We were lucky to catch up with RendeR recently and have shared our conversation below.

RendeR, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with 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?

(Julo) RendeR is a 360º Alternative Rock Experience, featuring myself, Julo, as lead vox & guitars, and my brother-in-arms Ratta (drums & backing vocals). To understand how RendeR came to be, think about this: If you could change your life, would you live the life you have now instead? Or, would you risk everything to change it?
We are originally from Chile, a country where there is no music industry, and being a professional musician, or even living from what you are passionate about, is nearly impossible. We’ve been like brothers for 30 years and share a passion for rock music and living a fulfilling life. After years of playing music and performing together, we were caught in “socially accepted” careers and were fed up with it. So, we decided to throw away the benefits of a “normal” life, renounce our comfort zone, and dive into the unknown: making our music a professional career. We were mocked and faced the prejudice of an underdeveloped society but, even though there are no guarantees in Rock N Roll, we prevailed and surpassed the premise of a conventional band, making RendeR a complete experience that engulfs music, art, performance, filmmaking, and every form of expression that helps defy our reality.
After 2 LPS, 9 music videos, 2 documentaries, and countless live performances in Chile, Canada, and the U.S., RendeR is truer than ever to our mission: the joy of giving the middle finger to ANYONE trying to bring us down.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

(Ratta) Render officially started in 2010, back when we lived in Reñaca, Chile. But, way before that, Julo and I had been best friends from school and shared an enormous passion for Rock and playing music. We wanted to be rockstars, like the ones we saw on MTV (RIP), but our country’s idiosyncrasy made it look like just a stupid dream. I gravitated towards the drums as if they were calling me. I believe my family has memories of me hitting cookware at home, and my teachers at school complained because I was always a hyper kid, drumming with my pencils. I think I just loved the energy of it. Although, I think I’m a frustrated bassist. I believe the first kid at school who was ever serious about music was Julo, who even started a band when we were in sixth grade! he had a guitar and amp at his parents’ house and his brother had a drum set. Whenever I went to his place, when he had rehearsals or even played at little school gigs, I stayed and played drums after everything was over. One day he just went
“let’s form a rock band”, and more than 20 years later that feeling of excitement has taken us to experiences that made our lives journey unbelievably awesome!

(Julo) I was always a freak, in the sense that I loved stuff that most of my peers were not into or felt that were against their beliefs and the norm, but I never gave a damn. I loved music, skateboarding, filmmaking, and geek culture before it was cool, and thanks to my family I always traveled and was exposed to different cultures and trends. At that time, MTV (RIP) had a major impact on how I saw life and art, even beyond music. I would fantasize about being like the bands on the screen, and I begged for a guitar. I got outstanding grades that year (around Christmas 1999) and got my first guitar, a Strat-style Peavey, an amp, and a microphone (my brother got a Mapex drum set that Ratta bought and we’ve been using to this day!!!!).
I started playing in different bands with classmates and then I asked Ratta to form a band. We played with many people, and multiple genres, and even after entering college, we got even more motivated and started recording professionally. In 2010, we decided to become a band professionally, and thus RendeR started!
At some point, I was in med School and I found myself surviving each miserable day with miserable people. Between my health issues, and discontent with the life I was living, I saw myself struggling between two choices: either die or throw away the life I was supposed to live and jump into the unknown: be a musician and filmmaker. Not without life-threatening events, I took the latter and I finally could become the man I wanted to be.

(Ratta) In terms of what we do, we don’t think of ourselves as just a band, we are an experience; if we talk just “music” our sound is mixing raw meat, like grunge music, with technology, like EDM/industrial sounds. It is deeply rooted in those terms, organic and digital/synthetic, and that collision is what makes us real, as we live in this paradox in which the experience requires the clash of this binary system of yes and no, life and simulation, reality and fantasy, raw and polished, reason and lust, pain and pleasure, bestiality and tranquility.

(Julo) What makes us different from anybody else and has resonated with our audience is that we not only believe but we live to be true to ourselves; the audience knows when someone is being fake, and they answer with hostility or indifference. The message needs to be clear and be something that comes from within. We are true to what we are and people value that. It all starts with an act of defiance, to face our insecurities with conviction and embrace uncertainty knowing that at least you are fighting towards achieving a dream that might seem vain or impossible to others, but is a matter of life or death to you.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

(Julo) I believe our mission is to be the catalyst for people to question the state of their lives, to defy their reality and embrace the uncertainty of life; if you are willing to risk it all for something you are passionate about, do it. That is why we prefer to refer as what we do with RendeR as a 360 experience as, within the Alt Metal genre, we do not constrain ourselves in just the music, we opened a Pandora’s Box with a cosmovision that is true to what we believe in. We are neither preachers nor life coaches, and will never try to impose our ideas over others’, but we won’t stay shut and put if the someone or even the whole world tries to cancel us. Our convictions and creative journey are worth fighting for with every inch of strength we have, so if we can ignite that same drive to question where you feel you are in society we feel that our mission was a success.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

(Ratta) Our story is all about resilience; we had to endure hostility from society in Chile, as we wanted to work on our music professionally. We lived under the eye of a small town, where we tried to fit in by studying conventional careers and complying with what the rest wanted from us. I thought of quitting RendeR at times, but Julo always pushed me to break the mold and live my life how I wanted and trying to make the things that made me complete work. Not having the support of your family and close ones sucks, but not even trying to achieve something you dream of is way worst. And Julo had things really bad on other levels, as he was consumed by the pressure and exploded, left college, and became the talk of the town, the joke that teachers talked about when they wanted to make an example of someone wasting his life. He prevailed. With loving life sometimes comes hating what you’ve done with it, so I think we made an all in bet on a life of no remorse. Fortunately, we made it work in our favor, we survived all that and became the ones who broke the wall, we earned the privilege of telling everyone “Fuck you, we did it!”

Contact Info:

• Website: www.renderofficial.com
• Instagram: @render_la https://instagram.com/render_la?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/renderockchile
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RendeRockChile
• Other: SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/511vKESZpNY2Nl0qCRI8Xk?si=6MusYv9ZQaqwOc1H7h4etQ