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Sonic Wounds With KAOSPHERE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah, okay, calm well, I'm the league guitarist, guitarists, vocals
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  were on and on, the bass player Sam Phillips on drums, and we
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  are chaos fear beautiful guys, thanks for joining us this evening, Thanks for
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  having us my pleasure. So Chao Sphere will unleash your debut full length in
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  Scars we Trust on Friday, May the third. Guys like, not far
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  away? Now, how you feeling He's nervous, ganxious, excited, couldn't
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  give a fuck. How you feeling relieved? Looking forward to it? It's
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  been a lot of hard work gone into it and it's time to chill back
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  and actually, you know, get the sort of see the fruits of our
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  labor. I guess m hm. Been over two years in the making,
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  so yeah, a lot of build up and a lot of work. Yeah,
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  and so far you've released the singles chain Breaker, war Right, and
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  may I. So would you say those three are a good sonic representation of
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  what to expect sort of these There's still a lot of groovy tracks on the
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  album, and they all have their differences. I mean, obviously our flavor
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  is still there and ingrained in it, but there is a lot of difference
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  in some of those songs. Yeah, Yeah, I think that's mainly because
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  we actually the whole tie obment itself as a whole pile of singles. Okay,
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  So we basically went into the studio, would write and record one song
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  over a month or over two months, and then finish that, go to
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  a new one, and we just worked our way through it like that and
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  occasionally went back and actually we actually re recorded a couple of the songs,
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  were actually spruced them up, but more deffinitely tell us a bit more about
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  the album from a musical point of view, and what are you were going
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  for with it? Then? Uh, we didn't actually have a specific goal
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  at the time. We just kind of write what we felt, what we
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  kind of vibed at the time, and you know, we'd get some music
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  and then would shout to Ricky and we see what sort of vibe he got
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  from it, and then he'd kind of, you know, write out the
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  lyrics based on the feelings that came from that song, you know, the
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  vibe that was created from that song. Basically, I went through and I
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  find a book. That's the first thing I searched for. I found a
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  whole and then our face. I think more more than in the past,
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  we've got a big, wide range of genres, and that the songs have
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  a big amount of varying dynas dynamicism that's not even a word. So the
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  thrash thrash bits as death beats, there's new metal bits as groove metal bits.
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  It's the songs generally have you know, catchy hook choruses and then they
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  go back into bed punching and then they put forward. But we have a
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  lot of different influences, you know, listen to a lot of different styles,
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  and that's why we're kind of really hard to define what genre we even
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  play because we don't even know just heavy whatever week on a film so prepared
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  that have been with the band since the beginning that guys like, how how
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  would you say that in Scars we trust differs musically to your debut EP Forsaken
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  Shadows. Oh a lot more timeless sme on it. Yeah. Production we
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  learned a lot in the studio and as we built these songs in the studio,
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  so we actually got time to learn what sounds, all these different sounds
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  and frequencies, how they actually work. Whereas with the Saken Shadows. We
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  sort of built that in a garage and then went in there and punched it
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  out over a weekend, you know what I mean. So very different kind
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  of a working which led to more complex arrangements. The songs are now more
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  complex. Like we said, we've been back several times too. We just
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  re recorded and we did a few parts in a few places as well.
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  So there was a thing of having actually more time. I think we've spent
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  a lot more time doing this thing we did the previous previous albums, so
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  we could put a lot more into it, emphasis into it this time.
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  Yeah, I suppose the big question is well, old fan to the band
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  still like the new material. I think so. Yeah, I can't see
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  what they won't. Still follows the same sort of hockey. Yeah, it's
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  still that we do. It's still chaos. Yeah, it's always. I
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  think it doesn't matter. Even if we tried to copy someone's music, it
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  would still sound like chaos. We've eve even tried that in the past,
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  to copy someone's like say a genre Middlepor or something like that, and we
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  think we're playing Medlepors and then we play it and it's like a man,
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  it's just because there's a bit of a deck medal in there, there's a
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  middle gul and you know, all the different genres that seemed to just come
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  out at the same time. Now, Ricky, you've experimented with some clean
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  vocals as well on this one, like why is now the right time to
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  introduce that element to chaosphs music? In my previous life for my old band
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  Esophagus, which obviously started in New Zealand, that band started with cleans.
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  It was very based on nineties music and it had cleaned all through it,
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  and as we started chaos Fare, it was sort of like a heavier project.
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  So I never really brought them out many times, but it's always been
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  there and some of the feelings and grooves we got over the songs. As
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  we were making these songs, they sort of felt like it they needed it,
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  you know. So I was still you know, myself and worrying about
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  how they're going to sound and what other vocalist will thing because whatever. But
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  in the end it's like, yeah, all right, it still sounds good
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  to me. You guys have been playing a few shows lately, so you've
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  had a chance to road chest the new songs, like how's like from stage,
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  how does it look out in the crowd, Like, does it look
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  like people getting into them? Well, do you reckon put it back on
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  me? I haven't had I haven't the lights. I haven't heard anyone complain
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  about And from my point of view there they sort of you're right what you
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  said before, Like it seems like you've you've lived with these songs a bit
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  longer, so he's a more comfortable playing them. And it's because of that
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  alone, Like it comes through when you're playing it live, like people can
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  see that you're more invested in this music and they can hear it as well.
