Terrorizer’s Band Of The Day: Plague Rider

NAME: PLAGUE RIDER

FROM: Durham and Newcastle
FOR FANS OF: Death, Atheist, Pestilence
LATEST RELEASE: ‘Genetic Devolution’ Demo 2012 (self released)
CONTACT: Facebook

The North East extreme music scene has produced some exciting new
and very talented prospects in recent years and this week’s pick is the latest to impress with their ‘Genetic Devolution’ debut demo and energetic live show. With an average age of 18, Plague Rider are a young North East based old-school technical death metal band influenced by such bands as Atheist, Death, Sinister, and Morbid Angel. Terrorizer corners lead guitarist Dan “Chuck” Alderson.

Tell us more about Plague Rider…

“In February 2011 I ran into Jake [Bielby, guitar] and Matt [Henderson, drums] and we exchanged names and started talking online, Jake asked me if I wanted to start a tech death band [and] I jumped at the chance to form one since I had been looking to form a tech-death band for a while. We got Matt in on drums, we got Lee [Anderson] in on bass then Jamie [Brown] in on vocals.”

You’ve just recently released your first demo ‘Genetic Devolution’, tell us more…

“People can expect how technical death metal was done in the early - mid ’90s in the style of mid-period Death, early Gorguts, Pestilence, and Nocturnus. You can also expect some head banging Morbid Angel and Sinister-esque riffs in the mix. We try to keep the songwriting varied as we have quiet a lot of  ideas going on in our heads!”

What are you working on currently?

“We have six brand new songs to go on there also. We are doing the album by ourselves and we are talking to people about distribution and art at the moment. The art and new logo for the band is going to be awesome, the guy who done it worked
with bands like Depravity and old school Finish death metal bands. Some song titles I can share are ‘Shape Shifting Monstrosity’, ‘Ritual of Pestilent Purification’ which might be the album title as well. We are hoping to have everything recorded by the end of July and then hoping to release it in the back end of August / early September.”

Words: Kat Gillham