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Backstage At CVLTFEST With DIAMOND CONSTRUCT · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Thanks for tuning into another heavy podcast. We're here. It's today at COLP
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  First twenty twenty four with kind of from Dumb and Construct. Thanks for joining
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  us. Man, all good, mate, Oh good. So I've got
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  to say I saw your set today or you said I saw two songs.
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  It's the only band I've seen all day, best band the day by far,
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  and the worst the worst, but not very impressive mane Like you guys
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  had a good crowd. They looked like it came across pretty well. Yeah,
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  thanks man. I guess it's kind of like a hometown show these days,
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  so it felt good. Yeah, yeah, courl and it is a
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  great light up and like there's Alpha wol Cross bathe them, you're plenty more
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  like out of all of them, who you're most looking forward to singing for
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  the day, Well obviously, like we're really good friends with the guys in
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  Alpha. Samian's almost like a big brother to our band, so obviously I've
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  got to say them. Yeah. But it's been awesome because we're on tour
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  with them, you are right now and this is the last show of that
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  one, so being able to see them every night it's been good too.
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  So yeah, i'd have to say those two bands, how do you treat
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  someone with this and avateur with him? You're even done? Like you your
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  treators are learning experience, like you sort of watch what they do and sure
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  or is it just fun? Like how do you approach it? Absolutely?
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  I mean like I'm always learning and watching them every night. I feel like
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  sometimes you almost do some secret things that you don't even know about, Like
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  you might do like a certain move that they might do and you're like,
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  oh, I've got to stop doing I've been watching them too much or whatever.
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  But no, But honestly, like I like watching what they do off
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  stage. That's why I learn the most. What they do behind the stage,
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  what they do to set up, how they get off stage, how
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  they can douct themselves around the fans. That's the most important thing because that's
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  what's going to carry yourself as a professional, you know what I mean.
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  So you make a good point. They're like a lot of bands. You
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  get it, get an opportunity like that, and they're just on the piece
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  every day, you know, like treating the jobs for like a yahoo.
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  But you've got to not just soak in the experience, but you've got to
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  learn from it as otherwise, what are you doing right as well? Just
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  go work a normal job or whatever, Like that's that's cool too. So
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  I think one of the best things about cult Fest is the mixing of the
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  international and the Australian bands together. Like how important is it for the Australian
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  music scene, Like you guys are a growing band in the scene. How
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  important is it to band like yourself to have the opportunity of others. It's
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  pretty crazy. I mean, like, you know, two of the bands
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  are from Japan here today and stuff, and like even just being able to
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  meet those guys and like chat to them and stuff. It's I think that's
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  so important for musicians in general, let alone like the people going to the
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  shows. I think that like people miss that a lot. Is like you
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  get to mix with people from all around the world and share your experiences and
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  how the music scene is in their countries and all that sort of stuff.
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  But I guess for the fans it's great too because they're probably used to seeing
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  a lot of the same bands a lot, because there's not a lot of
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  bands in Australia that are on that sort of level. So it's good to
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  have that at one shot and that does look actually a good pointing. Matally,
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  you had to go from Paladus spinning before chatting with him, and the
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  first time he came to Australia, I didn't speak should always been over here
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  with Alpha Wolf and down to the Affliction, and just through those tours he's
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  learned how to speak English. It's just amazing. That's pretty crazy. Yeah,
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  well you look at the ten five six guys. The vocalist is he
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  speaks like well like in English because he's from England, but he also speaks
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  fluent in French as well because he moved out I think when he was on
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  twenty or something and that's when he met those guys and started the band right
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  with them. So it's kind of cool watching them all speak French together.
