DBMK is an alternative duo/band from Florida. Their new single, "Haunted House" comes out this Friday, May 22nd!
For everyone who might not know about you guys, tell us about yourselves & how you got into music
Kyle: Heya we’re DBMK and we do music because it's the only thing we know how to do also if we didn’t we would probably die. Explode like a star or something annoying and dramatic like that.
What inspires you guys the most when it comes to songwriting?
Colton: When it comes to songwriting we’re inspired a lot by each other and how we communicate various human experience things to one another. Loneliness, chaos, and just our everyday lives.
What’s your favorite show you’ve played so far and why?
Colton: The first time we came to Boston. We were supporting an artist called Vesperteen and 200 kids crammed into a room that was very clean and orderly, speaking comparatively in regards to venues that is, so we sort of took it upon ourselves to rough up the evening. Kyle (our singer) climbed up the wooden slats on the wall and hung from the fathers some 15 feet in the air and proceeded to leap back onto the stage. We always try to play each show like our lives depend on it, but this one burned like no other. We mixed sweat and tears when we heard those 200 kids singing the choruses back to us that night. Also our van got a parking ticket before our set.
Your new song, “Haunted House” comes out on May 22nd. What was the inspiration for the song and what about it makes you most excited for its release?
Kyle: Haunted House hatched like a scene from a Tim Burton movie or something. That was the feeling and visual we kept repeating to each other the whole time. Nightmare Before Christmas gate-opening-title-sequence-thing kept replaying in our minds as we dreamt up a “safe house” for the renegades of the Kult. The type of place that has a secret knock.
What was the first song you ever wrote as DBMK? How has your creative process/music style changed since then?
Colton: The very first song we wrote as DBMK was a piece called Heartscam from our last record, Headlights for Eyes. Kyle and I had ideas here and there, but Heartscam was really the first piece of work we felt confident about. It was a feeling like, “Wow, I need to show someone this.”
Can you tell us about any projects/other things you guys are working on at the moment?
Kyle: We’re always writing music and video concepts. We’re still dreaming up something that might get wrapped up into a trilogy of records maybe- but nothing in stone yet, still looking for the right chisel I suppose. Like we said before, we would do this even if no one were looking, so it’s basically all we do. That being said, we’re working on getting tidier in the kitchen so there’s a sourdough starter we’re looking forward to.
Colton: With all that being said, I feel like it’s safe to say we are working on songs for our NEXT record. Crazy to say, since our current record, Jump in the Dark, isn’t even fully out yet. We are always making something.
Favorite thing about being in music?
Colton: Kyle told me a story a long time ago about how a motivational speaker came to his school and said something along the lines of, “If you have a plan-B then you are planning to fail. If failure isn’t an option, and the only option is to succeed, you will succeed.” So I guess my favorite part about being in music is that you never know what is around the corner.
If you could collab or tour with any artist, who would it be and why?
Colton: We get this question a lot, and we could go on for days about it. Just to name a few, Charli XCX, The 1975, Denzel Curry, Twenty One Pilots, Caroline Polachek…
Kyle: And Jack Antonoff, can’t forget him.
Anything else you want to say to your fans?
Kyle: Share DBMK with a friend today. We love you, fight on.
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