“It just feels completely natural for us to mix everything,” notes Harris. “We‘re really up for whatever label people want to put on us. We’ve actually found it difficult for ourselves to narrow it down Harris but we like to think of ourselves as just being a metal band. We‘ve used the description ‘blackened rap metal’ just to catch people‘s attention. But to me, rap is just a tool we use to convey an emotion or feel, just like we use screams and melody. We‘ve found different styles of rap and singing that suit Gavin really well, and when we‘re writing vocals for a song, we‘re only thinking about what would be the best fit with the energy and vibe. For us, there needs to be an emotional connection in order for heavy music to resonate with the listener on a deeper level.”
Harris comments further on the band‘s new single, “The song is about Gavin‘s struggle with managing his self-destructiveness and we wanted the video to feel like a physical manifestation of Gavin’s internal war. The moment in the music video where the hangman‘s noose becomes a crown of rope is a deliberate visual metaphor of Gavin gaining the upper hand of what could potentially destroy him.”
Watch GRADIENCE‘s “Master To The Slave” video HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxyljhL1bA
Stream the track HERE:
https://www.metalblade.com/gradience/
