Bury Tomorrow: “It’s Almost Like A Coming Home For Us”

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Bury Tomorrow have been at the forefront of the UK metalcore scene over the years and with the band entering a new era without Vocalist Jason Cameron. We had the privilege of sitting down with both Kris and Dani to discuss what it’s been like for the band during this transitional period, new music and so much more. Here’s what we discussed!

Hi, my name’s Nick from The Rock Fix and I’m here with Bury Tomorrow. How are you guys?

Kris: Warm…

Dani: It is pretty warm.

It is very hot isn’t it?

Kris: That’s very stereotypically British of me to complain about it as well. But yeah, real good. Yeah, we’re very happy to be here.

Have you guys been here long or have you just arrived onto the site?

Kris: We got here like, maybe an hour ago, maybe a couple hours ago.

Dani: Yeah, about an hour ago, which is nice. Got a chance to have a look around in the heat, but it was good.

Obviously you guys were meant to be on the bill last year – Unfortunately you had to pull out – so what is it like to now finally get to get your chance here?

Kris: Yeah. Chance of redemption?

Dani: Yeah, I mean, it’s really cool. I was saying to someone before, I think for a lot of fans that kind of probably come to Bloodstock every year, it’s almost like a coming home for us in, in a sense, you know, people are gonna be really stoked to kind of see us. And obviously they were very disappointed last year, but they did the announcement last year over there – over the big screen – and we got sent a video of the response and it blows our mind that people were so stoked to see us. So yeah, we can’t wait and it’s gonna be mad. Like I’ve already gone out and met quite a few people, which is always a good sign that you have some fans. So it’s always good.

That’s brilliant. Obviously you guys are quite high up on the main stage bill as well this year. What’s that feeling like? Seeing where you’ve come from to now where you’ve gotten to?

Kris: You know, it’s a testament to resilience in some way, but also it’s just… we’re very grateful. It is the fans who’ve got us here, essentially their support and loyalty to our music and I guess us as people or just whatever, there’s a genuine connection there and it feels great to do that justice today, I guess.

Dani: Yeah, like it’s one of those things, it’d be really easy to start kind of being complacent about this kind of stuff. There’s massive bands playing and there’s also some really big bands underneath us, which is… which is incredible. You know, it’s always a good thing to see! Like we’ve just watched Lorna Shore and Sylosis iare playing now – which is obviously a huge band – and Jinjer just before us, I think it is. And so these are bands that draw a lot of people and so it’s a nice moment in time for us to kind of sit back and reflect how far we’ve come, you know? So, really cool.

Is there anyone in particular you guys are looking forward to trying to catch a bit of?

Kris: Sylosis after this.

I won’t keep you too long!

Dani: It’s all good. Yeah.

Kris: Um, Malevolence.

Yeah. Malevolence should be good.

Kris: So yeah, man, I think we’re spoiled for choice to be honest.

Absolutely. The lineup this year’s just so incredible. There’s almost too much going on. You can’t quite catch everything. You recently released your latest single ‘Life’, how’s the fan reaction been to the new single?

Dani: It’s been pretty mad, man. Like I think there’s always a nerve wracking period of time, especially when you have a change up in your lineup, and such a long time without music really. You know, we released ‘Cannibal’ at the start of the pandemic and then two years later we’re releasing new music again. So, It’s always that nerve-wracking, but the response has been just love and support, and people just really want to hear more. It’s always one of those things, like when people are asking for more and more and more, you’re like, “oh, we’re onto a right thing there”. If you release something and some people go, “ah, you’re alright mate, we don’t need to listen to you anymore”. It kind of would be a bad point in time. But it’s really cool man. Like the songs are both very different. We released ‘Death’ first and then ‘Life’, really different jams. ‘Life’ was always supposed to be kind of a festival banger. So it’s really great that we managed to get that out before festival season. So we’ll see how that goes tonight.

Yeah, it should be good. Obviously, I think, I believe one of your first shows back was Slam Dunk Festival.

Dani: It was, yeah.

What was that like? Was there a lot of nerves going into it?

Kris: Panic attacks.

Dani: Yeah everyone had a Panic Attack.

Kris: I don’t think I’ve ever been as nervous in my life, but what a feeling to get that done and to see that nothing… I say that nothing had changed. Everything had changed, but I guess the mutual feeling between crowd and ourselves that felt stronger than ever. So yeah, I dunno when I get asked how I feel about that… I’m just grateful, you know, grateful for the opportunity, and grateful to just be back doing what we love!

Obviously these big festivals, they get so many different bands together, but also a lot of different types of fans. I wonder how important do you think it is for the fans element to get to see bands like yourselves, but then also heavier bands and everything in between?

Dani: Yeah music’s about diversity, you know, like diversity of person, diversity of sound and I think to be able to be on a bill with band like Dimmu it’s cool. We’ve actually had like, a bloody kind of time of it this, this summer. We’ve been kind of following Mercyful Fate around really because we’ve played about four festivals with them. And that’s really cool cause like from a business perspective it’s smart as well, we get to play to people that might not like our kind of music, and that’s great because it gives you an opportunity to convert those kind of people into our kind of music. So it’s always a challenge. It’d be a boring time if you just played in front of the same people over and over again. We wanna play to as many people as possible. We wanna get to as many new fans as possible. And so you’ve gotta play those shows where you’re pushing yourself outside of your boundaries. But it is really important for young bands coming up to see bands like ourselves on a show like this, and being able to see the melodic side of it also can be present, you know? And that’s great. But I think the older you get and the longer you get in music – as we are – you kind of, the differences start to kind of meld away. We’ve done shows with the Behemoth, we’ve done shows with Dimmu, Mercyful Fate, and you kind of watch them and go, “we’re all kind of doing a similar thing”. Like whilst it is different and it’s technically very different, but it’s all kind of just pushing forward heavy music and that’s what the community’s about. And as I said, when you’re younger you’re like, “oh, we’re so different”. And it’s like “Well, you know what? You’re not really as different as you think really”.

Fair enough. Well, that’s all I’ve got for you guys today. Do you guys wanna add anything or promote anything?

Dani: No. Just thank you so much for having us like keep listening to us and keep listening to this, The Rock Fix. Keep listening to it. Um, and keep supporting metal music, you know.

Awesome. Well thank you so much for your time guys Have a good weekend.

Dani: Thank you very much man.