But it would be wrong for me not to mention Eddie Van Halen as a big influence as well when it comes to creating mind bending and genre expanding additions to the riff. There will always be a special place in my heart for all Floridian Death Metal, and Morbid Angel’s Trey Azagthoth hands down is the most creative Soloist of all Death Metal. As far as lead tones go, adding that tasteful perfect spice to any song is ideal to me. I’d settle on that Hm2 sound as the perfect rhythm tone. It’s bands like Entombed, Dismember and At the Gates that real nail that in your face guitar tone that makes you feel like you’re being chased into a snow blind Frenzy. I’ve been obsessed with Swedish Death Metal for quite some time. Where is Vaulted's guitar sound rooted? Name a few bands here if you can. But we all can agree on most bands and music that's being played on our drives, I’d say it’s often laid back. But mostly the music choice depends on whose driving, so I’d say it’s all variable. We generally keep it light in the van and we try to avoid extreme music to give our ears a rest from the nightly beating they take. Podcasts, Comedy, or 311(jk but not really?). What are some tour staples in the CD player or just things that the band can agree on? We’ve made friends and met a lot of people and spent time together in many different settings, stages, and cities at different points in our lives, so that sense of community, Friendship and constant family reunion is what keeps it real for us. Although Cody got his start in Bay Area Hardcore, We’ve all been apart of the New England area metal and hardcore scenes for quite some time. Vaulted played a lot with Nick’s bands so when We needed a bass player it was only fitting to get Nick to switch from guitar to bass for this band. We met Matt through playing shows with all of our bands. We met Dan in college years as our bands played together often. How did the band come together at least initially and what aspects of that have kept it fresh for you all over time?Ĭody and I once played together in a band. We feel that with the release of Left In Despair, we finally have something that defines our sound and shows a great step in the progress of our work.
To put it simply, our first few records were more formative and could be perceived as metallic/crossover and genre bending, And now with our own personal progress playing and writing our “new” instruments, the more we’re beginning to capture the metal and death metal sound we aimed to create when we started this band. So naturally you’re witnessing an album by album progression from us. For Dan, Vaulted is his first band as a guitarist. For Cody, Vaulted is his first attempt at being a vocalist (He is a drummer). When I (Christian) started Vaulted some years ago, I left a band where I was the vocalist, and Vaulted was my first attempt at playing guitar in a band (and first serious attempt at playing guitar in general). We all come from Metal, Hardcore, Punk and DIY backgrounds. Our influences for this band have always been rooted in the metal and death metal world. You describe yourselves as a death metal/metallic hardcore collective, care to elaborate on that a bit? But we are in a great place in the metal community as drummers are usually eager to fill in where they are needed! Our drummer Matthew McSweeney who has recorded on all our material including Left In Despair has since moved on from Vaulted, we are currently in between drummers. And we added Nicholas Wolf on bass guitar. We saw our bassist Daniel Leahy move to guitar to join Christian as a two guitar situation. Since we released Asylum Memoirs, we’ve grown a lot as a band. What has the time since Asylum Memoirs been like for the band? How different has it become?
The new album is a blast of hardcore energy with a death metal delivery that will bring you back 30 years, not lacking the ability to surprise and suppress you all at the same time with waves of heaviness. Henderson also talked to me about the time in between the recording of Asylum Memoirs through today as well as what influenced their sound, what’s playing on the tour bus, and a particular incident that took place on the hills of San Francisco. Today we premiere Left In Despair, the band’s second album and one that guitarist Christian Henderson refers to as the next in “an album to album progression”. Vocalist Cody Rico sounds very influenced by the LG Petrov’s of the world with a lot of Left Hand Path apparent in his yelled, yet growled vocal approach, and maintaining a similar illusory feeling of being somehow off in the distance really evokes that inspiration in tandem with the guitar tone of “When Life Goes On”. Vaulted take a genre that Trap Them had created-what became "Entombed-core"- but their snappy approach is more rooted in the hardcore side of things, without the fear of having to slow down.
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