Review Fix Exclusive: Leaving Eden’s Eric Gynan Talks ‘Out of the Ashes’ And More

November 3, 2018 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Leaving Eden’s Eric Gynan, who discusses the band’s origin, creative process, new album and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did this project come together?

Eric Gynan: Myself and Eve are the co-founders of Leaving Eden and we started many years ago.  We thought it would be cool to name the band Leaving Eden based on the fact that this whole planet being the Garden of Eden is full of corruption deceit and Hate and we thought wouldn’t it be nice to go somewhere else?  Thus Leaving Eden 

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Gynan: Maybe a little bit here a little bit there Of some booze and what have you, to get  in the mood. Then I like to kind of get in a meditative state and communicate with the universe. Kind of close my eyes with my hands up in the air try to get a connection and then I just listen and the songs come quite simply.   Sometimes the songs come in a dream so I have to be able to get myself up and record what I’m listening to instantly otherwise it’s another forgotten song.  

Review Fix: What’s your standout song?

Gynan: Right now it would be the title track off our Out of the Ashes album titled Out of the Ashes (Recorded/mixed By Johnny K. (Disturbed, Pop Evil, Staind, 3 Doors Down,) Mastered by Brad Blackwood (Sevendust, Dave Mathews, Adelitas way, Korn) and Produced by myself, Dark Star Records/Sony Music.  I think the song is crafted in a way the comes together quite nicely, it’s predictable and the listener can sing along when listening for the first time.  It’s a rocking heavier tune with some nice melody and harmony.


Review Fix: How was it written?

Gynan: We were on tour actually and the song came to me. I could hear it pretty much produced in my mind’s eye so I just had to put the pieces together and of course had nothing but time traveling so it worked out great.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2018?


Gynan: We have some songs off of the Out of the Ashes album in some movies/TV series to be released this year and next year.  “SKIES OF GREY” We plan on Touring as well.  New album descending


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

Gynan: I really like this question.  Our songs of really geared towards reality things that pretty much happened to us.  Reality of course comes with the good and the bad so that is also reflected  and sometimes I may feel differently about something so that is also reflected in different songs, where I might feel one way one day and then a year later I could feel a different way and quite the opposite of what I already wrote but that’s also based on reality.  With that said there is a lot of Hope intertwined with great pain that life has to offer.  I guess I feel that people can relate to the pain but can also relate to the hope.  The message isn’t always great but it may be something that somebody happens to be going through at that time in their own lives.  I guess I’m looking for then, the connection with the listener where they can relate one way or the other.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Gynan: Rock and roll baby!! Yeah man like I said we continue recording, we continue touring and we continue with the movies TV series Etc. We’re heading down the east coast of the USA from New England to Florida so that should be lots of fun.

We released a single from Thin Lizzy called Jailbreak (Recorded/mixed By Johnny K. (Disturbed, Pop Evil, Staind, 3 Doors Down,) Mastered by Brad Blackwood (Sevendust, Dave Mathews, Adelitas way, Korn) and Produced by myself, reinterpreted by Leaving Eden. Jailbreak is going to be on our new album to be released October 19th 2018 again called Descending through Dark Star records/Sony music worldwide.  “JAILBREAK”

I’m excited about this album because it was recorded and Leaving Eden Studios. We were able to take all the time we needed and really craft This Album to exactly what we wanted it to be. I did a premix on it and sent it off to Bob St John for the Final Mix and Mastering.  Bob is a Grammy award-winning engineer and has done bands like Duran Duran, Extreme, Collective Soul, Steven Tyler. Such a great guy to work with too. 

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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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