there are so many horrible bands in the industrial genre in quebec that it makes me really want to puke.
when i started out many years ago, Deadly Apples was basically the only band in quebec that incorporated some elements of industrial into our music. with the release of Infected last year, i believe i was able to redefine this dead genre with AL and make it my own, something fresh.
since earlier this year, i noticed many new industrial-goth-metal bands forming in montreal and quebec city, all influenced by our early work (as they said so themselves). it led me to believe that i had revived a long-lost form of music and i was proud of that achievement in a sense.
we were invited to tour with some of them and at first i thought it would be somewhat interesting. but i guess i was a little too optimistic. those bands are nothing more than shitty ripoffs of established artists. i realize now that we unwittingly spawned low-quality amateur music that is once again destroying this genre.
not all of them are that bad though, but most are, and i don't want DA to be associated with such mediocre garbage whatsoever. i now understand why people like Al Jourgensen and Trent Reznor tried so hard to get away from industrial in the mid-90's. they didn't want to be tied to the god-awful talentless crap bands that jumped on the bandwagon.
any idiot can pick up a guitar and write some generic tunes that have been already done countless times. few have the ability, intelligence and creativity to write something meaningful and fresh, which is what we are aiming for on the new DA album.
it felt good to rant, thank you.
p.s. don't miss our show with karkwa and konflit tomorrow, should be fun.
