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A Statement Of Intent With CAM From DIMENSIONIST · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  So yeah, my name's my name is canse Wells. I'm the BA player
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  and producer and Dimension This and our songs called Artifacts to Remain. It's it's
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  our first single and we're pretty pretty freaking pumped about it. We've been working
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  working hard to get to this point and yeah, I'm just excited to you
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  know, have the train leave the station. That's good man, Thanks thanks
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  for joining us. Yeah, happy to be here man. Yeah. Right,
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  So, as you said, Dimension This today release your debut track,
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  Artifacts Remains, so you sort of briefly touch of it then, but how
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  you feel about it? Bro? Man, we're all so excited. Hey,
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  Like, you know, we've been we've been working towards this point for
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  a long time, and it's just yeah, we're really to finally be here
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  and be able to put our music out to the world, you know,
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  like really be like, yeah, we're we're here, So we are.
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  This is what we say. I'm like, and you know, it's it's
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  not oh yeah it's coming, it's it's now. Man. It's good.
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  It's good to be able to to be able to say that. So tell
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  us a bit more about the song from a musical point of view and what
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  you're going forward it. Yeah, so I mean to mention this, like
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  our overall sound is, you know, it's like sometimes it's quite prog,
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  progressive and ambient and nice, and then on the other side of the spectrum
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  and it's just really brutal and heavy hitting and and we have a little bit
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  of everything between. And you know, we've got quite a few songs written
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  now, but this one we felt was like a good kind of full breadth
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  of the spectrum, if that makes sense. You know, it has a
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  little bit of everything that we're all about, and we felt, you know,
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  yeah, it was it was a good first song for everyone to hear
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  because it really gives them an idea of what the rest of the cattle is
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  going to be work as well. Yeah, so you know, the song
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  musically, you know, starts off nice and nice and ambience and and you
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  know very very theory and big, you know, like cinematic synth work and
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  stuff like that. And then and then there's kind of like, you know,
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  there's like a moment where where it all changes and builds and sort of
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  the kind of main riffs that the song centered around, and and that's when
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  you know things are about to change and then it just gave form metal and
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  and and then it just remains pretty heavy for for the rest of the track.
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  Yeah, and how about lyrically, what story does artifacts remain? Well?
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  Yeah, so so yeah, this is this song's lyrically quite personal to
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  the vocalist, but he gave me a little blur. I said. The
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  songs really about someone yearning to find a better way in the world, but
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  you know, ultimately being unable to to to the echoes of past events.
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  So there's a mixture of frustration and determination, but mostly there's like an ultimate
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  surrendering to the inner conflict. And that's yeah, that's what he was trying
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  to get across. And the song was engineered and produced by the band yourselves,
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  mate, Like, what are some of the pros and cons have taken
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  that role on in ows? Yeah, time and pressure, I think,
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  Yeah, it's like like, you know, there's there's some amazing producers out
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  there and and you know working working with them would be would be incredible,
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  But I guess, you know, we just wanted the challenge and also,
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  you know, being our first release, maybe save a bit of a cash
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  as well, and you know we cash and that in stentd it on the
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  film clip which you'll see. But yeah, also like it was a bit
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  of a personal challenge for me too that I wanted to take on because I'm
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  a I'm a dance music producer formerly and have been for about twenty years.
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  So I just wanted that opportunity to you know, give mixing the bound to
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  go and yeah, really dive in and learn at the same time. Yeah,
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  I was sort of touched on us a little bit before. But it
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  is artifacts remain indicative of the sound of Dimensionless or is it just little one
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  side of a what do you expect? Like I said before, I think
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  it's a good kind of yeah, indicator of our sonic spectrum. But we
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  definitely have more progressive songs, and we definitely have more like you know,
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  modern metalcore and just straight up heavy acts with you know yeah that are just
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  like brutal. We even have a two minute song which is just blast.
