Interview by Kris Peters
Good Things Festival is back for another year, and that can only mean one thing.
More world class live acts!
Featuring the likes of KORN, Kerry King, SUM 41, Billy Corgan, Electric Callboy, Mastodon, Jet, The Gaslight Anthem and more, GT24 is already shaping up as an absolute cracker. But, of course, one of the best things about large music festivals is the opportunity to discover new bands. Because if they weren't good, they wouldn't have made the cut, right?
For Good Things 2024 one of those bands who will definitely be on people's radar is Swedish metal outfit Imminence who, despite being around for more than a decade, have never made it to our side of the world.
Imminence have made a huge impact on the music world pretty much everywhere else, with their latest album The Black cementing their status as one of the bands to watch anywhere and everywhere they play. HEAVY caught up with vocalist/violin player Eddie Berg to find out more.
"It's always about getting the formal invitation you have been waiting for," he laughed when asked why Imminence have neglected Australia for so long.
We bring up the fact that organisers must have extreme faith in the band to bring them out without an established market, to which Eddie nods in agreement.
"Absolutely," he affirmed. "I think we'll come in cold," he added when asked how much preparation the band will do on what to expect when they get here. "We already have some people there that we're friends with through the internet, so it's gonna be great to finally see them. I think that we should just go in there with an open mind and see what it's like."
In the full interview we talk about some of the other bands playing, what Imminence are expecting from Australian audiences, what we should expect from them, three songs for people to listen to in order to know the band better, the early days of Imminence while he was still in high school, his early attitude towards making a career out of music, how he focussed on a career from a young age, the blending of Swedish metal with violin that forms the nucleus of Imminence's sound, how difficult it is in the creative process to infuse the opposing styles together and more.