RISING ALMA (Melodic Hard Rock – Germany 🇩🇪) – Interview with the band for KICKASS FOREVER provided by Angels PR Worldwide Music Promotion #risingalma #bandinterview #hardrock
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1. “Cracking the Moment” feels like your most ambitious and emotionally charged release to date. What inspired the overall theme of the album?
Cracking the Moment came from a place of wanting to be fully alive inside every high, low, and chaotic in-between. The album’s theme was inspired by that idea: breaking open the moment instead of letting it slip by. Whether we’re singing about history, love, fighting back, or the world’s noise, it all comes back to the people living through it. That’s where the emotional weight comes from.
2. Your music blends powerful riffs with melodic, expressive vocals. How do you balance heaviness and sensitivity when writing new material?
Balancing heaviness and sensitivity is something that happens naturally for us, it’s just who we are as people and songwriters. When we’re in our home studio, doing everything ourselves, we’re able to chase the exact feeling we want without anyone steering us off course. We know our sound better than anyone, so we trust our instincts. Sometimes a song needs a crushing riff, sometimes it needs space to breathe, and sometimes it needs both.
3. Each song on the album tells a different story. Which track was the most challenging to create, and why?
“Snakes” was definitely the most challenging track to get right. It originally had a long intro and a completely different vocal melody, but something about it just didn’t sit right with us. We kept feeling that the song wanted to hit harder and get to the point faster. So we stripped it back, reshaped the structure, and tightened the whole thing until it felt more direct and true to the meaning of the song.
4. How has your multicultural background as a band influenced the sound and lyrical direction of Rising Alma?
Our multicultural background shapes Rising Alma in everything we do. Máximo comes from Uruguay and Alīse from Latvia, so the band was literally born from two different worlds meeting in one sound. We both have classical roots – classical guitar on one side, choirs and layered harmonies on the other and those foundations naturally slip into how we write melodies, arrange vocals, and build dynamics.
Everyone in the band brings their own influences, but rock has always been the shared language. The mix of our cultures, experiences, and musical histories creates a sound that’s melodic and powerful, emotional yet grounded something familiar, but still its own thing.
5. The band formed in 2021 and has since shown rapid artistic growth. When you look back at “Ongoing Hope,” how do you think you’ve evolved since then?
“Ongoing Hope” feels like the point where everything really started for us. It taught us who we were as a band and what we wanted to say. Since then, we’ve grown massively, not only as songwriters, but on the technical side too, especially because we produce everything ourselves with Máximo leading the production.
That first album showed us our identity and gave us the confidence to dig much deeper on Cracking the Moment. We understand our creative process better, we take more risks, and we’re more precise with what we want our music to feel like. There’s always room to grow, but this new album shows how far we’ve come and how much further we’re ready to go.
6. “Awake” received strong praise from international publications. Did that recognition influence your mindset going into this new album?
The recognition for Awake honestly just made us grateful, knowing that people around the world took the time to listen and connect with what we created meant a lot. But it didn’t shape the direction of Cracking the Moment. If anything, it gave us the confidence to trust our instincts even more. You can hear that in the new album we experiment a lot, try new ideas, and follow whatever feels creatively right in the moment. We never wanted to recreate Awake; we wanted to grow from it and push ourselves into new territory. Awake was about finding who we are. Cracking the Moment has been the continuation of that journey.
7. What personal experiences or emotions fed into the lyrical themes of struggle, transformation, and self-discovery across the new record?
Every song on the album comes from a deeply personal place. A track like “Innocence,” for example, deals with fatherlessness and the pain and confusion that come with it, something many people experience but don’t always talk about. A lot of the record comes from our own struggles, changes, and moments of self-reflection.
8. Your music is often described as cinematic and emotionally intense. Do you consciously aim for that atmosphere, or does it emerge naturally during the writing process?
Life is intense and rock is just the best way we can express ourselves. We just write from what we’re feeling or experiencing at the time, and the emotions naturally shape the song. That’s what gives the music its intensity and cinematic quality , it’s a reflection of real moments and real feelings, which is what makes it connect with people.
9. How did the band’s creative process shift—if at all—while producing “Cracking the Moment”?
At its core, our creative process hasn’t changed. We come up with ideas, bring them together, and trust ourselves to see where they go. We focus on doing the best we can in the moment and embrace growth as part of the journey. Through it all, the same passion is there, the same humanity behind everything we create.
10. What message or feeling do you hope listeners will take away after experiencing the entire album from start to finish?
We hope listeners come away feeling like they’re not alone, no matter what they’re going through. We want the music to inspire, to offer something meaningful, and to give people the feeling or perspective they need in that moment.
11. With the new album out, what are your next goals as a band—artistically, live-performance-wise, or otherwise?
We’re already looking ahead and have some exciting things in the works. We’ve got shows lined up in Berlin and are exploring opportunities abroad. There’s a lot we want to share, so stay tuned, new music and experiences are coming.
Band Members:
- Alīse Elme: Vocals and Keyboards
- Máximo Marset: Guitars
- Alican Sahin: Bass
- Jonathan Olsson: Drums ALL of the bands’ links can be found here —> LINK TREE
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