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I’ve been playing drums since I was very young, and I’m inextricably bound to this instrument. But the more I thought of it, the more the idea of playing the songs I’d been writing on guitar at home (before being rearranged with the guys) in a live setting became natural. We’ve been preparing this change for several months, but how strange it is to finally be there! Part of me is sad to know I won’t be playing the drums live for my band anymore… but it’s surpassed by the joy and excitement of such novelty!
I would like to dearly thank my bandmate Guillaume (on bass and backing vocals) for his support, trust and for the energy he has been bringing to Greyborn since 2021 (and to our other projects before that)! He definitely has to do with my adaptation to this new role. As do our friends who will be sharing the task of playing drums live for Greyborn going forward. We will introduce them in due time. For several months now, Guillaume and I have been rediscovering our band’s live sound through this new line-up, and it feels good!
Our very first gig will be on May 22nd at Le Klub in Paris, with Below The Sun organization. Thank you all for your presence and support so far, we can’t wait for you to listen to the future of Greyborn!
l 02.09.2024 l We’ve arrived at the end of a cycle for Greyborn: Maxime has decided to leave the band. Starting this fall, you’ll find him on the artist side in his solo project Blackbird Hill, as well as behind the curtain as a staff member for La Nef in Angoulême!
We know this decision is positive for Maxime, and we completely understand and respect it. In a way, we’re almost happy and lucky that this line-up change is taking place 3 years (almost to the day) after recording our first EP ‘Leeches’. It doesn’t feel like something is left unfinished, it feels symbolic, drawing a calm and clear end to a collaboration.
Max, thank you for helping Greyborn materialize and for giving your time and energy to shape this band with us! Thank you for embracing our artistic vision, serving it and strengthening it with your way of playing, your tone, your choices and your taste. All of these will have momentum and will keep influencing our music in times to come, and that’s a good thing.
We don’t know what the next iteration of Greyborn will look like yet, but there will be one and we are working on it. We’ll keep you posted.
Until next time!
Matthieu Giordano from The Heavy Chronicles reviewed ‘Scars’, writing: ‘The trio’s music is getting more intense with the massive and dirty sound of this second EP. All heaviness and rage, more dislocated but still as refined, it’s Leeches’ gifted and careless little brother. More granular and much more in tune with its spontaneity and stoner origins, this second release turns all the knobs to 11.’
‘Scars’ is about things that leave a mark on us or hurt us forever, how we’re sometimes a part of it, and how we can assimilate these marks in order to grow. It deals with the path to healing, to a resignation that can be either sweet or sour. Another dizzying subject addressed in the EP is our vacuity and the unconscious efforts we deploy to be able to ignore it. We choose causes, fights to give our all to so we don’t feel the void, so we feel alive. There can therefore only be use in DOING things, fully submerging into them because they are our only reality.
We recorded ‘Scars’ in two sessions at the venue CCM John Lennon in our hometown of Limoges, helped by its kind team and our friend Laurent Bidana. We mixed it ourselves and the mastering was done by Karl Daniel Lidén. The EP will be released through F2M Planet, a local label self-managed by musicians. For the imagery of ‘Scars’, it also felt natural to call upon artist Frédéric Chhim, a photographer who shapes materials as well. Above is the EP’s cover he made for us.
We crossed Fred’s path while working on previous projects. In late 2022, as we were finishing up writing ‘Scars’, we realized that his recent works had a texture and a meaning that mirrored those of our EP. He was game to adapt his work to Greyborn: after an analog photo shoot, Fred printed our portraits onto slabs of clay, broke those into smaller pieces which he then rearranged and photographed again. We are very happy to feel a sort of resonance between the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’ of ‘Scars’. Check out Fred’s cool work here!
We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we did making the video!
