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There are high hopes for Bury<\/strong> Tomorrow<\/strong><\/a> in 2013. The band are one of the leading metalcore bands flying the flag for Britain, and with the amount of tours, festivals and other big plans the band have up their sleeves, it\u2019ll be an even bigger year than it was last year.<\/p>\n Meeting up with Davyd Bates (bass) and Adam Jackson (drums) showed me this, before their sold out Manchester show on the Rock Sound Impericon tour with Landscapes, Stray From The Path and The Ghost Inside. It was the second show to sell out on the tour and they seem so pumped to get on stage.\u00a0“Excellent”<\/em> is the short answer about how the tour is so far. Of course, it is. Who wouldn\u2019t be having an excellent time on a lineup like this? Adam elaborated further\u00a0“All the bands have been rad, all the shows have been busy and sold out, all of them have been pretty much sold out. The shows have been great and it\u2019s just been a good time. We couldn\u2019t ask for more”.<\/em><\/p>\n Being a metalcore band I assumed that the lads were fans of tonight\u2019s headliners The Ghost Inside. It was a worthy assumption and Davyd is full of praise for the band when I asked him if The Ghost Inside would be cited as influences in their music \u201cTheir first album we all were big fans of; we thought it was a great album and as they progressed we kind of followed their music. I think it\u2019s safe to say we were definitely fans before we came on this tour. When you like a band or listen to them you will\u00a0inadvertently\u00a0be influenced by them\u201d<\/em> Davyd spoke sense. The Ghost Inside are big over here and in America, with plenty of \u201ccopycats\u201d within the scene trying, but not achieving the same levels as The Ghost Inside.<\/p>\n But what about Bury Tomorrow<\/strong>? They have a strong following over here in the UK and a certain US magazine wasn\u2019t too keen on their 2012 album \u2018The Union Of Crowns’\u00a0<\/em>despite the majority rating the album highly. \u201cNothing establishes Bury Tomorrow as a band with anything unique or surprising to offer\u201d<\/em>\u00a0was the quote from the review that I read to the band. By Davyd\u2019s reaction of \u201clet\u2019s do it!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0It was clear they\u2019d heard this before, but I wasn\u2019t quite prepared for where this would take us. I asked what they thought ‘The Union Of Crowns\u2019<\/em> had to offer, specifically as a successor to their debut ‘Portraits\u2019;\u00a0<\/em>Davyd went back to the quote.<\/p>\n He wasn\u2019t happy with the review, at all. He said it was filled with inaccuracies and that they hadn\u2019t done their research. Clearly, the review had gotten to him, but I totally understood; Davyd and Adam started to show so much passion towards their band and their scene. \u201cWe\u2019re not claiming to be original. We\u2019re not claiming to be the first stop on any persons list for a metal band. What we love is metalcore. We\u2019ve always loved metalcore. We\u2019ll love it next year and we loved it last year. And the point is, is that we wanted to take a genre that hasn\u2019t been done well by a British band, ever, and we wanted to show that we could do it.”\u00a0<\/em>It was here that that I realised how passionate these guys were and where Davyd really hit his stride. “This year you\u2019ve got While She Sleeps, us, Bleed From Within, all showing that British bands are better at metalcore than Americans and that\u2019s what we wanted to show. That\u2019s what I think and that\u2019s what we think and on the next album we\u2019ll be doing even more and we\u2019ll be even more metalcore\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n The comparison with America made me think of how many metalcore bands there are on the other side of the Atlantic. Labels such as Rise Records have primarily (until the past few years) focussed on post hardcore and metalcore bands with only a few of their roster really standing out from the crowd. Adam explains;\u00a0“America has so many sick bands in this scene, The Ghost Inside being one of them. But it\u2019s also full of bands which are like, way more worthy of the whole unoriginal thing than we are and would\u2019ve been reviewed completely differently to us. It\u2019s something we really don\u2019t like as a band when it comes to press, when they\u2019re hypocrites about stuff. If you read reviews of a certain band and they get strong reviews and then read reviews of a band who are along the same lines, and they\u2019ve reviewed them as being absolutely terrible, there\u2019s a massive inconsistency there and I think it was just a disrespectful review for someone who wasn\u2019t really into our sort of music anyway. It\u2019s always a big frustration when they give a CD to a person who wouldn\u2019t actually think that music\u2019s good even if it was really good. It\u2019s just, whatever. We don\u2019t really care. It makes no difference to what we\u2019re doing and most kids don\u2019t even listen to what magazines have to say. They\u2019ll make up their own minds.