OTTTO: “We like to have fun, but that doesn’t mean our songs can’t be dark and aggressive”

There’s some kind of presence in the same room as OTTTO. During their Zoom interview with Kerrang!, the Venice, CA trio keep looking beyond or to the side of the camera, as if warning off whatever’s lurking there. Then, at one point, a plastic Mariachi figure reveals itself briefly, peering in at the top of K!’s screen for a moment before withdrawing again.  Judging from the way the trio – frontman/guitarist Bryan Noah Ferretti, bassist Tye Trujillo and relatively new drummer Patrick ​‘Triko’ Chavez – are trying to suppress laughs and smiles, it’s safe deduce it isn’t an evil entity. It’s also likely not Tye’s dad – the bassist in some band called Metallica – though the image of Rob trying to put off his son during an interview is rather amusing. Whoever it is, it captu...

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