ROCK AND ROLL ISN’T DEAD… THE YOUTH SHALL KEEP IT ROCKING

LILIAC is a bad ass rock and roll family that if you’ve have been under a rock for the past few months have been blowing up. Appearing on The Worlds Best and countless talk shows, LILIAC is reminding us that Metal is still alive and kicking.

Empire Extreme got to talk to the band which are from ages 11-20. Samuel on Lead Guitar, Abagail on Drums, Melody on Bass/Vocals, Ethan on Rhythm guitar and Justin on Keys.

EE: How are you guys doing today?

Abagail: I’m doing good.

EE: How did you come up with the band name?

Abagail: My parents are from Romania and my dad is from Transylvania, he lived about an hour from Dracula’s castle, and Liliac means “vampire bat” in Romanian.

EE: Hows was it like being on Worlds Best Show?

Abagail: It was a great experience, they created the stage to go with our performance and really bumped it up with the fire it was a great experience to be on the show.

EE: Did you guys get to hang out and meet the Hosts?

Abagail: We got to meet them but based on the contract we couldn’t really hang out with them, but we did get to meet them.

EE: You guys performed the Dio song “Rainbow in the Dark” and also put out a video for the song, Hows was that like?

Abagail: Ronnie James Dio is Melody’s inspiration, and doing that song really means a lot to us. We were glad to do it on tv and have a good positive feedback on our video as well.

EE: When I first watched the video, I was blown away. Not only does the band sound great but Melody’s voice is amazing and sounds just like Dio.

Melody: Why thank you (Laughs)

EE: Other than Rainbow in the Dark, what’s been you’re favorite cover to do?

Abagail: We have done a whole bunch of them and we all have our favorites that we love. I like Trooper from Iron Maiden a lot because it has a lot of fills in it and the drums are insane.

EE: What got you interested in playing the drums?

Abagail: We have always been around music, our dad is a music producer. One day we decided let’s start a band and see how it goes, and I got on the drums and just fell in love with them, and everyone else fell in love with the instruments they play and we just practiced a lot and did covers and now we’re here.

EE: Who were you’re favorite drummers?

Abagail: That’s hard because there are so many great drummers out there. I really love Dave Grohl from Nirvana, and Roger Taylor from Queen.

EE: Have you guys always been into the older “classic” rock stuff?

Abagail: Yeah we always listened to that, the first band that got us into was Queen, and then we listened to more rock from that time.

Sam: It has a lot of energy and passion in the music and you can feel that. It’s real music .

EE: You guys also put out an album that was originals also.

Sam: Yeah on January 25th we released our originals EP Chain of Thorns. We got a lot of good feedback. It’s crazy that album was number 1 on amazon for new releases of rock music chart.

EE: Are you guys working on a full length album?

Abagail: Yeah were are currently working on it now, writing for now then head into the studio.

EE: So I heard you guys do Taekwondo also, does the whole band do that as well?

Abagail: Yeah tonight we are all going to class. We started taking classes about 3 years ago, and just martial arts is important for learning discipline and self respect.

EE: If you could go on a dream tour who would it be with?

Abagail: Oh that’s tough, there are so many bands that I would love to with. I think Metallica would be a Dream.

Sam: Maybe AC/DC. Or Iron Maiden. Who would you like to see us with?

EE: It be great to see you guys play with a band called Last In Line, they have surviving members of Dio in the band and play a lot of Dio songs.

Abagail: Yeah that would be like Epic.

EE: Any tours or shows coming up?

Abagail: Yeah we have 3 gigs coming up. In May we are doing a festival in San Francisco, and in June we are playing in Phoenix Arizona, and in July we are doing a big rock festival in Portland called Guitars Under The Stars.

Go and check out LILIAC on there website or Facebook and let’s keep Metal Alive.

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