Carnage Fuelled By Passion With LEO LUTHER From LUTHER

Interview by Kris Peters
Not often a band's music comes across our desk here at HEAVY that
literally makes us sit up and take absolute notice, but when it
does, and you then find out it is the first ever single release
from the band…
Such was the case when we heard Next Time Send A Killer, the debut
track from Berlin-based heavy outfit Luther. A crushing cesspool of
malevolence, Next Time Send A Killer also contains a plethora of
styles and influences that many a more seasoned band have tried
without half the impact achieved by Luther in their sonic
introduction to the world.
A sentence in the band's press release says, "through music Luther
communicates emotions of isolation, betrayal, rage and escapism",
and for once that was no exaggeration. At times angry, at others
beautiful and others again a slit to the throat, Next Time Send A
Killer is an amalgamation of everything you thought scared you as a
child then dialled up a double notch. 
Thinking (but hoping we were wrong) this might just be a case of
one great song followed by a dose of mediocrity, HEAVY reached out
to the band, who sent us two unreleased songs and their music
videos, and they were just as good, if not better.
Of course, we had to chat with Luther in order to introduce them to
our friends, with vocalist Leo Luther kindly offering up some of
her time.
"We formed in 2024," she began when asked to introduce Luther, "and
we are somewhat of a… I wouldn't say supergroup, but that's the
kind of concept. We are all people who were in different bands but
in the same scene, and we met each other, liked each other, so we
started this project."
We ask Leo to run us through Next Time Send A Killer in greater
detail.
"This comes from me wishing to experiment with some very… angry
music," she measured. "And I think that angry music is also like
trap metal. I know it's not the most common sub-genre of metal, but
there's also some metalcore and a little bit of djent in there, and
that's how it was born."
We ask why Luther chose that particular song to introduce them and
their music to the world.
"You're not gonna like this answer," she laughed. "Basically, in a
band where you want to be successful, you need to have some sort of
strategy. I was like, fuck the strategy, we're just gonna do what
we want (laughs). So there are two songs that have this type of
sound identity for us, and those are the songs we released with
Next Time Send A Killer and Oyster, which were released together.
Now we are working on a debut album that literally has nothing to
do with metalcore. That was not the wisest choice, but I thought
fuck it. We liked that song, now we like another one, so we're
gonna do it that way."
In the full interview, Leo talked more about their debut single and
the reaction to it. We discussed the next two songs to be released,
Give The People What They Want and The Most Famous Rat In The
Sewer, going into detail about the imaginative song titles for
their music.
Leo mentioned the debut album and what we can expect, took us
deeper through their musical styles and influences and ran us
through the balancing act of getting things right in the creative
process and more.

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