Made from members of well known acts like Beaten Back to Pure, Alabama Thunderpussy, The Last Van Zant, Baroness and Municipal Waste, Birds of Prey is essentially a studio-project created with the purpose of playing old-school flavoured death-metal with a southern-rock vibe. And that’s exactly what the quintet handed over with stiff conviction and tongue-in-cheek humour in their first two full-length albums, “Weight of the Wound” from 2006 and “Sulfer and Semen” from 2008. Their recently released third full-length “The Hellpreacher,” though it doesn’t lack none of their trademark groove and heaviness, it sees a slight sift in approach with Birds of Prey geared to piece together a more serious concept album about an inmate-turned-priest. Scratch the Surface approached the band by e-mail to find out more about this intriguing story, as well as to discuss the origins of a band whose sole purpose of existence is to smack out some crushing and groovy tunes. Vocalist and lyricist Ben Hogg was kind enough to answer to all the questions so, read on…
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