![]() ![]() It depends on the song, but for the most part it’s just me writing a lot of the stuff. PUPIL SLICER FULLWhen you’re writing music, what does that process look like? Does someone come in with a full idea or is it more of a collaborative process? It’s got like 235 BPM blasts for like two minutes, but he wrote those drums. The first song on the album is the hardest one, especially for Josh. We’ve been playing the album songs for like 3 years and people were like “You’re so tight!” That’s what people say at 50-people club shows, are they going to be saying that at 1,000 people? We’ve got to make sure everything’s super tight. We used to pride ourselves on our live show because we didn’t have good recorded material. It’s pretty crazy-I’m super excited excited to get on the road. And then the fact that we’re playing outside the UK for the first time. I’d say that’s probably the bigger difference, the amount of people. You have this large leap in the size of your band and the audience that will see it so that alters the performance a lot more than returning from covid. We got a new guitarist so we can get all the parts of our sound. We want to do the album justice because we want fans to get that experience live that they’re looking for. We’re getting a lighting guy-the Meshuggah lighting guy learned the songs and played along exactly, sot hat should be really cool. We’ve been learning the entire album, there’s a chance that we might play the album in full at the London show, which would be pretty cool because it’s a year after it came out. And then our next show in London is at 1,200 capacity and it’s pretty terrifying but really exciting. To put it in perspective, our last show was like 50 people in the basement and our biggest audience has been like 100 people. It’s still six months away but how do you feel about the idea of returning to the stage and finally playing songs from Mirrors? Those are your first shows since everything shut down. You announced recently that you’re going on tour with Rolo Tamassi in February. I haven’t listened to it a huge amount since it came out since I’ve been mostly working on newer stuff but I’m still really happy with the album. It’s been really cool that the fans of the band that I love that influence us-fans of Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge seem to be the people that like it the most. Basically people from all walks of metal fans, not just the mathcore crowd. We thought some of our friends would buy a copy and that we’d get some coverage on little niche websites and stuff, and it seems really well received. I’m really proud of it or what it is as a debut. Now that you’ve had some space from the writing and recording process, how do you feel about it? ![]() Mirrors has been out for more than six months at this point. PUPIL SLICER PLUSEarlier this month, they released the Collective Unconscious EP, which features the title track (and closing track from Mirrors) plus live versions of “Mirrors Are More Fun Than Television” and Converge’s “Concubine.” Decibel caught up with Pupil Slicer vocalist and guitarist Katie Davies to talk about Mirrors, the songwriting process, the band’s return to the stage and more. Pupil Slicer will hit the road to promote Mirrors in 2022 but they’ve kept busy in the meantime. Released earlier this year on Prosthetic, Mirrors combines chaotic mathcore, boneheaded hardcore and spacey post-metal in a way that treads both new and familiar territory. If The Dillinger Escape Plan had a baby with Nails and raised that baby on post-rock albums, that baby’s first album might sound something like Mirrors, the debut album from London trio Pupil Slicer. ![]()
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