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Existance-Existance
Artist : Existance
Album : Existance
Label : High Roller Records
Year : 2012
Genre : Heavy Metal Source : CDDA
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1 Bitrate : 896kbps
Playtime : 42:34 min Size : 272,52 MB
Tracks:
01 Son of Wolf 05:31
02 Diary of Eternity 07:35
03 Soul Warrior 05:16
04 Kill Me Madness 05:00
05 Innocent 04:59
06 Dark Day 05:34
07 Waverly Hills 04:23
08 Existance 04:16
Notes:
Existance is quite a young band, formed in 2008 in a
small town called Clermont, situated approximately
60 kilometres north of Paris. Although itÆs not a
big place by any stretch of the imagination,
Clermont is home to quite a few local metal bands
(such as ArΦs, Irminsul, Gencode, Orkaan and Dead NÆ
Crazy). The group's founder, guitarist and vocalist
Julian Izard, is the son of Didier Izard, who played
for French metal legend H-Bomb. Metal is in his
blood, so to say: ôWhen I was born, H-Bomb had
already split, but the musical taste of my father
definitely influenced me and made me like heavy
metal from the 1980Æs. He gave me the wish and
desire to continue and handed out some advice on a
lot of things based on his own experience.
Existance recorded their first demo in 2010,
followed by their privately pressed debut CD a year
later. Julian Izard explains: ôThe first demo was
used to book concerts. Then, in 2011, we recorded an
album, which was kind of a 'demo album' with eight
tracks. Its goal was to get a deal with a record
company to be able to release it officially. Even
though it was only kind of second demo for us, the
final result was so close to a real album that we
decided to look for a deal to release it. So this
album simply called 'Existance' will be released in
spring 2012 by High Roller Records. There will be
the eight songs without any bonus tracks on the High
Roller Records release but the booklet will be
different than the one that we had before. Our
privately pressed release only had a four-page
booklet and the CD version that will be released
through High Roller Records will contain an eight-
page booklet quite different from the original one.
Also, there will be a vinyl version as a limited
edition of 500 copies with some coloured vinyl
copies for collectors.
With such a strong connection to a metal legend like
H-Bomb, I could well imagine that Existance are
playing a few songs of them live. However, that is
not the case: ôNo, even though IÆm proud to be the
son of the singer of H-Bomb and even though itÆs
very pleasant for me to see how H-Bomb is still
respected after all these years, we donÆt cover any
songs from them. Existance is a band with its own
identity that does almost no covers from any band.
Just our songs.ö This is true, as musically
Existance and H-Bomb are quite different from each
other. Julian Izard confirms: ôH-Bomb was the
precursor (or one of the founders) of speed metal,
at least in France, with songs in the French
language. Existance is completely different, the
vocals are in English and we are more into
traditional heavy metal than speed metal like H-Bomb
was. Maybe the only common point between Existance
and H-Bomb is that they both sound very much 1980's.
As just mentioned, Existance have opted to sing in
English instead of French. This is why: ôInitially,
I did not intend to be the singer of the band, just
the guitarist, but since we didnÆt find the singer
good enough for our musical style, my father gave me
the advice to try to do it by myself. ThatÆs how I
became a singer. Now concerning the choice of the
language, as surprising as it may appear, I turned
quite naturally to English, while French is my
native language. Certainly, I have to acquire more
ease with English. By being guitarist and singer of
Existance simultaneously, I have a double mission,
so IÆve chosen the language which appeared to me the
most comfortable: English.
Julian has already stated that Existance do not
sound anything like H-Bomb, so this is how he would
describe their sound: ôI would say that ExistanceÆs
music is verging more towards heavy metal from the
1980Æs than hardrock territory. Although our music
is quite melodic metal, our riffs are more heavy
metal than hardrock. We want to keep the heavy metal
style from the 1980's.
Although the comparism probably might be a bit
random, Existance reminds me a little bit of
Agincourt and the old N.W.O.B.H.M. band Stampede,
who have just released a fantastic new record.
Julian shares my view: ôYou are right, Stampede did
a great comeback after all these years. Concerning
Agincourt, itÆs a great album also, way heavier than
Stampede, but once again, I donÆt really see
anything in them that reminds me of Existance. Our
production (and sound), our approach to the songs
and our tunes are more pure 1980Æs heavy metal than
for example Agincourt. To tell you the truth, weÆve
already been compared to bands like the Tygers of
Pan Tang, Scorpions, Hammer Fall, Saxon and Iron
Maiden à We know these bands very well and we can
only feel flattered that the name Existance is
associated with or compared to such big bands. You
know, I even read that my voice is close to the one
of Klaus Meine from the Scorpions. He is a great
singer, no doubt about that, but I really donÆt see
anything in common between his voice and mine. No,
really, nothing in common at all à You know, so many
things were built and done in the 1980Æs that a
parallel is inevitable when you listen to our music,
but despite those comparisons, we fortunately have
our very own style.
France as a country has a very fine tradition of
spectacular heavy metal bands like Trust, Nightmare,
Vulcain, Warning, H-Bomb, ADX or even Morsⁿre (to
name just a few). They all had a very unique
(French) sound. Of course, this also goes back to
the very early 1980's, as Julian knows: ôYouÆre
absolutely right, in their sound and their
musicality, each of these bands that youÆve
mentioned had something unique. ThatÆs the point,
our goal with Existance is not to copy what has
already been done by others but to sparkle the
1980Æs heavy metal spirit by creating our own
musical signature sound.
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