Nouvelle signature du label Karmageddon, Within Y se veut le garant du son Gothenburg death metal, aucune innovation au programme, quelques questions etaient les bienvenues pour comprendre la démarche du groupe
For those who still don't know WITHIN Y, would you be nice enough to introduce your band with a short history ?
Well, It all started with Niklas and Mikael who started playing together, but they soon wanted to do something more out of it. So they asked me if I wanted to join them as the singer for the band. Then we wanted a really great drummer, so I called my old frind Thim and asked if he wanted to join us, we started to rehearse and write songs and after a couple of months we were done with the four songs for our "feeble and weak" demo. Then we called Niklas´s childhood friend Mattias (who later joined the band as our bassplayer) and asked if he wanted to record our four songs. He did, and we all thought it sounded really great!
What is the meaning of your band name ?
Hmm.. It doesn´t mean anything in particular, but nowdays I wish it did, cause there are many people who is wondering, and it would have been great to give a good answer to that question. We were thinking of different names when we started the band, but no one came up with a good one. Then one day Thim said, -What about WithinY? We didn´t really understand where he got it from, but everyone in the band seemed to like it, so we kept it!
Your brand new cd "Extended mental Dimensions" is just released. Can you tell us more about it, the recordings sessions, the songs etc ?
It all started as a great mess in the studio, there were cables missing and other things that didn´t work as it should.. We were almost one day after schedual, but Thim did his work excellent, and finished in one and a half day recording his drumtracks! After that everything ran smoothly, and we were finished in 11 days I think. All the song are written together as a band in our rehearsal room.. We´re all really satisfied with the result, and how everything turned out.
Your label wrote on his last advertisment "a musta have for fans of Soilwork and In flames". Do you agree with this sentence ? What are the main differences between WITHIN Y, SOILWORK and IN FLAMES ?
Yep, I agree! We have to do something to get peoples eyes on us! And ourmusic is pretty much the same as what those two bands did some years ago. I think that peolple compares us with IF for all the melodies in our riffs, and with Soilwork for the little more thrashy style that they did on their first three cd´s.
What do you think about both bands, which are your favorite releases from them ?
I like both those bands pretty much! Really great musicians! I don´t think I have any favourite album with any of them, I consider all their albums to have it´s own charm! But if I have to choose It will be Figure nr 5 and Soundtrack.. Both are fresh, and have really great productions!
So you think your music is innovative ?
Kind of I think, or you can say that we do old things with a little new thinking to it.. hmm? Do you get it? Hard to explain, but i guess if you listen to it you´ll understand..
You have just signed the contract with Karmageddon. What you can say more abou this factory, co-operation with them & about their support?
I think that everything has gone almost as planned and that they´ve been great! The only problem we´ve had with them was when they moved our release backwards and forwards.. That was a bit anoying.. But Patrick (promoter) has been great, he answers emedliatly and seems to work hard for us, we appreciate that very much!
Let's talk about the lyrics. What kind of topic did you write about ?
Well, Mikael and I shares the textwriting, and we´re writning things that cross our minds at that very point! It´s usually about things that happens life in general, with a little imagination added to it. If Mikael comes up with some good idea for a song, he gets to write it, and the same way for me.
Is any members of the band involved in other projects/bands?
Yeah, Thim is playing with a band that call themselves Grindnecks, it´s some kind of thrash with a little pantheraboogie and a bit grind as well.. They are really great! No one else is in another band or project at the moment..
Did you ever heard a metal Band from France ? What do you think about the french scene (labels/bands etc)?
I just discovered Scarve, just awsome! Great production and really great musicians there as well! I love their new Irradiant album! I don´t know so much about labels in you country, Thim has been involved with a label there, but of what I´ve heard he wasn´t that satisfied with them. But I guess that´s what happens sometimes, you can´t get along with everyone!