It is a pleasure speaking with you (Dani), and even say that I met through Shadowside a columnist for the site (also called Dany).

Cool that you met through a person, is the best means of dissemination have, and it is a pleasure talking with you today.






Well ... how you define attitude, courage and boldness that is a term already used by the band?

Today we define it as not being afraid to go against the trend, against everything that most people do, and what is expected of us as well, I believe that after our debut album everyone thought we would be more than one copy, a clone of the other bands that are already in evidence, and we did otherwise, we take all he could remember other bands and decided to go our own way, sounds like sounds that would be what was natural to us, so it was really against the trend mainly the U.S. market today that is to heavy metal, and almost all the bands trying to sound like Pantera or Lamb of God and we get there playing a melodic business, personal and interesting to think is cool, because it is a differential ours.


They may even scare, that the trend today is death metal ...

That's right, when we started the fashion was bands with female singers and European power metal, now the fashion is death metal, extreme right, this trend comes and goes, no good you want to follow, just to make immediate success and then not have a career, not a step down for you really and what is happening with most bands out there today, they want to follow this trend and I think legally, most of them want to shock for a heavy sound and aggressive who has more shocking is the people who make a more accessible theoretically.


So why is not 100% of the public who seeks extreme metal ...

Fact I think the public wants to hear today's metal sound extreme, but there are people who like metal and not know it, those guys that like Scorpions, Iron and neither realize that it is heavy metal, is the kind that like the style but still was not educated and we end up bringing it to other sounds too.


Just taking this education to their home ...

Yes, we are interested in the heavy metal guy, he knows that listening to heavy metal, fun to see them come at you and say, I'm liking the sound of you ...



If not go to school you take the book to them ...

That's right!



But this tendency to go in the fast lane, you have decided on the tests, or was of course the birth of this purpose?

It was rising slowly, at first we also thought about taking the shortest way, things seemed easier so we tried to sound like other bands to try to win the public that we knew the band, until we realized in a given moment that nothing would be valid if it were our own path, our own identity, if what we really wanted to do. So we do what we like, if you like good, they do not like to do what?


When the band emerged as you imagine being in that height now? Or nuncapassou his mind that would be so, all so fast?

It occurred to me one day I could, would it be? But when all you get is difficult, and when people start was a garage band, just wanted to make an album to see what people would think, record ideas, and suddenly we saw a launch of an ep / demo and people liked it so much we had to start touring and sixth show that the band did was with Nightwish, then things happened too fast for us and only now that I could stop and look backward, to see everything we did, and see everything happening with the band now was really fast and seems to be easy but it was not only to us as we fought hard to get these things, but got the result we wanted, which is touring internationally , is the fifth time we went to the United States in September now, so things have happened in a legal way for people so want to work more, can fly even higher, just dare to dream that things happen .



And considering this work of mixing and production that had the Dare to Dream, do you think this was an advantage for the success of the cd?

I do not know if it was the reason for success, but should have pointed out, people must have been curious to know the result of hard, mainly because Dave (Schiffman) and Howie (Weinberg) have worked with Iron Maiden, Metalica, it makes people wonder what you are up to. But I would say they were not the difference of the band, but those responsible for this differential stress, especially Dave, he gave us the courage to do things, try something that would not be exactly what the legal cliche it is, if it sounds bad if you take you still sound good, regardless if it's metal, it is rock or anything else, everything you touch turns out to be metal in one form or another, so we need not be afraid to try things of experience and he never created for us, just sent it in a way that one was not used to, he gave life to create shortcuts to one song or another.


We can see the difference in this album that one worked with Red Hot, Audioslave other already worked with Pantera, Metalica, ie two extremes in a cd ...


Very cool so that you bring a little bit of all worlds, and éinteressante work with a guy who is not the typical metal producer, he brings you a completely fresh mind, if you work with only one producer of metal it will be trapped in that world that we live, so we thought good to work with someone who does not live with the metal, but it was interesting, it was fundamental for us to decide which was the identity of the band.


What was the most grueling stage of recording and production of this cd?

The same recording, especially for me the voice recording that we tried to write three songs a day, every recording process lasted from 20 to 25 days, it was very fast and we can not think too much, it was a good opportunity, but a project was quite tiring because I had not done yet, record the songs in a single day with sections of 4 hours, sometimes we got 6 ... 8 hours recording in the studio, so it was a bad thing for me, I had not done anything like that until then .. and was an interesting experience.


It's now ready for the next?

