Sixx

date interview: 31/05/2005

situated: oneofsixx.tripod.com

... when I am about myself to write of the lyric ones, beginning to before feel sliding of music, and after beginning to pull on a little thoughts...

Hello Vikk and welcome on the pages of Defenders of Steel, in the first place thanks for your availability, I would begin with the classic question of ritom you want to introduce your One of Sixx leaving just from the genesis of yours moniker therefore particular?

First of all, large "hello" to all those that are faithful to the metal. As far as the name of ours band, initially I had conceived it like the name of a song, but more I repeated it, plus I felt it appropriated for our group. Therefore I said to Dave that One Of Sixx was the name, and was accepted endured without protests, indeed. The thing that appealed to than this name more to me, was that it did not reveal to nobody the kind of music from we dealt. You know, when you feel Slayer, you tasks endured to the thrash metal, if you feel Poison, images features of glam, but One Of Sixx does not say null.
The history of ours band instead is begun in the ' 93, after the issolution of the Byfist. In that period we had four ready songs hardly, and us they seemed po' little in how much we did not want to be pleased of a demo. We began to pull on something of interesting, however in that period our kind began to become underground, therefore we have left po' a taken one. In the 2000 the Byfist has gathered, and I have had the opportunity to newly meet with John and mo the better friend than always, Rey to me Gone, anch' they in first linens up of the Byfist. After the response positive you from public and critic under the name One Of Sixx, I have decided to resume with we the drummer Gorge Arellano (are successful to embed it while it was in the Fiarro) and my moglie Jeska Real, anch' it in the Fiarro, with the task to play keyboards and of backing vocals. The rest, creed that you know it.

Therefore who is the currently been involved musicians in the band and that experiences have maurato in other formations of your area?

Currently, the members deli One of Sixx are:
Vikk Real (main voice): former singer of the Byfist and the Fiarro, also has participated to side project with the bassista Don Van Stavern of the Riot (a this last today in the Pitbull Daycare);
Jeska Real (keyboards, secondary voice): it has sung in passed in the Fiarro, it has created a its personal plan (GyngerRoot), and has collaborated with the Byfist;
Dave Cadena (guitar): it has played with the SlingSlot Alley, Genacide, Malaki, and has collaborated to other small plans;
John (HotRod) Rodriguez (guitar): it has played in the Zero smaller The Hero, Byfist and other plans;
Rey Gone (low): fin' hour has played also with the Trubadour, Talisphere, Fiarro and Byfist;
Gorge Arellano (battery): in passed also with Intrickacie, Talasphere and Fiarro

That what is hidden really behind to a title it therefore strange like "U.D.Cide"

For how much it concerns the title it U.D.Cide (has the same one pronounces English of "you decides", that is "you decides" ndr), means in practical what it says. It is like if we proposed to our listeners this question: "Here our music. It appeals to to you or not? Six you to decide ". We prefer that our critics are ours fans us, to the fine ones are they makes to understand if six you on the just road or not.

Ok Vikk, duqnue after all these years passes to you professare the verbo of the true metal, than what tasks to have carried of yours passages experiences to the inside of this your new adventure?

After more than fifteen years, creed to have matured one sure experience. Before the time that I have played in the Byfist was in far away 1989. In that period I throwed to low head under the reflectors of the scene American without to think next to null, but however I was a child. Hour I know all the problematic ones of business of the field, and with all my experience I can help to guide the One Of Sixx towards the best. However, they are not the only expert person and with a little years on the road. Practically all the members have already accumulated of the not indifferent experience, and also they add to the band very.

You know one what, for being only a demo, your new job sound dannatamente heavy, for this I would want to ask to you, who has taken care itself of the production of the four brani? For a band relativamnete young as your task is the top, to you he appeals to like sound, or to the contrary cambieresti something?

The production has managed it a our great friend, Steve Wilbanks. It manages its professional study to Saint Marcus, Texas, in the same city where our chitarrista Dave Cadena lives. Steve has covered to us of much esteem, and being also he a great musician we knew that it would have made a job huge. The only thing that I would want to change in the disc is the battery. We have used the battery of the study, and that one played po' "a sand bank". In any case, creed that the entire disc has come recorded perfectly like we wanted.

A question that it always appeals to to me to porgere to the musicians, tasks that to the day today the use of the technology in a recording study is more a positive factor or negative?

Beh, depends, at least for me. The technology has made steps from giant, and hour you can increase your musical acquaintances in way the much widest one. However, it appeals to old sound the crude one to me, that it comes given off when one person sound with the own spirit.

To level of songwriting as one typical song of yours is born band? There is someone that has the honor or the burden of giving the start begin them, or everyone of you brings the own ideas then and the amalgamated ones in an only sonorous context?

