Sept 18 2013
HARD ROCK INTERVIEWS 2013 - ASKING ALEXANDRIA - BEN BRUCE
ASKING ALEXANDRIA - Ben Bruce talks to Mark... ABOUT BREAKING BIG IN THE US, A LOVE OF CLASSIC ROCK AND COMING TO AUSTRALIA FOR SOUNDWAVE 2014 |
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ASKING ALEXANDRIA is a band you should be watching very closely. At the moment these guys are flying the flag for Metalcore, riding high in the US charts and touring constantly to rave reviews. Next year they are heading downunder for SOUNDWAVE 2014. Not bad for a little band from York with a love of Skid Row and Guns 'n' Roses... These guys will be huge by the time they get here... The ROCKPIT caught up with Ben Bruce on a rae day off to find out what the secret is to success in the US...
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Mark: Hi, Ben, how are you?
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Mark: You’ve sold out European and American tours, and are currently on the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, over there, you’ve got Soundwave coming up, in October, and you’ve just announced the Family Values Festival, and you have some club dates out there in America with Korn. You must be one of the hardest working bands out there! How’s everyone holding up?
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Mark: I think you have, and I think you are one of the few bands that have managed it, so well done mate! The new album, “Death to Destiny” is number 5 on the Billboard charts, and your last album went double platinum, it must be a good feeling too, to be one of the only Metal bands out there, selling some records too!
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Mark: It’s great because it does work, it’s one of those things where you are right and on tracks like “Don’t Pray for Me”, you really do get that old school metal/rock influence, and I think it’s the guitars that do it, they have that real eighties feel to them, without sounding dated, if that makes sense?
Mark: I just have a couple of quick questions we got from people who wanted to ask you questions, when they found out we were doing the interview. Where did the name come from?
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Mark: I guess it puts you at the front (alphabetically) of metal bands! If you could have been a fly on the wall for the recording of any great album, at any point in time, what would it have been for you and why?
Ben spoke to Mark Diggins September 2013 |
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