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Upward Trajectory With CONNOR GUTTERIDGE From RVN//NT · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey, it's kind of here from Revenant. The vocalist for Revenant. Yeah,
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  we got a single new single coming out on Friday called Disdain. Yeah,
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  go and check that, Go and check that one out. It's definitely
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  our biggest track yet. It's going to be awesome. Yeah, Revenant,
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  we've been we've been a band pretty formally, been a band since sort of
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  the beginning of this year. Yeah. We started off the year with yeah,
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  with the release of our first track, Void of Mind, and yeah,
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  been sort of scaling, scaling through the ranks and pulling some gigs and
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  stuff together ever since. And Yeah, it's been been something of a something
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  of a passion project for myself. You know, it's been it's really been
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  in the work since twenty twenty. But it's yeah, it's it's nice to
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  finally be out. So yeah, it's it's going good. Good man,
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  thanks for joining us today. I'd have pleasure to be your Thank you,
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  Chris, it's a great pleasure to meet you too. My friends. You
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  say, Revenant are releasing your third single, Disdain. This write a huge
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  seventh but that's going to be the actual video release, but the song itself
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  will be released to coincide with the State of Origin on Wednesday Night during the
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  fifth on all indeed platforms. Totally forgot, totally, Yeah, I totally
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  forgot that State of Origin was actually on Tomorrow night, So it could work
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  in our favor, but well, who knows. You never really know until
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  until it goes. So tell us it more about disdain from a musical point
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  of view, mate, what are you going for with the song? Yeah,
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  so disdain basically the biggest the thing that we've the thing that we've been
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  explaining to people when we're talking about Distain is it's kind of the big bad
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  brother of Void of Mind. It's a little bit more in the in the
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  metal core sort of style, you know, some tasty little licks and stuff
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  there. But then we're also experimenting a little bit more with with some cynthi
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  stuff as well. So it's it's just it's it's honestly just to kill a
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  track. It's it's a big it's it's a big track. You know,
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  We've we've got all of the elements and stuff that we've that we've hit hit
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  four so far. You know, gre our vocals mixed in with the clean
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  vocals quite nicely. You know, we've got in my opinion, in my
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  opinion, probably one of the better drummers out there at the moment. Jakie
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  Jake Brown, He's phenomenal. And then yeah, da damon, my brother.
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  He's he plays guitar for us, so he's he's literally come from a
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  bedroom guitarist. This is his first band and this this was Yeah, I
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  think it was the third or fourth track that he sent through to us initially,
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  and I couldn't believe it, to be honest, I went as soon
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  as we heard it, I was like, you're joking, Like he's just
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  leveling, leveling up a lot. But you know, as far as yeah,
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  as far as obviously talking a lot bit about about disdain from the musical
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  side of things, Obviously, me being a vocal list, I can touch
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  on that a little bit more. But yeah, so just stain this one.
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  It's definitely a darkest track for sure. We've touched a lot on We've
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  touched a lot of mental health and stuff in our past tracks, because it's
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  obviously a pro it's obviously a topic that's quite dear to my heart. And
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  you know, obviously the rest of the people, the rest of the guys
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  in the band, as well, you know, it's it's something that's that's
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  very out there and apparent these days. But yeah, distain, when I
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  was writing disdain It, I wanted to level up just that little bit more.
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  But also, you know, I found that through trying to trying to
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  level up my writing, it was taking me into, you know, so
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  to speak, the deepest parts of my core, you know. So yeah,
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  this one, this one in particular, is about it's it's particularly about
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  my struggles with with substance abuse and addiction and basically how that then correlates to
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  fairly hectic mental health and mental health problems, you know, on both sides,
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  you know, between between obviously the addiction kind of aggravating mental health,
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  but then obviously the addiction coming across because of mental health as well. So
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  it's kind of it's it touches in some it touches in some touchy subjects for
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  sure, but yeah, it's it's also more the big thing that I the
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  big thing that I wanted to go for with this track is you know,
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  trying to put it out there to people that you know, not only is
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  not only is it okay to be to be going through this kind of stuff
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  like it's you know it there is other people out there that are going through
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  it as well, and you know it's it's going to be okay, that
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  it is going to be okay. So I've been kind of pinning, pinning
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  it down as this is, you know, something of a beacon of hope
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  to people that might be that might be able to resonate with what I'm saying.
