Breaking Out With PRIKA AMARAL From NERVOSA

Interview by Kris Peters
Brazilian thrash outfit Nervosa are preparing to enter the next
phase of their already successful career when they release new
album Jailbreak onto the world on September 29.
Jailbreak marks a decisive new beginning for the band, being the
first album to welcome guitarist and founding member Prika Amaral
to the mantle as lead vocalist, as well as premiering the new
line-up completed by the immensely talented and well experienced
Michaela Naydenova on drums, Hel Pyre on bass and Helena Kotina on
guitars.
Unrelenting and sonically vicious, Nervosa have decimated crowds
the world over on four previous albums, but are set to spread their
brutality even further with Jailbreak.
Amaral joined HEAVY to discuss the album.
"I'm feeling super excited," she smiled. "We have been working for
this new album since 2021 - so four months after we released
Perpetual Chaos we started working for this new album - and for me
it's the biggest step in my career because it's the first time that
I have been singer (laughs). I can't describe how excited I am to
show everyone what I was working very hard on."
We ask Amaral to dive deeper into the musical side of
Jailbreak.
"I think this album is super revolutionary," she measured, "because
we have the second guitar right now. It was something that we had
in the beginning, but we never recorded any albums with two
guitars. So it's a big change in Nervosa life, and also me talking
personally being a singer was a huge challenge in a very short time
and period. I gave my best. I had a lot of fun. It was a very
experimental album in some ways, but at the same time was the most
fun composing this new album. We have a lot of diversity, and a
different style of metal. Everything combined with thrash. We have
thrash and death metal together. We have traditional heavy metal
with thrash metal. We have punk with thrash metal and we have some
melodic death metal, melodic thrash metal, and a bit, in one song,
maybe death metal. We put everything together in a mixer
(laughs)."
In the full interview, Prika talks about following on from the
success of previous album Perpetual Chaos, her role as singer and
how easy the transition was, why she elected to assume the role,
the new band members and what they bring to Nervosa's sound, the
wicked cover image, special guests Gary Holt and Lena Scissorhands
and what they brought to the album, the "new era" of Nervosa,
touring plans, playing on 70000TONS Of Metal and more.