As heard on their new album Never Alone, Stitched Up Heart’s sound is akin to the brutal punch of Pantera married to the epicness and romanticism of Evanescence.
The mixture makes sense given that offstage singer Mixi Demner is charming and thoughtful, while onstage she exerts an impassioned, headbanging presence.
“When we’re out there on stage, it’s like this completely different animal comes out of me,” she declares. “I’ll turn into a lion. I don’t even realize how hard I’m going. I think I hurt my knee yesterday because I was stomping the ground so hard on the stage when I was headbanging and I almost broke my mic stand in half on my leg.” Kind of like that aching euphoria after “doing a marathon when at the end you’re all wounded and sore. Headaches from bangovers.”
After winning the Redemption Song pop music competition show on Fuse back in 2008, Mixi won a solo contract with Geffen Records. Then after her debut single received a lukewarm response she was dropped. But Mixi was more rock than pop and missed playing in a band, so she formed Stitched Up Heart in 2010. The singer describes their music as “heart rock;” she’s a hopeless romantic at heart. “I still have that Disney Princess mentality where you want to fall in love, meet your Prince Charming, and have the happy family and home and cook really great dinners,” she reveals. “That classic love feeling, I have that deep inside of me. I think that if you truly believe in love you’ll find it.”
This story is from the August 2016 edition of Inked.
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