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While the band vows to bring out all the biggest songs from previous albums and also promote their new album during the India performances, they’re also just generally looking forward to hang out with fans for whom this tour may be a long time coming. You’re taking the feeling you get from watching something and translate that into music,” he says.Īlso See #RSDailyMusic: Here’s What We’re Listening to Today show and it’s really good, that might be an influence for me to write a song, as opposed to listening to a bunch of songs and taking parts from it. “I’m just influenced by whatever is around me and say, if I get into a T.V. Okubo says with a laugh that one of his first formative influences to become a musician was videogame Final Fantasy VII, so there’s always influences outside of music.

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Matriarch, for example, wasn’t just drawing attention for its (then) new vocalist Lukas Magyar and his clean vocals, but also for the choice of song titles”” “Daenerys” (from fantasy series Game of Thrones), “Mikasa” (from anime show Attack on Titan), “Leeloo” (from cult sci-fi film The Fifth Element) and more. Veil of Maya certainly take a fair amount of influence from pop culture. series Lost and heard the word often repeated. They even had a song called “Namaste” on their 2010 album, but Okubo explains that this came from the time he spent watching T.V.

They take their name from Hindu idea and concept of Maya, which translates to illusion.

The reference is not lost on the band, surely. He adds, “I’m friends with few of the dudes from (prog metal band) Skyharbor and they’ve been telling me that I’m going to love it. Okubo mentions the expected””that he wants to try out the food and scout out a few places as part of sightseeing whenever they have time off. The band performs with local support in New Delhi, Mumbai, Guwahati and Chennai’s IIT Madras (headlining annual cultural festival Saarang’s Rock Show) between January 10th and 14th. “I feel like we’ve toured with every kind of metal band there is and I feel like this is a new genre that’s actually doing very well, so I’m excited to share our music with new people,” the guitarist adds.Īlso See Actor You Need to Know: Kim Taeriīut before that, Veil of Maya will make their India debut tour, playing four cities in a tour organized by Bengaluru events company Bohemian Live. Okubo says both DGD and Veil of Maya have been friends for a while, so a tour was imminent. In March, they tour Europe with American post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance. They’re a band that’s toured with quite a range of heavy-hitters””from death metal veterans Cannibal Corpse to U.K.’s mainstream rock/metal band Asking Alexandria. Over the years, Veil of Maya have gone from deathcore to metalcore and djent influences, before finally settling on a happy, crushing amalgam of modern metal, best heard on Matriarch and False Idol. Okubo, however, says, “I’m trying to create a live experience for people who are maybe not even into metal and can start to understand (our music).” Their most recent albums”” Matriarch (2015) and False Idol (2017)””featured clean vocals for the first time, which is one way to elicit a few groans from metalheads.

Since 2004, with every one of their six albums, Veil of Maya have stayed away from gimmicks and stayed true to their strength of songwriting and crafting an album. I guess we just don’t want to move backwards.” He also says that they’re a band who have never had “one big hit” to their name, which is true. Okubo says over the phone from Chicago, “We’ve continuously gotten bigger with each album. When fans ask of Chicago metallers Veil of Maya ask them why they can’t go back to the sound of their mid2000s, guitarist and founder member Marc Okubo has often shot back to say that those were albums which barely sold, whose promo tours were hardly attended.