I have no sort of ideological person that I look up to massively. I think for me it’s other human beings that are my biggest influence. So, who or what would you say is your biggest influence? And this can be in our outside of music. So, it is what it is nowadays and we keep doing what we do which is making music for ourselves. Yeah, everything comes together and it’s the right connection between every personality involved, which brings about Dragged Into Sunlight as a bigger picture – without one piece, it’s just not full, it just doesn’t work. Yeah, it sounds like it has a lot of elements to it, all moulded together. I think that really reflected in the music but that’s how it came about: it was just a very natural energy between us. I mean, it provided the reward, y’know, because we weren’t trying anymore and we weren’t bothered about touring, we weren’t bothered about recording we were there just to jam music. I think with Dragged Into Sunlight it was all those different members from different bands and different projects, who were somehow linked through various people and we ended up coming together and basically decided to do something different, completely different, just based on what we wanted to do and what we wanted to see out of metal… what we would do if we could just do our ideal bands, and we came together and that was Dragged Into Sunlight. ![]() You need to be prepared for hard graft but it’s the case that you end up doing that for fifteen years and you end up very burnt out and cynical. It’s a very difficult scene, the DIY scene, it’s very difficult. We were all in those bands, the people who took most of the weight of the band on a day-to-day basis, and you’re doing that for fifteen years and you’re touring and playing to empty venues and moving gear around all the time… I think, to be honest, we were really burnt out, that the bands weren’t doing much after that much work. We’d done bands for about 12 years – up to 15 years for some of us. ![]() What was the basis that Dragged Into Sunlight was built on, how did it happen? Yeah, it just came into one of our heads. I believe there’s some of textbooks early on that refer to being ‘dragged into sunlight’ and addressing issues of self-complex kind of things, a self-theoretical underline to it… but I can’t say that’s why we chose the name, it just came about… But it’s kind of ironic that people now interpret it because that’s what we expect them to do with the music, so they interpret the name as what they want it to be. People have emailed me these big stories saying “I read this psychology textbook and it had that sentence in it” and told me the whole tale about it, and I’m like, for us, it really did just come about. Yeah, the meaning behind the band name, I guess it just came about, there’s no massive… People have made a lot of it, thought about it quite a lot and got their own interpretations of it. What is the meaning behind the band name? Personally, there’s a double connotation and I can’t decide which… I really enjoyed this one and T is an extremely insightful person, and I was fortunate to talk to him again after DIS’s collaboration with Gnaw Their Tongues, “N.V.” I dug out an old hard-drive and it hit me that this interview with Dragged Into Sunlight was still on it, and here it is. ![]() One of the websites I wrote for was MetalRecusants, which sadly came to a natural end and so the website was laid to rest and all the reviews, interviews, etc. To complete the circle of influence, Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick was on board to produce the record along with Tom Dring (whom previously has worked on several DIS releases, including 2012′s “Widowmaker”).In 2013, I was already far in with this blog and writing for two music websites, but I’d only just started doing interviews with bands. Both entities rigorously designed a distinct collective sound heavily inspired by Godflesh’s “Streetcleaner” while reaching toward dark industrial spaces upon which both bands’ previous material had only briefly touched. Depicted by the UK’s Guardian Newspaper as “a violent collision between two giant, squirming slabs of fleshy nihilism,” “N.V.” consists of 30 claustrophobic minutes of blackened noise that were five years in the making. “N.V.” - the aurally destructive new collaborative album from DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT and Gnaw Their Tongues, “two of the most unnerving, raw, violent acts in the entire world” (Meat Mead Metal) – made its debut in November to admirable critical acclaim.
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