Chaos From Above With KYNAN GROUNDWATER From DIAMOND CONSTRUCT

Interview by Kris Peters
Hailing from the quiet town of Taree on the New South Wales Central
Coast, emerging metal outfit Diamond Construct are anything
but.
Brash, loud, and in your face with no respite, Diamond Construct
are a hurricane of musical intensity that is only just starting to
gather real force.
Since dropping their self-titled debut album around the turn of the
decade, Diamond Construct have been working tirelessly on the live
circuit, landing shows with Alpha Wolf, Justice For The Damned,
Stray From The Path and Bury Tomorrow, with recent times seeing
them perform at CVLTFEST plus hit the road with two of the Japanese
bands on the bill, Crossfaith and Paledusk.
Last year saw Diamond Construct sign with prestigious US label Pale
Chord, subsequently releasing three killer singles, Hell Inside
You, Switchblade OST and Jynx.
All three are taken from the band's new album Angel Killer Zero,
which will be unleashed on April 26.
HEAVY caught up with Diamond Construct frontman Kynan Groundwater
to find out more. We ask him if those trio of singles are a good
sonic representation of what to expect from the whole album.
"I think it's a pretty big picture, but it's not the full picture,"
he measured. "There's so much more to dive in on in the album. When
writing such a big piece and body of work like Angel Killer Zero
and having that diverse sound that we've had over the years, it was
hard to fit everything into just 11 songs. If anyone thinks that
they've heard it all from those three, they've got another thing
coming. Because there's so much on that album. There's a song for
everyone."
We ask him to further explain Angel Killer Zero from a musical
perspective.
"It's not a concept album, but it's definitely got themes and
concepts about it that tell a bit of a story," he replied. "So,
obviously from start to finish it runs smoothly together with some
of the interludes, and it's got some exerts from video games and
stuff that I love to play. I love the anime stuff. We've got the
robotics voice introducing some of the themes about the album, so
that's something that came into it earlier in the piece. Musically,
it's just a big expansion of DCX2. We went back and revisited the
sound of what made us popular in the first place with Psychosis and
Enigma, and then we blended that with the heavier sounds from the
self-titled, which we know a lot of people like as well. It was
just a big meshing of that, as well as adding in so many more
elements that we haven't explored yet."
In the full interview, Kynan talks more about what to expect from
Angel Killer Zero, how it differs to their self-titled debut album,
the anime connection and how it translates to the album, the themes
explored on the album, signing with Pale Chord, their upcoming
regional tour and what to expect and more.


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