Review Fix Exclusive: Rising Dark’s Michael Crimson Talks Goals for 2016

Review Fix chats with Rising Dark’s Michael Crimson. who discusses the band’s origin and their goals for 2016. Breaking down their creative process as well, Crimson gives Review Fix an inside look at what makes the band a special one.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Michael Crimson: The band got together in the most spontaneous way you can imagine. and Balzael and I at the time both 14 years old kids, started playing some tunes together, covering bands such as Metallica, AC/DC, Judas Priest and so on. I couldn’t sing, we couldn’t play on time but we sure had fun. Years passed by, we hopefully got a little bit better at playing, and now here we are, still having fun.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Crimson: Being the one writing most part of the songs, I try to follow a “less is better” approach. Many, maybe too many bands nowadays have a really “technical showoff” approach to songwriting, and I tend to find them pretty boring onstage. I like to go with in your face metal riffs and catchy but hard-hitting vocal lines. One thing we started doing on this record is to chop off a lot of parts which sounded superfluous, to shorten the songs and to avoid boring the listener.

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

Crimson: One standout song that comes to my mind is “Armageddon,” from our first album “Apocalyptic.” I think it sums up the “Catchy-but-hard-hitting” thing I was trying to explain in the previous question. Regarding how it was written, it is the song that taught me, and I think all of us, that less is better. If we should record it nowadays we would surely chop off many excessive parts. But people go wild when they hear it at our gigs so we’re pretty happy anyway.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Crimson: Our goals for 2016 are to promote our new album “A World In Ruin” with live shows, live shows, live shows and, did I say it? Live shows. I think that’s the best way to introduce ourselves to the metal fans in Europe, and it’s the main goal of any band.

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

Crimson: We want people that happen to see us live to have fun. Personally, I never wanted to be the best guitar player, the best singer, the fastest sweep picker or anything of this kind. I started playing and singing with the attitude and desire to give people good times. Whether it is a smile on their face or the bruises they get in the mosh pit, if we make people have fun and go wild, we are proud of ourselves.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Crimson: Rising Dark are crushing down like a hailstorm on all of you metalheads. Don’t forget to give a listen to our new album A World In Ruin. I sincerely hope you enjoy it, that would make all of us so proud.

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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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