Vídeo: OCEANS OF SLUMBER

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Mr trow what went down in your head the stars are in the sh listen to them to them Children of the Night Children of the Night what music bever oceans of Slumber where God fear to speak run from the light hello hi good morning hello C how are you good how here everything is good good morning good afternoon here yeah well yeah got here how is everything with you going good you can hear me okay and everything yes okay very good cool okay so shall we start talking about the new record yes yeah I was just listening to it I listen to it a couple times um how do you feel about the record seems quite a very seems to be a very strong record from oceans of Slumber it seems that you guys put everything that you had into it well we we definitely wanted to do something heavier um we kind of felt I kind of felt some frustration I guess after the last album cycle for um several different reasons um not anything really from the fans but we just kind of needed to show everyone that we are a metal band first and foremost and just when you know you might have thought you knew us we still had more tricks to reveal and so we just wanted to do something more grandos I suppose um like all the albums they kind of start off in our heads is movies and this one just came sort supercharged um we have a lot of I feel like this one has a lot more backstory to it or um lore whatever you call you know this one this one truly is like a soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist yet I somebody makes the movie but it it tells this story and it creates this this place this land that is you know obviously not good it’s this PO post-apocalyptic religious overrun and you have people on the run you have the Band on the Run and creating this uh antagonist this story around this antagonist that has to sort of lead a revolution um to take back you know your own fate your own destiny and and get to the meaning of your own life not just what you’re told to do with it so yeah we we threw everything in it everything everything is in it and you know but listen listening to to the story that you guys inspired yourselves to write it’s not very it’s not as fiction or fictional that you know this day and age we seem to be regressing quite a lot uh with everything it’s unbelievable how how you know for the last 10 15 years you know how we we we gave ourselves steps forward but now everything seems to be going back even more steps than it was before it’s something that worries you I mean it should worry everyone do I you know how everything is very extreme politics religion even Sports you know it’s crazy no I age it should worry everyone I don’t know if it does I think the the best fiction takes parts of reality takes parts of life and intermingles it I feel like sometimes clever fiction is a good way of shedding light on current affairs you know you have Octavia Butler as an amazing author that does that um you have the creator of Dune that does that of Cormac McCarthy you know there’s a lot of authors that take these elements and puts them into art and as musicians I guess we kind of you know we felt no different in a way of speaking up about the things that we see that we distrust and dislike and putting it in a way that people can digest any good story can be applied to someone’s personal life you know whether it’s a story of loss or or Revelation or a quest you know everybody’s on a journey everybody’s doing that and you know I I do have worries about the backsliding that you know country’s kind of doing and the changes that are happening that aren’t that don’t you know when it’s hard to figure out the benefit of something and you’re looking at it and you’re like what exactly is this supposed to be helping like what is the endgame and I tried it I feel pretty open-minded like I try and see things uh from a lot of different perspectives that may not agree with my own but if there’s logic and reason within it you know but sometimes some of the things happening you’re like I like what’s the ingame like and so this album is kind of uh I think it it finds itself even more relevant than when it was written as things continue to change I think that’s that’s just how sometimes things can be prophetic when they were meant to be fiction yeah and speaking of that it’s easier for you guys to write when you have a story in mind when you know you know the plot in a way or the story you want to tell it’s easier to write knowing exactly you know characters you know the whatever the the where it happens um it’s easy to write that way having those pictures in mind yeah absolutely it’s creating like a scene you know it’s the atmosphere it’s the whole overall picture and then we Zoom back in for each song and definitely there’s there’s a scene in mind that the sound needs to bring to life and it’s not so detailed like so exact like this is when this person steps but it’s just you know when you’re it’s the overall vibe that we’re creating it puts you that keeps you like in the sphere of the experience and we don’t want you to venture out of that sphere you know and so it just kind of encapsulates you from start to finish and your own mind can kind of come up with you know the details of the story or or what it truly means but it it needs to have that cohesive sort of thread throughout and so that’s kind of the that that’s what kind of Keeps Us on track that and Dober yeah right and you know when did you exactly start working on the songs for um where God’s fear to speak they were the year last last year the year before last every album’s kind of written about about that um time span so it’s written the one year recorded the next so I would say the writing was like the year before last since the album’s coming out now um