Yo!!! How are you?!?! Thanks for taking the time for this! Who are you and what do you do in Occipital Impalement?
Yo what up man, it’s an honor to be on here, my name is Adam and I play guitar for Occipital Impalement
Who are the rest of the members? How old are you guys?
Keller plays bass, Henry on drums and Zach vocals. Me Keller and Zach are 19 and Zach is 22 so we are pretty young in the bdm scene
What got the band started? Have you guys been in other projects?
So the rest of the guys in occipital formed a band called Restraint about a year and a half ago when we were in our senior year of highschool.
How did signing with New Standard Elite happen, and how has that experience been so far?
So when we dropped our single we were not expecting any real attention from it since the band was only a few months old. The band members were mutuals on social media with a few nse bands and Sam Little (submerged ,intestinal sodomy) hit us up and he said he sent it to Ryan from nse. We didn’t know how to feel at first and the guys didn’t want to get too cocky so we stayed really humble about it. We focused on writing and getting some material down .Then Ryan hit us up and said he really liked the single. In the end we are extremely grateful for this insane opportunity.
We love "Inebriated Beheading"! Can you talk about the choice to use the "Judith Slaying Holofernes" art piece behind your logo? and will this remain some of the art for the EP?
Ayy thanks man, we were having a very hard time on finding suitable art for the single and we didn’t want anything insanely expensive because we had no expectation that the single would get this much attention. So we went the painting route. We started in the renaissance era and found that piece and it looked brutal. For our EP we will be hitting up Jon Zig for some art.
So is the ep fully written? Recorded?
The ep is almost done and fully written, not recorded yet but we do plan on getting some studio time late March early April.
What is Occipital Impalement's writing process like?
I kinda just play random riffs on guitar that come out of nowhere, or maybe have had something in my head for a few days that I put in front on the guys and see what they think. Then all of us attribute what we should do next like time signature changes etc all we need is an intro riff and we can work off that.
Yea all of us are into classic bdm, Henry’s been a grindcore/goregrind drummer in our local scene for years and definitely has a good rep so we also get pretty into that. Sometimes I take breaks from bdm for a few hours and listen to old blues and sludge metal, southern music in general. Keller grew up in San Diego so he likes all the local music out there like the growlers etc.
Does Zach write lyrics? or just kind of vocal patterns? and will the EP have a "theme" that ties it together?
Right now it’s just vocal patterns we are thinking about doing lyrics in the future, we are still brainstorming themes for the EP but we will have one soon.
Thanks a lot Adam! Any last words?
Massive thanks to our regional and local scene for the support and big thanks to Ryan from NSE for giving us a shot and everyone involved. New music is on the way!
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