Dark Legacy Interview

1. Please tell us about the about the band and its members.

We're 6 guys playing together, some of us as long as 22 years! During so many years, you become very welded together, so we are like a family you can say, with different roles; the tough teenage daughter, the strict father and so on. (Laughing)

2. Who does the majority of the writing? Is it a group thing or does someone handle the writing duties?

Mostly it's the keyboardist Dagobert composing the bands material, or so I and Dagobert writes together. I usually do the lyrics. Other band members characterize the songs with their personal impressions.

3. Where is the band based out of ? Where did you want to the band to end up? What was the dream city to have as your home base once you got out of your scene?

Our main ambition is to play together and have fun, to create new songs, to be able to perform them. That people appreciate us is a bonus. We do not have a destination directly or know where the winds take us.

4. What is your genre? What bands do you use to explain to people what you sound like?

We use to say Symphonic Death Metal or Dark Symphonic Metal or just Symphonic Metal and we think that's fine, and all further description seems superfluous. Melodic, symphonic metal.

5. Can we buy anything from you Cd's shirts etc and where can we buy them?

Yeah, CDs and merch can be ordered directly from our label via www.downfallrecords.com or on any digital platform, Amazon etc.

*Downfall Records – Swedish metal record label

www.downfallrecords.com

Swedish underground record label created in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1999; Focusing on extreme music (death/black/gore/grind metal and more).

6. Do you have studio time lined up anything new coming soon?

We've been busy last 2 years or something with a sequal to our debut album. It's called "The Rejects", and the title track from this upcoming album is available now on all digital platforms. Maybe we'll have the album finished this year!

7. Have you ever been on tour? If so where and with who?

We are no hard touring band one can say! We did though make a minitour in UK 2015 with gothic Tor Marrock from Wales and finnish doom band Church of Void. It was very memorial.

8. What is your favorite band? Who are the bands who influenced you?

I find it difficult to point out what has been influenced by. For me... classical music and metal bands like Opeth, Amon Amarth, Edge of Sanity and band like that. For Dark Legacy as a band I´ll guess a lot of metalacts but also older bands like Electric Light Orchestra, Pink Floyd, Queen and Genesis. 

9. Do you have a website? And do I have to verify that I am 18 to enter it?

Yes: www.darklegacy.se. Welcome to visit us!

10. What about your music do you want people to remember? What is the quality you want to hit people when they hit play?

A melody, a feeling, a hardness. We create something, where creation is in focus and we are playing of joy. Driving power lies in it and we do not care much about people like us or not. But it is clear that if any of the former attaches to someone, it feels good.

11. Name a person who is integral to your band that nobody knows about , what person drives your band like they are part of the band? Who is the extra member ?

You mean like Pete Best was the fifth Beatles member? No, I cannot really think of one. My sister Camilla has been involved some on our next album, so maybe her.

12. Tell nerds like me tell us about your live rig and equipment.

We have a great P:A if it's needed, Marshall amps, Kemper amps, Laney amps, Shure mics, drum stuff and lot of keyboards etc.

13.What is your musical guilty pleasure that you are ashamed of?

Don't know really.

14.If you could custom build a band who would be the members?

I already have a band, or some bands, so there's no need to fantasize about it. love my bandmates that I have.

15.Message to the fans? What is it?

Keep your eyes open for our next album that may come as early as this year! And live for the day!