We are very good clients of WeTransfer and Dropbox! We just exchange ideas. How does it work when you write a new song? So what is the songwriting process with Ad Infinitum? Obviously, you guys are all in different places but you’re surprisingly prolific for a band that don’t get together very much. It’s more like a game, you know? I do enjoy what they do, although not all of it, musically! So no, I don’t think Eurovision is influencing my songwriting. I enjoy watching like it’s sport because it’s fun to see the different countries competing and to support your favourite. Do you think much of that style of music creeps into Ad Infinitum? It’s not metal but I’m a big Eurovision Song Contest fan and I know that you are too. We just have to do what we love and make Ad Infinitum sound the way we think it should sound. Then there’s another side, which is much smaller thankfully, which thinks that this isn’t metal any more. There’s one side with the people who think it’s very, very cool that we take influences from different places and create our own sound and that we don’t do something that’s been done and done and done again. When you release something, you can clearly see there’s two sides. Yeah, I feel like metal has evolved but it’s sometimes a little bit difficult. I think it’s easier to tell people that we’re doing some kind of modern symphonic metal but there’s so many influences from all genres of metal, with some very heavy riffs… some power metal vibe… some metalcore touches… It’s difficult to put us in the box, which is very enjoyable because we are full of surprises!ĭo you feel like metal is more open-minded nowadays, in terms of genre, and that you don’t really need to be in the box, the way you maybe used to? I would say that we still haven’t found the perfect name for the genre that we’re doing. Oh, and Bonny also formed another band duringthis time – Dark Side Of The Moon – whose album will be out on Napalm Records before you’ve ever had time to gasp“does she ever SLEEP!?”Ĭlearly not, as she also very kindly found time to sit with us and talk about how everything’s going.įor the benefit of anyone who’s not heard the new album yet (despite the fact that it’s currently topping This Day InMetal’s weekly top ten list!), how would you describe the sound and the concept of Ad Infinitum in 2021? Then the global pandemic hit and derailed said plans (a chilling irony given that Ad Infinitum were wearing plague doctor masks in their early publicity material!).ĭespite being in different countries to one another, Ad Infinitum thrived under pressure. As well as releasing Chapter I, they pulled off a successful livestream concert from Cologne, re-recorded and re-released Chapter I as an acoustic album, played the Rock Castle festival in Czechia this summer and created a second masterpiece – Chapter II: Legacy – which was launched last week with a huge show in Switzerland. Melissa Bonny has to be one of the busiest women in metal.Her band Ad Infinitum announced their debut album Chapter I: Monarchy in January 2020, along with a slew of tour plans with some of the biggest names in symphonic metal. This Day In Metal interviews Melissa Bonny (Ad Infinitum)
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