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 JAM! Music reports that war and metal go hand in hand for John Kevill.
A military
history enthusiast, Kevill was actually studying to be a history
professor before his band of California thrashers got signed and hit
the road. The 21-year-old Warbringer vocalist puts his fascination with
all things epic and violent to good use on his band's debut full-length
War Without End.
"War is mass amounts of people killing each other and that's pretty
f--kin' violent and metal right there. So anything pertaining to
violence and death usually is what we write about cause that fits the
music," he says. "The lyrics are there to fit the music, to sound cool
with it."
Warbringer is ready to unleash its combat thrash on the
Starlite Room tomorrow night, slotted between Calgary act Verbal
Deception and Finnish folk metal kings Finntroll.
Kevill is about as metal as they come, something that reveals
itself as he recounts the story of his initial foray into the genre.
Listening to legendary metallers Manowar with a close buddy about four
years ago, the two were gripped by the forces of heavy metal and made a
pact in blood to carry on the tradition.
"We decided OK, neither of us have any
skills at anything, but we're gonna start a band and it's gonna be true
f--king metal and it will crush everything," he says. "And we basically
wrote up a pact to this effect and then sliced our fingers open and
signed it."
Read the full story here.
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