GMA Interrogation: Backstabber (Perception of Darkness)

"It's our channel to create, discuss and hopefully influence people to think for themselves".

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Country - SWEDEN
Genre - INDUSTRIAL METAL
Label - UNSIGNED


So Backstabber what does Perception Of Darkness personally mean to you and how did the band form?

It means everything to us. Perception Of Darkness is the way we choose to express ourselves through, it's our channel to create, discuss and hopefully influence people to think for themselves.
But it's also a brotherhood for us, the other guys in the band are some of my absolute best friends and that's also a big part of Perception Of Darkness.

The band was formed by our old singer Karl Johansson who is no longer in the band due to some different reasons.

Would you say Sweden lacks numbers in Industrial Metal vs. Melodic Death Metal?

I think Sweden has a lot good Industrial Metal bands, some good examples are Raubtier, Pain and Deathstars. But here there aren't really a lot of bands on the smaller stages that play Industrial Metal.
The only ones i know of would be Zavod, Mass Murder Agenda and Man.Machine.Industry.

And of course in comparison to the Melodic Death Metal bands we are quite outnumbered.

How would you describe your music without genre tagging or using cliches?

Since we decided to get rid of our singer we no longer have any rights to our old songs since he was our main songwriter. But we are working hard on our new album. I don't want to describe it all to much right now, but let's just say that we are taking it back to the roots of how Industrial Metal should sound.

What makes Perception Of Darkness stand out from the rest of the Swedish metal scene and have you played outside Sweden?

First of all we play in a quite small genre, as i said earlier there aren't a lot of industrial metal bands on our level. I also like to think that we are a really good band to see live. A lot of our friends play very technical metal and they miss out on the live part of being in a band. Perception of Darkness is quite the opposite. We play pretty straight-on metal and leave a lot of room for the live show.

Last year we played 2 European festivals and a boat cruise. Our first gig outside of Sweden was at "Dark Mental Festival" in Copenhagen where we got the honor to open the festival up, the second was as an headline act at "Plana Demo Fest" in Serbia, and the boat cruise went from Stockholm to Riga and featured bands like Frantic Amber, The Resistance, Man.Machine.Industry and Skitarg.

How many releases do you have to date and what is your favourite?

As i said earlier we have had to remove all our material when we decided to get rid of our singer. So we are currently working on our "first" album.

What major metal festivals are there in your area?

There are a few: Copenhell, Metaltown, Sweden Rock Festival amongst others. Last year we were actually involved in starting a new festival in our hometown of Malmö called "Faceplant Metalfest". Unfortunately, just a couple of days before the event it had to be cancelled due to problems with the economy.

Finally do you have any hello's, thank you's to send out?

Not really, would just like to thank all of the fans for being patient with us. Last year was really good for us and it feels terrible that we have to take a big part of this year to rebuild what we had worked so hard for, but we will be back strong than before.

https://www.facebook.com/PerceptionofDarkness