Hollywood celebrity Nicolas Cage has heaped reward on his near-namesake band Nicolas Cage Fighter.
In a current interview with The Guardian, the star of Face/Off, Mandy and Con Air revealed that he wasn’t simply conscious of the Australian hardcore band, however was a fan, even quoting their lyrics.
“I’m acquainted with a tough rock band [sic] out of Australia referred to as Nicolas Cage Fighter, and I feel they’re terrific,” stated Cage, whose newest film is The Surfer. “Their songs are empowering. The lyrics are all about taking possession of your errors, by no means being a sufferer, determining how one can repair your issues. ‘Re-evaluate your life/Give attention to your self/Look me within the eyes once more/Inform me that none of that is your fault.’ They’re not afraid to put in writing songs which can be about the place you must come clean with your errors.”
Cage’s love of metallic and hardcore ought to come as no shock. In addition to being a pal of Rob Zombie and Kirk Hammett, his son Weston was previously a member of Eyes Of Noctum and Arsh Anubis.
“Weston obtained me into the black metallic music that’s so standard in Norway,” Cage instructed Steel Hammer in 2018, across the time of the discharge of his gonzo, metal-adjacent arthouse horror film Mandy. “Black metallic is one thing that will get a reasonably dangerous rap, due to the church burnings [in the early 90s] and so forth, however the music itself got here from classical music! Weston was listening to bands like Dimmu Borgir and I believed the singers have been excellent, and the music was classically influenced – I feel that’s the basis of metallic, which is attention-grabbing sufficient in itself because it springs from Bach, Wagner and Beethoven. You’ll be able to’t say that about so many types of music, as a lot of it got here from gospel and African music. I feel there’s one thing to be stated for that.”
Nicolas Cage Fighter’s final album, The Bones That Grew From Ache, was launched in 2022. “Unloading a devastating arsenal of groove-laden riffs, the four-piece fastidiously fuse one of the best bits of latest dying metallic with the white-knuckle conviction of traditional 90s hardcore,” wrote Steel Hammer in our 7/10 overview.
The band are attributable to launch a brand new album in 2025.
