Review Fix Exclusive: Regicide’s Issac Trujillo Talks Goals And More

Review Fix chats with Issac Trujillo of Regicide, who discusses the band’s origin, creative process and goals for the future, following their latest album, “Fall of an Empire”.

Review Fix: How did you guys get together?

Issac Trujillo: Regicide met and formed in Las Cruces, NM in 2006. Issac and Dom were at a party and met Brack while discussing similar tastes in music. They decided to meet up and jam some Metallica tunes. Andrew joined up after a few other bassists couldn’t quite fit and after a few sessions, we started writing original tunes and finished our first song together as a band, “John the Baptist”. Unfortunately Andrew stepped out this past year, as he is living in the Northwestern US now. We have a new bass man and are ready to entertain the metal heads!

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Trujillo: Typically the band will jam out some ideas until we get a basic song structure. From there we will start molding the tune to fit whatever idea we have for that specific tune. Usually lyrics come last; it just depends on what we are trying to do to a song. Usually we finish a song, play it live a couple times then go in and revisit the song before we finish it.

Review Fix: What do you think makes this band special?

Trujillo: We are all friends and the band is more than just four guys playing music, we are a brotherhood who not only enjoys the music we create, but we can sit and enjoy just rehearsing together. Because of this, we feel like we can really tap into a connected psyche and create music that is enjoyable. If the listener really sits and listens to our music, they can hear how well we play off each other.

Review Fix: How would you describe your style?

Trujillo: We are a mix of old and new, we like to think of ourselves as a New Wave of American Thrash Metal.

Review Fix: What are your goals for this album?

Trujillo: We are almost a year since the release of our latest CD “Fall of an Empire.” Currently we are working on an EP tentatively set to be released late summer 2016. No title yet, but we have one song done, two in the oven, and we will round it out with another later this month.

Review Fix:What’s the standout song? Is there a story behind it?

Trujillo: We all seem to really like Injustice, in fact it is the song we made a music video. It’s a song about the political system in the U.S. and (especially this year) how the left and right are really just the two sides of the same coin.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Trujillo: We are working on a new EP and hopefully a fall tour of the west-coast USA. We want to bring Regicide Thrash Metal to the masses.

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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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