![]() TIM: Yeah, having known the man, The Human Connection hits me on another level. ![]() An interesting story – my dad was actually one of Tim’s teachers in High School at South Freo. The lyrics are a positive spin on the situation.Īnd celebrating the legacy of your father?ĭAVE: For sure. ![]() You know that the offer is just aesthetics.ĭAVE: Yeah, but Beautiful Abyss is the flip side. That song is about when something terrible happens to you, and people come out of the woodwork saying “let me know if I can do anything” – but when you do call on someone who has made that offer, there’s often silence. At the time, I said that I didn’t want to write any more songs about Dad, but they just kept flowing.ĭAVE: Totally, even the lyrical inspiration for Silence. Now that I’m a dad myself, One Door hits so much harder.ĭAVE: Yeah, One Door was one of the first songs on The Human Connection that I put down after my dad had passed, and Beautiful Abyss was the very last song. The Human Connection is about the relationship I shared with Dad, and 2020’s Legacies feels like The Human Connection Part II because it contains a song or two about the relationship I have with my son, so it’s kind of come full circle again. 99% of the album lyrics are about Dad and growing up under his wing. He died at the beginning of 2010 in a diving accident, doing what he loved. My dad was a keen, keen diver – a marine archaeologist. So The Human Connection means more to you than the releases before it? With The Human Connection I had a fair bit to do with the music writing process, a lot more than with Ratio and Avalon. With 2006’s Ratio, half the songs were written for that EP at the time I joined the band, so I didn’t have a huge amount of involvement in the song writing except for the lyrics and most of the vocal melodies. There’s layers upon layers, especially from frontman Dave Anderton.ĭave, can you please talk about your involvement in the song writing process of The Human Connection?ĭAVE: It’s worthwhile going back before then. Then when it officially dropped, I was taken aback with the depth of the record. I was lucky enough to hear a little bit of The Human Connection in its formative state. While Chaos Divine were doing The Human Connection, guitarist and engineer Simon Mitchell was also recording the EP for one of my previous bands, Weapons. When you hear an album this good from your hometown, it makes you think, “Damn! This is what’s possible now!” The album was a raising of the bar of what is possible for a local band. From the outside looking in, 2011’s The Human Connection is one of those albums that comes around only once in a while, in the same vein as Themata by Karnivool. TIM: I commenced Chaos Divine drumming duties in 2017 after Ben Mazzarol left to pursue other interests. Tell us what The Human Connection means to you? Long-time fan ANDY “ANDO” JONES spoke to Chaos Divine’s Tim Stelter (drums), Simon Mitchell (guitar), Dave Anderton (vocals), Michael Kruit (bass) and Ryan Felton (guitar), to find out the story behind The Human Connection, and how it feels to be performing it live all these years later. Twelve years on from the release of The Human Connection, an album that is arguably the band’s most iconic, Chaos Divine are rebirthing this nine-track epic in its entirety along with a hand-picked selection of other tracks for a very special live performance at Badlands Bar on Saturday, February 25 with special guests Yomi Ship and Amberdown. In 2020, the band released their gargantuan fourth record Legacies LP, a visceral and emotional masterpiece capturing Chaos Divine at their absolute best. ![]() Its follow-up LP The Human Connection (2011) was the perfect bridge between sheer heaviness and the increasingly more progressive sound that would define 2015’s Colliding Skies LP. 2008’s Avalon LP took the heaviness of 2006’s Ratio EP to lofty new places. As one of the world’s finest progressive heavy acts, Perth’s Chaos Divine have secured their own legacy over the course of 17 years and four iconic releases that have built exponentially upon the one that came before it.
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