Another casualty of causality, it seems. Godplayer, a mighty force in Brit Metal, are on "hiatus". Following the departure of a member in 2006, they drafted in one of the members of MAN MUST DIE, who by the way consist of most of Godplayer anyway. With things starting to develop rapidly however for MMD, Godplayer have had to take a backseat for now. Always looked that GP were gonna be the one that made it, with MMD more a side project, but now things are flipped, and it's MMD that are rolling fast and hard. We're hoping to get word from MMD/GP guitarist Fudgy to officially tell what's going on, so say tuned metalheads!
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Godplayer - live review
@ The Harp, Croydon, 29.07.2005
Godplayer are huge. Number one in the old MP3.com metalcore charts for an unprecedented length of time, and with a following north of the Borders that would constitute an army, they made a rare visit to the dark lands of the south of England in July, not knowing what the reception would be, or whether there would be one at all in the darkest depths of Croydon.
We'd heard them, but never seen them live. Aside from the METAL-i
team, not many there knew who Godplayer were but by night's end, the entire place knew the name Godplayer, etched onto their eardrums by an awesome show.
The punters - we'd say a hundred plus in total - were converted and the mosh pit was full. Extreme guitar work from Alan McFarland and Rob Coverdale on guitar, Daryl Watson on bass, coupled with storming drumming from Gerry McGrath provide the soundscape to the ferocious vocals of Joe McGlynn, a frontman to be envied by any major label band.
McGlynn's vocal charisma and the band's sonic storm combined to fill that mosh pit like it had never been filled before. Some of the punters were a little scared to find out the band was from Scotland, but there were no north-south rivalries here by night's end. One guy was overheard sayin "they're unsigned? why the fuck haven't they been signed yet?". Nuff said.
2005 marked their return to the live stage, following a break and personnel changes. This is the metal the industry needs to kick its collective gone-soft backsides into proverbial headthrashing gear, a wrenching but tuneful kick that grabs you by the head and refuses to let go. GP are the future sound of metal. This band is huge. They deserve to be massive.
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