickly, So I'm excited to come back and smash it out
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  again. This would be your anniversary with us too. Yeah, you come
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  out naked or something. Baby birthdays. You'll have to come to the show
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  to find out. Well, I'm allowed to come out because the lineup is
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  fucking decent. Finally, and is it actually going from last years? We're
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  just you're playing from the nosebleed stands, but this year you're actually headlining,
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  So congratulations, thank you, thank you. A bit of a bit of
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  a step up, so it's gonna be more eyes on you and more responsibility.
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  Have he's learned how to say that word yet? No sponsor we can
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  say it, can't spell it repulsibility anyway, so we'll probably move on from
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  that one. We actually got asked pretty much right after the set if we
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  could come back next year, and we said yes straight after the set,
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  and then we later on found out that we must have had a good time
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  because we're on top of the poster. That's awesome, awesome, And how
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  good is the back room as a venue? Guys? I think it's probably
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  underestimated Brisbane because it's that a little bit far out, but so people,
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  you know, people are lazy, they won't go somewhere where they can't get
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  you easy. But as a venue, pretty good. Yeah, there was
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  a nice definitely one of the better stages played on a lot of space,
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  a lot of room. Yeah, we're not talking about a sexual thing,
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  efl am ever going to move on from that because this is going to turn
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  into pretty nasty. But we've got all the details. It is the back
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  room on the fourteenth to September for Beyond the Darkness. It's a good cause.
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  Tickets the twenty five bucks pre style for that one or forty bucks on
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  the door. So that's one thing we've got the people go and see you
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  at. But before that, you're also playing at Nowhere Festival at the Mansfield
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  Tavern on May the fourth with another monster line up over two stages including Hybrid
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  Nightmares, Nicolas, Cage bider Like and Throw Hunt Squad to probably my favorite
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  band name ever, Deprivation and more so, if you look across those two
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  lineups alone, mate, like the quality of line the quality of bands on
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  those lineups, you're showing the depth of Australian music at the moment. Definitely.
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  It's it's insane like you try and think of like, oh, you
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  know, let's do it. However, many ten twelve twelve band lineup of
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  Australian bands and to get the lineup so strong and anticipate such a fucking awesome
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  show, it's going to be killer and which which run out of all those
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  bigger bands he is looking forward to playing with the most. There's there's some
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  good and now Nicholas Page Fight would be the one I'd be most looking forward
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  to seeing. Yeah, definitely, I've only heard amazing things about the Cage
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  Fighters. What a band name do you? Yeah? So I've started from
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  all these live shows having I know you've got some more coming up into state,
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  but we'll talk about them later on. But I suppose the biggest thing
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  that's happened with the Grave lately is the recent lineup changes. But the one
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  that's closest to heavyes Heart is our very own Horry, our coclast sex Bomb
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  is now your guitarist. So Tory, you shut your mouth and the rest
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  of you guys, tell us a bit more about Coco and what he brings
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  to the band. First, I think there's a few things, but definitely
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  the experience of being in a band that he has behind him definitely accommodates to
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  what we're trying to achieve is a group. But just like understanding and made
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  ship is probably the most important thing that comes with Corey, but also pandera
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  as well. We all we all want the same thing whilst having a good
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  time with each other, and it's it's a very rare thing to find.
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  So having someone like Corey coming to the group really opened that up for myself
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  and Phil. It's good to have people that you you're good at communicating with,
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  you know, I've known some of these guys for quite a while,
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  so for us all to link up, it just really makes sense. And
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  it's just it really makes fast work of things when you have good communication and
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  you understand what each other means. You know. Yeah, sure, And
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  I guess suggests the big one is that Corey is normally known as a bass
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  player, So was Phil spot ever in danger or we're always going to put
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  Corey on the guitar. I was the one that brought him in soil triangle
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  or something for that doesn't require a bat I don't think he's ever truly in
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  danger until I've got a good enough body to take my shirt off. So
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  you get abs like, he's not a danger at all. And how about
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  your perspective, Corey, Like you are sort of better known for playing the
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  bass and probably more rock blueby type bands rather than the medal of ingraved,
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  So how are you settling in with a different environment. It was definitely jump
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  in the pool with both your feet, like deep end kind of situation,
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  but it was it was something I was kind of hungry for because I started
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  playing guitar before I played bass. So I started playing bass because we couldn't
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  find a good bass player that would play with a bunch of fifteen year olds.
