Review Fix Exclusive: Crow Country Outlaw’s Sebastian Talks Origin and Goals

Review Fix chats with Crow Country Outlaw’s Sebastian, who discusses the band’s origin, goals and creative process.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Sebastian: We got together after I had moved back to our hometown back in 2013 and he wanted to start a band. I rounded up my brother and bass-player, Mattias, and drummer, Adam, and not too long after also got Poods onboard.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Sebastian: It differs with every project. Sometimes we just go into the rehearsal and mess around with a couple of riffs or beats and suddenly we have a song. Other times we work individually and come into the rehearsal with a pretty much-finished song.

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

Sebastian: That would either be Bag O’ Bones or In My Time Of Dyin’.

Bag O’ Bones was the first thing I wrote for Crow Country Outlaw and was the defining song for the bands sound at the start. It was written from fragments of three separate demos which he had tried to finish for six moths. After many excruciating attempts to finish the demos he started to play all three parts together as one song and Bag O’ Bones was written there and then.

In My Time Of Dyin’ is one of the songs that was born in the rehearsal. It started with the intro-riff and evolved after that into the song you can hear on our first album. What makes it even more special is the fact that everyone’s input is equal in this song. All four of us showed true talent and experience in the creation of that song.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2017?

Sebastian: To make this year our most productive ever. The new record, new videos, new approach, and collaborations are on the long list of things that will happen during the year.

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

Sebastian: We want our music to affect our listeners in the way it was meant to affect them; in a healthy and enticing way. We tell stories, some from personal experiences and others from a larger point of view, and we want people to see them as mere messages through time and after that, it is up to them to do their own interpretation.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Sebastian: Next up are plans for our second album which we will be starting to record sometime during this year. We have a tour abroad planned after the summer and some minor shows getting booked here in Sweden. We are also working on new videos and other forms of media-networking to make it easier for our fans to take part in our journey.

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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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