blyss. barge back into sight with their latest EP and accompanying live launch.
blyss. has lived a few lives. Whilst the members of the band comprising Nick, Tristan, Nathan, and Bill have been circling through the Naarm and Surf Coast crowds of bands for years along with working under the former name The Vainz, blyss. is where the four piece has reached..well..bliss!
This past year has seen the band churn out three singles, the similarly stylised ‘feel it all.’, ‘stereo heart.’, and ‘killing Time.’ breaking in their band’s blend of hard hitting beats and bleeding riffs topped by melodic vocalisation. But now the blyss. brain has broken into a sound that fully defines their purpose, one that still leans on The Vainz vision but builds into a fully evolved blyss. beast. It’s sold on new EP DEADSTOCK.
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“There’s a few riffs in DEADSTOCK that I’ve had in the bank since before our first single ‘Feel It All’ came out. There’s also a song in this EP called ‘Heathen’, which is an old song from when we were called The Vainz. We’ve been playing it live since we started blyss. and it’s definitely a crowd favourite so we decided to give it another shot, man we’re glad we did,” explains guitarist Nathan Mossop.
“Other than that, everything is pretty fresh within the last year and we’re so excited to just keep making and releasing more music.”
The outcome is their hardest hitting tunes to date, made to match their on stage energy and elevate the band’s status.
“We really do think it goes bloody hard, we didn’t want to make an EP that has poppier/slower songs on it just yet. We can do that and we’ve got some awesome stuff put away in that area but for DEADSTOCK we just wanted to give it 100% rock and roll energy,” says Mossop.
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“What we’re proud of and really tuning into is the fact that our energy is so high that any gig we play goes down well. Chuck us on any bill and we’ll bring the heat, we wanted to capture that live heat in this record and that’s exactly what we did in our opinion.”
Set for release on Friday 15 November, DEADSTOCK captures a little piece of each of the band mates in terms of influence and sound. You can hear their own history as a band laced in influence from TURNSTILE, Boston Manor, Nothing But Thieves, kings of influence Queens of the Stone Age and a string of 90’s to early 2000’s rock and metal coming through.
“In terms of influences for this EP, there’s our individual, subliminal influences behind everything we do but DEADSTOCK is purely the result of us being together for a longer period of time and turning into what we do best at the moment. We’re proud of how original these tracks all sound.”
Adding depth to DEADSTOCK is the weight of the lyrical content, discussing the socio-economic divide and its growing impact on the music industry.
“The EP in general is somewhat about the divide between the poor and the wealthy, also just how it feels not to be thriving in that aspect of life. Money isn’t everything but it’s a driving force in these lyrics and suits the heavy energy of the EP,” explains Mossop.
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“The theme is based on things that have become deadstock, the main one being the music industry. We’d kill to be a band 20/30 years ago and be able to do this full time, we really do believe we’ll get there. The last gig we played was for $26 between 4 of us, while little sounds that are used for memes generate hundreds of thousands of dollars – I promise we’re not as salty as we sound and we bloody love doing this but what a strange world we’re living in. Put it down to the cost of living kicking our asses, which I’m 100% sure the average Australian can relate to.”
With the help of Evan and Ash at The Loud Noise Estate in Coburg, DEADSTOCK is really coming to life and what a way to celebrate by a launch party at The Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar on 16 November. They will be joined by Titration and Ivy Black for what is bound to be a blow away show.
“Expect a huge sound from us on the night and we’ll be bringing the energy. Merch and stuff will be there but the live show will 100% be the highlight,” Mossop claims.
“If you’re a fan of energetic music, you’ve got $15 – $20 for a ticket and you want to have a sweet night of local music on the 16 November, you absolutely have to get a ticket.”
You heard the man!
Pick up a ticket to the Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar show on Saturday 16 November here.
