Bringing The Rage With BRAD BROMFIELD From NEW CLEAR VISION

Interview by Kris Peters
Brisbane masters of noise New Clear Vision returned for our
listening pleasure last year with a fresh line-up and renewed
vigor.
A mainstay on the music scene for a number of years, New Clear
Vision took a break that many hoped would be fleeting, with
frontman and all round nice guy Brad Bromfield promising there was
more to come.
And hasn't he delivered on his promise!
When NCV returned to our stages last year expectation was high.
This was a band whose live show borders on legendary, with a full
nuclear wasteland type visual component offset by ferocious and
scathing lyrics delivered with a rap/metal/nu-metal hybrid unlike
anything to come out of the Australian music scene in perhaps
forever.
Now, with Daniel, Brodie and Zac on board, Bromfield has managed to
elevate the legend that is NCV even more, delivering pulsating
recent performances that has seen the band added to the whole
upcoming Nu Metal Mayhem tour which features Anders Colsefni
(Slipknot) and Wayland Reavis (Mushroomhead).
But, before that, New Clear Vision are set to explode your senses
with a crushing new single The New Rage, which will be premiered
via HEAVY at midday, August 31.
Bromfield sat down with HEAVY to take us further into the world of
New Clear Vision.
WARNING: PLACE EAR MUFFS ON CHILDREN BEFORE LISTENING
"It's been nearly three years," he almost sighed when asked how
long it has been since New Clear Vision have released new music.
"It's very, very exciting. It's a better product - and that's no
disrespect to anyone that's been there before - but we're finding
the sound that I wanted 6, 7, 8 years ago."
We ask Bromfield to delve deeper into the musical side of The New
Rage.
"We were supposed to release it when we did the show at Caloundra
earlier this year," he explained, "but thank fuck we didn't because
we hadn't had it... there's now some samples at the start and some
different shit there thast we've never done. I won't say too much
about it, but it's hitting those nu-metal vibes that we're all
about and always have been. Decisions were made just before we were
gonna release it so we had a few things and different ideas. And,
again, thank fuck we did because now it's a product of what we
represent and what we always should have been."
In the full interview, Brad talks more about the musicality of The
New Rage, how they have changed the song from it's initial version,
releasing it as audio first and why, the planned film clip and what
it entails, how The New Rage kicks off a proposed trilogy of sorts,
introduces us to the new members and what they bring to NCV, the
upcoming run of shows as part of Nu Metal Mayhem, a new album and
more.