Interview by Kris Peters
Australian alternative rock outfit The Angel Affair recently released the first chapter in an epic Renaissance EP series.
Titled Def-Eye: The Renaissance Part 1, this is the first of four bodies of music telling the musical tale of a dysfunctioning dystopian society.
HEAVY sat down with mastermind Luke Melton to find out more.
"I'm from a heavy background," he explained. "I started off in a heavy band playing drums and developed my skillset from there. I really wanted to develop this story line I thought of about a dystopian future where people had had augmented implants in their brains which made a cybernetic race. Outside the walls of the city there are the people who developed psychically. Instead of using technology to develop their minds they used the psychic and spiritual essence. It's about a clash between these two races."
In the full interview, Luke talks more about the concept and how it arcs over four EP's, the musical composition of the release, creating a visual landscape with music, each track and its part in the story, performing all musical parts himself, separating himself from the music to be objective in his roles of mixing and mastering, the release schedule for the remaining three EP's and more.
Check out HEAVY's review of Def-Eye: The Renaissance Part 1 here: https://heavymag.com.au/the-angel-affair-def-eye-the-renaissance-part-1/