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n At the end of the day the band are right. It doesn\u2019t matter what we say about their latest CD or tour. It\u2019s down to the fan to make their own mind up. Everyone has their own opinions about what\u2019s good and what isn\u2019t and clearly Bury Tomorrow\u00a0<\/strong>have enough fans who think their music is good. Enough fans to warrant them worthy stage times at festivals such as Redstock, Radstock, Slam Dunk Ireland and Download. Is this the year then that\u2019s going to launch\u00a0Bury Tomorrow<\/strong> to new heights? \u201dWe hope so”<\/em>\u00a0says Davyd. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of big plans coming and a lot huge exciting things that we\u2019re yet to announce. We\u2019re hoping that this is\u2026 I think last year was the year that launched us, personally\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0Adam took a hold of the answers \u201cJust the release of the record really. We played some rad shows and festivals last year, bigger than we have done before but it was all about getting the new album out and it was the fact that actually, the way it was received that allowed us to be on a different level. It allowed us to do the things we\u2019re doing now and further on this year, it\u2019s thanks to that album, so I think that\u2019s definitely what launched us. We\u2019re doing so much more this year than we did last year like some really big stuff coming.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Clearly ‘The Union Of Crowns’\u00a0<\/em>has helped the band to reach new levels of success and it sounds like there\u2019s plenty more to come. But the band are always aiming higher and quite simply want to be the best. With the rate they\u2019re going I don\u2019t think it would be a surprise to anyone, especially not the band. They know what they want to achieve and they\u2019ll work their hardest to make that possible.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/em>Headlining Main Stage Reading and Leeds\u201d<\/em>\u00a0replied Davyd incredibly quickly. I asked where they could see themselves in 5 years time and Davyd didn\u2019t hesitate at all and was being deadly serious. There\u2019s a passion deep down in these two. \u201cWe\u2019ll be headlining. Headlining Download.\u00a0Headlining\u00a0Sonisphere. Headlining major festivals in 5 years time. That\u2019s where we wanna be. In 5 years time we wanna be those high up, main stage bands. Like top, or just under top. That\u2019s where we wanna be and if we\u2019re not there we haven\u2019t tried hard enough\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n Davyd had already mentioned about the strength of British metalcore taking over in 2012 and before I even finished asking my question about how metalcore will be in 2013 he was quick to say \u201c2013 will be the year of metal and rock\u201d<\/em>. Is he right?\u00a0“Major radio stations are backing big metal and rock acts. It\u2019s the year that is embracing live music again and I think we\u2019re about to see a wave of new music again. I just think that for the next 5 years we\u2019re gonna have that serious growth in live music, bands are gonna get bigger and it\u2019s going to be like it was before”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n We chatted further about the times we had heard bands like Bring Me The Horizon and While She Sleeps being played in the daytime on Radio 1. It\u2019s certainly surprising and even more so when you think how many people just heard ‘Sempiternal\u2019<\/em> on Radio 1 on a Saturday morning. Is this the wake up call that the world needs for alternative music?\u00a0“Let\u2019s face it ok; Bring Me The Horizon are massive”<\/em>\u00a0clarifies Davyd. We all instantly agree. Who can deny that the Sheffield quintet are massive right now, even before their latest 4th album is released \u201cThere\u2019s a certain amount to be said that if you\u2019re a popular radio station, like a pop culture, and you\u2019re basically playing everything that\u2019s new and fresh, you\u2019re gonna be playing BMTH. But the fact that bands like While She Sleeps and bands like Mallory Knox and Hildamay and stuff are getting the recognition they really deserve, and even us getting played on Zane Lowe, like, holy shit! It\u2019s the year of metal and rock\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n Is this the time that we\u2019re going to see a shift in alternative music becoming more of a mainstream thing? Davyd was right. There\u2019s been so much backing and airplay with alternative bands that I\u2019d thought it for a while. Who could deny it when We Are The Ocean are on Radio 1\u2019s A list in January? Davyd agrees that it will be. \u201cI honestly believe that it will. Yeah.100%.”\u00a0<\/em>Adam is no different, saying \u201dI think you can tell that from the really big festivals, like the more mainstream and the more alternative and metal bands they\u2019re taking on for the main stages.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n It makes sense that Bury Tomorrow<\/strong> have high hopes then. This shift in alternative music finally breaking into the mainstream will see it gaining the recognition it deserves. Bury Tomorrow<\/strong> have all the fire and passion to work hard and give it their 100%. Davyd and Adam showed me this and it really wouldn\u2019t be a surprise to see them high up on the main stage in any major festival in 5 years time. Let\u2019s see what tomorrow will bring.<\/p>\n ‘The Union of Crowns\u2019<\/em> by\u00a0Bury Tomorrow<\/strong>\u00a0is available now on Nuclear Blast<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Bury Tomorrow<\/strong> links: Official Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n