It was exactly like playing with your siblings,” she adds with a grin.īury Tomorrow play Leahviathan at Diablo Immortal, backstage at Download Festival 2022. “There was backseat coaching, underhand tactics and they eventually just covered my eyes and screen. “They are absolute menaces,” Leahviathan tells NME shortly after the game. When Leahviathan still dominates, they resort to chaos. The challenge is simple enough – the first to slay 50 demons and the boss, wins.ĭespite playing on home turf, Bury Tomorrow’s Dav Winter-Bates gets his virtual ass handed to him on the free-to-play mobile dungeoncrawler before the band sub in secret weapon Hartwell, who quickly earns the name “Thunder Thumbs”. READ MORE: Download Festival 2022 review: metal’s fearsome energy rages on the smaller stagesĪ few hours later and the band are huddled backstage about to tackle an even greater challenge than playing to 60,000 metal fans – taking on streamer Leahviathan in a game of Diablo Immortal.
“It was such a cool experience” says Predergast, his eyelashes just about recovered from their onstage brush with pyro. New songs ‘Death (Ever Colder)’ and ‘Life (Paradise Denied)’ saw the group embrace the future, following the additions of guitarist Ed Hartwell and keyboardist Tom Prendergast to the fold, while classic anthems like ‘Cannibal’ and ‘Black Flame’ still hit like a sledgehammer to the chest. Last week Bury Tomorrow returned home, playing an explosive, powerful set on Download Festival’s main stage.
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