
The time you have sitting on it after you finish an album is always the worst part, but because this time has been elongated, it’s been a bit more stressful. I’m gutted it couldn’t be in the way we wanted it, but it is what it is. We’re desperate for people to hear it, but we’ve been lucky enough to release quite a few singles pre-release. How gutted were you about having to postpone Cannibal ’s release?ĭANIEL WINTER-BATES: When you’re in a band, you just want to play shows and release albums when they’re supposed to come out or earlier than they’re supposed to-we’ve had both of those thrust upon us. With this altered angle in mind, we spoke to the mastermind behind their new concept to find out just how much Cannibal differs from Bury Tomorrow’s back catalog and how the writing process for their 2020 output brought the songwriters closer together. Read more: 18 hardcore and metalcore bands you probably forgot from the 2000sĬonfronting the topic of frontman/unclean vocalist Daniel Winter-Bates’ battles with mental health in recent years, Cannibal picks apart the emotion and trauma involved with being at war with your own mind and wades in with a generous helping of their signature devastating metalcore to create an album that sounds equal parts mosh-worthy and thought-provoking.

metalcore ballbusters have held on to their new guise long enough and are practically bursting to unleash Cannibal into the chaotic realm around them.įollowing up the towering success of 2018’s Black Flame was always going to be like squaring up to a colossus, but thanks to a few subtle changes to their approach, an entirely new and very personal subject matter and a closer connection between each other as bandmates, Bury Tomorrow are taking the challenge head-on. Forced to postpone dropping their sixth effort until July 3 due to the ongoing pandemic, the Southern U.K. Planning an album release in April 2020 was a purely innocent decision for Bury Tomorrow, but the state of the world had other ideas.
