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Dead To Rights With DECEMBERS DEADLINE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Well, I'm my name Saxon, and we also have Peter here, like
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  he's the guitarist. I'm the guy on vocals. Were December is deadline?
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  We started probably what joining the band last year sometime m like we were like
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  just two people trying to get involved in the music that they had going and
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  trying to keep the band alive. And yeah, I guess the same is
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  called Crossairs. Beautiful guys, thanks for joining us this afternoon, Thanks for
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  having us. Yeah, thank you, my playsures. So December's deadline and
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  return with your new song, Crossairs, which will be released on December twenty
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  ninth. So tell me, guys, is it a late Christmas present or
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  is it an early New Year's gift? I think an early New Year's gift
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  for people. A lot of people these days don't seem to want to put
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  stuff out around this time of year. Well, I reckon going into the
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  new year. So strong is actually a great idea. It's definitely that's a
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  good idea. Like say, not many people are putting it out this time
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  of year, but if you do, you know that people are staffed for
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  music, So it's not a bad idea at all. I think it could
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  be a good time. Well, and it's your first release, it's unique
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  in November twenty twenty one, So what's changed with December's deadline since then?
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  So since then, we've had a bit of a member change, as Sax
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  mentioned him and I came on last year, so yeah, a bit of
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  a lineup change, a bit of a reshuffle within the band, and yeah,
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  I'm on guitar now and Sax on the vocals, and yeah, just
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  sort of had a bit of a sit down and said, hey, you
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  know, let's let's do this, and let's get our influences in on this
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  as well, and let's shape the sound and you know, we'll take what
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  you guys have and hopefully improve on what we've got and come out, you
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  know, come out bigger than ever. So that was the plan behind Yeah,
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  December's deadline and us joining. Wait, so give us a bit more
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  information about you two guys that have just joined, and then what used to
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  bring into the band. I feel like we're both just bring in a fresh
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  face, a whole new sounds of things in the in the kind of demoing
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  stage of things. It was definitely Peter kind of going is this what you
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  want? And everyone kind of just jumping on board and going, yeah,
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  we're going to run with this one now, So I guess it was.
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  It was definitely bringing a new kind of aspect of the writing to the band,
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  and I think that was the biggest thing that we were bringing, is
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  like fresh faces, like a fresh sound, like a way to get the
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  band still going, but without it being like too different from what the old
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  stuff was. So tell us a bit about your new song, cross Hands,
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  and from a musical point of view and what you're going for with it.
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  Yeah, Musically, I listened to what the guys were doing and they
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  were throwing their influences around and stuff. So yeah, basically, as Saxon
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  said, I came up with a bit of a riff, that main riff,
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  that sort of gent style riff, and sent it through to the boys
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  and said, you know, this is this what you wanted kind of thing,
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  which is funny because that sort of then plays into the lyrics as well,
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  you know, the lyrics of the chorus, there is this what you
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  wanted? So yeah, they loved it. They said, yeah, that's
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  that's cool, let's run with that. So yeah, it was sort of
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  built it up from there and all got together everyone put their ideas in and
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  yeah, grew it from there. Yeah, I felt like it was really
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  organic. We kind of got to a point where we had a couple of
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  songs we were writing, and out of all the ideas we had, it
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  just felt like everyone was really going at the same tempo. Everyone was like
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  all the cylinders firing. It was just a good time, I think,
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  for everyone to just be on the same page and really had that goal that
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  we wanted to achieve for this song. So we mentioned that the last song
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  you released was Unique over two years ago, guys, so how does cross
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  Says differ to that musically with the new lineup? Well, older fans of
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  the band still appreciate it, Yeah, I think so. I think people
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  will understand that the space that we were going into was definitely going to be
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  a little bit of a you know, like a bit different from maybe Unique.
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  But that was when Ben was still taking over the vocal side of things
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  and he was playing guitar. So I guess Crossairs was more just a way
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  to get everyone to understand that we were trying to look for a new sound.
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  They were looking for a new vocalist and other people to come in,
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  So it just kind of organically happened that way that like, we weren't going
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  to try to be the same band that like they were when Ben was there,
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  but the core group of people writing the songs were still the same.
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  It just needed to get, you know, find that that sounds collectively.