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  And then next thing, you know, like ten years later, it's
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  it's become a career. And I was really hungry to get back onto a
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  six string guitar or however many we decided to go. And yeah, so
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  like it was definitely like a steep learning curve to kind of get back on
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  to like retrain my hand, to to like stretch differently and playing a completely
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  different type of music. But it didn't take too long to kind of jump
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  back on that horse. And now it's kind of like I never stopped and
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  you know, and I'm loving every minute of it. Yeah. Cool.
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  And the Cans connection is even stronger with Panda coming into Boats Made, So
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  you've got three Cans boys in the band now look out. Yeah, tell
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  us a bit about yourself, Pander and what you bring into Engraved. Oh,
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  I'll bring the you know obviously, the raw appeal of course, appeal
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  of course, a little bit of film. Mostly damn it is the aera
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  qui, you know, the spice and everything nice, you know, just
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  out no way, honestly though. You know, I've I've known Phil for
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  a while, I've known Corey as long as I can remember, and it
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  really was a surprise to me, you know, to be asked to take
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  up this role and honor too, because I've always got along with the boys.
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  We've always spoke about doing things in the past, you know, together
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  for a laugh or side projects and such, and it really just was pretty
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  incredible timing that we were all just available and reasonably acceptable to each other to
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  finally do this. And we've always, like I said, we've always wanted
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  to do something and our styles just matched it. I think our influences although
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  somewhat very really just compliment each other, and I just think this is going
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  to be fantastic though. For everything we've done, rehearsed, practice, made
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  up has just flown, you know. It's really brought back that joy of
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  creating in an organic vibe. It's just it's been really great. So I'm
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  just over the moment. I'm looking forward to working with these guys, you
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  know, for the long run. It's going to be good. Yeah.
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  It was when when I originally got asked to join, because I knew that
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  both the singer and the original singer and guitarist had left. I had Hada
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  lined up in my head as like an option and the singing role was already
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  taken. And then obviously with the stuff that's happened in the past, yeah,
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  most recently, it was a no brainer. I think it was.
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  It was like, what are we going to do? And I was like,
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  I'm gonna call Panda, and then it was it was within three seconds,
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  it was like, yes, send me the songs. And it's been
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  seamless ever since, like really really good. Oh and of course you got
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  the same problem as a lot of bands with the way with drummer syndrome guys,
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  So what do you to put someone on the stool at the moment.
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  Yeah, No, we've got tiago In, a guy from Goldie or originally
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  Brazil, so we're going for another Brazilian. He conducts himself very professionally,
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  which I think all of us were instantly drawn too. So fitting in and
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  then there's its fitting in, and then there's you know, where have you
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  been? Yeah? And I haven't honestly jammed with a dramma like that in
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  years, where they stop you halfway for a song, going no, we
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  need to practice this part, and then you just practice that part fifteen times.
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  Yeah, drummer to Normally they'd be there just trying to get their feet,
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  you know, instead of jumping in. Agree, he's pulling my head
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  in. Fight him on the contract, guys, because there's about ten bands
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  I know, I'm looking for drummers at the moment, So sign is going
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  he's already it can't be where the last one? Sorry, that's a good
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  enough for me. It dropped your you're both recent tracked Wretched One back in
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  February. That wasn't with Panda singing though, was it? No? It?
