Review Fix Exclusive: Pet Sun’s Stephane Senecal-Tremblay Talks ‘Dark Planet’ and More

December 16, 2015 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Pet Sun’s Stephane Senecal-Tremblay, who discusses the band’s new single, “Dark Planet.” Breaking down the band’s origin and goals for the future as well Senecal-Tremblay lets us know exactly why we should keep our eyes on them.

Review Fix: What makes the band special?

Stephane Senecal-Tremblay: I’m not sure I can answer that but I think Parth, Sam, and Nic are pretty special.

Review Fix: How did you guys get together?

Senecal-Tremblay: Sam, Parth, and I went to High School together in Hamilton. I met Nic in University in Montreal. We started the band after we all graduated a bit over a year ago.

Review Fix: What inspires you guys?

Senecal-Tremblay: At the time I was writing the song I was listening to lots of doom. Most of it I discovered on this blog run by this mega chill dude in England. Essentially it’s a massive Nuggets collection of proto-metal. That was definitely a treat to come across and inspired me to write lots of new sounding stuff. Proto-metal really wasn’t that defined  back in the late 60’s and 70’s. It was just a bunch of dudes who liked Sabbath and started writing super heavy riffs. Very interesting stuff and very inspirational! Some of the songwriting is as good as some Sabbath and you’ll never have heard of the band. It’s crazy!

Review Fix: How was “Dark Planet” written?

Senecal-Tremblay: The riff started off with this jam I had written in DADGAD tuning. Once I added the verse and chorus in I realized that we weren’t really using the top two strings so we just put them back to standard cause you know why bother haha.The breakdown section at the end was added on last. Initially we had this kinda Hendrix style step down that led into a solo. Sounded too much like Hey Joe so we scrapped it.

Review Fix: How is it a departure from your other work?

Senecal-Tremblay: A lot of our previous stuff was more traditional garage rock- fast rippers! Recently I’ve been writing stuff on my acoustic, that might be why this track is a bit slower… We want every release to be different so we’re always trying new stuff.

Review Fix: Bottom line, why should someone check this song out?

Senecal-Tremblay: It’s got a bit of everything :) !!! Riffs, mellow melodies, heavy chorus, whatever!! I hope some non-rock n roll fans hear it and are like “yo that’s sick!” and I also hope rock n rollers hear it and say “yo that’s dope!”

Review Fix: What’s next?

Senecal-Tremblay: We’re releasing our EP, Shade Driver, on December 4th. After that we’ve got a video or two coming out and then some other music in early/mid 2016 but I can’t say.

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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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