Making Up For Lost Time With ROD YATES From BRACE

Interview by Kris Peters
Necrosonic Festival 2025 can rightfully lay claim to being
Brisbane's premiere heavy metal music festival. Following a
successful debut in 2024, the 2025 edition is again curated by Kent
Bartley, one of the masterminds behind legendary Australian
festivals like Overcranked, Inferno, and Dead of Winter. The lineup
includes both international acts and resurrected Australian
legends, with some bands reuniting for rare or one-off
performances.
Described as a "ritual" rather than just a festival, Necrosonic
2025 promises an intense, 12-hour-plus experience featuring 30 of
the heaviest bands from the underground metal scene, performing
across three stages at the Mansfield Tavern on August 23. One of
the most popular grouping of bands in last year's debut offering
was Resurrected: Back From The Dead and this year's collection of
older bands reunited promises to be no exception with Massic, Idle
Ruin, Daysend, Beanflipper and Brace dusting off the cobwebs and
keen to re-enter the fray alongside Portal, Bolzer, Abramelin,
Frankenbok and more.
Sydney heavy outfit Brace are one of the Resurrected, reforming
after 20 years to answer the metal call to arms, with bass player
Rod Yates more than happy to shoot the breeze with HEAVY about
Round Two for the band.
"It's been a long time," he affirmed. "It's been about 20 years
since the last show, but you know what? It's sounding pretty good.
We've picked up where we left off, which is good."
We mention the other four bands in the Resurrected category and
point out that Brace will be amongst illustrious company in
returning to the stage.
"I can't believe that we get to share a stage with those bands for
one," he enthused. "Daysend we used to play with quite a bit back
in the day, we're good friends with those guys. We haven't seen
them for a long time, so that's going to be great, but Beanflipper
are one of the bands that you grew up listening to and used to read
about in Hot Metal, so to see them back playing and to play on the
same stage as them... It's going to be massive with the other bands
as well. You've got 30 bands playing across three stages in 12
hours!"
In the full interview, Rod discusses getting the band back together
and how easily they have slipped back into gear. He tells us what
we can expect from Brace live, including three songs to listen to
in order to get to know the band if you are unfamiliar with their
music.
We talk about the value of festivals such as Necrosonic to the
Australian heavy metal scene, the history of Brace, why they broke
up and what's changed to make them try again, new music and
more.

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