Sure .... we are always getting ready, just released new material, but we are already thinking about next, but now and make enough show, we're trying a few dates in Brazil, we have a tour being planned in the United States, but a tour in Europe , we get pretty busy, we have plenty of time to do more music, and something has already been written.



There is always time to write something more ....

Yes, that's fun for us, and we have fun with it, the job is being our hobi, it is easy to do things like that.



Where do you find inspiration for songwriting?

It comes from daily life of people, my friends, I always see something that happened to them, which is unique and has inspired me, and also the same things I do, not just romantic relationships, but what I I with my friends and it ends up serving as a source of inspiration for the lyrics, nothing better to write something that everyone can identify, is cool to write about abstract things, about fantasies and I'm better with real things "Baby In The Dark "did for a friend of mine, he did not fit into society, did not want to admit that he liked metal for his friends, he wanted to be the guy, the popular face of the wheel, then it became a complete idiot he wanted to fit in all the groups he wanted to be loved by all, and it does not work you end up being hated by everyone. And that's what happened, and it has a plastic person, he was cast, was in accordance with the wheel that he was, and he was completely lost a baby in escuro.Mas fortunately he found his way and once again the he was, but there are people who can no longer



. And what reaction do you expect from people who only go to shows, but they read the letters?

I think it legal in Chicago when we played this last tour, a fan came up to me, got all shy, he did not know how to say, but he took courage, but he said "sorry to bother you, (as if he was bothering) but you have become an inspiration to me, shooting many ideas of his letters, and thanked him and walked away. I found it very nice, the music has the power to influence people. I cool that people stop to read what the people that speaking, the same you show people smiling and nodding, has lyrics that speak of a relationship that should be secret and this person does not take it anymore ... and it happens to everyone, everyone has a friend who went through this, and this is an exchange of life experience very nice.



And on the show Iron which was the feeling that you had? What can you say?

Has been chosen as the opening act was the best, and some days later when we discovered that would not touch was the worst thing in the world, like a bucket of cold water, it was sad that no one had done anything wrong, has or how to get angry with someone, and instead the manager of the Iron came to apologize to the people and he does not need to do this because all they did was open doors for us, only has only thank those who gave us the opportunity to play. But rain delayed messed up, delayed the assembly stage, the equipment of the Iron had not come, then that rain we knew that the disaster was coming to 18:00 hours on stage was not even mounted yet, and was the time that we should be starting to play 18:30 and were told that we would not tocar.Depois May I know the blog at Iron they still tried to get some way of us playing at this show, it was a very Good event outdoors, you are subject to these things, unfortunately it was with us.


At least you were bound to show a great band!

That's right, a band that is not the greatest of all, this among the largest. And it was almost a dream realizado.Isso showed that we are on the certo.Espero we have a new opportunity in the future, but boar a lifetime of work . They said they would remember us, so we'll wait.



Well ... in their view that the most visible developments of the first album for the second?

With the same band, do not try to be the fastest, the most remarkable, the most innovative, and what we see today is a band trying to compete with each other. No advance you try to be better at some things, try to be better than Dream Theater, this one will do, does not help you train 8 hours a day with one thing you will not overcome. So we work a lot more mature than the first.



Alex (Krisiun) told me one time, competition will always exist, for you are part of the market, the industry, but nobody wants to be better than another, but make your own sound.

Yes, indeed, will always have someone who will like the guy more technical, but if you do it natural, you do well and always have someone who will like.



And the band's influences?

Influences of everything, from Duran Duran to Slayer, Rammstein to Disturbed. It's hard to say why we listen to everything.


What about providing the full cd on myspace, you were not afraid of what really happened that was to have the cd for download on various blogs, and servers on the Internet?

I fear I had, we knew it would happen, no use fighting it, the bands that do not change their strategy will end. The only thing that makes me confused is why take our myspace which is fully available to listen anytime you want to put a site that will not help at all, neither he nor the band, if you want to help spread the band he should definitely look at that myspace has all the band, calendar, concerts and everything else. I can not really swim against the tide, but sometimes just knowing the sound in a place that we do not come easy in Spain even if many people bought the CD by downloading first. It is a form of marketing I believe, is a way to get to an audience that you would not go without it. I do not even buy a cd without hearing it over in a store or on the Internet, I wonder what I'm buying, and people are like that too, if you have the opportunity to vocêavaliar the product before you buy, why not? Especially here in Brazil that everyone has the money and short, not like it outside, I mean, people now in the United States does not have the money anymore.


