GAWD Interview - RGM Introducing

GAWD Interview – RGM Introducing

Hi GAWD thanks for joining us today, Whats the live music scene like in your town right now? Anyone we should be looking out for (bar you, of course)?

The underground circuit is experiencing a severe collision of digital-heavy production and raw, abrasive counter-programming. Independent creators are bypassing traditional local gatekeepers, carving out digital-first spaces that stretch across borders rather than leaning on a single hometown scene.

Do you think it’s easy to become a victim of our surroundings sometimes?

Absolutely. The architecture of modern life—especially the pressure to maintain pristine, bulletproof public facades while hiding internal fractures—forces people into a state of perpetual performance. Environments demand conformity, and if you aren’t actively fighting your surroundings, you become a product of them.

What are your ambitions for the band?

To operate as an unapologetic cultural disruptor. The goal is to weaponize industrial-nu-metal aggression and conceptual art to tear down hidden hypocrisies, dismantle the safety of performative masculinity, and force audiences to look directly at the things they prefer to keep buried in the closet.

What’s your favourite social media platform to use, and why?

Platforms that allow for direct, unvarnished visual and conceptual storytelling work best—spaces where raw aesthetics, video pacing, and direct communication can pierce through algorithmic noise without needing corporate validation.

We believe it’s essential to have a presence on Facebook, Instagram, and X to introduce yourself to all the different types of audiences out there. What are your thoughts on that?

It’s a functional necessity for distribution, but it’s just a tactical tool. Different platforms house different segments of the audience—some respond to the raw visual curation of the aesthetic, while others engage with the direct text-based provocation of the messaging. You have to meet people where they scroll, even if the system itself is sterile.

What’s your view on the music industry today?

It’s structurally paralyzed by its own hypocrisy. The industry panics over automated streaming slop and copyright threats on one hand, while quietly manufacturing sanitized, risk-free content on the other. It’s an ecosystem terrified of genuine friction, real-world taboos, and unvarnished human accountability.

What are your thoughts on AI-generated music?

When treated as a lazy shortcut to flood playlists, it’s useless algorithmic noise. But when generative and digital production tools are harnessed intentionally—used as a thematic mirror for digital alienation, artificial concealment, and the cold architecture of the closet—they transform from a gimmick into a sharp artistic weapon.

What’s the biggest thing you have learned recently as you progress with your music?

That uncompromising conceptual clarity cuts through the noise faster than playing it safe. When you refuse to sanitize your message or soften your edges, you instantly filter out the indifferent and lock in an audience that actually cares about what you have to say.

What’s currently in your ears and on rotation at the moment?

A heavy mix of overdriven ’90s industrial noise, aggressive early-2000s nu-metal structures, and glitchy electronic soundscapes that lean into discomfort.

What was your worst experience on stage? Any funny stories to share? Got any fun, funny stories from life on the road?

The road and the stage aren’t about polished comedy routines; they are extensions of the same industrial theater. When you build a project around confronting heavy psychological themes, every performance is a high-tension psychological exercise in unmasking the room.

I hear you have new music. What can you tell us about it?

The work centers on the American Closet concept album architecture—spanning movements of concealment, entanglement, reckoning, reclamation, and resolution. It targets the downlow archetype, systemic hypocrisy, and the fragility of the “masc-bro-conform-it” mindset, functioning as a sonic and visual assault on hidden double lives.

What was the recording process like?

Intense, cold, and deliberately jarring. It merged gritty industrial percussion, heavy nu-metal rhythms, and overdriven vocal production with synthetic digital elements, mirroring the sterile and hidden environments the lyrics set out to expose.

Would you change anything now that it’s finished?

Nothing. The friction, the sharp edges, and the aggressive production choices are structural parts of the art. Changing it would mean softening the blow.

Is there anything else you would like to share with the world?

Stop hiding behind performative perfection. The mask is going to burn off eventually anyway—you might as well hold the match.

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