Monday, 11 January 2010

Artical for double page spread.

Us at White Noise believe that we have found something special here! The prospected, best new progressive metal of this decade. A cross between Slipknot, Inuit throat singing, Tool and a 1 man band (seriously). We give to you, The Discordant! After managing to track down the lead singer, a process which was unbelievably hard, we took photos and had a Q and A session (much to his boredom)!

Q. So, to start things of, how are we today?
A. Well, considering you got me up at 9 in the morning and stuck me out in the freezing cold with a welsh camera guy, not bad thanks!

Q. Tell me, how did you come up with the idea for Discordant?
A. I actually started listening to a hell of a lot of indie music in my youth, Travis, The Coral, Crowded House, stuff like that. And since then I have been wanting something more. Moving from indie to rock, rock to metal, metal to death metal. Almost, craving, more and more extreme music! One day the idea leapt at the idea of one man in the middle of a stage, microphones strapped to his face, a pair of drum stick in hand. Obviously you cant have a band with just a floor tom and vocals. That is where my two best friends (since high school) come in, Richard in bass and Josh on synthesizer/keyboard thingy. And it kinda went from there!

Q. Discordant have are rather loud. How do three men make such noise?
A. Simple. Any one can do it. Stick as many amps in a room and Bob’s your mothers brother!

Q. Is that it? Quantity over quality?
A. I suppose so. Do I need four mikes? Probably not, but hey, it makes me more shouty so I aint complaining! Besides we want people to listen to our music loud, and music is only loud enough when you can feel it in your stomach. Only loud enough when you sit on that amp and pray you don’t get diarrhea!

Q. That said, what is with the throat singing?
A. Ah, what, this? (He makes a noise like The Grudge) That, is inward screaming, not throat singing. Except its not all high and faggoty like pussy screamo bands you get these days!

Q. One of your songs has the lyrics “I’m gonna make yur balls burst”, this is a metaphor I presume?
A. Not entirely… You know that feeling when you are listening to a great piece of music, and you feel it run down your spine? Well, big headed as it may be, I think that song is the greatest song recorded this decade. And it will make your spine tingle, it will make you thrash like a monkey on speed in those there mosh pits, it will make your balls burst!

Q. Right … One last question then, afterwards you can go back to bed! Seeing as you miraculously manage to get a floor tom to sound like a double bass, how many drumsticks to you use up in one album performance?
A. Bloody hell … About 15 broken sticks go in the bin after every show! Its costing me a small fortune to be honest, but I prefer using wooden sticks as apposed to carbon fibre or metal, somehow they resonate better!

One man and his drum, damn, forgot to ask how many drums he gets through! Oh well, next time maybe. Anyway, the Discordants début album which is named Paradox is out in March some time be sure to get a copy as the creation of those metal gods will sell as if there is free sweets inside*!

*There aint any sweets, much to our disappointment, we checked.


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