Line Up:
Kurt Williams On Vocal\Guitar
Craig Leahy On Bass
Joe Wright On Drums
Well,Friends Of Aristocracy!
We speak again of our newsroom, where in a little while, we will have, in all its emotions, the interview 146 of the Aristocracy.This time we talked to a Black Metal band from New Zealand Tuscoma. At the end of June, they show us their third album titled G-cci. This album blends atmospheric textures from early shoegaze bands with punishing contemporary songwriting and rhythm sections reminiscent of black metal and hardcore, creating a visceral and completely unique experience for hardened veterans of heavy music who may know exactly what to expect from a modern metal album. An ambitious but deftly delivered album, its five expansive tracks span over thirty-eight minutes, songs ranging from under four minutes to nearly fourteen in length.Tuscoma is striving to push the boundaries of what our fans expect from us and the genre. Weaving shoegaze textures, hostile noise, angular guitar riffs alongside rhythm sections of death/black and hardcore, G-cci is our fuck you to expectations of what a blackened band should sound like. Our fans will feel right at home with blast beats, harsh noise and familiar tortured vocals as they are taken aback by grooves, long song structures and layers of textures.Before we start the interview, we want to thank the band for answering our questions.Now, let's go to one of their songs to start this exclusive interview with a Brazilian metal page.Joe answer our questions.
A1:Talking about the composition work in Gu-CCI?
Joe Wright:Gu-cci was composed over a five month period in early 2021. Kurt would usually turn up with a few riffs and a thematic concept for a song and then all three of us would play with ideas, adding or subtracting parts and re-arranging the structure until it felt right. Sometimes this process can take a few hours, sometimes it takes a few months.
A2:What kind of demonic invocations inspire this album?
Joe Wright:I would say that the only demons we were inspired by for this album are our own. I think that we all find the writing/recording process, and most of all live performance to be extremely cathartic.
A3:What is Aris Dazed besides the last song?
Joe Wright:Besides the song it isn’t really anything. It’s a story about a person with a little bit of privilege and a whole lot of delusion.
A4:Some literature or film inspire the band?
Joe Wright:Not particularly,I think individually we all have film and literature which inspire us but Tuscoma as an entity is more inspired by social and spatial design.
A5:What kind of turbulency inspire this job?
Joe Wright:The turbulence of the world in general.
A6:Why is song 2 the shortest on the album?
Joe Wright:That’s just the way it came out.We wanted something aggressive, fast and to the point for that track.
A7:What´s the idea behind artwork´s album?
Joe Wright:In the past,Kurt has handled all of the artwork for our albums but with Gu-cci being our first album as a three piece it only felt right to continue down the path of more collaboration so we asked our friend and Deafheaven vocalist George Clarke to do the artwork. He took his camera out in New York during the winter and snapped a bunch of shots, combining some of them to create the artwork for the album.
A8:Why the band have this name?
Joe Wright:Tuscoma is a neologism for an imaginary or mythical place. We wanted a name that evoked a feeling more than having a direct meaning.
A9:Why the album has an unorthodox structure?
Joe Wright:We wanted to add to the dissonance and general uneasy feeling of the songs and an unorthodox structure seemed the right fit.
A10:How band doing shoegaze textures in this album?
Joe Wright:Kurt is using a lot of tape delay and analogue reverb pedals.We also use open chord structures rather than bar or power chords and only use passive pickups and tube amplification to give a larger more expansive sound.
A11:How is Tuscoma different from your previous bands?
Joe Wright:We all come from fairly different musical backgrounds.My background is more rooted in death metal, black metal and metalcore. For Kurt this is his first metal band; his previous groups were more indie and brit pop rooted. Craig probably has the most diverse musical background having played in metal, grindcore, and post rock bands. He also produces synth and hip hop music. This is the first project he has played bass for.
A12:What hardcore energies does this album work with?
Joe Wright:Mostly post-hardcore inspirations bands like The Blood Brothers, Converge, Refused, The Fall Of Troy, and Touché Amoré.
A13:This album is conceptual?
Joe Wright:I like to think that all of our albums have a conceptual element. This album explores the concept of fashion especially within the black metal scene. The metal scene likes to think that it eschews the concept of fashion trends but in reality it absolutely creates and follows its own trends. Think about how often bands who make music that doesn’t conform to trends are maligned or called “false metal”. There is so much elitism and gatekeeping in the metal scene and we wanted to directly comment on it.
A14:The guys from Blindfolded And Led To The Woods are the owners of Landmine Records. How did they get into the band's life?
Joe Wright:We’ve known Nick from BALTTW for at least a decade, he was a fan of and always booked shows for Hollywoodfun Downstairs which Kurt and I played in before Tuscoma. NZ is a small country so the alternative music scene is even smaller, we’ve played so many shows with those guys and supported each other for a long time. The level of professionalism that those guys bring to everything they do is inspiring so when they started Landmine we knew it was the right label for us to release Gu-cci through.
A15:Discourse and Gu-CCi are different or complementary album?
Joe Wright:Complementary, Gu-cci feels like a progression from Discourse. Recording Discourse with bass guitar made us realise that we needed a full time bassist and that we wanted to explore more expansive song writing.
A16:Due to social networks, do we live in a very deceitful time in humanity?
Joe Wright:Not necessarily, people thought the printing press was going to ruin humanity; they said the same thing about television. These things are tools and it’s more about how they are used than the fact that they exist. Social media can be awful, people buy into it way too much and tie their identity to it, but it’s also where people find their communities and express themselves in ways not possible in the real world for better or for worse.
A17:Are your three albums optimistic, realistic or pessimistic?
Joe Wright:Realistic.Thanks so much for the support and hopefully we can come out to Brazil to play some shows one day.Joe,Tuscoma.
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