CEBU CITY, Philippines— Flashing lights, vitality to the roof and audio system blasting.
That is the standard night time scene for one in all Cebu’s greatest recognized steel band vocalist, Carlo Solidum.
However earlier than he will get is rock mode on, Solidum works within the morning by promoting luxurious vehicles.
Carlo Solidum exterior his rock and roll way of life.
With light smiles and assurances to clients to make a sale, he morphs right into a steel rock vocalist at night time.
He’s been residing with this rock n’ roll way of life for 17 years.
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Rocking one scene together with his band, Tremors, one head bang at a time.
Solidum began taking part in in a band again in highschool. For him, it was only for enjoyable and for the love of music, however via time, music has been his outlet to launch stress and to feed his soul with ardour via music.
Why demise steel or deathcore style?
For Solidum, it has to do one thing with the depth of the music, that made him fall in love with this style.
“The complicated guitar riffs, quick drumming, and guttural vocals of steel music is usually a technique to launch pent-up feelings or anger in a wholesome means, eye opener for the present occasions. The extreme and highly effective music can present a cathartic expertise for listeners,” he mentioned.
This sort of music style within the Philippines is often within the underground scene. However when it steps on the mainstream levels, you’ll be stunned at what number of would discover solace in loud music, screams, and head bangs.
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Describe the demise steel music scene in Cebu:
For somebody like Solidum, who has been within the scene for greater than a decade, it’s protected to say that this style has been lively in Cebu.
A spot that breeds proficient artists from singing to dancing to creatives, there’s no shock that this style can be thriving within the music scene in Cebu.
“Loss of life steel/Deathcore music scene in Cebu, the steel music scene in Cebu, was comparatively lively and vibrant. Cebu has a robust underground music scene with varied genres being represented, together with steel. There have been additionally native bands and musicians in Cebu who had been actively concerned in taking part in and selling completely different genres,” mentioned Solidum.
Carlo Solidum
With this, Solidum is about to dwell each band vocalist’s dream to be performing but alone touring overseas.
This coming September, Solidum will likely be touring Japan with one of many Philippines’ most talked about demise steel bands, “August Mayhem. “
This chance got here when his band the Tremors, crossed paths with the August Mayhem throughout their Cebu tour.
They had been one of many opening acts.
Solidum instructed CDN Digital that this chance was a giant one and that he was very excited as to the place music had gotten him and was taking him.
“[A] lil bit nervous on the similar time excited since this will likely be an enormous step up recreation for me taking part in exterior the nation,” he mentioned.
With this success in his musical profession, Solidum thanks the bands he has performed with earlier than like The Perpetual Worry, Disetriment, Barang, Tremors and his bandmates from Falsegraveyard, Terror and Hubris.
The band Tremors.
Solidum and his band Tremors are additionally making a reputation of their very own in taking part in out of city like their gigs in August 16 and 17 in Bacolod and Iloilo.
