Introduce yourself briefly, what kind of music do you make and what gives you inspiration?

Dragged Into Sunlight is an entity which came to being over a decade ago. The informal objective had been to challenge the existing boundaries of extreme music without compromise. Dragged Into Sunlight has never had a ‘kind of music’. It is paramount that inspiration remains undefined. It is impossible to isolate the component parts. Inspiration is a current which guides direction. It is both fluid and meandering. The focus is a time and place where music was not as predictable or dispensable. Like cattle force-fed steroids to attain a more appeasing cut, contemporary extreme music is juiced up with over-production. Where the expectation that artists will become profitable quickly is not met, labels adjust their focus and whatever is next takes over. The life cycle of artists nowadays is seemingly a lot shorter, and output spanning even a decade is quite uncommon. Dragged Into Sunlight is the opposite.

If Dragged Into Sunlight was an animal, what would it be and why?

A pit bull. We are unwelcome, unpredictable and uncontrollable. Tearing things we dislike to pieces comes with the territory.    

How did the band originally come together?

Those involved possess a mixed skillset and a variety of expertise. There is a common ground in that we are each focussed on our individual domains, whilst collectively benefiting from a deeper insight into extreme music and art. Dragged Into Sunlight was a necessity for those involved and we are bound by a fixation with the darkest that humanity has to offer.   

The band is from the UK. How have the surroundings shaped the sound of the band? 

Inevitably, our origin has shaped the sound that we create however it is quite impossible to define. We are not all from the UK. We listen to a lot of Black Sabbath though, so there is that.    

What drives you to make the art that you do? 

The need to create and exorcise. Whilst there is never a timeline to create for Dragged Into Sunlight, typically it is a time, a place and a killer instinct that drives our creativity.

How do you balance between the recording process and live performances? Does either play a bigger part for the band?

The prime objective is to create music that we like. Dragged Into Sunlight has not appeared live for some time yet we have continued to write. Live performance is ritualistic and something that tends to follow the recording process. Some recordings have only been performed live a handful of times and others not at all. Make of that what you will.