Destructive Patterns With BRENDAN DAVINE From VERONA LIGHTS

Interview by Erin Eddy
Verona Lights are out of Melbourne, Victoria, and have recently
released their newest album, titled Minos.
This is the second album vocalist Brendan Davine has appeared on,
after joining the band to replace the original vocalist, but the
first album Brendan feels like he has been able to flex full
musical creativity.
“On Adrestia, the last album, I didn’t write any of the music,”
Brendan explains, “That music was already sitting there when I
joined. It had just been sitting there for years and I got to do
the lyrics and the vocals how I felt was right, but I didn’t get to
actually write any music. So with the new album, providing riffs
and ideas, I think this album got even heavier, because I was able
to write stuff.”
Brendan says Minos is a loosely based concept album, “If Adrestia
was an album of self-discovery, Minos is an album of
self-destruction.”
The themes of the 10 songs on Minos chronicle someone stuck in the
cyclical patterns of mental health struggles; the back-and-forth of
the protagonist working their way through those feelings and their
self-deprecation.
Brendan does urge the listener to apply their own meaning to the
songs, though. “I’m definitely one for ‘everyone should take what
they get’ from hearing it.”
Listen to the full interview with Brendan to hear the complete
story about Minos and where the band has their sights set in the
future.