Review Fix Exclusive: Broken Testimony’s Bryce Chism Talks ‘Holding On To Nothing And More’

June 30, 2018 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Bryce Chism, co-founder and drummer of a new alternative / hard rock band from Easley, SC – BROKEN TESTIMONY – who recently signed by Thermal Entertainment LLC and released their debut album HOLDING ON TO NOTHING on June 22. Bryce, a recent high school graduate is 18 years old and is ready for his musical journey to begin.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Bryce Chism: Ever since I could remember I have loved music. When I was in about the end of 8th grade, I asked for a drum set because before that, I tried to play guitar for like eight years and I just couldn’t get into the guitar. I heard The Rev (Avenged Sevenfold) for the first time around that time and I just knew that’s what I wanted.  What makes us special is the fact we don’t want to focus on sticking to a certain sound, but to branch out and explore every road we can.

Review Fix: What makes your brand special?

Chism: What makes us special is the fact we don’t want to focus on sticking to a certain sound, but to branch out and explore every road we can.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Chism: It’s kind of like a group effort really.  Judge writes most lyrics, but we all come to each other with ideas, lyrics, etc. We all pitch in and write these songs together.  There’s a piece of each other’s thoughts in the songs.

Review Fix: What makes you different?

Chism: We never want to be satisfied with our songs.  I know a lot of people say that, but what makes us different is we never want to stay the same.  We want to explore every way to be different. We want to keep our fans and each other on our feet.

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

Chism: My favorite is Vitality hands down.  That song was the first we all wrote together.  We wrote that song around the time Justin joined and we went straight to work.  We finally finished the song in about six months because we wanted to try to perfect that song to the best of our abilities.  You can just feel a certain passion in that song.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2018?

Chism: We want to hit the road as soon as possible.  That and continuously write and better ourselves as musicians and as a band.

Review Fix: What makes your latest album special?

Chism: Listen to it in order.  I think the special part of this record is the journey it takes you on.

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

Chism: I want people to hear these songs and feel a connection.  I want people to hear one of the songs and let it take them on a journey of their own.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Chism: Honestly just writing.  We want to take so many directions and so many avenues and we can’t wait to share with you guys!

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

Chism: I just want to thank Review Fix Magazine for this opportunity and we hope you guys really enjoy this record as much as we do. love you guys.

Check them out at:

http://www.brokentestimony.com/
https://www.facebook.com/brokentestimonyofficial/
https://twitter.com/BrokenTofficial
https://www.instagram.com/brokentestimonyofficial/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwhqzbRwnoZP6WXZ3s5zQCA
https://www.bandsintown.com/a/10954401

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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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