Dance Gavin Dance: "The only thing that we have to concentrate on is keeping it fresh"
Since day dot, Dance Gavin Dance have been a rapturous amalgamation of sounds rooted deep into every facet of rock, from hardcore, to melodic metal and...
Since day dot, Dance Gavin Dance have been a rapturous amalgamation of sounds rooted deep into every facet of rock, from hardcore, to melodic metal and even a bit of funk. It’s all just being themselves; a statement that’s probably been written and read about just about every band, but Dance Gavin Dance are those words through and through.
They’ve curated their own festival, Swanfest, racked up millions of views and streams, consistently sell out merch and are one of the most forward-thinking, fun and exasperating bands currently active. But given they’ve had more members than hot dinners, getting to album nine, ‘Afterburner’, was indeed no small feat.
“When I joined, I think it was 2012? I honestly didn’t look past a couple of years,” ‘clean’ vocalist Tilian Pearson admits. “I was like, ‘Yeah, we’ll do this, we’ll see what happens, maybe it’ll work out, maybe it won’t’.”
Fortunately, it did start to work. Sure, it took some stalling moments but the jumpstart of ‘Instant Gratification’ in 2015, gave the most recent - and consistent - iteration of Dance Gavin Dance their first taste of success in their homeland of the US.





