Inside a sweltering room in Leeds, 1,000 people are hyperventilating en masse. As Paleface Swiss vocalist Marc ‘Zelli’ Zellweger leans over the barrier, rapping, screaming and gasping his way through an almost comically brutal Nail To The Tooth, the crowd keep pace with every word, eyes bulging, fists punching the air. The riff that follows is filthier than a slaughterhouse, before Zelli randomly bellows the weirdest mosh call you’ll hear all year: “We are the reason for the holes in the Swiss cheese!"
“The singalong stuff is something that gets me all the time,” Zelli tells Hammer later with a huge grin. “That’s the thing I live for. I don’t think that my style of vocals is super easy to sing along to!”
