Review Fix Exclusive: Sentinel Complex’s Jamie Everett Talks Goals And More

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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 song”. 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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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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