Although their fur-trimmed, woad-painted uniforms appear to scream ‘notice me’, Brothers Of Metal’s formative ambitions were surprisingly humble and insular.
“All of us came from different bands that tried to make it, and be on those big stages, but never really succeeded,” admits Mats Nilsson, the hairiest of the octet’s three vocalists. “This band was more just, ‘Let’s get together and make fun music’, with never even a plan to play live or make an album. Eventually we realised we had enough good songs to record, but I think within that mentality of just having fun, you drop the notion of how to be successful.”