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  Yeah, so along those lines too, guys, Like the press release also
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  points to a new sound to go with the new lineup. So is that
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  someone that you deliberately planned and work towards sort of just sort of say,
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  happened more organically naturally. Yeah, definitely organically. I think a lot of
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  it was me coming in with my new ideas. They'd seen what I'd done
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  in the past with Pavilion and things like that, and they liked that and
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  sort of wanted me to bring my experience to the table. So a lot
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  of the ideas originated from me and my experience and my influences. But then
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  it was yeah, putting that into the band setting, and then yeah,
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  as Sex says, yet, a lot of it happening organically from there,
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  and it very much felt that we were all on that same page. You
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  know, everyone was sort of saying, Yeah, that's that's cool, let's
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  do that. Let's you know that works with that and it all just yeah,
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  really came together. Well, say, the way for the song I
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  came together for me was probably Ben was writing a lot for us to make
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  ideas for an EP, and I came up with this like the I guess
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  the start line of the chorus, and I was saying, is this kind
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  of what you could be into, like for an idea for a chorus?
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  And he was like, oh, maybe not for this EP. I've got
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  some ideas. But as soon as Peter brought Crosshairs to the table, I
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  just jumped in like just straight away, being like, this is exactly what
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  I want. This is exactly what I think the song should be. And
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  it just kind of happened in that way that even though it was an idea
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  on the back burner, it came through so strong once I actually had the
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  ideas out and on the table. So would you say the Crossair he's a
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  good representation of where December's Deadline going in the future. Yeah, definitely.
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  Yeah for all. Now we mentioned the track unique, but you've also got
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  songs in Devor and where we started from which we're all released in twenty twenty
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  one. So are you playing to re record them with the car line up
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  and put them on a future EP or album, or are you just sort
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  of going forward with new stuff. Yeah, I think going forward with new
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  music was definitely the idea that we were going for to keep them songs in
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  the set for if we were going to play live, But we were definitely
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  wanting to steer more in the direction where me and Peter have more room to
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  grow and shine within the band. So Ben and Brady really just needed to,
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  you know, I guess keep it like as the core sound those two,
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  because whatever they were going to do was going to be December's deadline.
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  We just needed to add like our little flavors on top of things. So
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  you mentioned something about an EP before. Guys, it's his song part of
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  a bigger, big project or a bigger picture or is it just a stand
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  alone for now standalone for now? Yeah, just a bit of a reintroduction
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  to the new lineup, sort of say hey, guys, you know we're
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  still here, December's deadline is still going. You know, this is what's
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  been happening, and this is where we're at now. I think that's what
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  Cross says was intended for. Yeah. I also notice looking through your Lentury
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  account that you've got a VIP membership option, which is pretty new to me.
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  So sounds like a good idea. What actually is it? So?
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  Yeah, it's part of our band camp account. You can sign up to
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  become VIP members and what you get is all the music we've already got back
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  catalog, ten percent off of all our merchandise, and also you get early
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  streams and things like that, pre releases, all of that sort of stuff
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  with it as well. There's different tiers to come with the memberships. So
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  depending on which tier you get, is how many goodies you get? I
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  guess with the bigger tier sort of giving you access to things like face to
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  face interviews with us, you know, videos and things like that, invites
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  to VIP parties and whatever. Maybe Yeah, very cool, very cool.
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  So we're only getting to have ron. There's only gonna be two days left
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  of twenty twenty three by the time the song comes out, guys, So
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  what is twenty twenty hold for December's deadline? Yeah? I guess we'll wait
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  to see how this song lands. You know, with the new lineup and
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  the new sound, we really don't know what to expect. You know,
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  people are either going to love it or hate it, so I think the
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  reaction of the fans will strongly determine where we go from here. So yeah,
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  we'll wait, wait and see, I guess. So no plans yet.
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  I'm just sort of going to feel it out and see how it goes
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  and test the waters, I guess. And yeah, all right, guys,
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  well thanks very much for your time. But it's been a pleasure to
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  speak with you. The single Cross Hands is out December twenty ninth, and
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  I've been fortunate enough to double listen and she's a bloody cracker, good song,
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  guys for best to like. Thanks man, thank you very much.