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With a newly released album entitled “Post Mortem” it’s
easy to allow the mind to build a picture of those that wrote
it. One can imagine a group of men with Cradle of Filth-esc
make up, fishnet shirts and babies roasting on a spit in their
backyard, not a bunch of twenty something’s with a positive
outlook on life and a humbleness unmatched by most. No
one personifies this more than Steven Spence, Black Tide’s
Drummer extraordinaire.
NS: Post mortem originally had around 50 tracks, do you
have any plans on releasing them?
SS: We always have a song bank that we can go into for
different things. But we don’t have anything but what was
released and the B-sides, which are the songs that have yet to
be released that are finished. Nothing is recorded, recorded
yet. They’re all demo’d out. We always save our ideas and
riffs. Who knows what the future will hold for those.
NS: I had watched an interview where you stated that the
new album is a symbol of the bands progression and that the
songs are catchy. Catchy isn’t a word you usually hear in
hard music. It almost seems like a four letter word.
SS: What I mean by catchy is different. All we do as a band
is make music that we love. What we mean by catchy is
what’s catchy to us. We don’t mean it in an arrogant kind of
way. We’re just behind our music and you have to be when
you’re out here every day performing it. You want to be
proud of what you do and what you create. It isn’t a cocky
thing, we’re just proud of what we’ve done. In no way do
we think that we are the best band in the world. We do
realize that we are very fortunate where we are every day.
We are very fortunate.
NS: The new music scene seems to be filling up with self-
made musicians that forgo real instruments and use products
like Garage Band. When you watch their videos on Youtube
and see read their blogs, it’s almost like they believe they
deserve fame because they’ve created a song. What do you
think about that?
easy to allow the mind to build a picture of those that wrote
it. One can imagine a group of men with Cradle of Filth-esc
make up, fishnet shirts and babies roasting on a spit in their
backyard, not a bunch of twenty something’s with a positive
outlook on life and a humbleness unmatched by most. No
one personifies this more than Steven Spence, Black Tide’s
Drummer extraordinaire.
NS: Post mortem originally had around 50 tracks, do you
have any plans on releasing them?
SS: We always have a song bank that we can go into for
different things. But we don’t have anything but what was
released and the B-sides, which are the songs that have yet to
be released that are finished. Nothing is recorded, recorded
yet. They’re all demo’d out. We always save our ideas and
riffs. Who knows what the future will hold for those.
NS: I had watched an interview where you stated that the
new album is a symbol of the bands progression and that the
songs are catchy. Catchy isn’t a word you usually hear in
hard music. It almost seems like a four letter word.
SS: What I mean by catchy is different. All we do as a band
is make music that we love. What we mean by catchy is
what’s catchy to us. We don’t mean it in an arrogant kind of
way. We’re just behind our music and you have to be when
you’re out here every day performing it. You want to be
proud of what you do and what you create. It isn’t a cocky
thing, we’re just proud of what we’ve done. In no way do
we think that we are the best band in the world. We do
realize that we are very fortunate where we are every day.
We are very fortunate.
NS: The new music scene seems to be filling up with self-
made musicians that forgo real instruments and use products
like Garage Band. When you watch their videos on Youtube
and see read their blogs, it’s almost like they believe they
deserve fame because they’ve created a song. What do you
think about that?