Well,Friends Of Aristocracy!
We're still here! For, in all your emotions, presents the fifty-sixth interview with the stoner band Slowtorch that showed on the day mentioned above, their second full album entitled The Machine Has Failed.All band answer!
Slowtorch Line up-Matteo Meloni (vocals), Bruno Bassi (guitars), Karl Sandner (bass), Fabio Sforza (drums).Released, April 29, 2022-Artwork By Solomacello.
A1:Talking about the composition work in The Machine Has Failed?
Slowtorch:“The Machine Has Failed” mainly evolved from riffs I wrote at home, then worked on with our singer, Matteo. In most cases, we’d give the songs a provisional structure, write a first draft of the lyrics, then present the rest of the band with what we had and come up with the final versions together at rehearsal.
A2:It is clear that this machine you speak of is metaphorical. Can we believe that the machine that failed would be humanity?
Slowtorch: More than humanity itself, it is the whole system that we live in. We are distracted by gadgets and flashy things and it’s so easy to look away when things go wrong for others. First there was a refugee crisis, then the pandemic and now there’s a war on, and it looks like so many of us would just turn off the news rather than empathise. That, to me, means the system has failed.
A3:If the book of the dead that the band sings in their second song were really true. Who would be his first target or is that target already dead and we don't realize it?
Slowtorch:The Machine and its representatives.
A4:Was Stoner as a style the answer for those who wanted more action from the slower style of heavy metal?
Slowtorch:Whatever, you want to call it, it’s that blues-tinged heavy stuff Sabbath brought us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcX2CMU9iyA
A5:I see that the band has a very strong maritime connection. How did this interest arise?
Slowtorch:The sea in the lyrics is either the Mediterranean and a direct reference to the refugee crisis, or a metaphorical sea that we cross in search of a better future.
A6:In my country, we have an expression that says that the world doesn't spin, it flips. In the case of the band, would it be the world doesn't spin, does it shipwreck?
Slowtorch:I can’t tell you whether it spins or flips, but what it’s headed towards doesn’t look too good at the moment.
A7:Can your third song be interpreted as psychological or philosophical?
Slowtorch:Neither. Call it a metaphor if you like. As with Kraken, the lyrics are about people on the run, hoping for a better life away from home.
A8:Some literature or film inspire the band?
Slowtorch:While Matteo and I were working on the lyrics, I read a lot of Huxley (Brave New World, The Island), Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, ecc.), Philip K. Dick (The Man in the High Castle, We Can Build You, lots of short stories)…in some songs that is pretty evident.
A9:What´s the idea behind artwork´s album?
Slowtorch:We gave Solomacello (the artist) demo versions of our songs, and he came up with the cover all by himself, which is exactly what we wanted. As with the video for the song The Machine Has Failed, we wanted professionals who wouldn’t need much input from us but just work from the music.
A10:How band arrive to Electric Valley Records?
We sent our demo to a handful of labels and were lucky enough to be able to choose which one we wanted to work with in the end.
A11:What is the band after in their fourth song?
Slowtorch:Again, more metaphors for how we humans never seem to be satisfied with what we have but always want more. Man tends to think of himself as invincible when he’s really headed for a crash.
A12:Undoubtedly, the band drinks in great influences from Classic Doom, which anyone thinks is wonderful. Including your interviewer, but how to give the face of Slowtorch even knowing that classical influences are there?
Slowtorch:There are all kinds of influences in our music. If I had to choose a common denominator it would probably be Black Sabbath.
A13:This album is conceptual?yes or no and why?
Slowtorch:I don’t see it as a concept album. A concept album, at least to me, is a bit like a book with x chapters, and that’s not what we set out to write. There is definitely a central theme to most of the lyrics, though.
A14:In the sixth song, can we say that there is a certain drama?
Slowtorch:There’s always drama when you’re trying to get rid of something you’ve lived with a long time and grown accustomed to even though you know it’s not good for you.
A15:The band feel differences between Serpente and now in The Machine Has Failed?
Slowtorch:Of course. “The Machine Has Failed” is heavier than “Serpente” and more coherent, lyrically and music-wise.
A16:What kind of subject don´t deserve a Slowtorch song?
As much as we appreciate stoner rock, doom etc. we’ve never really written about getting high or stuff like that…I guess it just never occurred to us…
A17:Is it better to think of the human being as agony than an animal for health?
Slowtorch:It’s Man vs. Man \m/
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