Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banger.
Bang, bang.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Bang, bang.
Bonsoir, nerve.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: Hey. Hello.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: Nice to meet you.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: Nice to meet you too.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: How are you? How do you feel after your show?
[00:00:36] Speaker A: I feel great and sad at the same time. Because we had the opportunity to make the warm up tour for Hellfest. We did a lot of shows here in France and the last thing would play here soon, everything is over. So we are sad, but we are extremely happy because we did one of our best show ever. The crowd was amazing. One of the best.
Yes. We are like insane. Finally happy.
[00:01:01] Speaker C: And happy.
[00:01:02] Speaker A: Yes.
Melting, dying, but happy.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: What do you think about the French audience?
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Oh, one of the best in the world so far.
Yes. Yes. The people were doing.
No, the people were doing like the wall of death.
We thought, we asked. That is great, man. The mosh pits. Yes.
Like, it was insane. This was giving us, like, a lot of energy because it was very hard for us because of the weather and we play in the tent, so it's warmer there.
For me, it was very hard because I needed air, you know, to sing all the time. Because the technique that I use, it's. With a lot of air. So can you imagine, you'll be like, for 45 minutes doing like this.
It's like, yes. You start to see everything black. You know, I was in my limit, but the people, like, the energy of the people was keeping me there. Like, she also, like, she almost faint. Yeah, she had like the.
[00:01:59] Speaker C: After the show, I went to the paramedics, but I'm good now. Oh, thank you. Checked a bit. I'm good. I didn't pass out. I noticed in time. I say to our tour manager, Andrea, I'm gonna sit right now. Please take care of my stuff. And they did, and I cooled down a bit and now I'm good. But it was definitely worth it. It was amazing show. The people are crazy and we love it so much.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: And the people were keeping us there. Yeah. I think all of us, all the girls were almost like. We were like. But the people.
So nice that it was. Yes, yes. You know, like.
Yeah. When you drive a car with just a little bit of gasoline, that was the sensation. Exactly.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: We fed you thrash.
You guys are playing thrash metal. And how did you get to the point of willing to play trash metal? Is it because we're talking about. Exactly. Mental health. About issues you can have and you have to deal with in the future? Is it something that actually fueled your need to play this kind of music? Very extreme music, or.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: I think it was A call, let's say like that. I don't know how to explain exactly, because since I was very young, like child or starting the teenager areas era, something like that, I was the only one in all my friendship or my family that liked trash metal. And still for nowadays, it's my favorite kind of music. I love other kind of musics as well, but thrash metal, it's always beating my heart, you know. So I think it's because we can mix many things in thrash metal. Example Nervosa, it's not a 100% thrash metal band. We also had influences from death metal and from nowadays we have a more heavy metal punk a lot.
So I like this possibility. Like example bands like Testament, they are brilliant, they have melody, but also they have that trash beat all the time there. So that is. It's something like I can hide, you.
[00:04:13] Speaker C: Know, it's pushing you, you can't ignore, it's calling you.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: Exact.
After playing a show, after playing your music, you must feel like relieved from the anger from just taking your demons out after playing a show like this.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: On stage, kind of. Because actually it's feeding them also.
So I want more, you know?
Yeah, of course, kind of.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: It's an international band somehow.
Is it something you wanted to do? Like to plan to have an band with members from all around the world?
[00:05:09] Speaker A: No, it's not something planned, but was something from the destiny, let's say. Because Nervosa started being an all female band from Brazil till 2020 when we split. And then I started searching for girls around the world. Of course some territories was a bit impossible, logistically talking the most part of activities for Nervosa, it's in Europe and I am also a European citizen. So for me it was easy to move to Europe. And the girls that I was finding to complete Nervosa was already with a professional experience, which was a bit harder in Brazil, because Brazil it's isolated from the world, so the girls don't have that much opportunity there.
And Nervosa, it's already in a level doing a lot of professional things. So I cannot have the risk to hire someone that is still learning or I can, but not everybody, let's say.
So the things happen like in Europe and in Europe, basically in 2020, when the pandemic was starting and we didn't have the consequences back in time, the flights between Europe was very cheap and say it's very possible.
But then I decided to move it to Europe. So I live currently now in Greece, which our guitarist is From Greece. And another bassist also is from Greece. And we have her that she's also a bassist and she's from Netherlands. So now we are all in Greece and she flies there to work with us here and there.
So yeah, that is how things happen.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Coming from different countries. Maybe you see metal or thrash metal differently. Because when you grew up in Brazil, in Greece or in the Netherlands, it's not exactly the same metal culture in these different countries.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: I think metal, it's the same meaning everywhere. What changes the culture beyond the metal? Because actually metal, it's one language, you know, like we dress in the same way, we like the same bands, we know the same musicians. We are fan of the same kind of things. And we've been in China, example that I never heard anything about metal there. And we see that they are start to open the borders there and start to make metal events there. We had the opportunity to play in a pop festival that was a huge one. We didn't expect that because we didn't know. We didn't have any information about the festival. We were expecting something like indoor festival for 400 people. We arrived there, it was 20,000 people with a huge stage. And all the Chinese is crazy. Doing mosh pits. Like a lot of mosh pits. I think they never did mosh pits in their life. That was the feeling. Of course they did. But I mean, that was the sensation. Like, what the fuck? Because it was only pop bands.
