Irish/French alternative/progressive rock quartet Molybaron are re-releasing their second album The Mutiny on October 29. We asked Dublin-born frontman Gary Kelly the BIG questions . . .
The band, which also includes Steven Andre on guitar, Sébastien de Saint-Angel on bass, and Camille Greneron on drums, signed to Sony/InsideOutMusic (home to artists such as Jethro Tull, Yes and Devin Townsend) earlier this year.
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Gary Kelly says, "We’re absolutely delighted to have joined forces with the awesome team at Inside Out Music/Sony Music. Every kid who picks up a guitar dreams of joining a big label one day and after six years of hard grind, we’ve finally done it! We look forward to a bright future together. Let's get to work!"
Tell us three things about yourself?
Graphic designer who made a living designing album sleeves for bands, then decided to start my own.
Moved from Dublin to Paris eleven years ago and ashamed that I still speak kindergarten level French.
After six months in Paris, my cat was my only friend and I’m sure she despised me, so I joined a death metal band to meet humans.
How would you describe your music?
The most common thing I read when critics describe our music is their difficultly placing us in a genre: is it rock, is it metal, progressive metal, groove metal? Honestly, I really don’t know, I think it’s all of the above. It’s not easy to describe your own music, but if I’m in marketing mode I’d say our sound is atmospheric metal, with big anthemic choruses, huge modern bass grooves and muscular hard rock riffs . . . we’re eccentric I suppose.
Who are your musical inspirations?
Within the band there are so many musical inspirations, from Pink Floyd to Pantera, Muse to Mastodon, Metallica to Radiohead, Tool to Thin Lizzy. Film composers like Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Thomas Newman, James Horner, James Newton Howard, Patrick Doyle, Trevor Jones . . . too many to mention.
What are you most looking forward to post-lockdown?
Touring, touring, touring!
What’s your favourite song right now?
The Night Window from the 1917 film score by Thomas Newman. An orchestral masterpiece during one of the most incredible reveals in cinematic history.
Favourite lyric of all time?
My favourite lyric of all time is from Metallica's instrumental track To Live Is To Die. The lyric is actually a combination of two writers; Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676, and Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, who tragically died at the age of 24 in 1986. This lyric has always evoked a feeling sadness for me.
"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?"
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life what would it be?
Across The Stars - John Williams.
Where can people find your music/more information?
You can find us on all social media, digital music platform or just visit molybaron.com.
