A Better Tomorrow With BRENDAN PRESTON & BENNY BONES From ALL THIS FILTH

Interview by Kris Peters
In the modern age of short attention spans, it is refreshing to see
some bands still operating by the tried and true laws of yesteryear
when it comes to releasing music.
With EP's and singles all the rage, Perth metal outfit All This
Filth elected to take their time with their recently released album
Tomorrow Will Be Better?, dropping the first single Still Bleeds My
Heart in late 2022 and drip-feeding more tunes until the album saw
the light of day on February 9 this year.
To simply class All This Filth as metal would be short-changing
them significantly. Drawing on everything from Groove Metal,
Thrash, Hardcore, Death Metal, Industrial Metal and even hints of
Sludge and Nu-Metal, the Perth outfit deftly wind them all together
to produce a sound fresh, vibrant and heavy as Hell.
Released on the band's new US label Brutal Records, Tomorrow Will
Be Better? is a coming of age of sorts for All This Filth,
cementing them amongst the next wave of Australian metal bands and
opening up a plethora of new opportunities for the band.
HEAVY caught up with vocalist Brendan Preston and bass/keyboardist
Benny Bones to find out more, starting with the album's
reception.
"It's going well so far," Preston smiled. "We've had a lot of good
feedback, like the reviews have been generally positive and all the
fans I've spoken to and all the messages I've got from the band's
social media have been good so far. All the media that we've been
speaking to have seemed to enjoy the songs as well. I was on Andrew
Haug on Monday night, and he was saying it's a definite step-up for
us and that he was proud of us, which was really cool praise. So
far, so good. The feedback has been unanimously good."
We ask the boys to tell us more about the album musically.
"Musically, we just really wanted to step it up from the last
album, Misery Season," Preston began. "Sort of just expand the
boundaries of what we were doing. We wanted to be more aggressive,
more fast, more groovy, add more keys and synths - which is more
Benny's department - and really just test ourselves and push
ourselves and see what we could do musically."
In the full interview, Brendan and Benny talk more about Tomorrow
Will Be Better?, how it picks up thematically from last album
Misery Season, how they pushed the boundaries, the overall message
of the album, the new members and what they bring to the band's
sound, signing with Brutal Records and what that opens up for the
band, how their sound has grown over the course of their releases,
finding the balance between so many genres and more.