Mantis Interview + Avidity EP [Crime Kitchen]

How long have you been making beats and how did you get into it?
We’ve both been producing for about 5 years now, we both heard dubstep for the first time around the same time and wanted to explore producing it!

Where do you draw inspiration from when producing new tunes?
Everything! The music we’ve been listening to lately, particularly metal has a great influence in our music.
And when you’re not making beats what do you like to do?
We both love to play video games.
Tell us about this new release.

Well, we wanted to do something new. So we gave ourselves the challenge to write an EP that all flowed together as one piece of music. We wanted it to cover a lot of different styles, so we transcended many genres when writing it. The intro ‘Avidity’ is meant to be similar to a cinematic trailer soundtrack, to get you ready for what is to come. Depths is a dark and heavy metal drumnbass song that we had Maksim do vocals for, it’s the most in depth (no pun intended) produced song on the EP. ‘100% DEATH’ is kind of an homage to our older sound that got us most of the fans we have currently. ‘Back Again’ is a new direction for us. It’s a 100bpm tune, and we’d never written one of those before. ‘Coda’ is an instrumental hip hop outro we wrote to kinda bring the listener back down after the sonic assault of the rest of the EP! This is our EDMasterpiece.
It’s tough out there in the music industry, any words of advice for new artists?
Carve your own lane, don’t just fall in line.

The Avidity EP is out now Buy From iTunes

Mantis Interview + Avidity EP [Crime Kitchen]