Chosen by Monk
Look up the words “prodigious” and “prolific” in the ‘Über Rock Encyclopedia of Musical Terminolgy’ and you will find one simple reference: “See David Pepper”. The Northern Ireland musician is a more than ample exemplar of both terms, as the one-man melodic metal machine has released something like 15 albums in less than a decade – and he seems to have plenty more fuel left in his tank, as with the ink barely dry on his latest release he’s already apparently hard at work on his next one…
Over the past two years, he has pushed his boundaries away from purely instrumental work with a series of successful collaborations, not least with vocalists Andrew ‘Jones’ Cassidy of Cursed Sun, with whom he has released a triptych of singles, and Ben Graves of grunge/stoners TriggerTone. His latest coupling sees him reuniting with another old musical sparring partner – Joe Dirt of Donegal gothic death metallers Kraik.
Speaking about this latest union of like-minded souls, Pepper says:
I gave Joe a few songs to choose from and he chose this one. His vocals on this are very different from what he usually does in Kraik! Thankfully he was game to sing cleans throughout on this song, and what an amazing job he has done.