What inspired the name of the band? What are your influences and are they the same as when you started out?
The inspiration for the name is split into two parts: The noise part signifies how a lot of people consider rock music to be just loud noise, because their precious little ears can’t take the heat! The ritual part reflects our mood to do more than just play music. We try to interact with our audience and give them something more, making our own little ritual while performing. But since our influences are mainly the 90s and 00s grunge, post-grunge, alternative metal and nu-metal scene, we spelled it Noiz Ritual, to pay homage to the way some bands spelled their names back then.
How do you approach songwriting? Are there any themes that you are keen to explore when you start off?
It all starts with a direction. It could be a riff, it could be a drum groove, it could be an arrangement, it could be a vocal melody, it really could be anything that clicks and makes you think that you would want to write a song based on that! Then we start to develop it, we build the composition and see where it goes, sometimes it might follow the original direction, sometimes it might evolve into something else. Lyrically, it could be anything, we usually joke around, we use jiberish lyrics just to get the vocal melody down, but when it’s time to write the actual lyrics we use the parts of the demo lyrics that made some sense, and build something around that: usually in the end our songs talk about are past experiences, socio-political issues that are in our mind, or a story we want to tell.
How do you approach songwriting? Are there any themes that you are keen to explore when you start off?
It all starts with a direction. It could be a riff, it could be a drum groove, it could be an arrangement, it could be a vocal melody, it really could be anything that clicks and makes you think that you would want to write a song based on that! Then we start to develop it, we build the composition and see where it goes, sometimes it might follow the original direction, sometimes it might evolve into something else. Lyrically, it could be anything, we usually joke around, we use jiberish lyrics just to get the vocal melody down, but when it’s time to write the actual lyrics we use the parts of the demo lyrics that made some sense, and build something around that: usually in the end our songs talk about are past experiences, socio-political issues that are in our mind, or a story we want to tell.
Why do you write the sort of music that you do?
It’s the music we feel the most comfortable with. It’s the music that allows us to use our skills as musicians in a way that we can listen to it and appreciate it. We don’t do music that does not reflect who we are, we don’t like compromising just to be trendy and get a few more likes and clicks.
How do you decide what to perform live and how do you transpose them into that live setting?
We keep the songs in our live set based on the way they make the audience vibe to them. We don’t see the live shows as exhibitions. The audience honours us with their presence, and we respect that and want them to have a good time, we don’t’ want to just spam our music until they get bored, we want to give them a taste of what rock music is all about. Songs that do not have the right energy for that are not in the set. And that goes for our recorded music too, we write our music so that it can vibe well when played live. Writing a song at home sometimes sounds good, and then when you jam it, it just doesn’t feel right. So we always jam the song and see how it feels, if a part does not have the right energy it needs to be fixed. And then when we perform a song live we see how the people respond to it, if they like it, if it confuses them, if something is throwing them off. So in the end the music we write is the intersection between live and studio music.
How do you decide what to perform live and how do you transpose them into that live setting?
We keep the songs in our live set based on the way they make the audience vibe to them. We don’t see the live shows as exhibitions. The audience honours us with their presence, and we respect that and want them to have a good time, we don’t’ want to just spam our music until they get bored, we want to give them a taste of what rock music is all about. Songs that do not have the right energy for that are not in the set. And that goes for our recorded music too, we write our music so that it can vibe well when played live. Writing a song at home sometimes sounds good, and then when you jam it, it just doesn’t feel right. So we always jam the song and see how it feels, if a part does not have the right energy it needs to be fixed. And then when we perform a song live we see how the people respond to it, if they like it, if it confuses them, if something is throwing them off. So in the end the music we write is the intersection between live and studio music.
What plans do you have for the future?
We just released our EP “Embrace The Noiz”, along with a lyric video for the song Feeling Death Inside, made by Very Metal Art who has done videos for Judas Priest, Motorhead, Opeth, Dee Snider and others. We plan to promote it on the social media, and also do live shows, because that is what we like the most, to play our music for people, give them our energy and then receive it back! You can check us out in the below links:
https://www.facebook.com/noizritual
https://www.instagram.com/noizritual
https://www.youtube.com/@NoizRitual
https://noizritual.bandcamp.com
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/noizritual/embrace-the-noiz-2