Creed that functions in both ways. Some times John or Dave begin to pull outside of the riff, while I try to sing something that passes me for the mind. We begin therefore to take themselves in turn, to make irony, and then "BAMM!", we have one new song. Once found a base structure, we go everyone to house its and we see again the day after, showing as we believe can come arranged the piece. And therefore, as I make, we put ourselves to the job with the new piece like a hymn that it strikes to us in head for approximately one week. We train ourselves to house, and in the meantime I and John make of the copies on cassette to pass to the other members, so as to to render them aware of our progresses. We continue therefore finchè are not all of agreement and we try all together.
It is amusing, because often the songs change completely direction before showing their definitive aspect.

In my book review I have compared your sound to power metal a US style, with progressive infuences, tasks that have picked in the sign? How would describe you yours sound?

We repeat to the persons the same thing who you have as soon as said, and that is that the One Of Sixx plays classic metal with a new border! When we pull on a song, we make so that our infuences are reflected in our music. Our infuences, exactly, space from the Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Savatage, King Diamond, Helloween, Fates Warning, and obviously the omnipotent Judas Priest!

Many old ones get passionate you of music heavy rock rabbrividiscono when they read the term groove, but the same music of the One of Sixx is a lot groove even if to contempo also the much melodica, the result of the perfect synthesis of these two elements, therefore it would appeal to to know to me
if when you write your brani, you hold always account of this equilibrium or not.

At the moment we play what he comes give to us within, and creed that people appreciate us for this: we bring back them to the times in which the metal he dominated with force without R-nessun.problema! We do not stop ourselves to think on our limits or on our finances, we make only that that we will feel ourselves. Currently, we have one song with a rhythm groove called "Where Kings Lye"!. It is the preferred piece of Rey, and becomes much aggressive one towards the end.

What you can tell of your witnesses in particolar way of that legacy to "Prelude to madness" one to us of my preferred brani?

When I am about myself to write of the lyric ones, beginning to before feel sliding of music, and after beginning to pull on a little thoughts. When a title begins to introduce itself it in my mind, beginning to write the witnesses thinking next to this. It appeals to a lot to me to write of all the way of the life, all that that comes from far lands, medieval myths, legends or hidden truths of the life.
As an example "Prelude To Madness" speaks about the inner fight of a man to the taken ones with of the tragic memories of infancy, and the hard truth of being rejected from the society, conscious that the only healthy place that it knows is its house.
You know, we are thinking to shoot a video for this song, are trying actors and acclimatization. When we will have ended, I will make to know you and I will pass one copy to you. First one is not this our videoclip. We have already a video of "Simple Pleasures", recorded and editato from Mark Crutsinger and our Rey Gone. You would have to see it, is one figata!

Which kind of reaction has triggered the escape of your last hard work from study and qauke country has been demonstrated more receptive in your comparisons?

Fin' hour the response has been extraordinary! And they are still growing while we speak. We have received optimal book reviews in majority from the Low Germany, Slovenia, Countries, Austria, Brasi them, Chile, Sweden, United Kingdom, Greece and obviously Italy. We are ended also on the palimpsest of some radio, and the DJ have said to us that our pieces go enough well. Creed that the Germany is the greater nation that has given the response to us, but for this we must ringraziare Martin Brandt in order to have itself put in number 5 of February of the magazine Heavy Order Was: enormous thanks to he we have obtained response. But I hope that soon all Europe answers in the same way, and that it even can allow than to make some us tour. To never say never.

I know that you have planned the recordings of a new album, you can anticipate something to us in merit?

We hope to catch up the study to the July end in order to record a full lenght, I know that all expect more from ours band, therefore a new disc is in working. "U.D.Dide" will be our first album to being rilasciato to world-wide level. The songs space from the simple pleasures of the life ("Simple Pleasures") to the mythical one urlo of the salvatore of the world of "NiteRyder" in order to save the human race from the evil. For hour, the songs are ready, and have found people ready to invest, but we must still estimate the better offer. The new songs we have only shown to them in center live, and seem to have been a lot appreciated. Creed that the evolution of our style will be endured obvious, is always ours trademark, but the entire one band has acquired one new artistic mentality.

From that I have read on your situated one, it seems me to understand that the dimension live for you has one sure importance, true? It hopes to leave in tour this summer?


We are preparing two shows in particular. We appreciate the hard job that all put in the own ones bands, as we make, holding but of eye all the problematic ones of budget.
Here in the United States, it is the much most difficult one for the metal that in every other angle of the world. This is a nation dominated from the trends, if it does not seem like the large new band of the year, common people does not calculate to you neanche. You must fight hard in order points out you. Fortunately, the One Of Sixx is leaving the own traces. For hour we are between band the more rinominate ones in Texas, and this is only the beginning. Also we have received compliments from James Rivera (we have made an opening concert the Helstar), Jason McMaster di Dangerous Toys (we have made from shoulder also for personal its band, the Broken Teeth), and have received compliments also from many societies of production. To this point, me it is lawful to think that we are going in the just route.

