Review Fix Exclusive: Signs Of Algorithm’s Talks Creative Process And More

Review Fix chats with Signs of Algorithm’s Frederich, who discusses the band’s creative process and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?



Frederick: That’s a long story but I’ll make it short for you. We started as a bunch of guys with a passion for metalcore who just wanted to make heavy music for ourselves and for our friends. A lot has changed in the three years that we have been around as a band, especially in our lineup. We had two other bassists and one other drummer in the past so you can say that we evolved throughout the years.
Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Frederick: We are five different persons with a personal view on how Signs Of Algorithm should sound. We bring our ideas together and blend it all together to create our own sound. Of course, our vision on music changes while time passes. We always aim to reach the next level so we try to improve Signs Of Algorithm by creating better songs than the ones we wrote before. If I compare our creative process to the past I have to say that we spend more time on details in songs and we experiment more and more with samples in our music.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song?



Frederick: I think I can speak for the whole band if I say that Harbinger is our standout song. It is the last song we have written for our debut album and in our opinion it’s the best song we have written ‘til now because of the matching combination between piano, heavy guitars, refreshing solo’s and varied vocals.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Frederick: We already reached a lot of our goals for 2016. We signed with White Tower Records, released our video clip Harbinger and released our debut album Harbinger. That were out most important goals that we wanted to achieve for this year. Of course, we need to promote the album live as well so we still need to tour in a lot of different countries. Last week we toured in The South Of France & Spain. We still have Belgium, The Netherlands, Uk and Eastern Europe planned for 2016.


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



Frederick: The most important thing is that people get the “wow” effect. Everyone knows the feeling when a very good band blows him or her away. I think that’s the best thing to reach for us when someone listens or watches our band.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Frederick: The next step that we want to reach is playing on some bigger festivals and make a tour outside of Europe. We might have plans to tour out of Europe in 2017 but nothing concrete is planned ‘til now.

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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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