Age and maturity are a part of that, however not within the descent into miserabilism that you just may anticipate.
“If you’re younger and stuffed 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 stunning. It’s not that the darkish days get any kind of darkish. It’s that you just discover new methods to expertise the darkness, and new individuals round you to assist deliver again the sunshine. It virtually makes the darkness stunning 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 at all times 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 steel outro that feels completely surprising. For Zelli, it’s been pivotal to find that he can really sing, as on the attractive River Of Sorrows, and validating to see individuals reply, with that twisted ballad has turning into a shock fan favorite.
“I’ve at all times needed to be a extremely good singer,” Zelli says. “Acoustic singers have at all times impressed me greater than steel vocalists. And it felt so good that after we put out that tune, that individuals cherished it. It’s wild that our two or three most streamed tracks embody our loudest, heaviest tune and our softest, quietest. That appears like proof we are able to do the whole lot in between these factors and possibly even issues past them. Individuals like my singing. They assist it. They usually love our heavy stuff, too. Realising that felt definitive for me, like probably the most stunning moments of my life.”
Not that different individuals’s reactions weigh too closely on Paleface Swiss. Extra essential will at all times 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 should go, however as he takes his depart, it’s clear that can must be on their phrases.
“I strive to not learn the feedback and to avoid the web usually,” he waves off. “However once 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 objective is to be as various and as profitable as it’s potential for us to be. However solely so long as we are able to benefit from the journey with our family and friends nonetheless round us. After all we wish to attain the highest of the world, however provided that we are able to 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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