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  Yeah. Yeah, Well we've had good feedback so far from the from
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  the ones we've actually played, pretty good feedback so far. I think it's
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  just it's fine with our music, given our old music thin and and that's
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  kind of something as good as music, you know, like if you listen
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  to it and then listen to it two years later and you still enjoy it.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that's the people moshing out at the shows, you
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  know, from back on the drums, I like to see people moving and
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  going crazy and giving the energy back. And I think we're putting it out
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  there and people are jumping around. Yeah, very cool now. As well
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  as releasing The Scars We Trust on Friday, you're also dropping a new single
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  and music video for Bringing Out the Dad. So tell us more about that
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  song. Well, it's pretty much Ricky's lyrics were written to that one pretty
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  much. How that's one started as we actually got a creepy little track,
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  like a sample and it's creepy little like tones and like almost sounds like circusy
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  sort of things, and it would be and then we just when we wrote
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  it, you know, I was just like feeling the vibe of kind of
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  like that kind of dark sort of song and but creepy as well like that,
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  you know. Yeah, basically basically wrote the lyric about pretty much being
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  did inside and the video as well, pretty good all those new metal influencers,
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  you know, that creepy twisted using some unusual sounds. Mhm mm hmm.
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  And you mentioned a video too, like it's fucking awesome, and then
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  it's it's a little bit scary as well, if I have to admit it,
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  Like it's got some devilishly scary fucker's and lots of flashing lights like that's
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  you. Well, pretty pretty much pretty much the whole entire intro to the
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  actual song itself sits the scene because it's so erie and it's so creepy,
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  and I pretty I've pretty much got vision in my head of what this video
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  kind of could play out is just because I'm into pol the Geist programs,
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  you know, ghostbusting stuff and all that kind of stuff and paranormal and it
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  just played right into my imagination. And we decided this one that will actually
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  more base it around props, so that really helps. So it's got all
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  sorts of moving props and scales and wigi boards that move and stuff and all
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  that kind of stuff. So that's pretty much how that whole thing came about
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  was just me being into the paranormal. I just got engrossed in it,
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  mate. Yeah, and like that video and then the other ones your release
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  so far, like they've all been of a really high quality with good storylines
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  and good visuals, and I know you guys are doing a lot of that
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  yourself, So how much time and planning goes into something like that usually not
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  very much change. The Dental videos themselves tend to actually write themselves of because
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  we tend to follow the storyline of what the lyrics are actually about, and
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  usually usually one of us will come up with it and we will add to
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  it evitable concepts and ideas to the video, but one of us will come
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  up with the main concept and we will just go, yeah, that's great,
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  let's go that. And that's how the pretty much came around. And
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  it's the same with the new one, I Bring Out the Dead. I
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  just got absolutely involved in that one. I think, I think pretty much
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  the guys just went I spent literally hours and hours and hours building props.
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  Yeah right, well the shows man, because it looks good. Yeah,
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  and I was just absolutely engrossed. So yeah, that's what came about.
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  Then we generally film them over the course of a weekend. Yeah. Well,
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  and I believe you're planning released a few more singles as well, but
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  just as visualizes. Is that right? Oh yeah, yeah, like the
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  rest of the album being released as visualizers. But we do intend to actually
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  make a few more videos as well for some of the songs from the album,
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  so that they'll be coming later on down the track. Yeah. Do
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  you know the support of our label X Music Australia, We're gonna have some
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  really cool visualizers for some other singles off the track and anything else will be
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  doing. They'll be ready to go on May the third, so they'll drop
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  when the video and net drops will bring up the DA. Of course,
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  we'll be doing more videos throughout the year before. Like we said, with
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  the whole album being like singles, pretty much all the songs actually could suit
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  a video, so we just keep going with videos as well. A few
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  more videos to come in that that speaks to the quality of the album itself.
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  I guess like a lot of bands will drop two or three singles from
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  an album and that's it. But you guys are confident enough to do more
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  visualized up and more stuff about it. So yeah, those that the quality
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  of the music is definitely there because you wouldn't be wasting your time otherwise.
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  No, exactly exactly. There's only a couple of what we've probably called B
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  sides otherwise all the rest are almost single quality. So yeah, was well
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  just released them all as like videos and singles? Why not? Indeed,
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  so us about it not albums, but all of them tell us a bit
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  more about the cover arts and scars, we trust, so it's pretty cool
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  to look at. Well, the cover art we just kind of thought was
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  a good visual representation of, you know, what the album is about.