Hey brother, I put the hands ahead, I know already your answer, as you have never decided to make the singer and not to dedicate you to some musical instrument?

To say the true one, it has been an incident. I have not never thought about being able to sing, and I wanted to play the bottom in the band of my friends of the advanced ones, but that role already was occupied. They were to the search of a singer, and after to have tried two determined persons to try anch' I to us. The first song that I tried to sing was "Breaking The Chains" of the Dokken. The drummer said me openly that my performance made to cagare, but 6 months after I found myself to my first concert in the Byfist. I have only continued to make practice and practical. When I introduced myself for the audition in the Byfist, they asked to me which song I wanted to try, and I answered "Take Hold Of The Flame" of the Queensryche. All remained of pebble in front of my performance, have been huge. (ps you know it that memory just how many years I did not have to the age)

What of Internet tasks, tasks is better the provisions for a journey in order to propose one band still little known like yours?

For the moment, the One Of Sixx has been on Internet solo from August 2004. Creed that Internet is huge, gives a fastest way to you to promote yours band. It employs least in order to introduce to us your name to people. Before you could employ 10 or 13 years in the cases it gets worse, we we are introduced in little months. He is incredible! It has been possible to realize our dream, without the net creed that ce we would not have never made it in therefore little time. They are indeed pleasing to Internet.

Now you allow me one small consideration to which the several of we of the situated one we hold not little, therefore, in the case band as yours the press of a cd had to be financed completely, sure personal satisfactions, therefore like the gain, would be greater of those obtained with the company for a major that, to the contrary, it would nearly expose to one greater gratification to you of insignificant public and critic but to gain or, what of tasks of this manageriale antite annosa?

Creed that if work hard, you can go alone with private yours label. The main thing in which it is comfortable to have the support of a major is that you do not have preoccuparti nearly of null: it is the label that ago all for you and exits the moneies, but you must repay it before seeing the first gain. I see the major as a bank of lend to you. The thing that but we find indefensible is that, being under the control of a major, it must be submitted to all and seeing own music cripple. I would be curious to see what would make these record houses for a band like the One Of Sixx, much more or less I have understood that we to us with our forces will have to see it always. A lot, if ce they have made it the Linkin Park, ce it can make anyone works hard.
After all, I want followups wide me of fans, but I want to make it with my hard job without to sell me to one major, and also to even earn in order to organize a tour enough world-wide.

As you see the scene classic metal world-wide of the last years, which are yours band preferred of the new course and which those with which six grown.. and if it is not too much, com' it is today the situation for a band of your capacity in the USA, does not have to be much easy, true one?

As I have said before, in the U.S.A. it is much difficult one. Many bands notes in Europe enter in the States and nobody seems to know them.
Preferred independent mine bands are: Thy Majesty, Ancestral, WolfBlitzer, Vesperian Sorrow, Magistral, OutWorld, Test of Fairies, and MindCrime. Preferred mine major bands instead are: Iron Maiden, Helloween, Judas Priest, Grim Reaper, Malice, King Diamond, Metal Church and Fates Warning

You feel Vikk, before the aim I would want that you remembered great master David lamented Wayne vocalist of the Metal Church affectionately, và you?

David Wayne has been large a my friend. In fact, the first times in which I played in the Byfist, David came from any angle of the Califirnia was found in order makes me from coach, explaining to me as I would have had to involve to me from the alive one. First times were mine on a stage. Before the time that I saw was 1989, to the Sunken Gardens Theatre here in Saint Antonio, Texas. After we are becomes friends, and we participated to you with to the festivities often. I will always remember what it has made for me. Sure it will lack to me, and second me it will be always a icona in the world of the true one heavy metal. Nobody never will succeed in pareggiare with its only voice!!!

Ok, we are truly to the end, I leave the word you you conclude this interview in the way that you think more opportune....

We, One Of Sixx, want simply to show our appreciation to the fans of all the world for your impagabile support. You are that you have given band to the power to carry the torch of the metal! We hope a day to arrive to make concerts in Europe, and to succeed to meet our admirers of person. Thanks also to you, Beppe, and to all the staff of the Defenders of Steel, and all the Italian metallari!
You have cure, and you remember yourselves: YOU MAINTAIN the FAITH and CONTINUED TO MAKE HEAVY METAL!!!

One of Sixx

linens up:
Vikk Real - vocals
Jeska Real - backing vocals
Dave Cadena - guitar
John Rodriguez - guitar
Rey Gone - bass