We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Marc Rosenfeld . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Marc below.

Hi Marc , thanks for joining us today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

The bug bit me when I was a little kid. I fantasized about growing up and touring the world. I have a professional musician in my family and he was one of my biggest idols growing up. I was 7 years old when I discovered bands like Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and My Chemical Romance and as you could imagine, my parents weren’t too thrilled about that. But, they always supported my dream and got me my first guitar and guitar lessons when I was 10. I remember I had a multiple notebooks where I would write songs, draw album covers, and express myself creatively about what my band would look like.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I have been a musician since a very early age. I started playing the stand-up bass in my schools orchestra and playing guitar at 10 years old. I was apart of a group called “The Southwest Stringers” at my school where you had to memorize the national anthem to audition and once you were apart of the group, we performed at baseball games, basketball games, etc. I was 11 years old and getting to perform in stadiums while the rest of my classmates were in math class. I continued playing the string bass as well as honing in on my guitar skills and started playing in bands when I was 14 but nothing was ever too serious. We played mostly covers and some originals and played gigs that barely anyone was at. But it was still so much fun. After I graduated high school in 2016, I took a hiatus from music and it wasn’t until November of 2019 that I decided to pick it back up. I had some friends who wanted to start a band and needed a guitarist and they asked me to join. That’s how Bury the Darkness started. We wrote 4 songs in a month and hit the studio where I ended up meeting Frankie Ghiloni, who is our current singer. He was looking for new production clients at that time and we started working with him and created Break Me. I had zero clue what I was doing back then business wise and marketing wise. Break Me was 2 days away from release and he asked me what my plan was and I couldn’t really give him a straight answer. I pulled an all-nighter watching music marketing YouTube videos and came up with a game-plan which ended up being a huge success and Break Me took off. The success of that song gave myself hope that I can have a successful career in this industry and I haven’t looked back since! We just dropped our debut record “Dead Inside” back in August and I still handle all marketing/social media and 2023 was our best year yet. I am truly blessed that people have connected to the music we write and our audience continues to grow every single day.

How did you build your audience on social media?

Social media is both a blessing and a curse. We have built most of our total audience through social media. By either running ads, creating engaging content, interacting with followers of similar bands, etc. You must be active and “social” on these platforms or you will be left behind. Bury the Darkness hasn’t even played a show out of state yet but we have a global audience in over 120 countries. It is a ton of work being a content creator and it’s become just as important as creating your art, unfortunately. But the matter of a fact is – it’s where everyone is at. Everybody is scrolling their days away and you need to fight for their attention. But when done correctly, you will be able to make music your career.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

My goal & mission as a musician is to be able to travel the world with my best friends and perform our music to thousands of people every night. I can’t imagine a better life. I personally haven’t toured yet, but it’s a very taxing lifestyle and most people are not built for it. You’re away from home for weeks or months at a time and depending on what level you are at – you’re either sleeping in a van or in a bus and probably not eating the best of food. My philosophy is life is an adventure and touring the world is the adventure I want for myself. It’s a lot of hard work but so is everything else in life. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.burythedarkness.com
• Instagram: @Burythedarkness and @marcrosenfeld
• Facebook: @Burythedarkness
• Twitter: @BuryDarkness
• Youtube: @burythedarkness

Image Credits
Jim Louvau @jimlouvau