Jeremy Bolm of TOUCHE AMORE talked to Thrash Hits about oversharing, Leonard Cohen, and AMERICAN NIGHTMARE show.
Lyrically, youโre incredibly personal, almost to the extent where you make yourself quite vulnerable. Was it hard to get to the stage where you could be so candid?
Most of the songs on the demo are really not personal. Theyโre just angsty stupid songs that I had no real attachment to. I didnโt think anybody would ever hear our band outside our group of friends. Somehow weโve lucked out, and so when it came time to write our first record, it was like: โIf Iโm going to hold a microphone and yell into it and people are going to actually listen, Iโm not going to rob them of anything. Iโm going to be as honest and direct as possibleโ.
Iโm typically a pretty introverted person in the sense of keeping things to myself, so the band is what keeps me able to express all that stuff. Itโs really easy for me to get all that stuff out, as opposed to actually talking about it with normal people. Thatโs always been a relationship problem, for example. With people Iโve been involved with, they donโt get the most excited about the fact that I keep a lot of stuff in. But when it comes to performing, thatโs a whole other thing for me.
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Photo by Brian Kelleher.