specifically so the single that’s out now today poem of ecstasy I wrote when necrofire was on tour I wrote my part to in necro fire is on tour and I just specifically remember it because it’s Dober and I do everything together and I was going on tour with necro fire but this is a really big run and like the time didn’t work out for us to both just be gone that long and so I uh stayed home and I was really not happy about that and sad and so I wrote poem of ecstasy well he was messaging me he’s like you have a song like work on a song like you have several songs so they’re already there’s I would say four or five already done by the time I don’t know I’ll check the calendar if anybody you want to check the calendar for the exact date it’s when they were on tour year before last they were with um older and devil driver question but yeah I wrote poem of ecstasy and so that I just remember that exact time span and I was like I did write a song while you were gone and it’s a sad love song and and going to going to Colombia going to bogot to record uh the album it’s not something that you know seems to be very common these days for a band to go far you know from where they live you know to a different place to record why you know bot and to record the album I mean it’s not I feel like it’s not common for bands to like leave their bedrooms now day to record everybody can just do it at home think that that’s just all it takes like maybe it’s old school of us to want the experience of going somewhere that is like this Pinnacle of recording Ingenuity I don’t know we don’t want to just do everything at home all the time you know obviously we have the means to do that and there are local Studios but I think I don’t know I not that I’m like oh I’m so old and I remember back when but I understand the necessity of having an experience as an artist when I record of being somewhere that like challenges me or is a change of scenery that gives me a different experience to be inspired and a studio um down in bogot like they it’s our producer that we’ve been working with Joel Hamilton it was very familiar with that studio and it’s like a second home for him behind the board and so we wanted to get away we needed to get away and immerse ourselves in something that was going to help us bring these elements to life not just with what you know literal equipment the studio provided but with the other people that could come into the studio to be a part of the album and then just the city itself like what a amazing city and what a incredibly like Rich diverse and contrasting place to be where on one side you know there’s these beautiful hotels and and restaurants and then right down the slope or up the slope you have a a completely off-limits area like you can’t go to don’t even look at it too hard like you go up there you don’t come back like it’s incredible that’s uh you know shocking for people who oh I just live in Houston and everything’s everywhere like it you have to leave your bedroom sometimes you have to leave your house especially when it comes to making a creation you’re going to share with the whole world it’s not just about the technicality it’s there is a magic to making music certain ways in certain places that like can’t be denied and so we we we just we needed that experience we needed to go there yeah and I think it’s important to know different realities to be honest I mean we you live in the states I live in Portugal we developed quite quite a bit and I think a new generation doesn’t realize you know how hard some people have it still you know our some countries here in Portugal we can go close to where I live we have problematic neighborhoods you know and they advise you not to go in as well you know but it’s important to know those places and those people because it it’s not all that easy for for everyone and people there’s you know difficulties and sometimes we kind of misunderstood you know the background of people and we take a lot of stuff that we have now for granted like us being able to talk now with cameras and stuff and there’s people probably still don’t know what internet is right and that’s in this day and age something I said we don’t want to take for granted I I firmly believe that everybody Essence and everybody’s story deserves to be told and I know that I intertwined that sadness and that conflict into the albums we got to meet with um several amazing people but there was a a group that came in of percussionist and local musicians and they’re from the coastal region um and you know their Lage has such deep roots and where they live is like kind of up in the mountain and it’s just it’s it’s so different and that contrast it comes through in the music like it comes through in the essence of of what was intertwined like I don’t I don’t take that for granted at all I don’t take anything that I’m able to do like that for granted and so of course I’m not going to pass up the opportunity and be like no I can record that at home so yeah you know I you know I’m used I’m so used to live in a city that I cannot envision myself living anywhere but a city but sometimes I I do think it would do me to the good of it all just to be away from a lot of the chaos that the city has and probably I just just realize that I can live without the car I can live without you know with all that and just you know just going back to this record you are singing amazingly on this record I mean since I heard you on the first on the first oceans of slumbers record that you were in you know your voice is distinctive but on this record you go the extra mile was because you were in in Colombia you know what brought these amazing vocals on these records I’ve been I mean I guess I I finally started taking my vocal seriously which sounds messed up but I wanted I didn’t I didn’t