Isserley

Isserley: It was just a matter of being able to. I've always wanted to make this kinda music but I'd never been able to until now. It doesn't mean the end of all the other stuff; I'm working on something more harsh and electronic on the side right now but being able to explore this whole other side of myself musically has been so cool for me. It's really woken me back up creatively.
Isserley: I think the worst thing I've heard is that the genre wasn't something they could get behind, which is what I expected. I kinda had it in my head nobody would care for this album at all; it's so different and I've been doing electronic and noise for so long that I wasn't expecting many people to get into it but they have! It's been really scary. It's like starting over again and needing to find people to listen all over again but I'm really grateful for the people who support what I do. It can be something that goes above genre if you just put enough of yourself into something.
Isserley: "Insides" is the first album where I've really started to let my guard down. I do hide behind a lot of sarcasm and irony. I'm so overly cynical it can be hard to get anything genuine out of me. There's been something changing inside me lately that makes me want to be true to myself, even in ways that are devastating or harmful. I want to be as me as I can, and "Insides" was the beginning of me going all the way with that musically. That's the direction I wanna take from now on, complete honesty, to find myself through my music.
Isserley: Yeah! Working with Ripley is great, we're very close friends, so there's a really laid back nature to making it all. As for the process for "Insides", it just depends on the song. Sometimes I'd write the music myself, other times he'd come up with something and we'd work on that. We both put a lot into it and we're already working on a follow-up to "Insides".
Isserley: It's tough to answer that sometimes. The album I'm working on right now is easily the most personal thing I've ever done so I wanna say that, but I had so much release working on "My Exterminatus" as well which was just a lot of harsh noise and heavy industrial. "Insides" has a really special place in my heart too and is probably the number one out of everything I've released so far, it's crazy that it even exists.
Isserley: Yeah, I think I had a total of eleven releases last year just on Bandcamp alone. This year's been a lot slower though in that way, I've been working mostly on doing the music for video games. There's a game coming out soon called "Now You See" which I did all of the music for and It's shaping up to be really awesome. I've got two new albums I'm working on as well. One is a full doom-metal album that I'm working on with Ripley and the other is a really harsh, manic industrial/electronic thing, It's hard to categorize but hopefully both will be out soon!

What are you currently listening to? Any new musicians you think fans or people in general should put on their radar?

Isserley: It's kinda silly but I've actually been listening to a lot of KK Slider, the cute dog from Animal Crossing with the guitar. He's got hours of music out there on the net, and It's unironically pretty great. SKYND is a new band that I'm really loving, It's a neat combo of Industrial, rock and some pop production. $waggot, Black Dresses and Delcada are constantly being played at Isserley HQ too, I love stuff that combines the best parts of pop with all the worst parts of being alive.
Isserley: It's always a pleasure, thank you so much for having me!