Review Fix Exclusive: D.I.G’s Björn Holmström Talks Origin in Music And More

September 2, 2020 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Björn Holmström guitar/Vocals of D.I.G, who discusses the band’s origin, creative process and goals.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Björn Holmström: It started back in 2013 when I turned 30. We played my birthday bash as a fun cover band.  Then we felt that it was pretty fun playing together so we decided to start doing our own music. 7 years goes by so fast haha.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Holmström: I am the main songwriter so I often start with a demo at home. Then i present the idea to the guys in the band. I would say the song is often finished to like 85%, I do the demos with programmed drums, bass and all. Then we play the songs together, maybe change some small parts here and there. It´s often when we play the songs together that I know if the song will work or not. 

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

Holmström: I really think there are two “standout songs” at the moment. One being the song “THINK.”

Think is a heavy riff song with lots of things going on and more. I recently went through all the demos I made for think and heard all the changes and how the song grow to be one of my favourite songs to play! pretty fun! I also like our latest single “In the blink of an eye.”


That song is pretty straight forward, it’s the same chords in intro-verse and chorus. there is a bridge that has another riff. It was very interesting to arrange that song and se how we could make it so it didn’t feel too “boring” since the chords are the same all over.

Think we made a good job with that song. 

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Holmström: Record new music. We plan to make a new album late 2020. we have about 8 songs in different demo stages right now. From what i feel right now this will be our best work to date.

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

Holmström: I hope that people hear our music and think “man that band sounds good and I want to hear more.” If we can attract new fans that so amazing! and I hope we play music that people like.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Holmström: As mentioned before new music is top priority. Hopefully, we can get back to play live in 2021! that is something we really are looking forward to. Maybe during the summer of 2021, we will arrange our own festival! that would be so fun. 

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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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