Interview with Lybica
We had the pleasure of interviewing Lybica over Zoom video!
Meet Lybica, a dynamic instrumental 3-piece force from south Florida that seamlessly blends flavorful guitar melody with powerful metallic crunch. Lybica will take you on an epic musical journey of peaks and valleys where the possibilities are endless.
Lybica was first conceived in 2020 when it became clear to Justin Foley (drummer of Killswitch Engage) that he wasn\u2019t going to be spending much time with his normal dudes for a while. Quarantine days still needed to be time well spent, and he\u2019d been working on some demos that he finally decided to share with a few local friends in south Florida. \u201cI\u2019d written a bunch of stuff that didn\u2019t quite fit into traditional song structures,\u201d explains Justin, \u201cand I\u2019ve always been drawn to bands where the instruments provide hooks, rather than relying on a lyric. It seemed like a good time to start something new and see where it could go.\u201d
Justin had met fellow musicians Doug French (Gravel Kings) and Joey Johnson (Gravel Kings, Barriers Now Bridges, Days Spent) back in 2016 and they had repeatedly talked about jamming together but never actually got around to it. Justin and Doug, both drummers, often spoke about trying something different that allowed them each to get out from behind the kit. \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to play a stringed instrument\u201d, says Doug, \u201cand bass felt natural since it is the other half of the rhythm section.\u201d
Guitarist Joey Johnson grew up playing shows all over Florida, heavily influenced by early punk and then both hardcore and metal. \u201cAll the good places to get a beer kept asking me if I had met Justin, since they know I play music. I heard about him in our town for about a year before we actually met through mutual friends. We hit it off when we started talking instrumental music.\u201d
So when Doug and Joey eventually received the demos from Justin, they really liked what they heard. For several months the three emailed music back and forth while learning the parts, especially Justin (guitar) and Doug (bass) on instruments they weren\u2019t experienced playing. They eventually started playing together with the drum tracks from the demos blasting through the PA speakers. Before too long they had enough music for a full record and the direction of the band was starting to take shape.
The trio soon discovered that they had something else in common besides music. \u201cThe three of us are pretty big cat people,\u201d Justin points out, \u201cso it only made sense to call the band Lybica.\u201d Named after a small wildcat species native to Africa that is widely considered the godfather of the modern house cat, Lybica is the first known feline species to be tamed and domesticated by humans.
Fast forward 10,000 years, and today Lybica the band are as addictive as catnip. With plans to release their debut self-titled full length album later this year, Lybica is poised to make some serious noise in 2021 and beyond, fur-real!
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