Age and maturity are a part of that, however not within the descent into miserabilism that you just may count on.
“If you’re younger and filled with hate and rage, you wish to shock everybody,” Zelli examines his personal development. “However as you develop up you realise that life feels extra lovely. It’s not that the darkish days get any roughly darkish. It’s that you just discover new methods to expertise the darkness, and new folks round you to assist convey again the sunshine. It nearly makes the darkness lovely once more!”
Hope helps, too, and the prospect of a future that may be something Paleface select to make it.
Throughout songwriting and within the studio, Paleface have all the time insisted that no concepts are off the desk. It’s an strategy that’s given rise to songs like Cursed spotlight Love Burns, which veers from Slipknot-style nu-metal to a Yannick-driven energy metallic outro that feels totally sudden. For Zelli, it’s been pivotal to find that he can really sing, as on the beautiful River Of Sorrows, and validating to see folks reply, with that twisted ballad has turning into a shock fan favorite.
“I’ve all the time wished to be a extremely good singer,” Zelli says. “Acoustic singers have all the time impressed me greater than metallic vocalists. And it felt so good that once we put out that music, that individuals beloved it. It’s wild that our two or three most streamed tracks embrace our loudest, heaviest music and our softest, quietest. That seems like proof we will do every thing in between these factors and possibly even issues past them. Individuals like my singing. They help it. And so they love our heavy stuff, too. Realising that felt definitive for me, like one of the vital lovely moments of my life.”
Not that different folks’s reactions weigh too closely on Paleface Swiss. Extra vital will all the time be the necessity to keep true to their imaginative and prescient and to pursue their very own happiness. Zelli is keen to take this band so far as it’ll go, however as he takes his go away, it’s clear that may must be on their phrases.
“I strive to not learn the feedback and to avoid the web usually,” he waves off. “However after I do take a look, it’s mind-blowing that individuals like what we’re doing, that they settle for it, that they genuinely need extra. And our final aim is to be as numerous and as profitable as it’s attainable for us to be. However solely so long as we will benefit from the journey with our family and friends nonetheless round us. In fact we wish to attain the highest of the world, however provided that we will do it with a smile!”
Cursed: The Full Version is out now. They return for a full UK tour in January 2026.
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