Review Fix Exclusive: Emerra’s Fabian Horn Talks ‘Meeko’ And More

September 3, 2020 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Emerra’s Fabian Horn who discusses the band’s origin, standout work and goals post-COVID.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Fabian Horn: We all had different bands before Emerra, but wanted to try something entirely new together. We formed a rock band as a side project. It all progressed over the years to become a whole other thing. We were drawn back to a heavier sound and more progressive elements within those song structures. That soft rock just didn’t suit us in the end.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Horn: It’s mostly Max (our drummer) and me hanging out together. We create a lot of demos. Most of them aren’t ever finished, because we like to work on the best ideas most of the times.

Until now it always has been an instrumental draft first followed by singing and lyrics afterwards.

Maybe we will spice things up in the future though, who knows.

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

Horn: I could imagine, that this differs between all of us. For me, our standout song is Meeko. It’s the only song that has screaming in it so far. There’s a Jazzy part later in the song, and apart from the intro the song doesn’t have to much synthesizers like the other songs do.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Horn: Finishing our second EP and promoting our current portfolio to the music fans out there. We’d love to reach people all over the world and connect with enthusiasts of the style of music we do and love.

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

Horn: We see ourselves as entertainers. People just want to be entertained, and we want to offer exactly that. Although we are certain, that our music only affects a special kind of heavy music fans.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Horn: Lots of days in the studio, finishing these songs and being creative with them as much as we can.

Also, after this Covid thing is over, we want to really embrace live shows. We miss those so much, and we’re bummed, that we could only make a single show happen between our album release and the start of quarantine.

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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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