![]() ![]() But also, if a band comes along like Mayhem, that are well respected, and are a band that we grew up listening to we’d definitely want to tour with them. We’re not an overly introverted band anymore, we sort of do play live, we’re up for it, but we want the conditions to correct, we want it to be an enjoyable time because at the end of the day no one is retiring from making this kind of music. It’s not to say we won’t ever do it again, we most likely would but it would have to be the rights bands. Mayhem were doing their iconic album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, which is their album they’re probably most known for and said do you want to do eighty shows? So we thought well, we’re not really live band guys but, eighty shows with Mayhem? They’re such a big influence on what we do, so we went for it. A huge influence for Dragged Into Sunlight. We don’t like touring for huge amounts of time, obviously that changed with Mayhem perhaps. But if they don’t like it, we don’t care, we’re doing music that we like. It started taking shape gradually, but I think the thing for Dragged was it was meant to be the last band for everyone involved, so we were a bit reserved about playing live, because there was no desire to be on this ladder, to get somewhere, it was just, make the best music we can make, and either people like it, or they don’t like it. We saw a pretty violent reaction and people getting into it and then we did another one and it was a bit tighter. It was like an exorcism it was great, it was fucking loud as fuck, people loved it. And then we did one, and we all thought hang on a minute, we enjoyed that, and everyone else enjoyed it. So we thought about what band we wanted to be, and we were really in love with the music that we were making, we weren’t sure how it’d translate live, but it was more that no one really had the motivation to do live shows. Either you make it and you’re performing at fucking Wembley or something, big arenas, big stages, or you’re one of those bands that people don’t really care about and you’re mixed in with all these other bands playing two hundred shows and actually you’re just killing yourself quickly because of something you love but no one else loves. It ends ten years down the line and you’re playing in some shit venue. We formed Dragged Into Sunlight and we thought are we going to be a band like Darkthrone? Are we going to be a band that tours continuously? We’d all done those bands that toured continuously, we’ve all been at the beck and call of record labels who’d said two hundred shows in a year, keep on going until you’re dead basically. No, it wasn’t intentional that we weren’t going to tour when we started Dragged Into Sunlight. When you first started the band, you never really intended to be a touring band, s o when you play shows now, is there any holdover feelings from that period, when you were starting? Obviously no one is going to put a mega PA in a 300 capacity venue. So you get that chance at Dark Mofo, to literally take out an entire room and then you come to a club show and it feels like agh, someone has limited your power it’s just not as loud. That’s why we do what we do, for the volume, to swallow the entire room. That’s not the issue, we could perform where there’s 1 person or 2000, it’s the technical specifications, the PA. ![]() If I was probably to rate the shows Brisbane was good but Dark Mofo, coming down from that, to a regular club show, you’ve just come from an audience of 2000 and all of a sudden back down to 300. A great way to start our trip in Australia. It’s all got this very raw dark vibe which is very fitting for us. Flamethrowers, massive food festival, art galleries going off, the whole town just becomes something different. ![]() Just the amount of energy and effort that goes into making that production is ridiculous. You were in Tasmania for Dark Mofo, how was that? There’s a really good scene that’s going off over here. Icelandic black metal is one of the few genres that I’m really into. Completely different time zone, but reversed. stopped by for a chat before their Sydney show and it was an honour to be in his vicinity and to step into his dark and twisted heavy mind… As far as metal goes, the heavier the better and so when Dragged Into Sunlight came to Australia recently for Dark Mofo, we had to jump at the chance to delve into their world of extreme/heavy metal to see what makes the elusive gents tick.
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