Review Fix Exclusive: Negligence’s Alex Skolfjanec Talks ‘Anima’ And More

Review Fix chats with Negligence’s Alex Skolfjanec who discusses the band’s origin, creative process, upcoming album and track “Anima.” More than Thrash Metal-ers, these guys have a unique sound that simply screams from every amp.

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Review Fix: How did you guys get together?

Alex Skolfjanec: The story of Negligence started back in 2000, a couple of guitar players with the same passion for music got together, recorded some demos and eventually recruited the rest of the band. After a few necessary line-up changes we’ve settled down and never looked back.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Skolfjanec: It really depends on who’s making the music. Usually the first thing that everything gets built upon is the riff. Somebody comes up with a riff we all like and we start building around it, start adding the drums, I start adding the vocals and we just play around with it, until it sounds about right. It’s not a fast process, but a very fruitful one in the end.

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

Skolfjanec: I don’t think I can be the judge of that, to be honest. For me it makes it special ’cause I know we put maximum effort into every aspect of the music we release and the music itself always comes from the heart, which is something I don’t get to hear often these days.

Review Fix: How would you describe your style?

Skolfjanec: We get classified as Thrash Metal a lot, which is great and often very true, but the only motto that we have, when it comes to writing is that it has to sound good to us. Obviousl,y it has to rip, but doesn’t necessary need to be 1986 Bay Area riffing, it just has to have balls.

Review Fix: What are your goals for this album?

Skolfjanec: To conquer the world. We’re very, very proud of this record and I think it can go far if we put it in the right hands.

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

Skolfjanec: I really hope we never make an album that has just one stand-out song. For us, it has always been about the overall quality of the whole album and not just a single with eight fillers dragging for 45 minutes. If I can choose I’d probably say people are gonna be surprised with “Anima”, which is a song that explores the feminine side of a male’s mind in certain situations.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Skolfjanec: Release the album, promote it properly, hopefully make a video for one or two songs and hit the road and spread our gospel to the world.

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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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