CAMDEN CRUZ (SEVEN KINGDOMS): “The Band Can’t Survive If You Start With A Negative From The Recording Costs”

Seven Kingdoms on stage - 2024

Since their inception in 2007, Florida’s excellent power metal quartet Seven Kingdoms have been forging their own path through successful use of crowd funding, and building their own fan base. With the release of their new EP The Square, they’ve again shown that a band can be the masters of their own fate. Metal Express radio’s Bryce Van Patten sat down with guitarist Camden Cruz backstage and talked about the current tour with Striker and Lutharo, about the new EP, and a whole lot more!

Photos courtesy of Seven Kingdoms

The Band

  • Sabrina Valentine – Vocals
  • Camden Cruz – Guitars
  • Kevin Byrd – Guitars
  • Keith Byrd – Drums

Tour poster for Seven Kingdoms 2024

Author

  • Bryce Van Patten

    Bryce is an audio engineer and a graphic designer here at Metal Express Radio. From the day he purchased his first album (Machine Head by Deep Purple), he has had a passion for heavy music, which has influenced his whole life. Bryce is from the great Pacific Northwest in USA, and has played in metal bands like Babylon, Holy Terror, The Wild Dogs, Warhead and Egypt through the 80s. He had his first interview for the Portland, Oregon publication The Rock Rag with guitarist Paul Gilbert in his Racer X days. Then he was honored to get to have drinks, and talk for an hour with the legendary Dan McCafferty of Nazareth for his second interview. In 2013, he spent an amazing hour talking to Andi Deris of Helloween, which was the high point of his heavy metal journalism.   In the year 2001, he formed Man in Black Music Publishing. They released recordings by several local bands, and in the spirit of the old Metal Massacre compilations, he created a 2-album series called The Defenders of Metal. The albums featured classic styled Metal bands from all around the world, with bands from Australia to England, and from Argentina to Russia. Currently, he is the producer/creator/vocalist of the Metal band The Black Tuesdays.

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