Caskets: “If this band didn’t work out, I wasn’t going to bother again. It’s really cool to have a buzz around us now”

Having excellently captured the sound of modern metalcore on their 2021 debut Lost Souls, Leeds quintet Caskets have made an understated but absolutely assured breakthrough these past couple of years (over 100 million streams since the record’s release is no small feat). Indeed, the whole thing is still something that frontman Matt Flood finds ​“fucking madness”, with Lost Souls taking the band across Europe, and to America and Australia. But their success is no fluke: they’ve been gathering pace with an ever-swelling fanbase, and a collection of meticulously-crafted heavy bangers to suit. And so we come to second album Reflections. While its predecessor was a collection of songs based upon Matt’s struggles, the band’s upcoming collection embodies all things Caskets, with ea...

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