We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Carbonwire a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Carbonwire, thanks for joining us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

We took a risk recording our debut album by ourselves – recording everything, mixing/mastering ourselves, and not relying on sample replacement or having our record “compete” with records already out. We had to learn what worked and what didn’t through trial and error.

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?

We are Carbonwire – a melodic heavy rock band from North Hollywood, CA. We take influences from heavy metal, hard rock, psychadelic, funk, and pop to form our own brand of rock. We take orchestral arrangement concepts to create the biggest sound possible with just four musicians.

We write about what it feels like to have a human experience. Celebrating the darkness and light within ourselves allows us to see who we really are and come to a place of acceptance. It’s always been about getting closer to who we are as people. We like to “pull back the rock” and reveal all the interesting things crawling around underneath – all the hidden things we humans don’t show each other, even to our best friends and loved ones. We want anyone who listens to the music to know they are understood and that what they experience is universal.

We think that authenticity and service/commitment is what makes us unique in the scene. We don’t try to be relevant, and we write what we think is interesting. We want to examine what it feels like to be human through our music and deliver our experience to whoever wants to hear it. If there’s a market for that, then fantastic. If not, at least there are four people who are enjoying it and that’s enough for us.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

We want to create a listening experience that delivers an authentic representation of what our band sounds like live, but presenting it in the best possible light. We don’t want to sound overproduced or digitized. The experience of Carbonwire is all about “what is human” – from the lyrics to production, everything needs to sound like human beings are playing the music. Not robots and synthesizers.

We want to attract listeners by opening a heart to heart connection with them – by revealing our own experience with life and empathizing with others’ experience, we want to create the message that we are only human, and that’s okay. We weren’t created to be perfect, so anything we do needs to reflect that. Imperfection is human, and that’s the good stuff.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The most rewarding part of all of this is being able to look another person in the eye and be able to say “I feel you. – you too, huh?”

When we get to connect with people at our shows, we grow a community that is about understanding and celebrating each other’s humanity. We appreciate the light and dark within ourselves without judging each other which creates a healthy environment where people can come to feel connected.

When you write a song based off our own human experience, it feels so personal and insular. You feel like you’re the only one to feel that experience, even though logically you know you can’t be alone. Emotionally, it’s a different story. To hear “I relate to that so much” especially when the subject is about something really ugly inside is a balm like no other. Nothing can compare to being understood on a heart to heart level without judgement.      

Contact Info:

• Website: https://carbonwire.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carbonwire_band/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carbonwireband/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/carbonwire_band
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVM2t-nvW8ba_OQZ7nL9t2Q?view_as=subscriber

Image Credits
Talia Farber