want anything to be off limits I didn’t want I don’t want there to be anything that I can’t do vocally or that anyone thinks I can’t do vocally and the growls and the idea of growling has been around our band for a long time there’s there’s a a real urgency or hunger for metal to see the women of of their genre growl and when I’ve done the Demos in the past I did the growls for the guys to learn their parts and it just kind of came up this round you know we’ve had some lineup changes and their growls aren’t really as strong and I know exactly what I wanted and we talked about it and it’s like well I’ll just do them and so I practiced and I you know I figured it out um and I was happy with it was quite happy with it as far as like introducing those those harsh vocals but also just it opened up the range of what I realized I could just do in a song and vocally like not not just sticking to such a tight Melody line or or you know this chorus and being a little bit rigid about it it’s like I wanted I’m just you know was feeling more experimental wanting more excitement out of the vocals for the songs and along with the storytelling like needing to push that emphasis and just using my instrument to do it a little bit more and so yeah that in the altitude like I had to know I had to really be on really there was no room for like oh this is kind of going to approach that like I did like mountain climber training I had like you know like oxygen MK on the climber before we went out there cuz that altitude like I’m not I’m a a Bayou City girl like I do not go up in the mountains and that altitude kicks my butt everybody that goes you know to to to bogot you know because and Bolivia I think as well is another country where you know it’s very high altitude a lot of musicians struggle when they get there because the air struggled struggled really I I pride myself off of my breath control so like when I record in the studio like I can do long lines I can Bel and I was like they were like don’t push it and I was like of course I’m gonna push it that’s what I do and I got really dizzy and was like like just going to fall over and they’re like yeah you we really weren’t kidding like you have to take a break and so I was so mad I was like go so they bought the I got some tea I take a break and I had to like chop up the sessions and that just drove me crazy so when I was good I was like I’m doing it all then and then it’d be like lay on the floor put my feet so I feel like that intensity definitely came through too because like I had to be on like I had to know exactly where my voice was going to go and do because I’m GNA just drown the whole time I’m GNA be I don’t have time to waste I don’t have a take to waste like oh it was bad even just walking around I was like just leave me I’ll and you know you know I was listening to the record obviously there is a journey throughout these records with the songs that you guys create but for me one of the breathtaking moments of the record was the song wish that intro that you do solo just your voice chills you know it’s just it was when I was listening to it I was like oh [ __ ] hell this is so good so tell me a bit more about you know you struggle with the vocals but um these songs wish um what is it about because you know that intro sets up the song and it’s just really like you know just thinking about it just Goosebumps so that that intro idea was dobers and and he I I’m always a little nervous about like all this Acappella moments on the album but you know I trust him fully and so he was he’s like we’re going to do this it’ll be it’s going to be so impactful but that that song is about I mean really a lot of our feelings you know we antagonize ourselves the most Dober and I and I think a lot of musicians and people trying to obtain such a big goal and wanting to mean something to somebody and that can be broadened to what we do to where it’s like we want our music to mean something to the to people in mass as many people as possible like we make it to go out there and belong to others and then you can zoom in and it’s that interpersonal relationship again to where you’re like I just want to mean something to you I want to mean something to this person that’s special to me or anybody I want to be special to somebody like I think that that’s a very common thing a lot of people struggle with and so for that song you know it it it kind of Cascades through our own feelings of giving up on the band or giving up on this career giving up on relationships or other goals that we might have or anyone might have and and knowing that your eye is on that wish like keeping your eye on that goal and kind of suffering through it until it pays off and hoping that it pays off yeah and so it’s just about about climbing again you fall down and you get back up you climb up again and you see maybe this time I get a little bit higher before I fall and I think that’s kind of what chasing goals is about like people sometimes think it’s the straight trajectory and you’re like oh you made this Milestone and you keep going it’s like no it’s a lot of going backwards and then going forwards and then like going Way backwards and then starting over and then going back forward like it’s definitely not linear at all yeah and on these right here you got a few guest as well you got Fernando from Moon spell and you got Miguel from dark Tranquility obviously with moon spell you guys did the tour last year so I mean the connection was there anyway um but were the songs written specifically with those voices in mind or um you just found like an opportunity okay this might benefit from having another singer NOP there they were written with them in mind and that was really this album was far more planned than any of the previous ones as far as I was involved in like