Obey The Brave

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“Not trying to reinvent the wheel – we keep it simple, we keep it real.”
Less than a minute into “Lifestyle,” the opening track of Obey The Brave’s debut full-length Young Blood, vocalist Alex Erian delivers these lyrics with the utmost conviction and, in turn, lets listeners know exactly what’s in store over the course of the album’s 11 offerings.
Based in Montreal and Ottawa, Obey The Brave first emerged onto the landscape of aggressive audio at the foot of 2012, combining some ex-members of heralded deathcore outfit Despised Icon and metalcore quintet Blind Witness. “We were all just really hungry to keep making music and get back out on the road,” Erian says of the union. “We all love this game.”
Erian and former Blind Witness axeman John Campbell first started exchanging musical ideas in 2011 after both were free of their previous projects. Says Erian: “We didn’t really know where we were headed, but as we wrote, things became more and more concrete.” With the addition of Greg Wood on guitar, Stevie Morotti on drums, and Campbell’s fellow Blind Witness alumnus Miguel Lepage on bass, the members’ varied backgrounds sprouted a mosaic-like melee of components from various classifications of heavy music. “It came about really naturally,” says Erian of Obey The Brave’s formation and subsequent style. “”We’re all over the place in terms of influences, so we just let this take the shape it wanted to.”