Gorebringer is an oldschool melodic death metal band formed in London UK. The bandwas formed in 2017 by the current members;Kaz “Stench”B (guitars/bass) and Serpent(Vocals).
1-First of all, thank you for taking part in this interview and congratulation for your new album Condemned to Suffer, I just wanted to ask a bit about the origins of the band., since 2017. How was the songwriting process divided across the course of all these years, was it spread out or product of a very short time frame when time allowed it?
Hello, thank you very much for the interview. We are excited that our new album will be released on October 18th. Composing is actually developing quickly. I can say that the first album composing and recording process was very short. The compositions for the second album were started right after the first album was released and were completed in about 1.5 years. The third album took longer, this album is longer and more technical, and at the same time dark and moody, so it didn't take long to write :)
2- What do you think of the worldwide metal and extreme scene
today?
I think there are great
new bands coming out every day and they are all very good. I think metal music
is on the rise, solid albums are coming out every week, and the old bands are
continuing and putting out great albums.
3-what can you tell us about the official video Ant, is it a preview promoting of your recent album Terrified Beyond Measure?
no, Ants is from my 3rd
album "Condemned to Suffer".
4-Whats your mainly inspiration to compose and How do you write your music? Is there a set guideline or do you write what you feel as you go along?
In the composition
process, what actually affects us are the conditions we are in. If we give an
example from the last album, it was an accumulation of what we have experienced
in the last 5 years. We reflected everything we felt, such as hatred, sadness,
anger, etc., into our music. We make melodic death metal, but in the last
album, we were going through such shitty times that we added black metal
elements to our music in order to make darker compositions.
5-How is the metal scene and community in London and in the UK?
It's absolutely amazing.
Even though we haven't been able to attend many shows lately, we know they are
great bands.
6-what can you tell us about your previous album a Craving ForFlesh and Terrified
Beyond Measure?
Craving For Flesh is our first album, the general concept is more of a horror comedy type slasher event :) less technical but melodic and old school death metal, there are grindcore parts here and there. Terrified Beyond Measure is a more melodic album, we composed and recorded under difficult conditions during the pandemic.
7-Recently you released a single Ants
in 2024 from your new album Condemned to
Suffer via Great Dane Records so can you tell us about the inspiration
behind the album concept and influences?
Condemned to Suffer is
the darkest album we've made. There are personal songs and songs that tell
horror stories. Ants is one of them. We didn't use any concepts in the album in
general.
Comdemned to Suffer was
recorded in Croydon UK and mixed by London-based Tide Music Studios. This is
our 3rd album, the most personal so far, as no guest musicians participated
during recording and lyrics are more mature and complex, mostly reflecting
different struggles that we’ve overcomed in the past 5 years as a band. In the
melodic death metal genre, we like to add black metal elements to the mix as
well to make the music sound a bit darker and intense. We’ve been influenced
mostly by death metal pioneers from 90’s but there are also modern elements in
our music
8- Are you satisfy with your label and witch label fit to your music?
At the moment we are
delighted to be working with Great Dane Records.
9-What can you tell us about your line up, and will you introduce other
members?
We formed the band as
Kaz “Stench”B(guitars/bass) and Serpent(Vocals)
we are currently 2
people, we worked with other musicians on our first 2 albums. (Krzysztof
Klingbein etc.) But there are no guest musicians on the last album. We are now
2 people and it is going very well like this.
10- your style is melodic
death but you have influences and themes that belong to brutal death because
melodic is a little softer and heavier compared to what you play and the design
of your album covers it’s contained some gore, slaughter and maggots how do you
explain that?
We were originally
founded as a grindcore band and recorded 2 songs. Later on, we started to make
more melodic compositions, but fast and hard compositions emerged. Guitar solos
are present in our songs, but we also add brutal metal to the songs.Since we
love brutal death metal, we were naturally influenced by this. I guess we can
call this genre melodic death metal on steroids :)
11-Any fav bands to get on stage with? Are there any upcoming tour,
videos, or other projects? What are the
immediate plans for the band after having released Condemned to Suffer?
We would definitely like
to play with At the Gates and Carcass.
After our 3rd album
comes out, we will be promoting it. We plan to play shows if we complete our
lineup to play live. We have plans for another music video, but not yet.
12- What is the biggest
change compared to the debut?
First of all, I can say
that our songs have become more technical and dark. There is a lot of black
metal influence in our songs right now. We have evolved into a more pessimistic
and melodic style and the lyrics do not contain as much gore as before.
13-To conclude, if you have any closing thoughts you want to say about the record the next of Gorebringer, band or melodic death metal at large
Thank you very much for
the interview. Our new album will be released on October 18th, we worked very
hard for this album, the most personal so far, I hope you like it. Hails to all!!
Gorebringer
