Review Fix Exclusive: Tony Gonzahl Talks ‘The Sun’s Not Yellow, it’s Chicken’

Review Fix chats with Barren Womb’s Tony Gonzahl, who discusses the band’s sound influences and new album, “The Sun’s Not Yellow, it’s Chicken.” With aspirations for a European and UK tour later this year, the band is ready to spread their sound all over the world.

Review Fix: What are your influences and how do they play a role in the band’s sound?

Tony Gonzahl: Everything we experience influences our music to some degree, be it family, friends, music, books, politics or any other input. When it comes to musical influences lately, we’ve been listening to a lot of Golden Age Hip Hop, older hardcore and post-punk, and Dark Americana.

Review Fix: What’s your favorite track on the album? Why?

Gonzahl: We love them all, but right now we’re really digging on the title track. It’s hella fun to play and the bridge on it turned out great.

Review Fix: “Will you be God’s art or Satan’s graffiti” is an awesome track, how was it written? Is there a story behind it?

Gonzahl: Thank you. The basic spark was lit when we stumbled upon the verse groove one day. Then we simply built the rest of the song around that. No big story behind it, we wrote it over a couple of beers at our rehearsal space.

Review Fix: What’s the band’s creative process like?

Gonzahl: Our songs usually start out as jams. When we arrive at something worthwhile we do a rough demo and, if it sounds good, flesh things out from there. It’s just an enjoyable and hassle free way of doing things.

Review Fix: What are the band’s goals for this year?

Gonzahl: We plan to tour quite a bit around Europe and the UK this year. Just try to get the word out there about the new record.

Review Fix: What do you think are standing in your way of accomplishing them?

Gonzahl: Since we still are mostly DIY, time is the one factor that is of issue. We are only two people after all.

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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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