Fulfilling The Prophecy With CHRIS ADAMS From SMASH INTO PIECES

Interview by Kris Peters
After conquering the rest of the world on the back of their smash
hit album Ghost Code in 2023, Swedish rock outfit Smash Into Pieces
are turning their sights to Australia, announcing their first-ever
trip to our shores next month.
A band renowned for their spectacular live performances, Smash Into
Pieces are bringing their new-look, latest production ArmaHeaven
Prophecy here for three select shows starting in Melbourne on
August 22 – a high-intensity experience of music and stunning
visuals that embodies their motto: “don’t let anything stand
between you and your dreams… if it does, smash it into
pieces”.
"In the world of ArmaHeaven, a new reality is born through AI –
only to be threatened by the very force that created it," so the
story goes. "The prophecy has been written… but it can still be
altered. This is more than a concert. It’s a message. A warning. A
choice … The ninth chapter begins now. Join the movement. Alter the
prophecy."
With a new album in the can and the band primed for their debut
Down Under performances, frontman Chris Adam sat down with HEAVY,
where we grilled him from the start, demanding to know why the band
have neglected Australia for 17 years.
"I guess we… I mean, it's a good question," he replied. "Ever since
the start with Smash Into Pieces, the analytics have shown that you
are in the top 10 countries for us. I guess when we were kinda new
as a band, we couldn't really afford to get there, and we didn't
really sell tickets. So it's a mix between those two. The interest
has always been there to go there, but, as I said, that's the
reasons why we couldn't get there before. But now it's time. We own
our music. We own everything in the company, so now we can afford
certain things. It's time. It's definitely time to go there."
The ArmaHeaven Prophecy is a conceptually based production centring
on AI and the threats it poses to the human race, leading us to ask
if the whole show - inclusive of visuals and lyrics - is part of
the concept.
"We have had this storytelling from the beginning," Adam measured,
"and ever since we started doing the new album. So it's definitely
in the lyrics, but we're also tweaking it so it's not too much
singing about a computer. It's more flirting with the concept and
the ideas we have. We always try, with our lyrics, to be not taken
too far, so people can resonate with their own thing to it."
In the full interview, Chris talks more about the upcoming tour and
what to expect, how the music fits in with the conceptual idea, how
it represents a "bold new era of storytelling and sound" and
elaborates further on the conceptual story. He runs us through the
music that makes up the live show and if it is all new or a mixture
across their catalogue, the new album and what to expect, the
temptation to rehash the successful formula of Ghost Code and
more.


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