Review Fix chats with Sentinel Complex’s Jamie Everett, who discusses the band’s origin, goals and more.
Review Fix: How did the project start?
Jamie Everett: Back in 2014, we started making music together for multiple indie game/film projects and after a while, we started developing a style we both loved to write. Shortly after, we began to write our first EP under our original name, Nova Prospect. It became clear though that the name would probably get us into some legal heat (since it was a Half-Life reference) so we rebranded in 2016 under the name Sentinel Complex, and since then it’s been pretty smooth sailing! We have been developing our sound as a band ever since, and have released two studio albums and a number of singles, with a lot more on the way.
Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?
Everett: When it comes to the process, we both do all of the writing and it usually goes the way of one of us will have an idea which will then be brought to the other, and then we’ll both sit down and see where we want the idea to go. At some point I’ll usually sit down with the end result and take it as far as I can go with it. Eventually we’ll end up with the final which we are both happy with, and we won’t release anything until we are both completely satisfied with it!
Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?
Everett: Our standout song is probably Demise Of The Faithful as I think for us, it was one which we both had a ridiculous amount of inspiration for so the ideas for this one really just flew out of our minds and into the song. Originally, Josh came up with this four chord idea and brought it to me, and then I spent a couple hours with it and then we ended up with this gloriously epic sequence at which point we both were just like “yeah this is our next songâ€. The rest of it ended up being written shortly after and then we were just like RIGHT let’s get a video done!
Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?
Everett: Honestly our goal for 2020 was to just get as much content written as possible, however the global situation right now stopped us being able to use the main studio so it has taken us a bit to tweak our workflow so that we can still release songs (of which we have a few due to be released soon). It still stands though that we want to spend the last few months of 2020 getting as much out as possible and this will also continue on to 2021.
Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?
Everett: Honestly if one person is moved by or listens to something we’ve written and fully enjoys it, then it’s worth it. We write for us primarily and not what we think that people want to hear, so to be able to do that and still have people enjoy what we do is just the best thing. We are just doing this for fun after all! At the very least though I hope our music just helps to open people’s minds to different genres or to artists trying new things as I think over the next few years there are going to be a lot of artists trying different things which will hopefully give the music industry fresh new sounds.
Review Fix: What’s next?
Everett: Honestly it’ll just be a case of seeing what comes, but we aim to release a steady flow of content for fans to keep the story going, so keep your eyes peeled!
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