Brainblast. Interview with Edd Jimenez.

Interview by Jay Parker.

1) When and where was BRAINBLAST formed? Who is in the current line up?

I came up with the concept of forming a band around 2015 when mostly at that time I was a very young dude mostly focused on playing drums for other bands, then I wanted to form my own, but it wasn't until 2018 that I came up with a new line up focusing exclusively on the technical level that demanded the style of the band, since then the band has never stopped working a single day. The band right now is in a private process of finding some new members, we will make announcements on our page in the near future!

2) The technical level, from a musician’s and a listener’s point of view, in your music is outstanding. Tell us about the band members and their experience and training…

Well as you said, we focus and prior mostly on the musicianship and interpretation inside the band, it’s required for every member to have a full complete skill of their instrument and to be able to understand what he is playing, so we try that all of the members of the band have an intimate experience with the academic understanding of their own instrument, basically after that, we only enjoy & focus playing the show!

3) What inspired you to form BRAINBLAST?

Since very early age I found a strong connection with a piano I used to play since I was a child, naturally I grew up feeling in love with extreme forms of musical virtuosity that started for me with metal bands & mostly bands in the line of Death & Necrophagist, those were pillar foundations for the main influence of the sound that Brainblast is evolving constantly. And also as musicians our aspiration of having a project that would be like no other, our goal is to bring something new & fresh on the table and raise the bar for death metal musically & conceptually!

4) Your first EP, primal impulse, is a real cracker and has been received with open arms both in Colombia and internationally. Tell us about primal impulse... When and where was it recorded? Who wrote the tracks? What was the inspiration behind it?

Around late 2016 I started writing “Primal Impulse ‘’ when I was the only member in the band. So I decided I will need to come up with some serious material before looking to complete the lineup of the band. Around 2018 when the writing process was done, we started recording the material in our local city Bogotá but with the supervision of Tom Fountainhead from Germany supporting us in the process. As many people can see, our music since the first record is highly inspired musically by European classical music and polyphonic complexity that we tried to blend up with death metal & conceptually we wanted to develop a transcendental topic for us which is the intelligent design of the universe.

5) What is BRAINBLAST doing at the moment? Are you recording new material?

Right now we’re finishing what will be our debut album, we have the highest expectations because all we can say is that this first album will be something the tech death metal scene won’t expect at all, we’ve gone to the most virtuous and complex material we could have ever bring for now, and we are planning the release with an international label at the moment we are negotiating with 3 different ones!