Interview with Incendiary
We had the pleasure of interviewing Incendiary over Zoom video!
Armed with crushing metallic riffs, instantly both fresh and familiar, Incendiary populate each of their four full-length albums with irresistibly energized rhythms and adrenalized urgency. Change The Way You Think About Pain is their leanest and unapologetically meanest yet. The quintet weaned on the Long Island, New York, hardcore scene have more to say than ever. Sharply biting and insightful lyrics sit atop blunt metalcore in a perfect soundtrack to throw a brick through a window.
Incendiary delivers a sound of its own, mixing classic passion and modern power. Frontman Brendan Garrone, guitarists Brian Audley and Rob Nobile, and drummer Dan Lomeli, cite East Coast hardcore heroes like Vision Of Disorder, 108, Indecision and Glassjaw as part of Incendiary\u2019s formative DNA. Less familiar listeners might liken them to a very heavy Rage Against The Machine.
The band returned to Will Putney of Graphic Nature Audio (Knocked Loose, Every Time I Die, Vein.fm) to engineer, mix and master the new release. Many essential genre bands never made a second album, let alone a fourth. \u201cWe are kind of in rare territory being a hardcore band on their fourth LP,\u201d Garrone concedes. \u201cIt feels like a milestone. By now, you\u2019re either \u2018supposed\u2019 to drastically change your sound or have it be the exact same thing as the record before,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to do either of those things. Our focus was on refining the sound that we\u2019ve optimally been working towards rather than any desire to make a huge pivot.\u201d Audley says that in addition to the more focused songwriting on Change The Way You Think About Pain, \u201cwe also wanted it to be more aggressive and more abrasive, in terms of songs and production.\u201d
Thematically, Incendiary\u2019s fourth album confronts the hyper-polarization of American society, those who confuse selfishness with freedom, and the lengths we\u2019ll go to in order to avoid pain and maintain comfort. The socio-political pulse found throughout Cost of Living remains, with a deeper exploration of the introspective personal lyrics Garrone started to introduce on Thousand Mile Stare. \u201cThe album is a mix of both the socio-politically driven content and darker, more personalized subjects. The album title is meant to conjure the concept of pain avoidance,\u201d Garrone explains. \u201cMost of the songs have some kind of tie back to the things everyone does to avoid feeling any semblance of pain. \u2018Pain avoidance\u2019 is a phrase me and Brian came across and kept in the back of our minds.\u201d
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