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  It's basically yeah, yeah, yeah, So we really do do a bit
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  of everything, and yeah, we felt we felt this song really showcase or
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  like our sonic palette as a band. So is it a standalone single for
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  an hour? Is it part of a bigger EPR album cycle? So Yeah,
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  so it's a standalone single for now. We have a few more singles
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  in the in the pipeline, but we're going to stay out over a couple
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  of months. And you know, now we're just getting out there, you
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  know, seeing what people think, get some feedback, and and yeah,
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  we're gonna like concentrate on playing some shows soon as well. I'm trying it
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  a try and get us onto the stage, which were which we're nearly ready
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  to do. But yeah, I think we should expect another single out in
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  about three months from now, and then maybe a couple of months after that
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  too. So we got like we've got two tracks we want to get out,
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  just not straight away. Yeah. So for those not familiar with Dimension,
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  this makee it gives gives a bit of history about the band. Yeah,
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  so so I've really started like there was three of us, me,
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  Jason drums, and Benny on guitar, and we were just standon for a
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  while. We all just met on Internet, just you know, just looking
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  for people to play with. And and yeah, January last year, we
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  were like, you know what, let's let's go fucking serious. Let's let's
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  really make it a good goal at this and yeah, we had a couple
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  of like couple of good solid demos already, and we're like, all right,
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  we need a we need a vocalist, and we need a second guitarist,
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  and yeah, put the fields out on the face. And I think
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  we've got the full lineup about July last year, and we've just just been
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  working harder since, you know, defining the sound and you know, just
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  writing as much as we can. So yeah, and basically just working working
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  towards this moment pretty much and beyond. Yeah. Now, there's a couple
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  of good quotes in your press release that I want you to expand on a
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  bit for us. Mate. The first one says that Imationalist explores the space
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  that exists at the edge of heavy music. Like that's a beautiful quote,
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  So what what do you mean by that? Cool? Hm hmm, Yeah,
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  I think I think link Link Rotes, which is a second guitarists.
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  I think what he was trying to say was, you know that we're not
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  just like, we don't just want to be kind of generic. We want
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  to you know, and we also don't want to just have one sound like
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  we do cross into other other flavors a lot. Like you're hearing the single,
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  Like there's a lot of like heavy synth work and stuff, and that
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  comes from like a dance music background. And there's a couple of traps of
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  ours that are that are actually quite quite dancy, like they're not like E.
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  D M or anything like that, but you know, they have like
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  they have that feel. And and then yeah, and then there's like,
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  you know, we're trying to like cross pollinate between that kind of how do
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  so I'm just kind of black been trying to think about how Yeah, it's
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  like, yeah, I guess we don't want to just be like, you
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  know, just the heavy bands, Like, we want to include all sorts
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  of flavors that we love from all other you know, types of music.
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  Like you know, we really love heavy bands, but we also love Radiohead
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  and York and you know, hands Zimmer and drum and bass and you know
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  all this other stuff. So we just want to try and bleeding elements from
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  all of our inspirations. And yeah, I guess that in turn makes it
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  sound, you know a little bit different than just like straight up you know,
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  straight up metalcor or you know whatever. Yeah, straight up like technical
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  metal or something like that. And you mentioned our shows before have you got
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  any any books or are you just living? Yeah, so books is yet
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  we do have a lot of you know, we are friends with a lot
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  of other bands are locally and in a state as well, so we're basically
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  we've been concentrating on writing all the material for the set, which is now
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  done. So now it's just practice, practice, practice, and and on
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  the on the newer ones, and then you know, there'll be a point
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  where we're like, yeah, we're ready to go, and we don't know
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  if we're going to join you know, another fans line up or just put
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  on our own show with all of our friends. We don't We don't know
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  exactly it's going to roll yet, but yeah, in the next couple of
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  months will definitely be keen to start getting out there and blowing up some sound
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  systems for sure. Yeah, Cavil, thanks very much for your time.
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  Mate. By the time this comes out, artifacts remain will be out and
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  available for everyone's else So best like with a maiden, let us know when
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  you get a brisbe gig I popped down and sail a