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

Brave Days , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Has your work ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized?

Writing the style of music that we do, we find ourselves in odd positions often. We’re too heavy for the pop punk world, but also too melodic for the heavy music world. It comes from everyone in the band coming from different musical backgrounds, but also merging them in a way that we as a band would want to hear as a listener. The two worlds shouldn’t be in opposition, and it’s honestly so fun to make them blend. At most shows we play, we stand out quite a bit for being melodic and catchy, but also hard hitting and running and jumping all over the place.

We recently put out a single called “Scars and Stripes” where this dichotomy was a big challenge but extremely rewarding. The song is about the inactivity of the American Christian church during the BLM protests and how the reactions to COVID 19 mask mandates were……..less than Christ like. So while it’s written from an angry perspective, it’s also about how the whole point of being a Christian is about falling short, but recognizing it and trying to be better the next time. The anger is the aggressive, while the redemption is the melodic. The outro is a blend of the two, vocally aggressive in delivery and melodic in the guitar playing and lyrically.

The song was received well by the punk community, but not very well by people in the Christian communities that we are calling out for their American freedoms being a higher priority than someone else’s life, or for not standing in the margins that we created with anyone suffering from racism.

We learned that being true and honest to what we’re wanting to express isn’t going to make sense to everyone else, but it’s going to beard heard and recognized. We’d rather have the one supporter who feels all of our emotion and passion than have the 99 others that don’t really care, but still make the venue look packed.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

So we as a band came from down the road a bit in Abilene, Texas. Two of us moved to the DFW area a bit after starting to get traction to be in a better area for music, but also to expand their reach in finding the right band mates. From the very beginning, Brave Days has been about being genuine friends with each other first, and then a band second. We get comments from people all the time about us hanging out outside of practice or shows. We just tell them,

“Yeah man. We’re actually best friends. We’re as goofy in private as we are on stage.”

Our goals are to take things as far as possible while we can while still being true and honest with our art and passions.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

One of the hardest things to get non-creatives to understand is that with Joe our brains are wired, it’s literally torture to not be creating art or building something that drives us.

Something that takes years of hard work and playing to empty venues is all worth it when you see someone singing lyrics you wrote when you were hurting. When someone else can relate to what emotion you tried to convey through your medium, and they get it, it’s the best feeling in the world.

It’s most definitely a driving factor.

Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?

Neat Freaking Tacos? Dude. Who doesn’t like tacos? They’re NEAT.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://beacons.page/bravedaystx
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• Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCx8zKzV75MgcrikD-idCZ0w

Image Credits
Mikalah O’Riley Corielle Wilson Sammy Northrop