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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Stephen Hill

"We’re the last ones standing from the scene." Employed To Serve are fostering the next generation of British metal talent

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Employed To Serve singer Justine Jones leans back in her chair and flashes her widest smile. “Don’t be fooled, everything we’re doing now is totally out of necessity,” she says with a laugh. “No one wanted to book us or wanted to take a chance on us. It’s just that you’ve got to make your own opportunities or just sit and sulk. So we stopped sulking and made our own opportunities.”

We’ve just asked Justine if the DIY ethics that drive both her band and the underground metal empire she and her husband – ETS guitarist and co-vocalist Sammy Urwin – have built alongside it were born from a staunch punk rock spirit, or simply a necessity to survive in the music business.

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