Serial Vice is a new heavy metal band from Italy, having released their debut album on 2017. Below, you can read the interview they gave to Rock Overdose and Konstantinos Sotirelis.
Rock Overdose: Hello guys, welcome to Rock Overdose. How it’s going on the band’s side these days?
Serial Vice: Hi! Thank you for this space! We’re all fine, and we are currently busy about concluding the last album promotion phase. After the album release we got a long break - interrupted only by a live showcase in the last February - and now we'll see what will happens in this final part of 2018: we played a show in Milan some days ago and we’re trying to schedule some shows in others big cities to finally promote our album on the road! We're still alive...!
Rock Overdose: You released your debut album a year ago. How do you feel about this album?
Serial Vice: The publication of the album was an emotion that we will never forget. Listening the final master all togheter, writing the credits and get in hands the first physical copy of a work that is the result of years and years of unconditional passion for our music was a real orgasm!
Rock Overdose: Are you satisfied with the final result?
Serial Vice: We could do something more during the promotion phase of the album, but we cannot complain about how it went, and above all, we have received numerous positive feedback and sold a lot of copies. We are very satisfied.
Rock Overdose: How did the heavy metal fans react to this album?
Serial Vice: Naturally we worried up about pleasing the listeners during the songs' composition, and now that the work is done we worry about get positive feeds! The continuous postponement of the album has done nothing but create a little wait in our "followers", and the answer was honestly excellent because the album was received very well, with numerous positive feedback from both experts and those who are neophytes or simple rock music lovers, and this is just amazing!
Rock Overdose: What are your influences and what are the lyrics about?
Serial Vice: We use different and individual influences in our songs: the result is that with the actual line-up the band's sound was emerged up to consolidate into a Heavy Metal between classic and modern, gritty and melodic, with various and extensive influences, from Hard Rock to Thrash, from Doom to Power. We want to play some True Heavy Metal trying to always remember we are in 2018 and not in 1985.
The basic concept of our album, that is of these worst nightmares that become dramatically reality, is closely related to the lyrics of the songs and the events told in them, which in turn are related to the main concept of "serial and continuous vices" from which our name is inspired. So we can say that our entire music project, for now, is inspired from this logical line: we mean "vices" in the broadest meaning of the term, thinking about any kind of “vice”, not just drugs, alcool, sex: even the desire to kill, the desire to die, the desperation for a lost one we cannot stop, and so on.
Rock Overdose: You were formed in 2011 but you released your debut album in 2017. Why did it take so long?
Serial Vice: The album contains most of the songs composed in 2013 with the first line-up and three other tracks composed with the current line-up, so from mid-2014 onwards. We went very slowly first in the process of composition and review of old songs with the new line-up, then in deciding which producer to entrust us (and the choice of Angelo Emanuele Buccolieri was the best we could do, given his great professionalism and the quality of his contribution) and subsequently in starting the work.
The first seven tracks were recorded between January and February 2015, then we returned to the studio in 2016 to record the closing track "Can’t Erase my Scars", and from autumn 2016, with the album practically ready, we started negotiations with Sliptrick Records. Surely it was a long and exhausting process, with many hitches, but we never thought about giving up.
Rock Overdose: You released your album through Sliptrick Records. How do you feel ? Are you satisfied with your label? How did the cooperation occur?
Serial Vice: With the album complete and ready to be published, in 2016 we sent our demos to many labels and some responded with a contract proposal. Well, the Sliptrick Records’ project seemed to us the most complete and so we signed for the first press of the album: we cannot complain about them.
Rock Overdose: Do you have any plans for a new release? Do you write new material?
Serial Vice: We have three tracks never recorded but which we have been playing live many times. In 2019 we will start composing new stuff, too much time has passed since the last time!
Rock Overdose: Are there any plans for live shows?
Serial Vice: As we said, we finally came back on stage on September 15th in Milan, and now we’re trying to schedule others live concerts for this ending part of the year.
Rock Overdose: What are your next plans?
Serial Vice: From next year, we will try to compose new songs for a second album or we will try to plan a new tour, maybe with dates outside the national borders!
Rock Overdose: Thank you for this interview, the last word is yours.
Serial Vice: Thank you for supporting underground metal music: don’t stop, we need this! Take a look to our social pages and to our website, where you’ll find our music, news, live dates, photos, videos! Here’s the new link for the site: http://www.serialvice.ga
Thank you and…UP THE VICES!
For Rock Overdose,
Konstantinos Sotirelis
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