“Music and art to some degree will always exist as a reaction to the world” – interview with Melted Bodies

We have chatted with the avant-garde, experimental LA-based alternative metal band Melted Bodies about their latest album “The Inevitable Fork”, breakfast and technology.

Hello! How are you doing at the moment?

Scott McDonald: Very excellent!

You have just released “The Inevitable Fork”, and I must say that the album is thoroughly enjoyable. Are there any songs in it that started with one idea and then got completely changed to the final result we can listen?

Scott McDonald: Therapy. It was an old lyrical melody of Andy’s, and one day in rehearsal, we started jokingly playing bluegrass. Well, I kept annoyingly putting a train beat under everything is more accurate. Unbeknownst to us at the time that the prototype of the song was being performed.

Nice! The songs from the album would be amazing to be heard in a live show setting – are there any plans for you to bring the music in concert, perhaps even in Europe?

Scott McDonald: We’re trying to get our proverbial ducks in a row, but that’s definitely the goal.

Given the choice of any band in the current world, which one would you choose to play as an opening act?

Scott McDonald: I can only speak for myself. I would say NIN or Fever Ray.

There are a variety of influences and style you presented in the album. To get to know you a little bit better, do you remember who was your first music teacher and what was him/her like?

Scott McDonald: Ken Clark. My middle school band instructor. Probably the first person that helped me get serious about, well, anything. Before that, I hadn’t let myself move past the phase of trying things. If it didn’t immediately click, I’d move on, but he inspired me to try harder.

Is the artistic life lonely, sometimes? How do you react to this?

Scott McDonald: I don’t know what that is exactly, haha. I have a full-time career in addition to the band. All of us in Melted Bodies do. Loneliness comes, but not from any artistic lifestyle. Just the capitalist world we live in. But no, if I’m feeling lonely, it’s not from an artist’s lifestyle; it’s because I’m stuck in a Zoom meeting and the sun’s out.

Technology is affecting our lives more and more. Will music and art keep up the pace of it?

Scott McDonald: Music and art, to some degree, will always exist as a reaction to the world. Whether we continue to devalue it is a question I’m more curious about.

I am a huge pancakes lover. What do you usually eat for breakfast?

Scott McDonald: I skip it a lot during the week. When I do go out with my wife on the weekends… Anything savoury… But! We have a desert-first mandate. Since we get too full and aren’t good at saving room, we enjoy some sweet bites first with our coffee, then dine on the real sustenance. You should try it.

I wanted to play a little game with you if that’s alright. If you could meet a fictional character in real life, who would him/her be?

Scott McDonald: A genie. As long as he’s in that lamp, doesn’t need to be anyone specific.

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview! Is there anything else you’d like to add to our readers?

Scott McDonald: Please enjoy “The Inevitable Fork” LP, exclusively available on Bandcamp! Also, come say ‘hi’ to us on Instagram and Twitter. We reply. We’re chill.