that was one of the ones that stood out - we
knew the name had to be synonymous with
the music we were creating. With Devilution,
for us it was just the right thing at the time, it
was fun and never meant to be all about world
domination or anything like that, we were
just having fun creating music and just being
rock’n’roll wankers. You know, it was fun, but
with Darkc3ll, we took it to a whole ‘nother level
- it became a whole new beast. We played that
show - we realised that night that ‘wow’, we
could really do some damage live. A few lineup
changes later and we had found the four guys
that would make up Darkc3ll today.
And now you guys have really created
something that might have been a little
lacking around here yeah? The audience
has grown for you guys and you’ve really
given them something they might have
been searching for over time - maybe a
genre, a sound, a style and a persona that
was possibly lacking a little in South East do
you think?
We’ve never once to this day said that we’re
trying to reinvent the wheel, we’ve never
tried to say that we’re 100% original, we’ve
always just said that we’re proud to admit
our influences. We wear that proudly on our
“we were just having fun creating
music and being rock’n’roll
wankers”
sleeves, me literally, (Dracman rolls up his
sleeve to reveal permanent tattoos of famous
metal band signatures he has had done on his
forearm) and what we’ve done I suppose, is
we’ve taken that wheel and shined it up and
just added our own colour to it in a way. That’s
what we’ve done, we’ve just taken a formula
and put our own spin on it, I mean we’re fans
as well. When people say to us that we sound
like Wednesday 13 or Rob Zombie, well we’re
like ‘fuck yeah we do!’ - you know, we love
those bands.
Jay Macabre joined Darkc3ll in 2013 and has
been destroying the skins ever since. His flare and
propensity to hit the kit with snapping force from
above delivers a deadly combination of crushing
sound and performance character