Page 38 - Black Velvet Rock Music Magazine Issue 92
P. 38

BV92 pg38-40 As Lions_BV92 pg38  13/03/2017  00:53  Page 1


              BlackVelvetMagazine.Com - 38






























































                  THE STRATEGY






                         hen we headed to the USA last year to see Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown’s
                  Wco-headline tour, a UK band opened the proceedings. It was none other than As
               Lions, the new band featuring Austin Dickinson, Conor O'Keefe and Will Homer, previously
               of Rise To Remain. The band went down a storm, kicking off each night with their own brand
               of dynamic hard rock. Fast forward a few months and the five-piece have now released their
               debut album, ‘Selfish Age’, an album that sees commentary on the world around us.
                    riendship  can  see  people  go  friends and as musicians and just as broth-  Austin can remember that first show as if it
                  Fthrough highs and lows with each  ers, I guess. And we really had each other  was yesterday. “I remember my stomach
               other. Some relationships break up, others  and we had this new music, which we be-  was at the back of my throat, because it
               strengthen. Austin, Conor and Will of Rise  lieved in. “That was a pretty incredible mo-  was the first time I’d done anything like it. I
               To  Remain  decided  to  stay  together  and  ment for us, because we felt like we could  remember all the early Rise shows, but this
               begin a new band for the sole reason that  move  forward  and  we  could  take  on  the  was something completely new, completely
               they are the closest of friends. “We’ve been  world as long as we had each other. I think  off our own backs with no real guarantee on
               through so much together,” says frontman  those moments come along very rarely. I  either side of it.”
               Austin Dickinson (son of Bruce). “It was  will never forget that.”      Rise  To  Remain  had  been  a  heavier
               kind of a funny moment when Rise broke  As  Lions  have  been  a  band  for  two  metal  band,  while As  Lions’  roar  is  a  lot
               up because we actually got to look around  years. They played their first show in Feb-  smoother. Austin morphed into an almost
               and  really  realize  what  we  did  have  as  ruary  2015  at  London’s  Camden  Barfly.  completely  new  vocalist.  In  As  Lions  he


                AS LIONS
   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43