ION: Let’s talk about your name to start things off…I KNOW there’s a story
there and inquiring minds want to know it…
SEBASTIAN: The name BASH comes from my name SeBAStian. It was my
nickname as a kid--my parents always referred to me as BASH. When I was 14, I
started writing songs for fun. I had self-taught myself how to play guitar since I was
11, and around this time I started to write songs. It was totally new to me and it came
very easy. I couldn’t stop once I started, and I ended up recording a small demo on
my laptop at home with a small recording program and a drum pad. I burned a CD
and showed my parents. They were very impressed and took me to SONIC
RANCH STUDIOS in Tornillo, TX, where I auditioned and showed them what I had. I
recorded the rst BASH album “Predicted” on my own. I wrote and recorded all the
instruments on that record, and I really wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it. I
remember the exact moment where the
producer, MARCO RAMIREZ, asked me:
“What are we gonna call it?” and I paused for
a second and told him “Bash.” And it has
stuck ever since.
ION: “Black Swan Theory” is your new
CD…what is the signicance of the title?
SEBASTIAN: We had struggled for a while
trying to nd the perfect name for that
record. It was a pretty big milestone in BASH
in a number of ways. We recorded it with
producer NOAH SHAIN, who’s worked with
artists such as SONNY MOORE (SKRILLEX), DEAD SARA, AS TALL AS LIONS,
ATREYU, and much more. We learned a lot from him during the process, and I’ll
always be extremely proud of this record. It really dened our sound, and really set
the bar for our progress as a band. So with this in mind, we had come up with the
idea of a “Black Swan Event”, which is dened as a life-altering event, such as a
massive tragedy