Review Fix Exclusive: Crypitus’ Dougles Friend and Zach Patch Talk Exhibit 1: Prelude to the Dead World

September 17, 2017 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Crypitus’ Dougles Friend and Zach Patch, who discuss their creative process, goals and demo, Exhibit 1: Prelude to the Dead World.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Dougles Friend: Meet and Pete ended up becoming roommates in early 2016, I had a lot going on in my life so I found myself playing music in the basement a ton. Pete listened in and picked up on some of my tunes. After he learned a good number of them we were on the hunt of a drummer. We mistook Zach for someone else online hit him up and now here we are.

Zach Patch: I was desperately searching the internet for local musicians to jam with and Pete and Doug were the first clowns to respond. The rest is history.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Friend: The creative process for me has always been wicked organic. With the right place at the right time comes the rest music!

Patch: Doug says most of my creative processes need to remain a secret to the general public. As far as writing goes, I just listen to the guitar parts and think, what can I do here that’ll make this super interesting?

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

Friend: I think a standout song of ours is our instrumental “Symphony #1” which is actually the first metal song I wrote when I was 15! It’s full of a variety of hard hitting and soft riffs but punchy enough to stick in your head!

Patch: I really don’t think we have a stand out song. We do our best to make everything we write stand out as extremely interesting and groovy as we can muster.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2017?

Friend: Right now we have some wicked obtainable goals like release our demo, which is being mastered currently, play a bunch of shows, which have a might packed summer and slow down towards the end of the year to work on more song writing.

Patch: My goal in 2017 is to get myself where I need to be to go on tour across America next year. I have a lot of personal growth and suffering to do before I can make that happen.

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

Friend: I want people to realize a few things when they are listening. The first being that with hard work you can bring definition to your message and secondly I want to shed light on the dark evils of the modern world so people can make conscious decisions on how to make it better.

Patch: I want  anyone that listens to Crypitus to react with a WOAH and just lose their shit. Also I want to find someone that has a clown phobia at a show. That’ll be hysterical.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Friend: Next for us is a summer of invading New England with our HomeGrown Vermont Metal Music! And remember to check out our Facebook and Bandcamp page for the release of our demo “Exhibit 1: Prelude to the Dead World.”
Facebook.com/Crypitus, Crypitus.bandcamp.com

Patch: Crypitus goes cross country, then, Pinky, we take over the world!

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14316 Articles
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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