It’s midsummer in Brixton, and the sun is beating down mercilessly. The pungent odour of butchers’ shops and fishmongers adds to an oppressive miasma as Hammer trails breathlessly behind four figures clad in black. Wearing leather jackets, denim jeans and boots, they’re dressed for winter rather than a blistering London heatwave. But they are Overthrust, Botswana’s death metal cowboys, and it’ll take more than this to stop them looking cool as fuck.
“It’s a bit warm,” vocalist Vulture Thrust – real name Tshomarelo Mosaka – concedes, when we sit down at music venue Club Cheek, following a photoshoot.
