NAME: Unholy Majesty
THEY ARE: Holy Terror influenced Hardcore
FROM: Margate, UK
FOR FANS OF: Ringworm, Integrity, Rot In Hell
LATEST RELEASE: 'Unholy Majesty' (A389 Recordings)
SONGS TO CHECK OUT: 'Age Of Affliction', 'The Owl And The Serpent'
WHERE TO FIND THEM: Facebook Bandcamp

If you look at Unholy Majesty's roots, in bands such as The Break In, Cold Snap, Santa Karla, Age Of Kali and On Thin Ice, it should come as no surprise that the current output of Duggan [vocals], D.W. Frye [guitar], FRZA [bass] and Kieron “Sub” Sullivan [drums] is nothing short of brilliant. The quartet are the latest UK hardcore outfit to come from the shores of the South Coast, taking influence from the powerful 90's Cleveland sound. Following an initial run of tapes on Hemlock 13, the four piece signed a deal with Baltimore's A389 Recordings, who've recently reissued thir demo on vinyl. Terrorizer caught up with frontman Duggan to talk lyrical themes, live shows and being on seperate sides of the Atlantic.

How did Unholy Majesty get together?
"The band came from a conversation with D.W. Frye at a show in Canterbury, he and I discussed how we’d like to do a demo tape for a new band where he writes the music and I handle the lyrics, it would be free from any constraints we had in any current bands and wouldn’t be created in a rehearsal room.  It made sense as we’d been in a band together years before and we felt we had unfinished business.  It was just two people writing music that interests themselves, for themselves, it was a selfish endeavour in the beginning but one we found to be very creative once we started to record.  Our friend FRZA handled the demo recording and subsequently played bass, whilst this was happening we also enlisted Sub to play the drums as he was socialising with us quite frequently at the time.  All of the pieces fell into place quite easily."

What inspires you lyrically?
"I get a lot of inspiration from books I read, Mark Chadbourn, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, but I also find inspiration from the bleakness of my own life and others around me, the trials that we are put through by terminal disease and the magic of overcoming those trials.  Combine all of these aspects and I can come up with evocative themes which compliment the apocalyptic music which we create."

"When we started the band I lived on different sides of the county to the rest of the band and living in different countries is no different, we can still write music and share it through emails, we haven’t relied on rehearsal room writing in the past and writing in separate locations seems to have worked out for the best. Greater distance between us will challenge us to create greater art."

Will Unholy Majesty become a live band?
"We have every intention to play live, we all cut our teeth on the stage and we’re anxious to get out on the road once the LP comes out, we want the Unholy Majesty live show to be a rare and looked forward to occasion.  Over saturating your audience in a live environment, at least around your local area is a trap many a band can fall into and one which we hope to avoid in the future."