After selling out their own headlining tour of Australia just last year, British metalcore giants Bury Tomorrow have wasted little time in delivering on their promise to return.
They will arrive back to these shores in August and September, playing alongside Spite, Bloom and Make Them Suffer as part of the Suffer Forever Australian Tour. Their last tour was to promote then new album The Seventh Sun, but, according to rhythm guitarist Ed Hartwell, this time Bury Tomorrow are coming just for the fun of it.
"It's funny, because I think we got offered this tour when we were in Australia last year," he smiled. "So we were out there doing that tour when the offer came through - of course it didn't get announced until much later - but we're just happy to be back. It's a really good time. I'm not a huge fan of flying, so it's quite a big thing for me to go so far away from home. Last year was the first time I have been to Australia, and it was such a good time. It's definitely worth any anxiety I get from flying over there (laughs)."
Given the fear of flying is a major detraction, we press Ed on what it is about Australia that makes it so appealing.
"It's just the people; the environment… there's just so much novelty about it that's really beautiful," he offered. "Driving through… we had some very, very long drives on that tour - like 10, 12 hour drives - but because you are just driving through, at no point does it really feel like England. It has that novelty of this is really cool. We're in Australia! When you see a kangaroo on the side of the road, you're just, like, wow (laughs)."
In the full interview, Ed talks more about the tour and what to expect, the strength of The Seventh Sun to allow two tours on one album cycle, the new sound for Bury Tomorrow on that album and if it will continue over future releases, how he is settling into the band after joining in 2021, how much he knows about the other bands on the line-up and where Bury Tomorrow fit in, what to expect from their live show, writing set lists for different countries and more.