{"id":11604,"date":"2013-08-07T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=11604"},"modified":"2013-07-31T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T13:39:10","slug":"blowin-wind-with-the-defileds-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=11604","title":{"rendered":"Blowin\u2019 Wind with The Defiled\u2019s Stitch D: \u201cWe always thought that we were too metal for the Goth kids and too Goth for the metal kids.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1004505_10151718526779376_321227622_n\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em>What do you get when you cross a band that looks like LA Guns and Motley Crue but sounds like a cross between Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, and Pantera? Well, you get British based metal band The Defiled. It all sounds like an unlikely pairing but somehow these blokes seem to just throw it all into a blender, mix it up, drink it, and spew out their own lil hybrid of industrial, hook laden, and melodic metal.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I recently had the opportunity to speak on the phone with The Defiled\u2019s singer\/guitarist Stitch D. Stitch is a really cool and funny dude and we talked about his current change of local to living in LA, why American food is so awesome, and what band he\u2019d love to sing in for just one night if he had the chance. This was yet another fun one and I hope you\u2019ll dig getting to know Stitch D. from The Defiled.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hey there Stitch, this is Don from the Great Southern Brainfart. How are you this evening?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m doing good man. How about yourself?<\/p>\n

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So I never heard of or even heard The Defiled before but after giving your album a listen, I really enjoyed the album a good bit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well that\u2019s a relief. I can only imagine how awkward it would be to interview a band that you despised [laughs].<\/p>\n

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So are you living in Los Angeles now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. I just moved here about three months ago. I was only here about three weeks though and had to go back to England and do about 6 or 7 weeks of touring in Europe. I got back here a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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So how did and Englishman end up in LA and how are you adjusting to life there?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a crazy different. Just getting used to the weather. It\u2019s kind of nice and more relaxed than in England. I moved here because I had wanted to move out of London for a while. I never felt like I could move because of the band but then I realized that I didn\u2019t even really need to be in the same country as those guys. We\u2019re not one of those bands who rehearse day in and day out. We just get together before tour and rehearse so it doesn\u2019t really matter where we live.<\/p>\n

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Technology has also made it much easier to work as a band spread out across the globe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ah yes, the power of the Internet [laughs]. We can actually write and collaborate together online. We can remotely connect to each other\u2019s desktop and share ideas and recordings with each other.<\/p>\n

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Well be careful out there in LA. I\u2019d hate for you to get too much sun. It might ruin your image.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[laughs] Exactly!<\/p>\n

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So you guys look like LA Guns and Motley Crue but you sound like the kind of band that would kick those guys\u2019 asses! Is part of The Defiled\u2019s mission to shock the living hell out of everyone by not sounding anything like you look?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s a bit strange. People don\u2019t expect it but yeah, it\u2019s kind of weird. We always thought that we were too metal for the Goth kids and too Goth for the metal kids. I think people usually are shocked when they see us first, and then hear us. I guess that\u2019s a good thing. It makes people not judge your music instantly but sometimes it does make people judge you massively.<\/p>\n

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So for those that don\u2019t know anything about The Defiled, how would you describe your band?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d say that we\u2019re a metal band with a heavy electronic influence like Nine Inch Nails and things like that. Bands that we grew up loving you can\u2019t help but take some influence from them. Even if we didn\u2019t set out to sound a certain way, this is just how it naturally came about. We\u2019re still metal kids as well so there are a lot of heavy things in there as well. We were also grunge kids so we like big choruses and things like that have sneaked its way into the songs.<\/p>\n

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I hear a lot of things going on in this band. I hear elements of Pantera, some death metal, and I even hear some an industrial influence in there ala Nine Inch Nails. Who do you consider some of your primary influences and how did your sound really come together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. It was like we said, \u201cThis is the sound we want.\u201d I remember when I had moved to London that I wanted to start a band that would have electronics in it but nothing that was just one person pushing play on a laptop. I actually wanted someone to do it as their role in the band as opposed to something that was just there for the sake of being there. Influence wise, we pull from Nine Inch Nails, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, and even some of the heavier bands from nowadays.<\/p>\n

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I have to say that it\u2019s always entertaining for me to hear European bands listing American bands as their influences while American bands list European bands as their influences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[laughs] It\u2019s quite weird isn\u2019t it? I guess it\u2019s kind of like when you\u2019re a kid and you think it\u2019s cool to say, \u201cOoo, what\u2019s going on in America? It\u2019s got to be better than what\u2019s going on in England!\u201d [laughs] I guess it\u2019s the same way in America!<\/p>\n

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Your latest album \u201cDaggers\u201d will be coming out here soon. How does this album stand out from your 2011 debut Grave Times?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just think it\u2019s such a cheesy thing when a band says that their current record is their best record but it\u2019s the truth. This is just a much heavier, stronger record. I also feel that it just sounds so much better since it was produced by a proper producer. Grave Times we did on our own. We released it ourselves and we didn\u2019t really have someone to help us out or 2nd guess things. When I listen back to that record I hear things that I feel should\u2019ve been done differently. It was nice to go to Florida with a good producer for this album and have him say things like, \u201cThat is shit. Do something else.\u201d [laughs] It was quite nice to have someone else say things like that so I think that everything in regards to this new album I feel is so much stronger than Grave Times.<\/p>\n

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What have you found to be the biggest benefit to being signed to a label like Nuclear \"1016509_10151649969994376_968140461_n\"<\/a>Blast as opposed to doing it all on your own?<\/strong><\/p>\n

They can take things to the next level for us. It just got to a point where we got stuck and we really needed someone to take us to that next level and I believe that Nuclear Blast are the ones that\u2019ll be able to do that for us. They\u2019re able to take our music worldwide and they are really behind the band so that works really well.<\/p>\n

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You guys tour pretty extensively for that debut album. How much did that tour help to shape you into the band you are now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quite a bit I think. You can\u2019t help but learn from other bands when you\u2019re on tour. Too look back on how we were before our first album got released to now as a band on stage is a totally different band. There\u2019s more confidence and we just seem to be more professional now.<\/p>\n