Sylar from queens, NY break through
with polished mature release on “seasons”.
With the majority of the attention of emerging artists coming from Detroit and Los Angeles it becomes increasingly difficult for a band from the
Northeast to break through. A mature approach to their Linkin Park era style pays dividends on their latest release “Seasons” to be one of the most
intriguing releases into 2019. With more touring planned for the new year, Queens, New York natives Sylar are about to break the east coast dry spell.
Your latest release “Seasons”, has a
polished feel. It that something you
were trying to acheive when you
started writing for the record?
JAYDEN: We were definitely trying to go for that. Just as
artists ourselves we just want to grow. You don’t want to
write the same project twice. It doesn’t just go with music,
It applies to everything. You always want to make prog-
ress and that was the big thing for us. We wanted to evolve,
and we did, but we are still Sylar. We just spent time, and
through touring you just grow as a person and a musician
as well. I think it definitely shows on the record, so thank
you for bringing that up.
Do you fear losing the balance be-
tween coming up with a polished
product and trying to come off with
something street, and real?
JAYDEN: really It depends, We just go in there and go with
the vibe. I don’t think once we ever went into the studio
or even a writing session and said, hey we need to be this
specific type of band. That’s something I was very proud
of with this record. Sky’s the limit! We wanted to be really
happy with what we were writing and that’s what we did
with this one.
JAYDEN: Honestly, if anyone listens to Re-
peat from 2013 and listens to Seasons now
they would say Can’t they change? but we
always have left bread crumbs throughout
our projects. You can always tell it us, but
I felt like a big change for us, even more so
than Seasons right now, was on one of our
first records “Help”. We added a lot more
melodies and we just brought out this mas-
sive feel about us which is why I think people
aren’t surprised by Seasons much. I feel like
Sylar fans understand it’s a Sylar record, even
though it’s completely different from the one
before.
You cut a single of a band
that is so influential to you as
an artist. What was it about
Linkin Park and how did you
aproach it?
JAYDEN: I have always said that Linkin
Park is very committed. I come from Queens.
I didn’t start listening to rock or metal as a
kid. All I knew was Hip-Hop. It was not even
a choice, that’s what was all around me. Even
walking to the store with my mom to get a
soda or something, all I would hear is Hip-
Hop. So when I heard bands like Linkin Park,
It was so new but it felt so familiar and very
comfortable in my home, and then on top of
that... that band said it was OK to show your
feelings. That’s what really brought me the
closest than any other band at that time. The
fact that they were so real and they came off
that they were so vulnerable, especially their
lyrics. It felt like they weren’t afraid to talk
about real feelings. That just struck a cord
with me and really inspired me as an artist
when I look back.
What was your first reaction when we lost
Chester?
JAYDEN: I will never literally forget that day. This was the first death that
wasn’t close but felt close. I almost felt like I did know Chester. That’s what
I grew up with. Those Linkin Park songs are my anthems, they will forever
be my anthems. I will never forget that we were playing warped tour and
our bus broke down, so we were actually staying with our friends in Atilla,
on their bus for the night. That day they had a signing and I’m just bored
on my twitter, refreshing.. refreshing.. and there was a tweet from TMZ stat-
ing the obvious. I just remember putting my head down, and even though
all my band mates were around, I couldn’t even speak. I didn’t know if I
could even believe it, I didn’t know what to think at that moment, I felt de-
feated. Putting this band together and pursuing this dream, I always looked
up to people like him and in my eyes I really thought he a had it all. He
had a family he had endless amounts of success. As a band, he had that
ideal thing we all dream about. When I found out about the news every-
thing just crashed. It took me 5 minutes to tell the guys what happened.
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