Noyan and Dez --- Separated at birth?!

It’s always a treat to hear a promising young band release their debut album with such hype and acclaim and completely follow through, starting their careers with an enthusiastic sprint out of the gate. The Safety Fire‘s debut album Grind The Ocean is already one of the best releases we’ve heard this year, and if they’re this strong as it is now, then these British prog/tech metallers have the potential to be giants in the genre in a few years time. While out on their first ever American tour alongside Protest the Hero, Periphery, Jeff Loomis, and Today I Caught The Plague, Noyan caught up with The Safety Fire in their Baltimore stop to talk to guitarist Derya “Dez” Nagle about the tour, their humble origins, and their debut album Grind The Ocean, out now on InsideOut Music.

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So, your new album is out. How’s the reaction from the fans so far? How’s the tour?

It’s been amazing so far. Being the first time we came out to USA, we didn’t know what to expect; so to come out to shows and see people knowing the songs is a massive thing for us. We had no idea that there’d be such a positive reaction. Also, people who didn’t know us turned around and getting into the music and having comments like, “Wow, I never heard you before but now I’m buying the album,” from seeing us live is amazing. It’s been great so far.

So, you guys dropped onto the international scene out of nowhere, so what’s your story? You guys are kind of an enigma.

The band started literally when we all got our instruments at 15, and it’s been the same lineup since then. We progressed in an oldschool fashion like bands like Deftones and Alice in Chains kind of thing where high school friends become bands. That’s what we are, instead of finding other musicians with the same color that then make a band, we developed altogether. It was a long process. The band as The Safety Fire kind of started maybe in like 2006 or 2007 when we started to write music kind of in the style of what we write now.

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