Bury Tomorrow uploaded a brand new video ‘How Cannibal Was Written‘ discussing the composing and recording process behind the band’s latest top 10 album that came out on 3 July through Music For Nations. Prevented from touring in support of the release, the Southampton metalcore quintet have spent recent months announcing rescheduled UK shows and dates for massive co-headline tour with August Burns Red for 2021, and are offering an insight on how their recent record came to be the successful and cohesive project fans have been obsessively listening to for the past few months.
The new video presents an honest half-hour discussion between frontman Daniel Winter-Bates (vocals), Jason Cameron (rhythm guitar, clean vocals) and Kristan Dawson (lead guitar). Without being a traditional documentary with special production and editing, the video offers an intimate conversation between the band’s member on Cannibal‘s main lyrical theme, song structures, writing process, influences and Bury Tomorrow’s growth and maturity.
Some of the songs on Cannibal have been in early phases already after the release of their previous record Black Flame in 2018 with Winter-Bates and Dawson having worked on them for quite some time before Cameron joining in the writing process. The musicians highlight their trust and confidence in themselves as the main advantage when starting their sixth project, and the reason it came out with such cohesive and organic result.
Jason Cameron discusses how the writing usually started with one simple main riff that would have been re-arranged around the song, embellished and developped throughout each composition to reach the final version of the recording. He goes on to state that for Bury Tomorrow the main goal now is to stand the test of time and be around for at least 20 years if they could only carry on performing and touring as they have been until their explosive debut from 2009.
The main part of the video revolves around Daniel Winter-Bates’ personal issues defining the overall theme of Cannibal and the band’s support in both his recovering process and writing the musical translation of his lyrics. In an interview for Madness to Creation from March, the singer says: “It’s an extremely personal album for me so the challenge was revisitting some of the darkest moments in my life and singing about them.”
The band members go on to discuss how the decision for maintaining the overall lyrical content was straightforward and organic as it came from an honest place and was obvious from the very beginning. The writing process then helped translate it emotionally and musically with a juxtaposition of melody and heaviness, signature for Bury Tomorrow’s own brand of metalcore and apparent throughout the entire record.
Recently, Bury Tomorrow published limited edition lyric prints on the band’s online store shown below. Cannibal is available now on standard CD and vinyl, as well as the usual streaming platforms.
Our lyric prints are limited at 200 each! Get yours now at https://t.co/8kG4jfWq57 pic.twitter.com/B6sxFRN0Iz
— BURY TOMORROW (@burytomorrow) September 21, 2020
