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BURY TOMORROW
Dani’s bandmates now have
a greater understanding of
what he’s been through
I don’t know. I could not have carried but there’s a concern that ‘It’s OK not never spoken about in their entire lives.
on with the feelings and emotions to be OK’ is the new ‘Thoughts and It was powerful and emotive.”
I was going through for a long time.” prayers’ – a hollow gesture that barely
At his lowest ebb, Dani turned engages with, never mind solves, the lthough he’s just written his most
things around. He was eventually problem. “I’m sick and tired of seeing difficult album to date, the Dani
diagnosed with chronic depression tweets saying we should talk about we meet today is clearly in a good
and generalised anxiety disorder. mental health and then people close place. Recently promoted in his day
In 2017, he began taking medication off the doors the minute they say it,” job as an NHS Service Improvement
and practising wellness techniques says Dani. “A lot of celebrities out Manager at Southampton’s University
such as meditation, which have had there are capitalising. Promoting Hospital, he looks healthy, happy and
a transformative effect. “Getting a positive message is always great. positive about the future. Then again,
well” he says, was what triggered But by sending a tweet, I felt like I was while Cannibal sounds and feels like an
him to put pen to paper for Cannibal, getting to the point of negligence.” album about suffering, really it’s about
and he hopes his honesty on tracks Dani wanted to go further. As well strength, about taking control. Produced
such as The Grey (VIXI) and Better as penning the tracks on Cannibal, by Sikth guitarist and Black Flame
Below will encourage a conversation during Bury Tomorrow’s 2019 tour, producer Dan Weller (Enter Shikari,
and tear down the stigma around Young Guns), and mixed/mastered by
mental health. “I HID MY DARKEST Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood and Ermin
“[The Grey] is a sad song,” he says Hamidovic, the dream team behind
and being on the precipice of an abyss, MOMENTS” Architects’ Holy Hell, despite its dark
wryly. “It’s the feeling of hopelessness
subject matter, it’s a great metalcore
feeling like you could fall off. There’s DANI WINTER-BATES record and Bury Tomorrow’s most
something so fragile and honest anthemic, accomplished album yet.
about that song that’s different to Dani used his platform on social “We want to get bigger; we want to
the rest of the album. We played it on media to arrange safe space sessions be headlining festivals!” enthuses
[our 2019] tour, two days before we – seven workshops offering people free Dani when we suggest that Brixton
released it, and it was savage. I’ve never advice on mindfulness and meditation and beyond, the path taken recently
connected with a crowd like it in my with clinical practitioners present. by Architects and Parkway Drive, must
life. People sung it, cried it, shouted it.” “Someone came out as gay for the be next on the agenda. “I want to be
Over the last few years, there’s no first time,” he says. “Someone came the first person to play Wembley and
doubt that mental health has featured out as gender fluid. Two people talked go and meet our fans after we play and
increasingly in the social conversation, about cases of abuse that they had stand at the merch for three hours.”
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