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ole message of the album is to be a
person, to make societies better, in-
every individual has to be better to
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cause we see them every day that we don’t pay attention to them anymore. These are the
people that we never talk about in the media, so it’s a mistake that we do. In your whole life, I
think, there is, also, everyone saying to themselves, ‘I’ve made mistakes and I have to apolo-
gise to people, and I have to change things to be a better person’. Because the whole message
of the album is to be a better person, to make societies better, individuals… and every individ-
ual has to be better to make a better society. It starts with yourself. I’m not saying that as self-
improvement. It’s for others that you have to be better. Not for yourself. It’s really in the way of
‘Don’t forget others in society’.”
hile Max hopes to inspire others to think about things via his lyrics, he doesn’t think
WStorm Orchestra’s music will change the world. “It’s a part of changing the world, a
tiny part. But I think it’s funny to have a song that just speaks about partying and having fun,
but it’s cool to speak about important things too. I think it’s just saying what a lot of people are
thinking. And without anything behind our minds, so it’s just pure thoughts. That’s what art is:
pure thoughts. You can take them as you want. It’s really a different thing from politics. It’s two
different ways of delivering a message. When I say that, I don’t want to be elected; I want noth-
ing. I just want you to think, and that’s all. That is the way we do things. It’s funny, because in
our shows, when we speak between the songs, we want our shows to be… we want to deliver
a message into a party. We don’t really take a statement in the social media, we don’t speak
a lot of politics or global warming. We don’t really deliver a message outside of the songs, be-
cause why will people listen to me more than someone else? We only deliver a speech when
it’s really, really important. Like, months ago, when the extreme rioting in France was ‘this to
the power’, we put a message on our socials, but we really don’t do this a lot of the time.”
eing in a band has its ups and downs, especially in the early days, when you
Bare working on creating a fan base. When you’re not making a lot of money, you
can often doubt yourself, wondering if the career path that you’ve chosen is the right
one. Max wrote ‘Tear Myself Down’ on a day when he was not feeling the best.
“When you do music and when you’re noticed, there are days when you feel
really strong and you believe in yourself, and then there are other days when you
really have giant doubts about what you’re doing. This song, I wrote on a day I
was really down about this. ‘Am I doing this right? Is this what I want to do with
my life?’ because it’s a special life. It’s something really weird, because you’re
on stage and there are thousands of people who are cheering at you and,
other days, you are alone at your desk, writing things. So, it’s a life like a
rollercoaster. There were moments when I really had doubts about this. ‘Do
I want this life?’ and ‘I’ve got to find my something,’ and, I think, everyone
has something that makes you live, that makes you wake up in the morn-
ing and say, ‘I want to live this day’. I think that my something is playing
music, for sure, yeah, but, in the darkest days, that’s a question I ask
myself, yeah.”
espite the occasional doubts, Max has more passion for the
Dband now than he has ever had.
“Every achievement you get, a bigger stage, a bigger crowd,
always reminds you why you are doing this. So, when there are
always bigger things, it gives you more strength and you’re
more into it. So, yeah, I think I have more passion now than
when we started and when we did a concert in front of two
people,” he laughs. “It’s kind of amazing what we are living.
I say this to myself every day, ‘Wow’. I always say to myself,
the little Max, when he was 12, what would he think of see-
ing himself doing this? Like yesterday, we played at the
Olympia in Paris and this is something I’ve always
dreamed of and it was the second time we did this stage,
a legendary stage. Wow. Every day is incredible.”
With a song on the album called ‘Our Victory’, which
is about making a revolution, we end by asking what vic-
tory Storm Orchestra would like the most.
“A victory with the band we’d like is to have 1,000
people in a room, headlining,” Max replies, modestly.
“Yeah, headlining a 1,000-capacity room. That’s the
achievement we want and we are on it. It’s the victory
we want to have. And we have a promise between
us that we will tattoo the logo of the band when we
have it.”
We are sure that it won’t be long before that vic-
tory is achieved. And, with the talent that the band
has, we are sure they will soon be achieving ten
times that amount.
Visit www.stormorchestra.com for more info,
and check out ‘Get Better’, out now on Mascot
Records.
Words By Shari Black Velvet
Photos By Guillaume Tronel
STORM ORCHESTA