![]() ![]() To uncover the reasons why Fame On Fire have dabbled so much in the world of pop covers requires a little digging into Bryan’s musical past. LEVELS is a 13-track album with all original material, so we wanted to use the LP to say a big ‘fuck you’ to those who believe we can’t be anything more than the covers we’ve released.” However, the first song on our record, Cover Band, is about all the loud people who say we’re nothing more than a cover band, when the reality is we’re so much more than that. “I’m well aware that without all the covers this album wouldn’t be doing shit and no-one would care. “We understand what we’ve done and the fact that doing covers has brought us this attention,” he admits. ![]() It’s an outlook the Fame On Fire frontman takes issue with, and something he addresses head-on with LEVELS’ opening track. Taking this path has yielded great results, but there are detractors who feel that Bryan and co. As well as releasing their spin on Lil Uzi Vert, the band – completed by guitarist Blake Saul, bassist Paul Prirou and drummer Alex Roman – have also covered the likes of Ed Sheeran, Juice WRLD, Halsey and The Weeknd, amassing tens of millions of streams and effectively becoming 2020’s answer to the infamous Punk Goes Pop series of cover albums. It just so happened that we were having fun with a bunch of live ammunition.”įame On Fire have built a solid foundation for their band by taking the covers route. ![]() It’s caused some controversy, but it was just us having fun with with our friends. They said yes, and offered to bring a load of guns! The result was us all drinking with these weapons pointed at the camera, having a fucking good time. “The guys in the video that went viral are all rapper friends of Lil Uzi Vert who were working at a studio I owned, and I asked them if they wanted to be in the video for our cover. “That whole experience was the craziest thing we’ve ever done,” frontman Bryan Kuznitz remembers. It’s been a long time in the making, but Fame On Fire have hardly been resting on their laurels, something to which their viral cover of rapper Lil Uzi Vert’s XO TOUR Llif3 attests. Only now, seven years on from forming, are the quartet releasing their debut album, LEVELS. It’s fair to say most brainstorming sessions for video shoots don’t start with questions about the use of live ammunition, but ever since forming in 2013 in Palm Beach, Florida, rock four-piece Fame On Fire have gone about band life a little differently to most of their peers. ![]()
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