Pandemic Dispatches with Serene Dark

As I do on a mostly daily basis, it's time to check in with a death metal band hailing from Canada's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario.

Let's find out how Serene Dark is weathering the storm of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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1. How are things going where you are? The laws and such.

This were we live in Canada are slowly starting to get back to normal. The last 3 months have been kind of crazy, a lot of us were out of work.

Our drummer is an essential worker so he has been very burnt out.


2. How long have you been sheltering in place at this time?

We are coming up on exactly 3 months now, a lot of time to work on new music and catch up on some tv shows and movies etc.

3. What has been cancelled on you that you were looking forward to?

Pretty much every show and tour being cancelled for the foreseeable future sucks big time. We were planning a tour of our own to promote the release of the new album and that all fell apart pretty early on.

4. How have you been passing the time indoors?

Writing new music, reading, playing video games, watching TV. We are lucky we live in a world with internet we can still stay somewhat connected.

5. Loads of artists have been talking about how they're being creative. When the lockdown is over are ya gonna be ready to hit up the studio?

We actually finished our new album during this quarantine which was not an easy task but we got it done. We have been writing a lot so who knows, maybe there will be a quarantine EP that comes out of all this.

6. What crazy projects have you been considering since you've been in quarantine?

Nothing too crazy, started writing some scoring orchestral pieces that’s about it.