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The main thing I will be taking from this interview with KONG is the question-answer format, because I think it makes it very simple to read and gives the reader a better idea of what is going on.
The RockSound article reads more like a story in my opinion with more description, and so I will also incorporate this in to my article because I think this is more enjoyable to read before following through in to that question answer format.
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The band have invited The Pit down to some woods in the middle of nowhere, honestly we have no idea where the hell we are, but this is apparently where the band does most of their writing. It’s quiet, secluded and smells like horse shit.
Lead Guitarist and Vocalist Lewis Wright starts off by talking about their departure from Broken District earlier this year “None of us had a clue at what we were doing.” The other Lewis is nodding to himself in the corner, his seemingly huge Schecter is laid across his lap. Wright was a key player in changing the direction of the previous band, he points out holding up the 8-String.
“I brought this thing in and everyone decided it was time to go heavier, but no-one knew how. You get a lot of twatty bands that just want to be famous and think you can just smash up the gain. But you don’t just become ‘ultra-famous’ for your ‘ultra-heavy’ sound - it doesn’t work like that.” He states, quite ambitiously. “So we talked it out a bit and one-by-one we left. We all wanted to go for that sound, but we wanted to take a different direction.”
With this new direction, I’m personally interested in Lewis Foxhall’s role in the band.
Foxhall, you’ve come from being a lead guitarist to tracking drum and bass. How does that feel?
Foxhall : It feels good to be honest, it’s more relaxed. Now there’s only two of us that means I have more of an involvement in the writing process too which is pretty cool.
Wright: And because we’re slightly funkadelic, the bass is much more involved than it was in [Broken] District.
You’re both big Korn fans, so I presume that is where that’s the source for that element in your music.
Foxhall: Oh yeah, 90’s kids. Nu Metal was always our thing.
Another cool thing about the likes of Korn is there is a very varied vocal style. How did you approach that with this new album?
Wright: Not a lot honestly.
Foxhall: Lewis certainly has a distinctive vocal style I think but we decided not to put too much in there in terms of vocals.
So no ‘Twist’ like tracks?
Wright: I’m afraid not no haha. Foxhall likes to have a go at Twist every now and then though. That’s why he’s not the vocalist.
Well I’m glad you made the right choice. You’re now both in a band where everyone has the same name. How do you get around that?
Wright: Well, he’s usually just Foxhall so that’s easier. I get hair related names usually.
Foxhall: We’ve just got used to it to be honest, it’s become a bit of a joke.
Yes, well the ‘L’ theme seems to be resonating through the band. Was that intentional?
Foxhall: Oh yeah totally, I just wanted to call everything Lewis. But when you listen to the album I think ‘Learning’ certainly comes through as a strong message and how we’ve moved on and changed.
Yeah, well I think that certainly comes through on the title track.
Final question now, what track should we look out for?
Wright: For me ‘Lack of Courage’ comes through as being the strongest track.
Foxhall: ‘The Killing’ hands down.
You can catch ‘Learning’ in stores on the 9th June.
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