Some of the songs were re-recorded multiple times some of them abandoned altogether, several still yet in working production for a different release, as they didn't seem congruous with this particular project. Scene Point Blank: Did the writing of the music take long or was it a constant progress over the five or six years that the band worked on the record? We were, and are, attracted to anything so violently at odds with it's own zeitgeist, because we feel that way as well. Is that what drew you to the sect and their mystery in the first place? Do you believe that the application of their philosophies would be met with just as much resistance today?ĭan: Antiocheanism is obscure for a reason. Scene Point Blank: The precepts of the Antiocheans were pretty much an opposite reaction against this train of thought by embracing death. I don't know, this could easily turn into a Kierkegaard-footnoted essay on the blurry line between faith and madness. Scene Point Blank: Do you think that the predominant western attitudes towards death are psychologically unhealthy? We can get close, but it's more emotional than intellectual. Having the ability to think "I" isn't necessarily balanced with "Not I."ĭan: Actually, I think the ability to think "I" precludes truly understanding the "Not I".it seems impossible to conceive of a state in which we do not exist to conceive it. Humans have a lot of anxiety over the prospect of ceasing to be. Spiritually, though, the belief in/hope for a hereafter, whether it is reincarnation or paradise, is quite old. Tim: On a physical level, he has a point, although we gear quite a bit of our technology towards trying to prolong our lives. Do you think this is a contrasting idea or similar to the ideas that you discuss in text of Deathconsciousness? that started out writing comic books)? In one of his more famous comic stories he puts forth the idea that death is something that humans wish for, look forward to, and ultimately choose because they do not have the necessarily have the stomach to live for eternity.
Scene Point Blank: Have you ever read Neil Gaiman (fiction writer of Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, etc. That naturally influenced the music, lyrics, even the packaging.
It does exist, and for a long time it was all I could talk or think about. It's the opposite of the predominant cultural attitude towards death in the West, namely that we should pretend it doesn't exist. Scene Point Blank: How did you come upon the Deathconsciousness concept?ĭan: Deathconsciousness is very closely tied to what was going on in my life at the time of its recording. Deathconsciousness as a concept, I guess, is a logical development of this fixation. Tim: Though our earliest demos, come to think of it, revolved around death, dying and the dead as well, albeit in a more absurdist context. The songs are spread very, very far apart, chronologically, although most are from the last two years or so. Scene Point Blank: Did you start with the Deathconsciousness concept right from the outset?ĭan: Deathconsciousness as a concept and unifying theme came much later. However, once we got into home recording, we became shut-ins. Tim: Our earliest endeavors revolved around making college coffee house sorts uncomfortable.
I left the states to study abroad but kept in touch with Tim we found out we had both been doing some acoustic recordings, traded tapes back and forth, and quickly discovered we were more or less the same person, and decided to start a band when I got back, almost a year later. Tim and I had met when our previous bands had played many of the same shows. Scene Point Blank: How did the band start?ĭan: Have a Nice Life started by email. After acquiring this release of this impressive collection of music, I had to pick the brains of the two people responsible for this band and its strangely alluring melodies, rhythms, and sounds. Having been a laborious endeavor over roughly six years, the band released Deathconsciousness only just this January through their own, Enemies List Home Recordings label. The sophistication and ambition necessary to compose and write such a large work goes beyond what most bands or groups are willing to or can release on their own. Have a Nice Life recently released Deathconsciousness, an ambitious double disk collection of songs that also included a booklet discussing the possible existence of a heretical apocalyptic type Christian sect from the Middle Ages that helped to inform their music and lyrics.
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