Let’s face it: in a year where Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and myriad other heavyweights have unveiled new albums, nobody could have predicted Southampton goth-punks Creeper taking Metal Hammer’s Album Of The Year spot with their vampire rock opera, Sanguivore. Least of all the band themselves.
“[Creeper guitarist] Ian Miles’ favourite band is Metallica, so he feels like he’s committed some kind of crime,” admits Creeper frontman Will Gould, grinning like the Cheshire – or perhaps more accurately, Hampshire – cat. “It’s so humbling, especially for the type of record we’ve made, as the reference points we are drawing from aren’t really cool records.”