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  So, have you got any new material coming out? With this new
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  lineupravently that there'll be by the time this comes out within the two months within
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  Yeah, we've got at least two singles coming up within the immediate future,
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  and then a lot more cool stuff to come after that. Yeah. Well,
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  and like one thing I guess a lot of people don't realize when when
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  they listen to music is along with lineup changes comes idea changes and style changes
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  when you write new music. So how's this new music that you're writing compared
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  to the old and great stuff. I think we've gone more back, yeah,
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  but more finer tuned and more energy. Panda the vocalist before Panda limited
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  this a little bit. But with Panda's range, we're actually to be able
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  to go back to that could present. So it's going to be a nice
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  mixture of harsh and clean vocals. Yeah, it's going to go back to
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  that melodic core with harsh vocals and and everything in between. And even just
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  like the last writing session we had, the songs are coming out and they're
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  exciting us so much. We can't wait to show the world what's about to
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  come out. Yeah. The writing when we're together is very fluent. It's
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  not like before we're probably myself and one other person are doing most of the
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  writing. We're actually a band that is now writing together and it's feeling very
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  more natural. It's very collectic between them, you know, between us and
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  the whole band's pretty much Queensland. No Dan lives up here pretty much.
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  And how does that? I guess the big thing for fans of the band
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  is, like our existing fans that love your music when you first came out,
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  are they still going to be happy with the new stuff? Oh?
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  Yeah, it started, like we said, we're going back to that original
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  vision, but just polished and upgraded as much as we can polish and upgrade
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  it because we obviously want to keep moving forward. That's That's not to put
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  down anything we've done in the past, but yeah, the past was really
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  good, a great band. But I know a lot of fans out there
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  with lineup changes, particularly when a new vocalist comes in, they're worried that
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  they're going to lose the essence of the band that they fell in love with.
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  Not worried for a second, Yeah, Panda's definitely definitely something you don't
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  want. Yeah, well, look at the size that can't you can't miss
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  him I'm crouching beyond for them. It's a head over me. I think
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  what really leads to like the proof is in the pudding is how much we're
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  in the practice room and we just look at each other and smile at little
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  bits because it's just like it's all coming together so smoothly. Just feels right.
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  Yeah, very cool, very well. And along with lineup changes,
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  I guess also comes branding updates and new merch. So I'm taking it to
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  you guys all over that stands all over it smell he is. What do
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  you got? Got a new line of shirts that we've already that where that
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  will be dropping at the Nowhere Festival. We've got stickers coming out, and
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  we've got a couple more shirt designs in the making, and a few other
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  little cheeky surprises. You're just going to have to come to a show to
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  see that was that aimed at me or everyone? Corey everyone? But yeah,
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  it's almost been a year and you haven't come yet. Well, you've
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  already got a shirt, a new one. I'm not talking about a shirt,
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  I'm talking about coming to see his life. That was a very backhanded
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  fucking thing. You can always to our website as well. There's always a
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  little merch update from time to time, so yeah, website in cases someone
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  listening that doesn't I www dot Engrave bandofficial dot com to find all of the
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  latest Engraved merch from stickers to key rings, hats, hoodies, your essentials
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  will be there and we have discount codes available through the website as well,
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  So when you approach that site if it's on Google, just add music at
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  the end or else you get a shipload of gold rings. People understand you've
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  got a few interstage shows coming up as well, so fans outside of Queensland
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  you can see what's what's going on there. Yep. So we're I'm going
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  to be down in Sydney. Well I'm going to stay here, but these
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  boys will be coming down in June for ram at Down Festival. We then
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  have plans to go to Melbourne in October and also Adelaide, so we are
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  traveling around a fair bit and are looking to book more shows in between those
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  periods as well. Very good guys. All right, well, thanks very
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  much for your time. It's been a pleasure speaking with this again. Finally,
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  shitloads taping up. Head to the Engraved band Official website not the Grave
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  Gold Ring website, and check it out