{"id":31841,"date":"2013-09-11T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=31841"},"modified":"2013-10-28T20:10:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T01:10:41","slug":"david-sanchez-havok-audio-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2013\/david-sanchez-havok-audio-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"David Sanchez of Havok"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by Anabel Dflux<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; Photojournalist &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Havok-band-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Havok band 2013\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Havok-band-2013.jpg 580w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Havok-band-2013-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Havok-band-2013-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Havok-band-2013-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Havok-band-2013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Havok-band-2013-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hardrock Haven&#8217;s photojournalist Anabel Dflux sat down with David Sanchez of Havok, at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, CA, to talk about their music videos, future plans, and metal. <\/p>\n<p><center>::: Listen to the interview :::<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<audio controls><source src=\"http:\/\/www.hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/int13\/David Sanchez of Havoc.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/>Your browser does not support this audio format.<\/audio><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/havokband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">havokband.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Interview Transcript]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_5475.png\" alt=\"David Sanchez\" width=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_5475.png 467w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_5475-133x200.png 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/>HRH: Hey, thank you so much for doing the interview today! Are you excited to play tonight? <\/p>\n<p>David: Yes! Excited to play every night. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Havok is your brainchild, what was your inspiration for forming the band, and what was your motivation for it as well? <\/p>\n<p>David: Listening to Metallica made me want to start a band, and, after we started writing our own material and playing out more, I fell in love with it and wanted to do it for a living. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been doing ever since I was 15, I\u2019ve been aspiring to be a professional touring musician and pretty much mission accomplished at this point! <\/p>\n<p>HRH: That\u2019s how it should be. <\/p>\n<p>David: It\u2019s fun. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: It\u2019s always wonderful to pursue your passions. <\/p>\n<p>David: You must, otherwise you will be a miserable fuck! <\/p>\n<p>HRH: And you should be very proud about how much you\u2019ve accomplished- many bands cannot say that for themselves. What advice would you give anyone wanting to pursue their own musical endeavors? <\/p>\n<p>David: Write good songs, is where it all starts. If you don\u2019t do that and do everything else right, then it\u2019s all in vain. So, it starts with writing good music. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Very, very good point. Your most recent album, Unnatural Selection, is supposed to be the band\u2019s last release on Candlelight Records. What are your future plans for upcoming albums?<br \/>\nDavid: We are going to shop around, we\u2019ll see what happens. No plans to go anywhere yet, but there\u2019s already some label interest and we\u2019ll probably record a new album in 2015 or something.<br \/>\nHRH: Looking forward to it! What has been your favorite tour thus far and why? <\/p>\n<p>David: English Dogs tour was really fun, we got to share a bus with those guys and every show of that tour was a rager. Like, being on a bus was amazing! Not having to drive and when you wake up, you\u2019re already at the venue.<\/p>\n<p>HRH: I bet! Your music videos have a lot of political iconography and powerful visual statements, why? <\/p>\n<p>David: People need to be snapped out of it &#8211; The regular boob-tube hypnotism that everyone is stuck in. So when you sneak in some real life and problems of our modern society, people are taken aback by that. I think that\u2019s kind of the point, people need to think for themselves, and if it takes brutal imagery to make that happen- so be it. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: What was your favorite video to film? <\/p>\n<p>David: I don\u2019t know that I had a favorite to film, every video shoot was kind of the same: Lots and lots of head banging. Yeah, just, head banging really, really hard over and over and over and over to the same riffs.<\/p>\n<p>HRH: And on that note, what does metal mean to you? <\/p>\n<p>David: Metal to me is the best energy releasing music on the planet. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Yeah, you can really get your aggression out and all that feeling. <\/p>\n<p>David: Absolutely, and people come to shows not only to see the bands but to also rage, to slam people around, and run around in circle pits, and bang their head, and yell and scream. You know, they\u2019re not just paying to be a spectator, they are paying to be involved and metal is perfect for that. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: What\u2019s next for your band? <\/p>\n<p>David: Touring, right now is the priority until we need to write and record a new album. Expect to see us on the road a lot. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Excellent, thank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>David: No problem, thanks for having me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by Anabel Dflux &#8211; Photojournalist &#8212; Hardrock Haven&#8217;s photojournalist Anabel Dflux sat down with David Sanchez of Havok, at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, CA, to talk about their music videos, future plans, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2013\/david-sanchez-havok-audio-interview\/\" title=\"David Sanchez of Havok\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9052],"tags":[2068,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-31841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arcint2013","8":"tag-havok","9":"tag-interview"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}