“IN A SENSE we’re a band that shouldn’t really exist,” says Dan Peacock, guitarist of Asian Death Crustacean, purveyors of instrumental ambient jazz-metal. Peacock met drummer James Kay at a jam night where they bonded through improvisation, and Kay knew second guitarist Rob Doull from playing death metal together. Joined by bassist George Bunting, they decided to see what would happen if they took parts from all their favourite genres and stitched them together.
“Part of the fun of a studio recording is doing things that you’re not able to do live.”
“We had no idea whether this would all make coherent stuff,” says Kay. “There are parts of the music where it’s just jazz or just prog and other bits where it’s instrumental death metal or ambient electronic music. It has a shapeshifting identity, which is something we’re interested in keeping in the mix, rather than settling into an experimental metal project.”