Genre: Deathcore
Hometown : Saint Nazaire - FRANCE
Management / Booking : EZ Management
management@qov-official.com
(Interview by Guillaume Gandon)
How did you guys get started?
Well the band started late 2008 with me as singer, Julien as rythm guitarist and William as drummer. Then John and Yoann joined us at lead guitar and bass and we started the EP 2009 writing and made few shows. Then our former drummer had to quit us to sontinue his studies, so that we recorded our EP with him and a new drummer, David, joined us in late 2009. The line up finalized, we started to make a lot of shows in our country through the year 2010 and will start a, Euro Tour in summer 2011.
Can you describe Quintessence of Versatility's sound?
Well, at the beginning, we were all fond of Deathcore music, but with the fashionable uses around this genre, we quickly saw it's limits. So, we intended to fin a new way of composition that would be linked with Deathcore stuff. We chose to make our songs with a strong Death metal and Hardcore base and added lot of variations taken from different genres and subgenres of the metal music to our songs. In fact we play a kind of Deathcore with influences coming from black metal, grindcore, mathcore, jazz, slamming death metal, beatdown HxC, and lot of other things ... and all of that with an effort in the structures of our stuff, aiming to have a progressive tone in our songs. So thats why we choose to call our music style "Post Deathcore", because we think that it is more than classical Deathcore, mainly most progressive and experimental.
Are their any bands/musicians that have inspired your music?
A lot of various bands and artists from different genres of metal music; Marduk, Infernal War, Dimmu Borgir, Heol Telwen, Suicide Silence, As Blood Runs Black, Despised Icon, Whitechapel, Burning Skies, Carnifex, Job for a Cowboy Meshuggah, Born of Osiris, Dillinger escape Plan, Raxinasky. And then some Jazz like Marcus Miller.
Do you have a favorite song to play at shows?
On a personal point of view, one of my favorite is "Agoraphobic part of Human being", because it is a quite long song (6-7min) that have different stuff in it, like black metal blast beat, slamming death and beatdown stuff, mosh parts and soft & melodic part too.
What has been your favorite band to share the stage with so far?
We love to share the stage with our Britton friends of "Straight in tha Veins", we are good friends and always had good time with them even if we only played few times with. We are also good friends with members of the band NightShade, and we'll be on tour with them and Hester Prynne this sumer in Europe and we expect a lot of things from this tour and cannot wait to play with them!
If you could go on tour with any band, who would it be, and why?
haaaaa, there's a lot of bands we want to play with ! Immediately I think about Burning Skies, War from a Harlot's mouth, All Shall Perish, Suicide Silence, Origin, Waking the Cadaver, and a lot of others ... mainly because they are great bands and because we love their music.
Do any band members have random pet-peeves?
I don't really understand what it could be, but I must say that could be bands who make of their music a real copy of the main band they love. We make the difference between being influenced or inspired, and copy a band.
What is the craziest thing that has happened at one of your shows?
We played an outdoor gig to celebrate the recording of our latest clip "Unapplied Laws", and when we finally play, there was a failure in the generator in the half of our live set. That was awful but also funny.
What has been your favorite venue so far?
We love to play at the bar "Le Barock" in Rennes, because the team is very fair with us, and the public is great, even if it is a very little venue where we cannot enter more than 50 persons, we love that proximity with the public, and because the owner of the bar is a very sympathetic person and became a good friend for us.
If you could give a message to all your fans, what would it be?
JOIN OUR FACEBOOK PAGE! http://www.facebook.com/QoVofficial Well, more seriously, just come to our shows and share a good time with us, we don't expect any more. And if you like our music, you enventually can buy our merch.
And lastly, if you guys could thank anybody for your success who would it be,
and why?
We recently sign a management contract with EZ Management, owned by Bastien Deleule, also guitarist in the band NightShade, and he helps us a lot in a lot of ways, so i suppose the main person we need to thank would be Bastien. Except him, all our friends, street team and family that support us, and also our former drummer William.
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