I look to Corey Taylor and Jacoby Shaddix, highly skilled frontmen who have played in front of thousands of people. “For me, as a frontman, my influence comes from who I grew up listening to. I manage to make it work and, yes, we are making good money from the band now, but in the beginning it softened the blow of being able to go on tour and do our thing.” I work for the NHS and have done since I was in this band. So many bands are hung up on ‘We’re pro now so we all have to quit our jobs’, and that’s not the case. “Bands are so caught up with the perception of being a ‘professional band’. (Image credit: Marie Korner/Metal Hammer) I don’t think they were a thing when we first started. We had that feeling of organically rising rather than being ‘internet sensations’.

We started by playing in front of five people, then as we came back down the country, we’d play a show in the same city in front of 20 people. “When we first started we didn’t have friends in bands or bands that wanted to take us out, so we contacted promoters ourselves and booked ourselves a five-week tour in the UK because we knew that’s how we would get a fanbase. Every Slipknot album ranked from worst to best (opens in new tab)īury Tomorrow have always had an old school ethic.Alive Or Just Breathing: how Killswitch Engage saved metal from itself (opens in new tab).Bury Tomorrow's favourite metalcore riffs (opens in new tab).Dani Winter-Bates: how Bury Tomorrow saved my life (opens in new tab).But when you’re taking about what does being bipolar, having any kind of personality disorder, schizophrenia or psychosis feel like, people still shy away from those subjects. Certain subjects are easier to talk about now but certain subjects aren’t brought up. How is that? Why is that? Is it because men don’t talk about it? Let’s look into that. We need to be looking at statistical analysis. It’s not about the should, it’s about the let’s do it now. “It’s easy to send out a tweet saying we should talk about mental health but let’s do it right now, let’s have that conversation.

Anxiety by Danny Winter