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Reinventing Yourself With CAMERON From DISTORTED VIEWS

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South East Queensland metal outfit Distorted Views made a massive impact on the local music scene with their debut single Propoganda in early 2021, with their blending of metal and rap elements managing to transcend the tried and true formula into something refreshingly unique and original.


Since then they have released a couple of equally impressive tracks in Suffocate and Glitch, but haven’t cracked that next level they are undoubtedly capable of.


After a quiet 2022 which saw the band play only one live show, Distorted Views took stock of the band and themselves and elected to streamline the project into a three-piece, enlisting Zach on vocals and promoting Cameron to lead guitars with Jordan steadfast behind the kit.


Understanding the transitional phase ushered in by these changes Distorted Views are adopting a steady approach to reigniting their aural assault, starting with the recently released single Interference.


Cameron sat down with HEAVY earlier today to bring us up to speed.


“We’ve had a few people message us that aren’t directly friends or family,” he smiled when asked about the reception for Interference, “which I always love because it’s a neutral opinion. You always feel like your friends and family are guaranteed to say it’s awesome (laughs) so when you get people telling you they’re chucking it on their gym playlist, or it pumps them up then that’s awesome to hear. It’s in Drop E, which is, at this point in time, the lowest song we’ve recorded, so it’s quite low there, especially in the middle with that breakdown. It’s a dissonant note in Drop E, so it’s bloody heavy.”


We push Cameron on the musical aspect of Interference and what the band were going for with it.


“Essentially, we wanted to blend low tuning stuff but still have some sort of melody in there,” he measured, “and not just be constant chuggs. As much as we all love the chugging and that heavy part it provides more dynamics when you create those leads and stuff. It was originally meant to be dual guitar, but now I’m just gonna use a pitch shifter being that I’m the only one playing it now. In regards to the song, it’s just something to hype you up. It’s about that attitude of whatever you want to do in life and not letting anyone try to say ‘why are you doing that? You should be doing this’. That’s why in the lyrics it says ‘You push me, I push back, that’s the way it’ll be’. It’s got that grit to it but at the same time it’s got that melodic element as well.”


In the full interview Cameron talks us through Interference in more detail, talks about the new-look three-piece Distorted Views and what it means for the band, how it will affect their sound, how the band has changed musically from Propoganda to now, reinventing their live sound, playing more shows, drip feeding new material, their podcast Something To Scream About and more.

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