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  So, you know, it's it's definitely the deepest, the deepest,
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  darkest that I've that I've been since writing for Revenant. But yeah, it's
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  the the end product has come out, has come out really well, very
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  cool. So when you say it's the darkest thing you've ever done, you
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  mean lyrically, musically, atmospherically, or all the above. Definitely, Definitely
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  lyrically for sure. Atmospherically definitely as well, because it's you know, the
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  couple of the promo stuff that we brought out so far just sort of it
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  touches a little bit on some of the synthis side and some of the like
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  some of the kind of synth parts in it which are very sort of ambient
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  and you know, dark and crawl so to speak. So it's definitely I
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  think it's it's our it's our darkest song, you know, all over at
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  this point in time, and it's yeah, it's it's a lot, it's
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  a how do I put this, it's kind of less. I feel that
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  the first two tracks we're a little bit more on the vibrant side, whereas
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  this one's you know, it's it's heavy and it's fast, and it's yeah,
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  it's like hits hits high ends on my cleans as well as you know,
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  sort of rag ranging everywhere in my in my screams as well. So
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  it really it brings, it brings the best out in all of all of
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  us as a musician. And then yeah, like it's it's just become become
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  this awesome thing that we're so so excited to, so excited to show the
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  world. Oh and the song starts with a misleading electronic intro that sort of
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  gives up the impression that it's not going to be that hard hitting, and
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  then it just bursts into life like it's the guy's touch. Was that a
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  deliberate, deliberate thing. It's funny you mentioned that. I was just thinking
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  about it the other day. We when we first recorded this song, it
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  it had obviously the drop into it had obviously the drop into it, but
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  we hadn't really done much in the way of the synth kind of the synthy
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  kind of stuff. And then you know, that started to you know,
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  we were all we were all saying, you know, we should, you
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  know, we should try and dabble into some of the some of the more
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  adm sort of elements of metalcore. And then when when Jake, Jake actually
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  was the one who mixed the master this one, and yeah, when when
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  he kind of caught win that that was what we that was what we wanted,
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  he ran with it, and you know, and then even then,
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  like once we once we did that, you know, it was it was
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  sick, Don't get me wrong, but it it was still just missing something
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  in that initial in that initial bit and especially with that drop. And yeah,
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  Jake, Jake kind of brought the idea to me. It was like,
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  hey, like what about like something like a reverse snare or something like
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  that. And I was like, bang, that's it. He mentioned he
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  mentioned it. I was like, I had this idea in my head.
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  But then when when he showed it to us, and you know, obviously
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  that that brought air brought in the reverse snare to kick in the kick in
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  the track, We're all just like, Yeah, that's exactly what we're after.
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  Love it what it works out? Yeah, absolutely absolutely. You mentioned
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  that the State is your third song that you're released this year, So how
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  does it showcase? Like you sort of touch on this a little bit,
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  but I want to go into a bit deeper, like how does disdain and
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  showcase a different side of the band than your first two singles boyd in Mind
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  and Bleed Within? Yep, So yeah, really disdained kind of. I
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  feel like it showcases just growth in us as as writers, to be honest.
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  You know, it's abbles in a few extra, few extra things,
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  you know, whether whether that might be you know, a slightly more technical
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  rif or you know, some of the some of the drum fills in this
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  one are just nuts. Like even we were recording the video and Jake said
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  to Alex Alex from Emerge, who did our video? You know, there's
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  there's this one feel. There's one feel just before it kicks into the verse.
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  You know, maybe don't put that, Maybe don't put that in the
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  video because I don't know if I can get it. And it was like
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  we kind of he it was funny the second that he said that he nailed
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  it. But yeah, I think as far as as far as how how
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  this differs from the rest of the tracks that we've had. You know,
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  as I mentioned before, we kind of pined this down to the Big Bad
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  Brother avoid but you know, it does dabble into the into the e d
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  M side, the sort of electronic cynthy kind of side, a little more
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  than a little more than the other two tracks, because you know, it
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  was something that we you know, we didn't really want to overdo in the
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  initial phases, but it was always something that we wanted to, you know,
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  try out. You know, some of our biggest influencers, you know,
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  run Run in the running a lot of a lot of the E M
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  style. You know, you look at places that you look at bands like
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  North Lane and Polaris, who are who are massive influences for us. You
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  know, they have very they have varying DM styles in there in their tracks,
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  and that was kind of the vibe ish that we were going for.
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  And yeah, I think it's it shows it shows kind of where we where
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  we've matured as a band in particular as well, because you know, even
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  even then you know, this track was the first two tracks, Bleed and
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  Void. They were written by They were written and sort of done by the
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  time that Aiden actually joined the band. And then when yeah, when we
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  were recording Disdain, obviously Aiden was Aidan was there at that point, and
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  he put his he put obviously his spin onto it, and you know,
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  put put his kind of two cents worth into into what we you know,
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  into the vision that we had for this track. And yeah, it's it's
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  definitely definitely shown in in the body of work that we've that we've got and
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  then you know, it just continues to continues to look more and more positive
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  the more we the more we kind of look at it. Out of those
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  three songs stand alone singles, bro, are they part of a big album
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  or EP? Picture? Yeah, So basically Disdain, I'm not one hundred
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  percent sure whether I'm supposed to say this, but Distain will Disdain essentially is
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  going to be the first track that we're going to release from EP that we've
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  got coming later this year. So we've got yeah, so we've got this
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  track, this track coming out obviously on Friday, and then we've got two
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  more singles that will come out over the next couple of months and then yeah,
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  we're going to take probably probably a few months, a few months off
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  release it of releasing obviously that every six weeks, and then yeah, we're
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  going to release We're going to release an EP later this year. Oh and
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  are those three songs that you released? Are are they good sonic representation?
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  Know what to expect from the EP or is it more layers to the band?
