Despite forging batteringlyloud riffs and possessing a monolithic live show, God Damn are unexpectedly lovely. In fact, they’re a band of many surprises, most jarring of all being guitarist Dave’s life-threatening trauma in a horrific car accident just days before releasing their Heavy Money EP in June. Not ones to disappoint, Tom and Ash persisted in the face of adversity - playing a string of intense two- piece appearances, all the while grappling with their ever- popular, but wholly uncertain future. Outline spoke to Tom about the band’s creative processes, how they’ve coped as a duo, and how they don’t even listen to much metal…
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o firstly, how’s Dave? Dave’s doing really well; he’s
walking, talking, and playing the guitar. He’s been in the studio and he’s coming to band practice on Sunday for a little bit of a recap on things, but it’ll be a long time before he’ll be able to tour and be in a live situation, simply because of the amount of damage he’s had. We’re just trying to make him as much a part of the band as we can, but the two-piece is working for now.
‘Heavy Money’ is more varied than you might expect – did you intentionally steer clear from making a straight-up heavy EP? I think we just don’t want to write the same song again. Tis band represents us as people and the things we like, and we don’t just like metal. In fact, we don’t listen to that much metal – people think because we’re from the Black Country that we were brought up on Black Sabbath, but between us I think we’ve got one t-shirt and their greatest hits! We’re
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fully aware of the sort of biblical, misogynistic, bold connotations of our name, and maybe we slightly regret it, I don’t know, but at least people remember it. We share our name with a French metal band, and they’ve got tattoos of “God Damn” and I feel really sorry for them! I’m embarrassed to tell my relatives what the name of our band is, or people at work; I normally have to say that if I told them the name of my band, they probably wouldn’t employ me!
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