Review Fix Exclusive: Psychocide’s Goldwyn Thandrayen Talks Goals And Future

January 29, 2017 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Psychocide’s Goldwyn Thandrayen, who discusses the band’s origin, goals, brand expectations and comic book.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Goldwyn Thandrayen: The new lineup of musician, Craigslist. I heard that it was best bet to meet weirdos. And it Worked.

Review Fix: What makes your brand special?

Thandrayen: Our brand? We have been able to target a specific market of different demographics integrating it within a customizable algorithm based on past and present performances of successful bands existing on the intraweb, which actually defined specific parameters to lay out a template, which is what Psychocide is based off and the font alone was called special. So that makes us special.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Thandrayen: I don’t exactly have a process, but usually I think of something I want to write about, I really dig into that subject, get as close as possible and somewhere during that process, creativity sparks. I grab a pen and guitar, I write. So far it has never been about the subject I originally picked.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song on the album How was it written?

Thandrayen: Breaking Bad. I had 9 songs down and needed one more. The flood gates just opened, and this song was literally written 8 hours before we cut it to the record.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2017?

Thandrayen: Our goals for 2017 is to tour US & Canada possibly South America, but basically we can’t wait to get on the road and share the record.

Review Fix: What makes your latest album special?

Thandrayen: The characters are well defined, the sound of Psychocide is well defined. I think we have established what we sound like through this record and we are also demonstrating how far we can go in terms of Music Videos and now Comic Books.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Thandrayen: We want to create a new generation of dreamers, that’s how we want to affect people allow them to dream.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Thandrayen: I’m currently drafting the comic that goes along the record, we have a few show coming up, and I have set myself to release some new stuff every month on Soundcloud.

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like add?

Thandrayen: If you’re a rocker, keep at it, I really want to hear some good new Kick Ass Rock N’ Roll bands, If you don’t play music, get creative and create. We dream of the day everyone takes a little time to try that out, create, it’s great and it’s amazing what can come out. Remember those flying cars we talked about in the ’90s where are they?

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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