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  Then he comes over and he sounds like, you know, just some English
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  soco fire. It's cool. You get a bit of both worlds and then
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  you learn a bit of fresh dude. Oh maybe just this is the last
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  show of Throw of Yours, So how did that go? And you've played
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  a big crowds. Yeah, it's been awesome. Honestly, didn't expect much
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  in Perth because he's never been but it was crazy from the get go,
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  and I guess because we've never been as well, Like the fans were so
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  get up to see us. They were almost like, you know, releasing
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  something inside of them, like when they finally got to like hear some of
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  the songs, which kind of made us feed off that energy as well.
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  So it's just this constant thing and it just it went up ex financially droughout
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  during the set. That was crazy. Alleaid's always good, Melbourne's always good,
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  Sydney is always good. Newcastle was great this time, so pretty pretty
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  hit and miss that. Yeah, they are no offense to them, but
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  they pull this did they gotta be good all time? All? But it
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  went yeah, and then like the long distance drive here and this is the
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  best one. Yeah. Cool. And you guys recently releasing singles Switchblade os
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  key Like what is OSD stands for Original soundtrack? Of course it does?
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  What else would it stands for? And it has this something been received by
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  to come and go down? Well that's good. I mean, like we
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  like to push the boundaries and move the needle, I guess, so we
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  don't want to sit in the middle and be mediocre or you know, just
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  something that you can kind of glaze over, Like I want sort of people
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  to say like I like this or I hate this, you know, and
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  either as good. If they're shit talking online, sweet, you're still running
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  up our streams. You liking it, they'll come and buy a shirt.
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  So yeah, it's been great. I feel like it's a pretty divisive track,
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  but that's what we're about. And yeah, cool here to stay.
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  It's taken from the upcoming album Angel Killer zero, which is about on April
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  twenty six, So is that a good soldic representation or what do you expect?
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  I feel like the single Switchblade is probably the most different on the album.
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  I feel like the album is a mix between the self titled album and
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  DCX two, which was the EP with the four tracks. It's a good
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  blend of that. It kind of got the electronic blends of DCX two,
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  but the aggressiveness and the breakdowns of the self titled YEP. So yeah,
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  I feel like it's it's the most Diamond Construct sound we've got. Yeah,
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  this one. If you have to describe the diamond Construct sound, what would
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  it be? Good question? The craziest, weirdest guitar sounds that should not
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  be in a song, I guess aggressive lyrics and just like crazy groove beats.
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  I guess, yeah, a mix of rap and metal at all.
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  And you're going to be released any more songs from the album, Yeah,
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  we've probably got I think we've got one more that we might do before we
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  drop the album, but we're sort of still deciding on what we're doing with
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  that. And yeah, keep busy after that. Two of the hell out
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  of It. Hell it sounds like a pretty personal record too, like an
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  explores scenes, connect its loneliness, heartbreak and substance. You say it was
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  difficult, right, being that personal. Yeah, it really is, and
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  honestly, like I think some of the songs go really really deep, and
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  those ones are kind of like the hardest ones that we sing live. Like
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  even on DCX two we had Enigma, which is like a really close personal
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  song to myself and that, but we do have the fun songs as well.
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  I like to try and balance it out, yeah, because for me,
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  metal is not always doom and gloom. You've got parts of that,
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  yes, and it's good to tap into that. But you know, you've
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  been all these kind of shows and everyone's having fun, so why don't you
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  sing some fun songs too good. Yeah, so that's what we're all about.
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  Kind of the contrast and the blend of both sweet Yeah and what's next
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  to Diamond Construct Bay you mentioned throwing your arses off, what you've got to
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  do? Yeah, I guess we'll head out on tour in May. I
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  think that we'll announce soon and then we'll probably try and do a headline tour
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  towards the back end of the year and Europe. If you're listening, let's
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  go over ready to gain Yeah's beautiful better Well, thanks very much for trying.
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  The album, Angel Kill zero is out April twenty six. Yeah,
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  but it's the best place. What's your best socials people to learn about it,
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  Instagram and learn about it Spotify to listen to it the Everydy standard.
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  Thanks for your brother, thanks for joining us chair bets and Live with Everything.
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  Thank you.