Our regular run-down of as many of the Bloodstock bands as we can get to talk to us! Repulsive Vision play the Jager stage on the Saturday…
Simple things first – where are you guys from?
We’re from Barrow in Furness in the Lake District.
How long have you been playing together as a band?
The band itself has been an entity since December 2010 but our current incarnation has been going for nearly a decade.
Where does the name of the band come from?
Around the time I formed the band, I watched a documentary about Video Nasties where Mary Whitehouse (the woman spearheading the campaign to ban horror films) referred to them as “repulsive vision”. I thought this was a great turn of phrase and I wrote a song with that title. Ultimately, it became the name of the project.
Describe your music. What makes you unique?
Our music is a mix of classic Old School Death Metal and punk, taking major influence from bands like as Carcass, Napalm Death, Edge of Sanity, Entombed, Discharge, Nausea and NOFX (among many others). I wouldnt necessarily consider us unique as such but we’re very much interested in a host of different styles as we’re from different musical backgrounds (prog, punk, black metal and NWOBHM respectively). Combining the riff focused musicianship and sonic depth of death metal with the energy, speed and raw aggression of punk, we always intended to create a sense of crossover that is both catchy and crusty in equal measures.
What’s your live show like? Why are people going to watch you instead of another band?
With our sound being as fast and energetic as it is, we like to match it with an energetic stageshow that flows through what we consider to be our strongest material. Intensity, consistency and dynamic range is what makes a set memorable so we intend to compile our best setlist for this show. It would be hard for me to naysay any of the stellar bands who deservedly belong on their respective stage (especially as we dont know who we’ll be clashing with yet). We appreciate all of those who may turn up to catch our set on Saturday 12th.
Have you been to Bloodstock before? What did you think?
We’ve all been major fans of Bloodstock for years. My first time was back in 2011 when Morbid Angel, At The Gates and Napalm Death played in a row on the mainstage. Its amazing not only to see the festival grow, but also to see that it’s not grown away from it’s underground roots. My favourites were probably 2013, 2014, 2018 and 2021 all for different reasons.
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When/how did you find out you’d been selected to play at Bloodstock?
A couple of months ago, I received an email from Simon Hall offering us the slot. I jumped out of my chair when I found out! I rang around the lads and we confirmed within the hour.
What sort of setlist can we expect?
We’ll be playing a good amalgamation of our two albums (Look Past The Gore… and Necrovictology), focusing on a mix of the longer, more technical tracks (eg “Draconian Reprisals”) and the more simplistic punk ones (like “Regret” or “A Lifetime of Suffering Deserved”). It’ll be a tight 30 minutes of music and I hope that the people in attendance will enjoy it.
Which other band do you most hope you’re not clashing with so you can see them play?
Thankfully, as we’re on the Jager stage, we wont be clashing with any of the mainstage acts but I really hope we’re not clashing with our friends in Extort, Bloodmores or Casket Feeder who are also playing the same day.
What are you working on at the moment?
Currently we are in the process of rehearsing the tracks for our third album entitled L’Appel Du Vide. During Covid, I had written and demoed 25 tracks instrumentally and we’ve been spending a lot of our time working on the material to “trim the fat” so to speak. Beyond that, we’re continually working to play more shows. We’ve just confirmed our first shows in Italy and Malta this year, as well as a few more European debuts in 2024.
What’s the wildest thing you’ve seen or done at a live show?
The first thing that springs to mind is when I broke my leg onstage back in the early days of RV. I was being a “rockstar”, jumping off the stage to do my solo in the crowd which worked absolutely fine… until I went to jump back onstage, clipped my toe on the monitor and fell face first onto the floor, thankfully not landing on my guitar. My ankle however hit the monitor hard and I had to hobble through the rest of the set. There was also a time a guy I knew slashed his wrist at a gig in a false sense of black metal bravado, causing his artery to rupture and a swift trip to the hospital in a less than grim and frostbitten ambulance.
What drink do you throw back to get yourself fired up before going on stage?
I’m personally a rum guy but I dont mind a Jagerbomb or two here or there. The post-30 hangovers are a pain in the arse though.
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