“We used to have people saying, ‘That’s such a horrible name for a band! Why would they do that?’” chuckles Kate. Sometimes, the daftest ideas are the best ideas. Kate and her bandmates have produced one of the most viscerally thrilling records any of us will hear this year. But as recent times have taught us, anything is possible and the unexpected is often lurking around the corner. Unless you have a dangerously lax attitude towards your finances, you probably wouldn’t place a bet on a band with a name like Pupil Slicer becoming a huge success. If there are shows available, we’ll be playing them! As soon as we can we’ll be out there and playing as much as we can. It doesn’t look like there’ll be anything at the end of this year. “The last gig was only 50 people and that was sick! But we’re looking at festivals for next year and tours, potentially. “It’ll be interesting to see what the next gigs will be like, because we haven’t played a show since before we got signed,” says Kate. At others, their skull-threatening racket sounds spontaneous and genuinely dangerous. At times, Pupil Slicer are ruthlessly tight and destructive. Mercilessly extreme, with an obvious debt to grindcore, death metal and the pitch-black hardcore of Converge, songs like recent singles L’Appel Du Vide and Wounds Upon My Skin also touch upon glitchy noise, syrupy ambience and occasional moments of spine-tingling melancholy. A ferocious trio, completed by bassist/vocalist Luke Fabian, they sound like everything all at once and nothing you’ve ever heard before. The result of that pragmatic forward step can be heard smashing everything in sight on Pupil Slicer’s debut, Mirrors. We figured we can basically write whatever we like and give it a shot.” “We really weren’t spending a whole lot of time writing stuff, but then the original vocalist quit, and me and Josh thought, ‘Now we have this project with a funny name and we’re getting offered loads of gigs for it, so what do we do now?’ We thought about the music we like, and with us it’s Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge and Rolo Tomassi, those kinds of bands. I just wrote some horrible death metal riffs that didn’t fit with the band we were in at the time,” she explains. People told us, ‘That’s such a horrible name! Kate Davies
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