Architects? Headlined Alexandra Palace. Bring Me The Horizon? Gatecrashed the charts on both sides of the pond. While She Sleeps? Took matters into their own hands and independently redefined the word ‘metalcore’. For the first time in over a decade since the glory days of the mid-noughties British invasion led by Bullet For My Valentine, British heavy metal is in the midst of a renaissance period. Led by the aforementioned flagbearers Architects, Bring Me The Horizon and While She Sleeps, and redefined by the likes of Venom Prison, Employed To Serve, and Loathe, heavy metal is breaking out of Brixton Academy and into arenas and mainstream charts.
Between it all there’s been one band who’ve held the scene through thick and thin for the last twelve years, having quietly risen through the ranks by paying their dues and earning their reputation as the fan-favourite underdogs. That band is Bury Tomorrow, and as they begin the touring cycle for their fifth album ‘Black Flame’, we speak with frontman Dani Winter-Bates, who’s assessing his band’s position in this new world order.
“Look at bands like Architects, While She Sleeps, Bring Me The Horizon; they’re doing amazing things in the metal world, and it’s got us talking about how we want a top twenty album in the charts, and how we’re headlining the Forum [in London], and we’re going to sell it out. That’s madness, and when you’ve got people like Architects who went and sold out Ally Pally – it’s not a dream anymore, it’s an absolute metal revolution.”
