The tour is going great, has been amazing! We did France, we did Spain, we did
Portugal, we did Switzerland yesterday, and yeah everything is going really
well. This is our first time ever playing in Italy, so we’re really excited to
see what it’s gonna happen. The tour will last one month, we’re doing 29 shows
and we have a free day tomorrow.
I’ve seen a great
growth between the Oathbreaker EP and Rheia, how did your musical backgrounds
influenced you?
It’s an hard question, I think in the ep we were super young, we were 18 years
old. Oathbreaker exists from 9 years now, it’s normal that there is a certain
growth, we’re not listening to the same music anymore as we did before. The
most important thing is that we kind of knew how we wanted Oathbreaker to
sound, but it took a lot of time to figure out how to make all the separate
elements in a one whole. I knew for example that there was a way I could sing
normally, not only scream. It was really hard how to figure out how normal singing
blends with really fast blast beats, but in this record it was kind of like a
search towards where everything combines. So on this record I think for the
first time ever we succeded making that sound like we wanted it to sound. For
example recording with Jack (Shirley) in San Francisco really complemented what
we wanted. Before we recorded we wanted everything to be perfect, all the
details had to be there. We didn’t want to sound like a machine or a robot but
as a band. He pushed us to feel and to make that record sound like an organic
thing, no click track, no nothing, and that’s what we needed, to make
Oathbreaker sounds like Oathbreaker. He pushed us towards through something
that we played and not something that someone else could have played.