Interviews: The Raging Project
On this new occasion, we have had the opportunity to interview the Progressive Metal band The Raging Project from France. Check out the interview and follow the band on their FACEBOOK PAGE.
1. Where did you get the idea for the band name, you plan it or come out just like
that?
Most of the songs are talking about the way we are treating our planet and this will lead to
the end of mankind. So I was sad, angry, and a bit desperate while writing music and words,
the name was first Project Rage, and turned to The Raging Project.
2. Why did you want to play this genre?
It’s a mix of styles, modern and vintage metal, electro, progressive, a little symphonic, and
rock, these are my favorite styles of music.
3. Did you know each other before the band was formed?
We can’t tell this is a band, it’s a studio project with lots of great guest musicians and
singers. I‘ve been friends for so long with some guys and others have crossed my life during
all these recent years.
4. Each band member's favorite band?
My favorite band today is Kansas I guess, while I have plenty of great bands who
transcended me: Dream Theater, Marillion, Magma, Vanden Plas, Ayreon, Pain of
Salvation, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish… But I can’t answer for each of the other musicians of
the project, there are 15 people involved, you will have to ask them one by one.
5. Who or what inspires you to write songs?
It’s a mystery, I don’t really know. I have to be in a bad mood to compose and write, being
happy is not a good vibe for creating music. Life or fantasy inspire me, it depends… Except
for my Rock Opera Foreign which is the story of the wandering jew myth.
6. Where was your last gig?
My last gig was with my band Amonya, last November in the East of France. My last gig with
my prog rock band Psychanoia was in 2020 in a bar, East of France too, where I’m living.
7. Where would you like to act?
In big festivals such as Hellfest, Grasspop, and Wacken, it would be so great to perform on these
stages among so many talented bands…
8. Whom would you like to feature with?
I would love to play with so many people, the most untouchable are Steve Vai, Bruce
Dickinson, Floor Jansen, Sharon Den Adel, Sting, John Petrucci…
9. Whom not?
All rap and hip-hop scene
10. Have any of you ever suffered from stage fright? Any tip for beginners on how to
beat that?
I always suffer from stage fright, it’s decreasing year after year with age and experience, but
it’s still there, and it’s a good thing, it allows you to make you feel “not perfect”, so it makes
you learn more and more and you can improve your performance for next times. The only
thing I know to calm it down is abdominal breath and a bit of meditation, I actually do this
kind of thing.
11. What bands have inspired you the most?
I would say Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Helloween, and King Diamond for the oldest
influences. Kansas, Marillion, Magma, Dream Theater, Vanden Plas, Rhapsody, Symphony
X for the ’90s and 2000s, and Ayreon, Pain of Salvation, Within Temptation, Nightwish,
Evergrey, Lacuna Coil, for the more recent ones.
12. What's the weirdest thing a fan has ever asked you for?
Many people ask French bands to play some songs by Johnny Hallyday. Do you know him?
He was a great French rock singer from the ’60s to 2017 until he died. When I began to
play with my first band called Lifeseeker in 1992, many people always asked me to sing
some songs of him, and I think I did it sometimes…
13. What do you think of your fans?
They have some really good taste in music!
14. What do you think of our site?
It is great, very complete, and a great window for band promotion. I really like it!
15. Something add?
Thanks for your interest in The Raging Project. I hope the album and the music will be
appreciated by most people around the world!
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