Today, we sat down with Ghastly Murder to talk music inspiration, advice for musicians and much more! Be sure to check out his new track Twitch on Spotify below!
Interview:
What is your inspiration to write your music? Is it your
surroundings?
The Music of GHASTLY MURDER reflects my surroundings – I live in the bleakness of mid Wales. The music we produce is dark , powerful, twisted but with melody and hooks. I write it because it has to get out it is not song writing it is exorcism. inspiration for songs comes from many forms it could be a turn of phrase.,it could be a story from the newspapers, it could just be from characters in and around my area. Other times I will for lyrical inspiration by try using William Burrows cut up method for lyrics or stories. In fact a weird inspiration for some of the lyrics of TWITCH came from an Ouija board session where the host kept spelling out ‘est spiritus et glorious ‘ which then became part of the song.
What type of music did you listen to growing up?
Gothic, Punk, Metal and classical- I like music with drama and mood and this has always infiltrated
& influenced my writing style. Just like that music I like to set a world I which the sound lives in And exists
Is there someone you looked up as a hero?
No, Heroes will always let you down so never one person or thing , just a series of transient people and events. There is a moment when things fall into place and an artists work will speak to me and in the past I have romantically championed musical Heroes but knowing in my heart that for most I remained a fan out of some kind of loyalty to the thing that they once were but now they are just a shadow of that,it hurts but in my experience it is also true
If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing today?
Something within the arts- a film maker or a writer or a photographer or a painter anything creative or expressive. My family were once circus performers so maybe I might have gone in that direction
What advice do you have for our fans out there that want to create
music?
Be Yourself, everyone else is taken I find little point of trying to be like or sound like a other band, why go for an imitation of something that already exists? I always walk the path less taken, it’s not always the easiest root but at least I know it has some integrity about it.
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