STEVE BRIGHT
Let’s face it: in a year where Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and myriad heavyweights have unveiled new albums, nobody could have predicted Southampton goth-punks Creeper taking Metal Hammer’s Album Of The Year spot with their vampire rock opera, Sanguivore. Least of all the band themselves.
“[Creeper guitarist] Ian Miles’ favourite band is Metallica, so he feels like he’s committed some kind of crime,” admits Creeper frontman Will Gould, grinning like the Cheshire –or perhaps more accurately, Hampshire –cat. “It’s so humbling, especially for the type of record we’ve made, as the reference points we are drawing from aren’t really cool records.”