Burying Your Demons With TRAVIS EVERETT From WITCHGRINDER

Interview by Kris Peters
Melbourne industrial titans Witchgrinder released their highly
anticipated third album, Nothing Stays Buried.
Once more revolving around horror and the macabre, Nothing Stays
Buried is a meaty slab of intent from the Australian outfit,
furthering the promise shown on Witchgrinder's two earlier albums
but magnifying it even further.
Since the release of their debut album in 2013, Witchgrinder have
systematically built up a loyal and growing fan base, scoring
support slots to the likes of Ministry, Rob Zombie, Ghost,
Wednesday 13, Powerman 5000, Sevendust and Drowning Pool before
landing the covetted opening spot for Static X last year. The band
have honed and refined their live show to reflect both their music
and influences, creating an overwhelming sense of dread and
foreboding that perfectly accentuates the sonic blast of agression
elicited by their music.
With Nothing Stays Buried unleashed on the public, frontman Travis
Everett took the time to talk with HEAVY, discussing the album in
greater detail.
"This album took a while to write," he measured. "Actually, the
writing didn't take so long, what it was, is there was a large gap
in between from the lat album due to line-up changes and covid.
Witchgrinder had a nice touring line-up, but nothing put together
where I felt comfortable writing and getting back in and doing the
third album. Of course, I had a lot of stuff put away with riffs
over the years, but I never started really structuring anything
together. With this album I looked at what the previous two had
done… I had time to talk to a lot of people who listened to
Witchgrinder over the years - alot of new fans and a lot of old
ones - and worked out what they liked best from the first album and
the second album. What songs were their favourite and what weren't.
We really sat - especially me and the guitarist Scott - we sat down
and spoke about what style of song we wanted one to be. We'd pick
one of the old ones off the album and say we kind of want it a bit
like this, but we want this one rockier. We want this one more
thrash metal. But we still wanted to keep the Witchgrinder
sound."
In the full interview, Travis talks more about the writing process
for Nothing Stays Buried, the musical direction of the album, the
band's upcoming tour plus he runs us through each track on Nothing
Stays Buried in greater depth.


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