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  And it's one of those covers you can kind of interpret like a lot of
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  different ways. Like you know, however, you kind of see it like
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  it's kind of like, well the albums and scars we trust. So it's
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  basically how what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So we thought that was
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  a good representation of that. It's like a figure of light being omitted from
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  it and yet it's bleeding out and scarred, you know. So that's basically
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  it was the perfect way of representing what the what the album is called,
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  what it's about, all right, twisted as fuck. So someone's got a
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  vivid imagination. Yeah, we're not sure everyone will kind of sort of understand
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  the image, but you know, it's basically what the interpretation. Yeah,
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  and that's cool. That's the idea. That's the idea of artwork pass subjectives,
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  so everyone can interpret it how they interpret it. Yeah. Cool.
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  And I believe you've got some special pressings like visuals on the discs and singles
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  as well as is that right? Yeah, some some basically the same sort
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  of artwork extra artwork that we've got as well, and artwork that we're used
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  on T shirts as well, the kind of stuff. So we've got a
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  whole range ready to go for merchandise. And so yeah, the CD will
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  have a a booklet which will have fold out and various pieces of art,
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  some which will then be on the CD disc and some will be on T
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  shirts and other merch We've basically got a range of art that the artist did
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  in order to relate to the album and the theme and the themes of the
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  songs, to create sort of like a visual story book for people to have
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  something to look at and associate with the messages. Very cool. So this
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  is definitely one that you should buy the physical copy of instead of ripping it
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  for free on Spotify. Yeah, it's it's going to be a beautiful scene.
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  Yeah. Yeah. Now you've got to show coming up on Friday night
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  as well. A tried clubhouse in Redcords, So tell us a bit about
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  that. Yeah, Look, I've tried to get a few shows at ME
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  two obviously because the album's shopping. So yeah, I hearing really good things
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  about the Tribe Club. Yes, and it's like one of those little cool
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  little places and it's free entry, you know, And I think that's awesome
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  and our today's world, it's not many shows you can go for free.
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  Yeah, and it's it's no stage, it's like ground level and sometimes like
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  more more personal sometimes those shows, right right, I mean sometimes are the
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  best ones. Actually the really personal. You get personal with the crowd,
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  you get right everything five the energy and everything and it's good. Look yeah,
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  like a party bo place. So we didn't looking forward to that show.
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  Yeah, and that's got Zagtar, Kaimura and Magnetron as well. I
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  can say I've been to Tribe Clubhouse before, guys, and it's just a
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  cool little ven. You're like, it's looking looking forward to it. Yeah,
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  and after that you're playing with Melbourne death metal outfit Maru then over two
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  shows at Most Desert Clubhouse and made the thirtieth in the back room in Brisbane
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  on May thirty first, like that should be brutal. I reviewed their album
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  the other week and interviewed them, and those fuckers are brittial, great good,
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  just gonna fit in with us, I think. Yeah, I think
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  so they got not good visual show too, like they can get a chance
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  to check them out, and they've all got a bit of a backstory going
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  on with their different characters and ship and it's it looks like I've full on
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  performance. So anyone around for those two shows should definitely check them out.
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  It's great to have a band that's, you know, putting so much effort
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  in and coming up from Melbourne and we get to play with them, and
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  you know, it's a really good band, and so I really recommend people
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  come along and check that one out. And then June the fifteenth, we're
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  back at the back room and for Jack Lane's show of memorial show that's gonna
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  be that's going to be sick. You guys know from Detoriation. Obviously you
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  passed away last year Jack did, so couldn't say no to that one.
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  Yeah. In July twenty second, I think the bright Side we're there.
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  That's a festival, that's a Fast Slaying Records festival he's putting on there.
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  And then I believe I'm trying in the mix of organizing one on the Gold
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  Coast for our official wall. Yeah. Well there's a fair coming up that
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  we probably can't talk about yet because it hasn't been finalized or announced, but
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  anyone wants to stay up to date with what's happening. With Kospia and perhaps
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  buy a copy of the new CD. Where can they get them from,
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  Well, thank you pretty much. Just mail us straight through Facebook all that
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  kind of stuff, and also from the ex Music Official website X Music officials
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  website as well three years but they can get it from us at at a
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  concert or definitely ex Music Music you know official. Definitely hit up our Facebook
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  because we'll be pumping it over the next month and they can buy it off
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  the labels, but cantel website that will link on the Facebook, but they
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  can always message us and we'll link them straight to the you know, to
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  the mail lord of Linco. So then get out to them. M we've
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  got to show shach brow long john' do you feel yours? Can you feel
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  a cheer in your Do you feel the shire is your stock when you hear
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  the little cry? Okay case you go no way to trust we just becu.
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  So if future generations can live in peace and shapeli every ways, you
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  never have had to scream. Just remember Son Claud so cloud sun cloud so
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  faud Sir's clouds so brown sun and clouds and soffare happen, says clouds,
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  so brown Sun clouds, and so found Claud. You won't cross, try,
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  you crowl wish