Memoriam’s Frank Healy recommends some of his favourite biographies
MEMORIAM have released a brand new video!
With the old school death metallers riding high on their recently released sophomore effort, The Silent Vigil, the band are very much cementing their place in the UK’s extreme metal circuit. Now, barely a week after the record’s release, the band have released a brand new video! In the video, which is available to watch exclusively below, avid reader and band bassist Frank Healy recommends some of his favourite music biographies!
Watch Frank Healy recommend some of his favourite biographies exclusively below:
Continuing to talk about their latest album and growth as a band, vocalist Karl Willetts says to Distorted Sound, “it’s been a really exciting year for us in our evolution as a band; one thing that I think we’ve managed to achieve in this incredibly short space of time since we first got together is moving forward in an extremely fast pace. I think the first album in many respects was quite a strong debut for us, we were very aware of the expectations that were upon us as a band with our proud musical heritage. What people anticipated and what they got were maybe in many respects a different thing, so I think the first album was tied to those traditions and to some extent we were in the shadows of the past which were really at the forefront of what we did with the first album. What we’ve done in the past year is very much develop our own identity as a band – we’ve been together and playing live and working together in the studio to create the new album, and I think we’ve moved forward at a good pace. This second album that we’ve done is very much more our sound, we’ve found who we are as a band and we’ve developed our own sense of identity, and moved forward through the process of grief, which is what we’re exploring with MEMORIAM. The essence of MEMORIAM is the experience of sorrow and suffering and misery, the darkness that death gives you, and that was very prevalent in the first album. Those things were issues and topics that we explored, and I think in this second album we’ve moved beyond those initial phases of grief, and we’ve moved towards the second phase. There’s a lot more anger in the vocals, a lot more questioning, a bit more lashing out and hatred; the lyrical content of the album itself is very different from maybe anything I’ve produced previously, the songs on this new album are wholly based upon issues that are based in reality.”
The Silent Vigil is out now via Nuclear Blast Records.
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