VAIN LOUIE‘s tasteful splinter of melodic hardcore strikes the listener with a touch of powerful, thrilling riffs, diverse, anthemic vocals, and hard hitting rhythm section with arrangements that quickly worm their way into your head. The band’s new single “Decomposed” is a perfect example of that. We took the chance to sit down with the Ewijk (near Nijmegen), the Netherlands based band and learn more about their work, the current situation in their area, views for the future, and more!
We create our own appearances, and forget our true identities. When we focus on creating a false appearance for ourselves, our true identity and inner beauty is often lost or hidden. This is unfortunate because the essence of our personality is now lost for a fake one. We all want to be the rose, but the amaranth will last forever….
Decomposed is a song about the struggles we all might go through about who we think we are to the outside world and who we are from the inside.
Sometimes we might take that too far which is unfortunate because then the essence of our personality would be lost for a fake one and โwould make you rot away on the insideโ. We think the feeling of the song is quite โhappyโ, which changes near the end. Thatโs kind of a metaphor. When weโre young our appearances are centered around beauty, which is fine, which resembles the first part of the song. But what happens when we grow older, and the beauty is supposed to make way for wisdom and experience? If you have never worked on your personality, we believe that you wonโt age very well (which resembles the final part of the song). You canโt rely on your looks your whole life.
We create our own appearances, and forget our true identities. When we focus on creating a false appearance for ourselves, our true identity and inner beauty is often lost or hidden. This is unfortunate because the essence of our personality is now lost for a fake one. We all want to be the rose, but the amaranth will last foreverโฆ.โ
Plans for 2020 + the COVID-192 situation
Almost all our plans of 2020 went down the drain. Weโre currently writing a lot of new music, but nothing is set in stone to when we release a full length. Thereโs a lot of options for us, and weโre kind of figuring out our next step. Especially in the strange world we live in today.
“Here in The Netherlands weโre technically not really in lockdown.”
But weโre advised and asked to stay indoors. All public events are cancelled and lots of accommodations are closed. This means we canโt play shows and we canโt even rehearse. That really sucks, but we focus on staying healthy and writing new music. We try to keep looking forward. After all, we canโt complain because a lot of people have way worse problems at the moment. Letโs hope we all survive COVID-19 physically and mentally and get through this together.
Nijmegen and Dutch local scene
We believe metal is not very alive out here, unfortunately. And there are some disadvantages to that, but itโs got something very cool as well. At this point, in our region friendships between bands begin to develop and weโre beginning to form a community amongst ourselves. Itโs sort of an โitโs us against them allโ feeling that is lighting a spark between us that we hope will start a fire very soon. Weโre all very excited to play shows together, the scene is filled with lots of good people.
Our friends at Kelsey(Instagram: @cvltofkelsey) have released a very cool EP recently, definitely worth a check. They are from Nijmegen as well. The same goes for our friends of Crooked Kingdom.
At last we would like to highlight the new album by Loathe, called โI Let It In And It Took Everythingโ. itโs a fricking masterpiece. We were in Prague in December and saw them live for the first time. That whole experience was mind-blowing, we were fans for life from the very first song.
