An interview with Fatality
An interview with Fatality
VIDEO GAMES
What inspired the name of the band? What are your influences?
We’re all huge video game fans so when it came to trying to come up with a name we were coincidentally playing one of the all time greatest games ever Mortal Kombat. One of us won a fight and when the words ‘FATALITY’ flashed up on the screen in blood I said “That would make a good band name” and it stuck!
We draw our influences from loads of different avenues. Musically some of those would be bands like Lamb of God, Limpbizkit, Machinehead, Fear Factory, Papa Roach, Slipknot etc. As far as non-musical influences go we usually draw that from events in our lives that directly affect us or things we strongly believe in. This usually translates pretty well into performance as we can convey our energy and emotion about each song over to the audience.
How do you approach songwriting? Are there any themes that you are keen to explore when you start off?
We all write together. We feel that if we’re all excited and passionate about each instrument and each lyric then we’re at our best. We lay down the basis of a track, then we assess and refine along with writing lyrics that mean something to us. We do the whole process together as a band, rather than one person writing a track and the rest of us playing it in a way that wouldn’t always necessarily compliment our individual playing styles.
Our songs are mainly about things that are on our mind at the time. Life events, the state of the world, video games haha! We do have a strong connection with mental health however so a lot of our songs are about that in one way or another.
PASSION
PASSION
How do you approach songwriting? Are there any themes that you are keen to explore when you start off?
We all write together. We feel that if we’re all excited and passionate about each instrument and each lyric then we’re at our best. We lay down the basis of a track, then we assess and refine along with writing lyrics that mean something to us. We do the whole process together as a band, rather than one person writing a track and the rest of us playing it in a way that wouldn’t always necessarily compliment our individual playing styles.
Our songs are mainly about things that are on our mind at the time. Life events, the state of the world, video games haha! We do have a strong connection with mental health however so a lot of our songs are about that in one way or another.
ENJOYMENT
Why do you write the sort of music that you do?
Because we enjoy it. It’s the kind of music that we all grew up listening to with our own modern influence thrown in for good measure. It makes us happy, it makes us think, it excites us and most of all we connect with it. We couldn’t write music that we ultimately don’t enjoy. It juts wouldn’t have the same feeling and energy that our music does.
How do you decide what songs to perform live and how do you transpose them into that live setting?
For the first date of a tour we will write a setlist of the songs we think are the best and which we think flow well together. Then we see how our audiences react to those songs, which ones they request and how much energy there is between us during and after our set. Then we just told the rest of our live sets based on those factors. What people enjoy the most basically. In regards to transposing them into a live setting we just give as much energy and flare as we possibly can! We want to have that feeling that we’re almost going to collapse when we get off stage. It means we’ve probably had a good show haha.
SETLIST
SETLIST
How do you decide what songs to perform live and how do you transpose them into that live setting?
For the first date of a tour we will write a setlist of the songs we think are the best and which we think flow well together. Then we see how our audiences react to those songs, which ones they request and how much energy there is between us during and after our set. Then we just told the rest of our live sets based on those factors. What people enjoy the most basically. In regards to transposing them into a live setting we just give as much energy and flare as we possibly can! We want to have that feeling that we’re almost going to collapse when we get off stage. It means we’ve probably had a good show haha.
MUSIC
What plans do you have for the future?
We definitely have new music in the works. We have a few tracks that are ready to be released and a load of new material that we’re constantly working on and refining. ’The Lesson’, ‘Indemnify’ and ‘Eight’ will be released over the next few months with the idea that we will accumulate these and more tracks into a 3rd EP/Album at the end of the year ready for when live music is back.
We have our new single ‘Juggernaut’ available to stream from all online stores now and you can watch the music video on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
As far as future plans go we’re going to keep doing what we enjoy doing. Writing tunes that we all enjoy to play, performing passionately for our audiences and having a damn good go at smashing through all and any glass ceilings that come before us.
You can catch us on Bandacamp, Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer as well as YouTube and as far as I’m aware, pretty much any streaming company out there! Just search Fatality Band UK and you’ll find us.
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