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listened to it! Someone out there listened to
Black Sabbath and had kids!
K: Yay! Thank you.
O: My girlfriend’s parents actually listened
to Black Sabbath, that’s how she got into it. I
had to find it the hard way and get it behind
my parents’ back. I had some friends who
listened to it and would tell me, “Hey, you’ve
got to listen to this.” I’d take my allowance
and sneak off to buy CDs. My parents weren’t
strict, but they were like, “This is wrong, don’t
do it,” and of course, I had to do it now.
Yeah! It is, it’s true. The style, the way you
approach it seems so different. Where does
it come from?
But when you watch videos of the band playing
live, Kadria’s smiling, you’re supposed to have
fun with it.
K: First off, I’m Jewish, so I have a lot of
that quarter-tone, Semitic kind of thing,
that’s part of my heritage and belief system. That’s where some of it comes in. I’m
greatly influenced by bands like Myrath
and Orphaned Land, who are from Tunisia and Israel respectively, and I love that
stuff. I’ve danced to it for so long, and
studied that music, it started filtering in to
a lot of the electronic side of stuff. And vocally it’s a totally different technique, and
nobody else is doing it! So why not?
K: You’re not the first person to bring that up,
people will say, “Oh, you’re smiling up there,”
but I’m like, I’m feeling it. There’s the energy
coming back. I’m doing what I love doing
best with people I love and respect.
in a room, hopefully not tearing my hair
out.
Can you tell me a little about the Middle
Eastern style that you bring to the vocals?
Your voice is very different than other singers —
You all could have picked up instruments
and had any kind of music come out when
you played. How’d it come out metal?
K: Because I feel it.
Did you have parents who listen to it?
K: Oh God, no.
Nobody ever says they had parents who
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Inviolate and check out reverbnation.com/inviolate to hear songs from the band’s first EP,
“Feast of Ashes.”