Review Fix Exclusive: Genus Ordinis Dei’s Richard Meis Talks Goals And More

Review Fix chats with Genus Ordinis Dei’s drummer Richard Meis, who discusses the band’s creation process, goals, new album, “Great Olden Dynasty” and more.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Richard Meis: We all born and raised in the same town (Crema) and we always played in different musical projects before actually come up with this band.
In 2012 we started out Genus Ordinis Dei, we recorded our first album “The Middle,” followed by an intense run of shows between Italy and Europe.

Later, in 2015 we met Marco Coti Zelati from Lacuna Coil and we started to work together on our self-titled EP with him as a producer.

In 2016 we signed with Mighty Music for the release of both the album and we started to write our brand new album.
Meanwhile, we’ve been invited by Lacuna Coil to join their Delirium World Tour as an opening act for every show in EU/UK and it’s been amazing!

Back from the tour, we signed a deal with Eclipse Records, and our album Great Olden Dynasty was released on Nov 24.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Meis: We are not the kind of band who compose songs at the rehearsals due to the orchestral part which has to be written and programmed before.

Usually, a song is created and recorded in our studio, later on, we rehearse it and we do some changes in order to have it perfectly working live.

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Our main composers are me, who writes the songs and Tommy (Guitars) who makes the orchestrations and the arrangement.

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

Meis: I’d say “The Flemish Obituary.” The idea came to me (Richard) during a trip to Belgium when I was walking down the street and I heard this huge and gloomy melody coming from an organ in a cathedral.

I suddenly went home and I started writing the main melody of the song and later on the song itself.

It is very representative of the band because it shows off our aggressive and rhythmic side, but also our love for classical music.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2018?

Meis: To continue the promotion of our latest release “Great Olden Dynasty” and maybe tour again around Europe. We also have a couple videos coming out and some “Extras” to show.

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

Meis: We just want to make them feel better…you know when you put a song on your car and you start driving somewhere..that is! Sometimes we are texted by people who used to listen to our music in a hard time of their lives (depression, or stuff like that). And when they say that our music helped them somehow we can’t be more proud of it!

Review Fix: What’s next?

Meis: We are still working on “Great Olden Dynasty” promoting it both live and on the radio, so our main focus is this album. But we are also collecting some ideas for the next album! In the meantime, please check us out on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify and Deezer, and our website www.genusordinisdei.com.

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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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