Glamour Of The Kill crashed into the York music scene in early 2007 from the wreckage of other recently disbanded local acts. Davey Richmond (lead vocal/bass), Chris Gomerson (guitar/vocals), and Mike Kingswood (lead guitar/vocals) had all been playing music together throughout their time at school and then added Ben Thomson (drums/vocals) into the mix to create the line-up you see before you today.
“Glamour Of The Kill are one of the UK’s brightest young hopes.” Kerrang!
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Glamour Of The Kill crashed into the York music scene in early 2007 from the wreckage of other recently disbanded local acts. Davey Richmond (lead vocal/bass), Chris Gomerson (guitar/vocals), and Mike Kingswood (lead guitar/vocals) had all been playing music together throughout their time at school and then added Ben Thomson (drums/vocals) into the mix to create the line-up you see before you today.
“Glamour Of The Kill are one of the UK’s brightest young hopes.” Kerrang!
The band started gigging locally, recorded a demo and invited some friends over to a premiere 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.
Music media insiders started writing with increasing regularity about a superb young band emerging from the York area, and before long Glamour Of The Kill were invited to support Bullet For My Valentine on one of the Kerrang! Awards live events. The show was a great success, and armed with the proof they could deliver on the big stage, Kerrang! gave them their seal of approval and the invitation to join Avenged Sevenfold on their UK tour quickly followed.
“There’s no doubting Glamour Of The Kill are becoming a force to be reckoned with!” Kerrang!
The boys recorded an EP which was licensed to and released through the small independent Siege Of Amida label which helped to expand their fanbase and received excellent reviews in the process. By this time they had also come to the attention of Live Nation who booked the band to play the Download Festival in the summer of 2008 and with the live ball well and truly rolling on a national level, 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 Nott-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 but in a very positive way” explains Gomerson.
“The UK has a new crossover phenomenon in the making.” Metal Hammer
The inevitable touring carried on in the winter of 2009 by joining the DragonForce UK tour in November / December, followed in March 2010 by a massive, eight week long, 38 date UK & Ireland headline tour. Chris Gomerson clarifies the reasoning behind this brutal touring schedule, “We knew from reading the messages on our web-site that there were many people in the UK who read about Glamour Of The Kill in the media but haven’t had a chance to see the band live and connect with us because we’ve mostly played major markets as Special Guests on other bands tours. With the tour in March / April we played markets all over the country which aren’t usually part of the normal touring circuit and the response was fantastic!”
Glamour Of The Kill continued to expand their influence and fan base by playing the Download Festival in June 2010 as well as spreading their wings into Continental Europe by playing the likes of the
Eurosonic & Powerfest festivals in Holland and Sauna Festival in Finland among others.
Now the album, entitled ‘The Summoning’ will be ready for release in January 2011 and, to use another quote from Kerrang! magazine, Glamour Of The Kill are “unstoppable”.
“Glamour Of The Kill are shaping up to be the UK’s hottest and fastest rising new band.” Kerrang!
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