interview
Eradius
Bass and drums and a spirit simi-
lar to stoner: here are Eradius and
their new lp is Democrazy.
Can you tell the story of Era-
dius?
The Eradius project was born two
years ago, when Edoardo and Ri-
chard (drummer and bassist of the
Triple Rock band) wanted to write
and play original music, with the
purpose of escaping from the vi-
cious circle of the cover band, a
bit for nostalgia of that music that
was king in the 90s but at the same
time with the intention of creating
something new. Initially the band
was supposed to be a quartet, but
we immediately saw the divergen-
ces of thought and, encouraged by
the impressive ascent of the Royal
Blood, we decide to try in two. Wi-
thout great expectations but full of
enthusiasm we came to the rehear-
sal room to experiment, we under-
stood almost immediately the way
to take advantage of very similar
musical tastes. In September 2016
we are presented with the opportu-
nity to play for the first time on the
stage of a festival for the victims
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of the earthquake in Amatrice, and
from there on we took every op-
portunity, participating in various
contests and even starting to win
them! Even the album was born
without pretension: we found our-
selves under the eye of the produ-
cer Tommaso Canazza and thanks
to this meeting we decided to re-
cord all the twelve tracks we had in
the pipeline.
What do you use for your lyrics?
The main theme of most lyrics
is to protest anything that seems
wrong within our society. A cou-
ple of songs instead (Black Queen
and Medusa) talk about two women
in two different relationships, one
positive, the other a little less. Fi-
nally we dedicated a song (Desert)
to the artists who helped us in our
project.
I would like to know more about
the genesis of “Democrazy”
and “Medusa”
Democrazy was the first song that
was born in the rehearsal room,
we built the song around the riff,
which was born many
years earlier by the first
group of Edoardo (the
Arenanera), fished out of
old
audio files and then readjusted up
to what you hear today. In the lyri-
cs we take aim at the hypocrisy that
sometimes dominates in today’s
democracy, inviting the listener to
embrace our “crazy” democracy.
Medusa talks about a relationship
that ended badly with a woman, in
general she describes when the wo-
man makes fun of the man, decei-
ving and using it for her own inte-
rests and then abandoning it as if
nothing had happened.
Your 2017 has been studded
with concerts: how 2018 an-
nounce itself ?
Last year we worked hard expan-
ding our views trying to make spa-
ce on any stage was available, even
when a real stage was not there.
For 2018 we aim for a qualitative
leap. On February 24th there will
be a release party with the next re-
lease of the album.
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