[00:08:28] Speaker C: We were thinking they were not gonna like us that much.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: Yeah, there was too much.
[00:08:32] Speaker C: Maybe they will just watch and maybe enjoy a bit. But they were going absolutely crazy. Yes, it was amazing.
[00:08:39] Speaker A: So metal, it's like one language of all the world. I think what it's changing.
It's the economic thing between of the countries. As I say, like coming from Latin America, we are far from the world. And the things there we deal with the poor and misery and a huge violence inside of my country. Talking about it, it's very sad. I love my country. I miss a lot to live there, but I feel unsafe many times. It's very sad. I hope we can fix that, you know, because it's a beautiful country, but it's our reality.
So that's. It's something like. It's inspired us to write our lyrics as.
[00:09:39] Speaker B: We can feel like maybe some sadness in your eyes when you talk about the situation in Brazil. And maybe playing music is a way also to try to manage these emotions and to channel them into music.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: Exactly. I think the metal scene in Brazil is huge. Yeah, yeah. Yes. And Mainly the trash metal. The trash metal in Brazil, like Sepultura, you know, like it's nothing. So, yeah, like everyone. I think it's in the same page. Like everyone knows what's going on there. And when we talk about it in our lyrics, anyone get mad because they know that it's the truth, you know. And I actually depends on which side you are.
In the end, we all want basically the same, which is peace.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: Yeah, of course.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: And have like the minimum of comfortable life, you know, that's the point. The problem in Brazil, like, the differences, it's huge. You have someone, misery living on the street and eat foods from the floor, you know, like in a very bad, inhuman way. And at the same time you have someone with a huge house, like billionaire, you know. So the balance there, it's very bad, nothing in between. So the favelas, everybody knows, is very violent. There's a lot of people that. It's really cool. They try to have a decent life and be, of course, a person, correct person. But sometimes, like all the systems involve them. They obligate them to follow some stuff that they don't want, but. But. Or they follow or they die. So it's like a very heavy.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: So we're going to talk about music, maybe.
What's your opinion on the new metal scene? Because it's changed quite a lot in the last few years. What's your feeling about it? How do you feel being part of it?
[00:11:41] Speaker A: I feel like that it's amazing. Bands coming with a different style that never was done before.
And also I think there are way more female in a band and all female bands also, which is great. Here is an example. Today, like almost at the same time Played Us, Burning Witches, Kitty, the Warning, you know, all of these, all female bands. It's something that I'm really proud to be part of this, you know. So, yeah, that's great. And I hope this is keeping growing. And I. I used to say, like, the future of the medal is in the hand of women.
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. But what you can see, like the next bands that are coming, there are a lot of women.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: You want to say something more?
[00:12:33] Speaker C: Let me think. Yeah. I have to add that I'm also seeing way more young girls in the audience, which I love a lot, because they are like. Women in bands are getting more normalized. So for them it's not like a huge step to start playing an instrument because they see lots of women everywhere doing it. And I think it makes it easier for them And I love it.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: You want to say something more?
[00:13:00] Speaker A: No, I just remember like our first tour here in Europe. We were the only old female bands touring and we barely. We were meeting other girls and now the things has changed and I love it.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: And balance is better.
Do you think that in the topics, the messages that are given through music, through the lyrics, have they changed in the last few years? Maybe there's more, I don't know, positivity, there's more understanding or etc. Instead of violence. Violence. Violence. Maybe. Is it something also you've noticed changing in the last few years?
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Yes, I think it's because what was more violent? I think it's trash metal and death metal, all of this extreme music. And I think we should keep going with that because big part of this. But the new generation, the new like metal wave, what modern metal. I think it's more sensitive.
They are talking maybe about more or less the same topics, but in a more. In a sensitive way. More.
It's different, you know, but I think it's brilliant. We need something a bit less direct.
[00:14:21] Speaker C: I feel like it's the same kind of topics, but worded in a different way.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Thank you very much for agreeing to do the interview and also, and firstly for influencing girls to take a guitar, to take the drums and play and go on stage and go out and play the music. So you are an influence to all these girls.
[00:15:02] Speaker A: Thank you so much. We are happy to be in this position and we hope we can inspire more women and see next year, the next, the next, more and more. Thank you so much.
[00:15:11] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:15:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it would be awesome that in a few years we are. You don't have to specify it's a female fronted band, but just it's a band and you don't really know if it's a man or girl. You don't care really.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: Exactly. We are on the way.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: Getting there.
[00:15:38] Speaker B: You have to pick one video clip, music video clip, not of you, but of any other band that represents the vibes you're on, the. The place you're here, or just the bands you. A band that influenced you in the past.
[00:15:51] Speaker A: Slayer. Raining Blood.
Of course.
Yes.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Thank you so much for. I think you want to choose one too.
[00:15:58] Speaker C: It's really hard.
[00:16:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's a hard question. Yes.
[00:16:01] Speaker C: But I think for me the most influential are live videos. Because if I see a live video, I see the audience, I see people going. I'm like, ah, I want to do this, I want to go there.
So I would say live videos of any of my favorite bands, we're gonna do it.
[00:16:18] Speaker B: Great.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: Thank you so much for everything. Have a great time, and thank you for your music.
[00:16:22] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:16:23] Speaker C: Merci beaucoup.
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