Imagine Dragons: The Making of Night Visions | movie | 2014 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

Follow one of the world's most exciting new alternative rock bands band during the process of writing and recording thei | dG1fdHVBMTJmQktvVWc

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00:00I'm waking up to ash and dust, I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust.

00:10That's impressive.

00:11You gonna pass out?

00:12It feels like you're in the right place, it just feels like you've got to kind of tighten

00:17up.

00:18We were really hesitant in the early years of the band to sign to a label.

00:21We knew we had developing to do on our own, we knew that we had more people that we could

00:26reach on our own.

00:27One day we got an email from Alex Da Kid.

00:32I think I get what you're going for, try holding on Broken a little bit longer.

00:37Alex Da Kid, he is a Grammy winning, unbelievable producer.

00:40The band knew his work with Eminem, Rihanna.

00:43He had a friend I guess who played him an Imagine Dragons EP in the car, and he loved

00:48the music.

00:49There's no more syllables than left to see, right?

00:50I've been lucky enough to be around some really iconic people, and I see some of the same

00:55things that I see in other people in Imagine Dragons.

00:58Cool.

00:59Yeah, it's still good.

01:01I got my manager to reach out to their manager, and we got them in the studio, and we just

01:06had instant chemistry.

01:08When Alex says cool, that means it's good, you know, keep working on it.

01:13When he says something's dope, he knows you're good.

01:16No, I like it, it's close to dope.

01:21Some people you go in with, you just have chemistry or you don't, it's very apparent.

01:26We just had instant chemistry, they wrote a song the first day they came in.

01:29That collaboration really was explosive in a lot of ways between the band's kind of huge

01:34anthemic indie rock thing, and Alex Da Kid kind of bringing this hip hop vibe.

01:39I really thought, wow, we're doing something pretty awesome here.

01:42He kind of just brought up that he was a fan of the band, he'd been listening to it, and

01:47what would we think about signing?

01:49He didn't want to change anything about the band, he just wanted to bring to the table

01:53his own experience and resources to be able to help us do it on a bigger level.

01:58Another high one on the second half.

02:02That just builds on it.

02:04If we can execute correctly as a label, and get people to be aware of Imagine Dragons,

02:09I think the potential is limitless, we can really go far with the band.

02:17I love the fact that they are so involved in the creative process.

02:21I might give them direction, or I might add some stuff to it.

02:24It's just, we get in the studio and we just kind of create, there's no real rules, which

02:27is great, because, you know, I really like the stuff that comes out of it.