Your name:
Robert Anderson
(Lead Guitar).
Where are you
from?
East Coast
Scotland, Dundee suburb.
Name of band:
Twin Paradox.
Who else is in
your band?
Aletha Monaghan
(Lead Vocals), Rowan Knox (Drums), Austen Cook (rhythm guitar), Jack Richards
(bass).
How would you
describe yourselves?
After finding
ourselves not fitting into traditional musical stereotypes we found ourselves
defining Twin Paradox as experimental metal. Myself, personally being the main
musical contributor to our songs, find myself bored with people striving to
sound like the last thing. Armed with a few 60s style guitars, a rack full of
crazy pitch-bending effects, retro kits and female-fronted vocals, we pride
ourselves on the weird sounds that we can make. With most of our music sounding
heavy, we do generally call ourselves Experimental Metal rather than just
experimental, yet our songs combine metal with tribal beats, chuck berry licks,
shred, creepy harmonies as well as squealing noises, pops and bangs that we can
squeeze out of our instruments. We're working on a second load of songs post-EP
that use crazy sounds, as opposed to the comparatively tame sounds of our
"Where Has The Time Gone?" EP.
We find
ourselves being compared to contrasting musicians, which, frankly baffle. We
have been compared consecutively to Avenged Sevenfold and Sonic Youth.
Who are your
main influences musically?
Rage Against the
Machine, White Stripes, Hole, Avenged Sevenfold.
What do you hope
to achieve in music?
Ultimately, to
share our art with the world. I'm very keen on viewing music for what it is - an
art form. I hate, more than others, the commercialisation of music, robbing
it of its art. I, and the rest of the band, want to share true music with as
many people as we can.
What has been
the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Getting to the
latter stages of Soundwave Competition, the north of the UK's Biggest Musical
Battle. We're still in and are down to the last 18! Exciting stuff.
And what’s the
moment you want to forget?
I'd personally
like to forget the number of hours we've spent gorging on pizza at practice
instead of actually writing music. There's something about that sweet, cheesy
snack that sucks our motivation.
If you had to
pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
As tough as it
would be, probably the track "We Are Not Where We Belong". Although
there are only a few weird guitar sounds in there, I feel the dynamic of the
band is most evident. You can hear the relationship between us, with tight
guitar harmonies and our simplistic rhythm section.
Where can we
listen to it?
Where can we
find out more about your music?
Check us out on
Facebook, where we mainly post: www.facebook.com/twinparadoxofficial
This is our
free-to-listen-to EP
Anything else
you’d like to say about your band/music that I forgot to ask?
Yeah, if you
like our music, please, please drop the band a message on Facebook! We love
feedback. And if you want
to send us pizza to practice, please do.
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