You have some very beautiful proggy moments in between some really ugly heaviness. Do you have one side of the sound that you prefer more than the other?
At the moment we're definitely exploring cleaner and mathier sounds -- as much as we like fuzz and screaming, it falls flat if it's not contrasted by softer more ambient sounds. When writing in our practice space we like to focus on the more chill side of ourselves but live we like to focus on throwing shapes and screaming.
Do you feel being from Cork, or Ireland in general, has informed God Alone's music and lyrics?
Being from Cork is the biggest influence on our music, really -- it's a fairly small, grey city, but the music scene is one of the best in the country. There's no one 'metal' scene but rather just a massive music scene where everyone collaborates and are really sound about going to gigs. At any given gig in Cork, you could find rappers, DJs and hardcore lads, and they all get on and influence each other. The majority of us live in the Northside of Cork City, which can be considered a disadvantaged and dangerous area, the sights and sounds of our homes affect our music more than anything really.
Looking at your promo photos, those are some shirts. Did you intentionally want to inject color into music often filled with stark black-and-white aesthetics, or do we just need to get on your wardrobe level?
All of the shirts belong to our singer Jake who has quite the spicy wardrobe. Pictures and videos of metal lads in black and white in warehouses looking sad have been done a million times before and any sort of 'mystique' or 'evil-ness' they might have had before has been watered down and laughed at, really. We just want to write sad dancey metal and wear spicy shirts, to be honest.
Check out our exclusive advance stream of God Alone's new self-titled EP below: