Metality UAE chats to Absolace ahead of their gig with Megadeth at Gulf Bike Week

Yeh still buzzing about it. They’re a great band, and they put on a really good live show. Its gonna be an honor to open for them. We’ve had a very quiet year in terms of gigging to be honest, cause of finishing of production of Fractals, so this is a perfect lifter

At the end of the day, we’re really excited at the opportunity to show our music to loads and loads of people. Thats really what you should keep reminding yourself when you score these awesome support slots. Its not only about the prestige, or the press, or being able to tell chicks you opened for an international band. It’s about getting your music out there.

We’re structuring our set to be intense and energetic the whole way through, rather than some of the more intimate club shows we play, where we dip in the middle and play our more proggy stuff. This set is gonna be like ’1, 2, 3, 4 , BOOM!!’ and just keep going with full energy for an hour. We were lucky to get an hour actually, which is more than most support band slots. Lets us showcase a bit more of our music. When we get asked to 30-45 mins, thats only like 4 or 5 songs for us hahaha.

I’ve actually met Dave before. It was on Desert Rock Festival in 2006. Really nice guy, and really easy to talk to. We didn’t really talk much about music, he’s probably bored of talking about that hahaha. We just chatted about random shit.

I think we’re gonna get back into writing again. It would nice to see another release out before next summer. Gonna get busy, busy, busy Apart from that, lots of personal practice, jamming together a lot, and play a few more shows and get out there as much as possible.