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with introspection and reconciling what’s in- sounding word for a song or a cool kind of con- aving mentioned that many of the sub-
side” so we begin by asking him to tell us more cept and so catacombs kinda hit me when I Hject matters found on ‘Catacombs’
about that day in France. first heard it and when I got there it struck me have personal meaning to the band, Kent tells
“We were on tour with Tremonti in Paris that there is sort of a metaphor there for how us more about these experiences and the
and we had a day off,” Kent begins, “and we live our lives. Certainly in New Zealand, band’s songwriting process in which both Kent
someone told us we should go and check out and I think you guys can relate to it in the UK, and his brothers all bring their writing talents to
the Catacombs, so we jumped on the train over you are taught to keep your problems to your- the table. He explained, “Me, Chris and Matt all
to the spot where it was and it didn’t look like I self and keep a brave face and a stiff upper lip write. We all wrote in our own bands when we
was expecting it to look like. I don’t really know and kind of internalise all those problems and were growing up and then I joined Chris’s band
what I was expecting it to look like, but on the your negativity and issues you have and bury and then we saw what Matt was doing in his
street level it was just everyday Parisian life. them deep down below which is exactly what band and asked him to join Like A Storm and
There were people sitting at outdoor cafes and these people had literally done. now we’re on our third record together.
smoking cigarettes and drinking and talking “So we took that as the concept and we “We’ve always had this element of a band
and stuff and you go through this door and five kind of explored it more on the record so vari- of three key songwriters and the advantage is
stories down and there’s the diseased and de- ous songs are about a lot of introspective ele- you can have tonnes of material but a potential
caying remains of six million Parisians that they ments of what goes on. A song could be about disadvantage is if you have three guys who
just sort of ran out of space for and they didn’t a personal struggle and for us the subject mat- start chiming in on another’s lyrical content or
know what to do so they just buried them down ter could be one thing but to someone else it maybe the content of the song, there is the po-
there. could be something totally different because tential that it can get watered down a little bit
“And it really struck me. I don’t know what we are from two totally different walks of life, because you are trying to flatten something out
I was expecting, I didn’t know if I was expecting but, nevertheless we are both going through and smooth all the edges of something to the
to go out to some cemetery and there would that struggle and the conflicts and the inner point that everyone finds it acceptable. And you
be some big crypt or something, but it just conflicts and issues you have, so we really don’t want that, if you cut to the core of some-
struck me as interesting, the dichotomy be- drilled down into that, if you’ll forgive the really thing then it needs to be honest. So with this
tween what was going on up on the surface lame pun.” record I would say roughly one third of the
and what was going on beneath. Being an songs on it was written by each of us even
artist you’ve always got your ear out for a cool- though that wasn’t premeditated, but it meant

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