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September 2019 upsetmagazine.com
ROAM PVRIS Sleeping With Sirens Knocked Loose
NEW YORK, NEW YORK!
CHASE
AT L A N T I C Hitting the Big Apple in search of the future.
SEPTEMBER 2019 Issue 47
HELLO. If you’re a regular reader of Upset - and why, I ask, would you not be? - you’ll know we’re fans of rock bands that try really hard to be more than just rock bands. Not that there’s anything ‘just’ about the louder arts, obviously, but Chase Atlantic have horizons that are both ambitious and farreaching. Their latest album, ‘Phases’, sees them explode into a universe that echoes some of the most invigorating, genre-fluid music on the planet. That’s why we were delighted to hop over to New York last month to catch them at a sellout headline show and find out exactly where they’re heading. It’s another rammed month elsewhere. We’re previewing Reading & Leeds 2019 with the returning PVRIS and some of our other favourite bands playing the August blow out. There’s Sleeping With Sirens. There’s Knocked Loose. There’s basically everything. Enjoy!
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4. READING + LEEDS 10. 2000TREES 12. BLACK FUTURES 14. CURSE THESE METAL HANDS 18. CULTDREAMS 20. NORTHLANE 22. OSO OSO 24. PULLED APART BY HORSES 26. GRAYSCALE 27. MILK TEETH ABOUT TO BREAK
30. CHASE ATLANTIC 38. ROAM 40. SLEEPING WITH SIRENS 46. FIELD MOUSE 48. KNOCKED LOOSE 52. THE MURDER CAPITAL 54. MALLORY KNOX REVIEWS
28. DUNE RATS
62. DZ DEATHRAYS
58. SLIPKNOT 59. EZRA FURMAN 61. PRESS CLUB TEENAGE KICKS
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Reading
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Setting themselves off in unstoppable motion, spacepunks Black Futures are going from strength to strength. p.12
Summer is nearly over, which means Reading & Leeds 2019 is here! With some of our fave bands set to descend for a bank holiday weekend of great music and ‘stuff’, over the next few pages we’ll get hyped with some of the very best of the bunch.
Words: Ali Shutler.
At the end of the cycle for ‘All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell’ PVRIS’ Lynn Gunn felt defeated. “I felt disappointed in myself and was excited just to have time off to re-evaluate things,” she admits. After the runaway success of their debut album ‘White Noise’, ‘All We Know Of Heaven…’ took all that promise and expanded on it. Flecked with colour and confidence, the record found new extremes for the band to explore and continued their march to the
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THIS MONTH IN ROCK
Conjurer and Pijn have come together to create Curse These Metal Hands - a positive force in metal. p.14
After a banner 2017, Oso Oso is back with a record perfect for lazy summer days. p. 22
top. From the outside, PVRIS wanted to take another crack at continued to drench themselves it.” Lynn might have ended the in success. touring cycle for ‘All We Know Behind the spotlight though, Of Heaven…’ down, but she “I had a lot of vocal issues the knew she wasn’t out. “I was very whole tour cycle for the last excited to have time off to start record. Having to deal with that working on new music.” while you’re touring is difficult. “I’ve taken zero breaks since I felt like I couldn’t fully deliver that cycle ended,” she grins. what I wanted to or perform how “Things have been very hectic, I wanted to. I’m incredibly hard very scattered and crazy, but on myself, so that doesn’t make it’s been good. We’ve been very any of those situations easier for productive.” So, business as me ever. I was pretty bummed usual then. to still not be in the place that I There’s been meeting with wanted to finish.” labels in London, New York and The LA, writing album, raw, sessions on vulnerable both sides of and dealing the US as they with explore new emotional collaborations turbulence and dealings in real-time, with real life, LYNN GUNN saw Lynn wherever share thoughts and fears she possible. Health issues have was still working through. “It been dealt with; their team helped to be sharing it,” she has recalibrated, and they’ve starts, “but at the same time, moved to a major label. “It was those vocal issues meant it was a whirlwind of a year off. But really hard to be present during at the same time, it was good. our performances. I couldn’t As busy and as hectic as it was, fully dive in with the crowd, and I feel like I was able to tap into you feel like you can’t have that some calmness. It felt good to equal exchange with everyone. recharge.” I got really in my head about it You can hear that in the first and found it hard to connect deep breathes of comeback for a while. I had to evaluate my single ‘Death of Me’. A song relationship with performing Lynn wrote when she was because it can be very stressful “interested in somebody that I and high pressured, and that felt could potentially hurt me just built up over time and took emotionally. I’ve been right its toll.” on that edge with somebody, This isn’t a story about giving and it feels like they could up, though. Sure, “a lot of things break my heart, or it could be just didn’t go as planned,” but the complete opposite and be the band were determined to great. And I want to take that get it right. “We felt like we risk. That’s how I step into most needed to take a step back, start things. Relationships, creative over and rebuild things. We endeavours or anything, I
“A LOT OF THINGS JUST DIDN’T GO AS PLANNED”
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While loads of genres are collaborating at every given opportunity, it seems to be taking rock and metal a little longer to embrace the concept. Conjurer and Pijn, however, have come together to create ‘Curse These Metal Hands’ - neither a band nor a singular album, it sees the pair team up for a record of epic proportions.
on deck. Words: Steven Loftin.
“We were like, are we Pijn and Conjurer, or are we Curse These Metal Hands? I think we’ve settled with ‘we are Pijn and Conjurer playing Curse These Metal Hands’ …whatever that means!” explains Conjurer’s guitarist and vocalist Dan Nightingale.
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Chase Atlantic are going places. And so are we. Heading over to New York City for a huge headline show in support of their brand new, future baiting album ‘Phases’, we discover a band revelling in their own creativity.
Words: Ali Shutler. Photos: Sarah Louise Bennett.
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How it feels to be lost...
Words: Beth Casteel. Photos: Sarah Louise Bennett.
It’s been a whirlwind few years for Sleeping With Sirens. After signing with major label Warner Bros. Records and releasing fifth studio album ‘Gossip’ under their newly-inked deal back in 2017, it looked like they were in an enviable position. However, not everything was as it seemed... The album run lasted a just over a year, a time in which they had to not only deal with the constant pressures of life on the road but some inner demons that could have
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CLEAREST
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Words: Steven Loftin. Photos: Gabe Becerra.
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Back in 2016, Knocked Loose came through like a runaway freight train with their debut album ‘Laugh Tracks’. Along with it occurred a thunderous earthquake of ambition and promise, the likes that metal/hardcore hadn’t heard for years. With such defying power, everything seemed within their white-knuckle grasp, but where would they go next? Well, deeper into the subconscious of singer Bryan Garris. Enter, ‘A Different Shade of Blue’. Speaking with Bryan over the phone, he’s very
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Words: Steven Loftin.
Imagine the feeling of a project you’ve poured your blood, sweat and tears into for years slowly begin to fall apart. You’ve pushed yourself to the limit and explored your most profound creativity. There’s no doubt that this level of self-sacrifice means that when an unravelling starts, it holds even more paralysing fear. When Mallory Knox’s previous frontman Mikey Chapman announced he was leaving last year, for bassist and now-vocalist Sam Douglas, along with guitarists James Gillett and Joe Savins, and drummer Dave Rawling, the future seemed to collapse. But even before then it was tough times. 54 Upset