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  Look, it's it's funny you say that, you know, we've we've
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  dabbled in this hole. We want to make sure that everything's fresh, and
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  you know, we say, one of the visions from the beginning was that
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  we wanted to not be just the metal core band or you know, we
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  didn't just want to be We didn't just want you know, the elements,
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  the elements that you know, every metal core band out there has, you
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  know, in every song and you know, just rinse and repeat kind of
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  over and over again. So we wanted to make sure that you know,
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  with each with each track that we're writing, it just has that has that
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  different element, so you know, still still rooted in that in that metal
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  core sort of element, but each track, in my opinion, each track
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  that we've had come out so far has been has been just that much different.
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  You know, you look at the difference obviously between Void of Mind and
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  Bleed Within. You know, Voyd has has kind of a bit more on
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  that, you know, North Laney Polaris, he stored a style whereas you
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  know, we've we've had people tell us that Bleed kind of sounds a little
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  bit more sort of kill switchy, you know, a bit more, a
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  bit more of that rock like that, that sort of hard metal kind of
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  rock style, which you know, that's that's pretty much exactly what we've been,
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  what we've been trying to go for. And you know, the releases
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  that we've got coming, the releases that we've got coming out over the next
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  couple of weeks, you know, the two tracks that we're the two tracks
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  that we're doing are just you know, different again, and it's you know,
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  it's it's it's interesting to see. It's interesting to see how how things
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  have evolved, and especially with with Damon in particular being the one who kind
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  of rites most of the rights most of the tracks when he when he sends
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  them through to us, you know, seeing what seeing what different things he's
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  coming up with, and you know, then obviously Jake sort of putting his
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  ja and Jake and Aiden putting this spin onto onto the music side of things
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  to make everything into you know, Revenant. That's pretty much. That's pretty
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  much it. Hey, like we yeah, we never wanted to be that
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  band that was just rinse and repeat, you know, we wanted to make
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  sure that we were that we were keeping it fresh and keeping everything you know,
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  keeping everything fun. And that's you know, we our mission right from
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  the word go was that we we wouldn't release any music that if we weren't
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  a part of Revenant, we wouldn't listen to. So that was you know
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  that that in itself, I think has has really sort of transcribed into what
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  we've and to what we've done. So you've also got some shows coming up
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  to start on June to twenty second at Rix and Brisbane, then you hit
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  Nambo, Thunderberg, Yadler, Fortitude Valley, and you finish up with the
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  Mansfield Tavern for Rock Beats Depression on September seventh. So's some some pretty cool
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  interesting places playing there. Yeah, man, yeah, we we It's funny.
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  Our journey, our journey to these shows has been like it's been amazing,
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  how sort of coincidental it's been, so to speak, like it's literally
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  just fallen, Like most of some of the shows and stuff have literally just
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  fallen on our lap. Like for example, the show that we've got Yatler
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  at the Boiler Room with with Hammers, you know, awesome, awesome lineup.
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  We were so we the video for Disdain, we shot that out out
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  in Tweed at one of our good friend Christian he's actually the drummer of Snake
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  Mountain. He yeah, out out of his studio out in Tweed Heads and
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  yeah, he he'd never really hurt us or anything, Like I've spoken with
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  him a few times. And bass player bass player in my in my alternative
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  metal cover band Resurrection Andy. He actually plays in another band with him called
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  three O eight as well, So I kind of met him through through Andy,
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  and yeah, he hadn't really heard us, but you know, we'd
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  like we had the song, we had the song playing obviously to play it
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  to shoot the video, and you know, he sort of fell in love
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  with that straight away. And yeah, he'd sort of pulled us aside kind
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  of halfway through shooting the video and was like, hey, I got this
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  show in July, do you want to play And we were like, yeah,
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  like absolutely, like we're early on in the early on in the piece,
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  and yeah, like they the other points to that as well. So
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  Sam from A on Nexus so she's actually she's actually going to be in this
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  in the video for Disdain and she was. He was out there as well,
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  and yeah, they were thinking they were talking about that track that that
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  show because A on Nexus were already on that show, and yeah they are.
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  They asked us if we wanted to, if we wanted to play it,
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  and we were like yeah, like obviously early on we want to sort
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  of take what we can get. But then, you know, seeing like
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  getting added to that group chat and seeing all of these all of these bands
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  and stuff on there that I've gone to see multiple times and you know,
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  I've I've sort of fallen in love with over the years. It's you know,
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  it was it was amazing to see that see that all transpire, and
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  yeah, that's that's pretty much pretty much been the story for for a lot
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  of the shows that we've that we've pulled hate. You know, obviously having
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  having the right contacts and you know, knowing knowing the right people is super
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  important. But you know it's I never, I never wouldn't envision that we'd
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  have that we'd have the show success that we've had so far, especially especially
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  this early on on You Runner only. Alrightokinda, well, thanks for your
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  time that I made. It's been a pleasure to speaking with you. The
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  single Disdain the videos out this Friday. The song is out just before kickoff
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  the State of Erosion, So like with a crack about about listener and she's
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  a fucking pearl is so best of luck,