Page 74 - Metal Hammer Issue 334 - UK (May 2020)

BURY TOMORROW

While Cannibal is certainly set to boot
the band up to the next level, there’s
a wider trend within metalcore of
bands evolving into something bigger
once they reach a certain point – take
Parkway’s swerve into fire-breathing
stadium metal and the technical
undercurrents that littered Architects’
later work. Do Bury Tomorrow think
they can reach the same heights
sticking rigidly to the same metalcore
sound they’ve had since day one?
“At 14 years, six albums in, it’d be a bit
rich now for us to say, ‘You know what?
We’re going to revolutionise ourselves

“CELEBRITIES ARE

CAPITALISING ON

MENTAL HEALTH”

DANI WINTER-BATES

,
and change’” says Dani firmly. “We got
into this because we were all unified
fans of this kind of music. We loved
Killswitch, As I Lay Dying, Darkest
Hour, At The Gates, Unearth. They were
our bands. Now we’ve got bands coming
up, emulating our sound, why would we
turn our back on it? I think we’ll push
ourselves to be better musicians, but
I don’t think we’ll abandon our style,
because we have thousands of fans
around the world who love our music
for what it is. I’m not afraid of changing
music but it’s not the right place for it.”
There are few bands in our world who
have played the long game with as
much drive, grit and determination as
Bury Tomorrow. And with Cannibal in
the bag, and big dreams in their mind’s
eye, it feels as though the graft is about
to pay off. This summer, the band are
set to play the main stage at Bloodstock
Festival, a vastly different audience to
what they’re used to. How do they think
they’re going to go down in front of all
the corpsepainted Behemoth fans?
“Yeah, we’re a great Download, Slam
Dunk, Reading and Leeds band,” says
Dani, smiling. “But I’m not afraid of
anything in this world – only myself
and my brain. Behemoth are one of the
heaviest bands out there, but it doesn’t
mean when you hear us crush into
a breakdown, or play [Cannibal opener]
Choke live, you’re going to think we’re
not a heavy metal band. It’s putting us
in front of people who arguably would
never have seen our band before, and
now we have an opportunity to pack
them into Wembley when we end up
playing there!”

CANNIBAL IS OUT ON APRIL 3
VIA MUSIC FOR NATIONS/
SONY MUSIC

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