as far as I’m concerned but we had like a lot of pre-production we had like really strong like professional demos not just me like recording over on my phone and then showing with the studio and nobody knows what I’m going to do and so those songs are written with them in mind and it’s just like the coolest thing ever to have them bring them to life like oh they did far beyond good like so happy and so amazed at what they did but they’re written with them in mind and and I feel like you can feel the essence of moon spell y in the song on um the oceans album because I I listen to him every night you know so I know what like that flavor he’s going to bring to the song and it was it it just is perfect to where I feel like it’s this perfect marriage of like an oceans and moon spell song right and then prayer with um Michel like same thing like Oh Mr ominous you know like so good and then our growls like kind of mixing and I love I love the Duets on this album and not just one but two this time like spoiled like so good like so good and it was it was it was really amazing working with them they were super fast about the turnaround and yeah like I I was very pleased and and Incredibly excited for those songs to come out because I don’t think people are ready you know the one with the with fand from moons spell actually his vocals brought me back to the early days of moons spell you know I haven’t heard didn’t sing like that in a while I to bring the goodness and I was like was this some AI [ __ ] going on because it doesn’t seem like that anymore he was so mad and and fting at us about like oh you want me to sing with you like why and I was like I promise like you know what you’re doing like you have an amazing voice I believe in you he brought it so it was it was I think it’s you know those those two songs apart from already the singles and the wish one I think they’re really really really great tracks and uh you know just to wrap it up Wicked Game that classic from Chris Isaac finishes the album I don’t know what to say about that version it’s listening you singing to it it’s so unexpected and it’s such a curve ball that you guys throw in the end of the album well it’s meant to kind of be like when the credits roll the end of a movie and then you get that kind of familiar song that comes on and you reflect over every this this vast experience you just had and the things you saw and it kind of just brings you back to your seat like that’s what that song’s meant to meant to do and then again kind of introducing that you know love song element and and and finishing it out what’s funny is that cover was decided like an hour before we had to be out of the studio we’ been back and forth we’d learned a full another song which I don’t remember what it is at this point and then Dober was like was playing it on the piano I was singing and he’s like this is a cover we’re going to do and we recorded it live so we pulled everything into like the a room I think it is like set everything up set some cameras up and then ran the lines to record it right then and there and so it’s a live recording and it was like that was the moment that we were looking for by going to bogat like that was the magic that happens when you’re like this idea came in it flew in through the window into your head we have the means to make it happen and we C we capture that sound live you know it’s not you know patched together like it’s live we’re all in the room together which is so rare to be able to record like that now and one of my favorite things to do and and then there it is on the album to just give it that like little kiss sail off and everyone’s like ah but that’s exactly the the after you know the journey that you guys did on the record finishing up with that it’s really like the relaxing moment that now I can sit back your nervous system can recover it was you guys were brilliant with his record really the way that you guys played with the emotions it’s you know it’s I think it’s perfect on this record just to finish up um tour what are the plans for you guys the album comes out in September obviously there’s still you know couple months uh what are the plans for the end of the year and for next year here if there’s any um we have some festivals coming up we played mad with power um mon August and then we have our show in Brooklyn um we’re doing like a reimagining of some of the songs and a really intimate acoustic set it’s only like 50 people allowed um and then we’ll see um always trying to plan tours but nothing like on the books like yet um trying to get overseas and do something in a minute we want to get back over there so something something we’ll figure something out for obviously the the album releases but right now just’s a couple of festivals we’re playing the metal uh metal injection Fest so just a little bit little sprinkle sprinkles everywhere we talk with Fernando and try to bring you guys here to Portugal for a few shows that would be nice so nice we love him he’s amazing he’s great he’s so funny yeah he’s a great guy I know him for we live we used to live close by he moved now but uh I know them since since the early days of moon so it’s you know it’s it’s great to see the connection on these record as well Cammy thank you very much for your time all the best for oceans of Slumber uh where God’s fear to speak it’s freaking amazing records your vocal are absolutely extraordinary on this album and looking forward to see you guys live 2025 let’s do it all right do it figure it out thank you very much have a great day hope to see you soon all right thank you you too thank you bye bye bye bye bye all right yeah come on glal metal Global B where Gods fear to speak inst Children of the Night he will live through the centuries to come as I have lived good night good night