The CD is now a luxury store, just a fan who buys it today ...

Actually, you will not buy a CD from a band that you're not a fan. No more buying a CD because the music is more, it encourages the band to work a little more, once you did an excellent music and sold millions of records, and now to sell you have to do a whole album good, it makes bands invest in quality.

And the tours, which was the best, the most tiring, which exceeded expectations?

The best and most tiring was the last two in Spain and the United States. And the shows we did with the band but the audience was ours, we do not have CD released in Spain, and everyone sang the songs with us, so surprised, it is a result of the Internet. And the United States was also tiring, we had no time for anything. It was a very great experience so much time on the road just doing the show, and play in places that have never played before.




So the United States is a kind of amulet?
Things happened to us there in a way that we did not expect. Every time we go there, come back with dates already marked and everything happens for good. every time we spend there, you go back a little bigger, a little better.



These trips something went out of schedule?

There's always something unexpected, something that has always delay a trip. On this last tour was a show that was canceled, we had to change the whole script for the show was replaced.



Do you think the fan in Brazil is more distant than the fan out there?

By contrast, Brazilian fan is more intense than anywhere in the world, the Spanish somewhat resembles the Brazilian fan, he is intense, he yells it gets crazy on the show, and he says more American, he is watching your show, he also sings, he's far away, because it is understood the letter to him is different for us is the music is more energy, more pro American is to understand the lyrics, has certain parts that they are more crazy, more intense, like "Illusions (Shadowside - Theater of Shadows)" they are more intense, crazy even to blows, I've never seen kids so violent as those seen in the United States, but they are moments, they do it all the time as the Brazilian who enjoys the show all the time.


But there it means literally what you are talking about ...

It ... and he wants to know what you are talking about, if you're saying something stupid, he'll cuss later, and it was cool that he comes to comment on the letter after he sings along, he pays Attention: it is legal for you is the intensity in Latin countries and here at home, and there you have the guy who will really tell what he thought depois.Aqui you have a thermometer for both her and screaming by both buying depois. the presence of women in metal, had previously enough prejudice today


You feel the difference?

I do not know why I've caught the wave of female singers. When I started to have the bands female vocal was not so much a novelty. And I got a voice now doing totally different from the others, and I caught this stage no longer surprise, it no longer has a face or one that does not like a female voice, but if he hear something that pleases the ear , he leaves this prejudice aside. Always have a prejudice in some areas, but it's not like my grandmother, my mother really could not do it, if a woman wants to do something it up and goes, can have some impact, but no one will prevent it from reaching some place if she really wants.


Just does not want to ...

It's right there, a woman can not use bias as an excuse, because even though someone talk some nonsense to her, she will have all the forms of defense in her hand. Then she can no longer sit and find a poor thing, she has to get up and take control of her life.



Fast facts:


1 book: MUTATION - ROBIN COOK
1 cd: Disturbed - Ten Fists Thounsand
Shadowside: Dare to dream
Life without rock: A garbage
Santos: A city that sometimes I do, and sometimes I can not stand, has a pleasant climate, a pleasant place to live, but it is sad that we can not do events, that part of the population does not want to leave and that the metal scene to develop.
Prejudice: A nonsense
Dream and reality: They walk side by side
At leisure: You can do what you want
Phrase: If you dare to dream



What place in Brazil that you have not played, you will have to get?

Do not touch the north east has not played in Minas Gerais, and I want to play much in Minas Gerais that my grandmother is there, and is the root, I really want to play in Belo Horizonte, in Uberlandia Varginha and the Northeast say that the public really cool, in all places that we have not yet have the curiosity to see the public reaction to what we have to.



How is the movement of the shows?

We touch the head of Sao Paulo, we want to play in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Goiania, northeast, before go to the U.S. in February next year, an 8-week show, then we do something in Europe, must roll the first show in Portugal at the end of next year, maybe something in Germany as well, and of course try to play as much as possible here at home.



Message from the band and how to acquire material:

We have shirts on our website http://www.shadowside.ws, and myspace is http://www.myspace.com/shadowsideband,
We have a U.S. tour diary on the site, we always keeps the fan well-informed American tour, we'll put photos, always getting in touch with our audience in one way or another. We always try to tell everything that happens behind the scenes of the band, if you want to buy something too, it's all there. I hope more people like the band, and we will always return the affection of a fan that we always remember how things were in the beginning, we urge you to never forget where our roots are and where we came from.