The Deliverance: The Gun Shy Interview
Posted by Chris Harris on August 11, 2010 in Gun Shy Interview
The Deliverance
The band have an album called Revelation ready for release, they’ve played with Soilwork, Swashbuckle, and Death Angel, and they’re managed by Obituary and Gorgoroth bassist Frank Watkins. So why aren’t they signed? Beats me. I’m not an A&R guy. But I have been something of a lady killer in my time, so I talk to Grant — who grew up on a steady diet of Pantera and little else — about chicks. So Grant, is it easier to get laid when you’re in a band?
“Yeah, always man,” Petty admits. “I’ve been playing since I was 13; that’s when it first hit me that this might work out. But yeah, of course. Out here in L.A.? It definitely does. yes.” While he didn’t get into specifics, he did admit that “we have groupies. There’s always a group that will follow us anywhere at anytime. Yeah. It’s definitely a high point.”
And that was the end of that. I could tell he wasn’t going to give me any good stories about twins, a trapeze, and a misguided Dirty Sanchez, so I moved on with the interview. The Deliverance formed not too long ago and was basically assembled around Petty and Mick Kenney with touring musicians.
According to Petty, the band’s debut album is 15 very different songs. Some are metal, others are ballads, with the rest being radio-friendly rockers. “Some are a little more mixed with — not really pop but it has a lot of electronic-type stuff to it on a few of the songs as well, but staying consistent…if you listened to every song, you would know its the same band,” he says.
Right now, The Deliverance is shopping the record around to various labels, “just seeing which ones are biting and at what; we’re pushing the metal songs to metal labels, and pushing the other stuff to the majors. We just wanna see what level it will get picked up at. It’s like a lottery ticket — if it hits, its going to be big. If it doesn’t, oh well.”
Lastly, I needed to know that the band didn’t name themselves after that redneck freak from that Burt Reynolds flick or the Opeth album that slays like Conan. “The meaning of the name is, instead of having all these different rules about metal, we decided it was like the deliverance of sound — meaning that if you need to scream in a song to make it sound cool, then scream. If it needs violin or you need to put some electronic beat here or there…basically, there are no rules to how we do songs.”
Deep, dude.
