Glamour Of The Kill
Glamour Of The Kill initially manifested themselves as The Red Room Theory, and by the band’s own admission they weren’t very good, although bearing in mind that the band’s average age at that time was only 17, this is forgivable. The Red Room Theory were an alternative metal band of precocious Yorkshire upstarts, but the music was pretty inaccessible, “Discordant”, says guitarist Chris Gomerson. Then they wrote a song called ‘Bullet Proof’, which was agreed by all who heard it to be actually very good. The melodic but heavy song signaled a change in direction for the guys. They changed their name to Glamour Of The Kill and charged ahead with a renewed vigour. And this time with some fans in tow.
The guys started gigging locally and recorded a demo. They then invited some friends over to premiere the demo and the result was unanimous rapture. They were onto something. “Before people had humoured us,” says Chris, “but now people were like, wow, you’ve actually written some songs!”
The band‘s recorded music showcases their songwriting prowess as well as a spellbinding instrumental dexterity. The newer material that they will be previewing at their forthcoming live shows demonstrates their evolution: less of the metalcore structures of yesteryear and more straightforward utterly unstoppable and driving pop metal.
The band found themselves in the usual limbo of wanting to devote a lot more time to the band than their day jobs in bars, shops and call centre’s would allow. They were getting great reviews in the local press, but only when Metal Hammer UK awarded them Demo Of The Month did the ball really start to roll.
Media insiders started writing with increasing regularity about a superb young band emerging from the York area, and before long Glamour were invited to support Bullet For My Valentine as part of the Kerrang! awards events. The show was a great success, and with the band having proved they could deliver live on the big stage, Kerrang! gave them their seal of approval and the invitation to join Avenged Sevenfold on their UK tour quickly followed.
The boys recorded an EP which was licensed to and released through the small independent Siege Of Amida label which helped to expand their fan-base and received some rave reviews in the process. By this time, they had also come to the attention of Live Nation who booked the band to open the main stage at the Download Festival in the summer of 2008 and with the live ball well and truly rolling subsequent invitations to support the likes of Black Tide, As I Lay Dying, Escape The Fate and Wednesday 13 followed.
However, in the summer of 2009, all touring was put on hold as the band decided the time had come to record a full album. Retreating to Not-In-Pill studios in South Wales with Bullet For My Valentine engineers Jeff and Ginge, the band knew exactly what they wanted. “Our influences are still from pop, metal and the 80’s, but on the album we’ve made the pop parts more catchy, the metal parts heavier and the 80’s parts…more 80’s! We’ve gone extreme in all directions” explains Gomerson.
With the album, entitled ‘The Summoning’, now in the can, the inevitable touring recommences in the winter of 2009 by joining the DragonForce UK tour in November, followed in March 2010 by a massive, eight week long, 39 date UK headline tour. Chris Gomerson clarifies the reasoning behind this brutal touring schedule, “We know there are many people in the UK who have read with us because we’ve mostly played major markets as Special Guests on other bands tours. With the tour in March we’ll be heading to places which aren’t usually known for being part of the common touring circuit, and we refuse to leave any stone unturned.” He adds, “We can’t wait to play the new songs live. Songs like ‘Feeling Alive’ which is just a solid feel good party tune, and ‘Supremacy’, that’s one of the heavier songs. It’s like Lamb Of God but with a big anthemic chorus.”
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