Brisbane’s As Paradise Falls Drop New EP Madness/Medicine
Brisbane metal outfit As Paradise Falls (known commonly as APF) have released their new EP, Madness/Medicine
Danny Kenneally from the band says of the EP 'We pushed ourselves to create a collection of songs that pushed every boundary of our genre yet kept things fresh and unique in every song. As a collection of music, you haven't heard anything like this before...'
'This EP represents the aggression we feel has been missing from a lot of modern heavy music, it represents years of frustration with ourselves, the world and the start of something new for us.'
Taking influence from modern Grime & Hip-Hop and fusing it with some old school Deathcore and a futuristic outlook, APF have redefined what the Australian metal scene is capable of.
Listen to the single, Bats and see for yourself.
https://ffm.to/asbats
With a tumultuous history that would have seen the end of almost any band, APF have powered through the tragic loss of a band mate and the resulting exodus of most of their members to finally solidify as a formidable Two-Piece that has produced the future of Australian heavy music.
Bursting onto the metal scene in 2014 with their debut EP, Save Yourself, which broke into the iTunes Metal chart at #5, APF took Australia by storm on their first national tour and quickly followed up with a run through New Zealand and additional runs across their home country throughout 2015.
In November 2015, while the band was recording their second album with producer Shane Edwards (Northlane, Trophy Eyes, Hellions) at Karma Sound Studios in Thailand, they were invited to support I Killed the Prom Queen in Bangkok. The night before the show, guitarist Glen Barrie tragically passed away in his sleep, leading the remaining band members to leave the album unfinished, and take some time to grieve the loss of their brother.
In early 2016, the band regrouped and added vocalist Shaun Coar and by the end of the year, they finished Digital Ritual, keeping Glen’s performance on the album, and thereby preserving his legacy.
In 2017 APF joined forces with Eclipse Records to release their debut album Digital Ritual which took the industry by surprise with a diverse album that was heavy at the heart whilst exploring the diversity of Metal/Metalcore genres. Touring Australia multiple times and performing with the likes of Miss May I (USA), the first album from As Paradise Falls gained traction and was a hit with their fans with the lead single ‘Dead Message’ clocking up 300,000+ spins on spotify.
Mid 2018 APF dropped off of the radar and halted the progress of the band with no explanation.
In the next year or so the members of APF would take a timeout to grieve the loss of their brother Glen Barrie and do some soul searching on their future both personally and as a band.
Mid 2019 it was clear that APF would be left with the founding member Danny Kenneally and rejoining him would be original vocalist Ravi Sherwell. Together as a 2-piece, they wrote the future sound of APF with no boundaries and no rules, just raw emotion poured into the music to conceive their 2020 single ‘Bleed For The Crown’ and forge a new breed of heavy music.
After the successful release of Bleed For The Crown in 2020, 2021 Brought in a new concept for APF. The idea was to channel the raw emotion and make heavy music aggressive again. The raw aggression is something they believed was missing from modern day heavy music, something that UK Grime artists were capturing better than heavy artists.
With the influence of this modern Grime & Hip-Hop, old school Deathcore and a futuristic look on how their music should be percieved, Danny & Ravi created the ‘Madness/Medicine’ EP off of the back of ‘Bleed For The Crown’. A 5 track EP that would defy what a 2-piece band is capable of.
APF teamed up with long time friend & producer Shane Edwards at Studio 28 in Thailand where the 5 tracks were transformed into a modern day monster. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Danny was unable to travel for the mixing/mastering process and resorted to utilizing Facetime and streaming from his home studio to assist with the final process of the EP.
APF is Danny Kenneally & Ravi Sherwell. APF is a band that has redefined what the Australian metal scene is capable of, and the ‘Madness/Medicine’ EP is a new breed of Metal/Deathcore that has raised the archetype of heavy music.
