Returning this August for one massive day across two venues and three stages, Brewtality Festival will once again takeover Melbourne’s most iconic music venues, featuring some of the best rock and metal bands from around the country, including Tasmanian metal legends Psycroptic.
Welcome back to our pages! Since we last spoke, you have been on another big tour of Europe. How did it go? Any highlights? Any disasters??
The tour was great, probably the most relaxed one we have done – lots of time off in between shows. We filled it with typical metal activities like going to theme parks, museums, art galleries and general site seeing. Was a great time! Playing Hellfest, Obscene Extreme festivals was amazing, as well as playing our first ever show in Dubai. That was a pretty surreal experience.
From what I can see, the latest album was well received (Forte gave it 5/5)? What keeps you motivated to further yourselves each and every release?
For me, I think if you aren’t trying to either improve on previous material, or do something different, it would really feel like just going through the motions musically. We’re in a pretty lucky situation to be able to play music and tour the world, so we owe it to ourselves and fans of our music to keep trying to push what we do and try to make every release better than the last. Of course this is all subjective and up to the listener – but that desire to improve and evolve is always a massive driving force.
Is this your first time playing Brewtality? What sort of set list can the punters expect?
We’re putting together quite a mixed set, material from a lot of our different albums. Its always hard to choose a setlist, so we are still working through it all at the moment. We might even throw a song in that we’ve never played live…we’ll see how the rehearsals go! Should be a very fun show.
Any plans on getting back to Geelong? You seemed to go down a treat at The Barwon Club last time I saw you there. Any thoughts on playing Ballarat or Bendigo at some stage?
We really love playing the ‘regional’ centers; crowds are always very receptive, and appreciate the effort of coming to play. While we don’t have any plans at present to play in Geelong/Bendigo/Ballarat – we’ll of course always return to those towns, they are always a highlight of any tour schedule.
What is next for Psycroptic?!
After the Australian tour, we head back to North America for a tour with our mates in Revocation & Voivod throughout Sept/Oct. Looking forward to that one!!
It all goes down August 3 at The Tote and The Bendigo hotel’s. Tickets can be purchased via eventbrite.
