Beggar

Comprised of Charlie Davis (vocals/bass), Abraham Whitworth (guitars), Jake Leyland (guitars/vocals) and Bertrand Sautier (drums), Beggar have shared stages with the likes of Eyehategod, Slabdragger, Elephant Tree and The Obsessed. Originally founded in Bristol in 2011 as a means of melding big grooves with a blackened mode of expression, these guys have honed their bubbling hatred over a series of EPs into something that might defy categorisation altogether. Impossible to fit within the ‘stoner’ bracket, their sound nonetheless nods to the huge monoliths of tone that such a tag implies. More multi-faceted than the death metal or hardcore genres would allow, this lot still use the sheer brutality and visceral dynamics of those styles as their primary means of propulsion. Across their whole palette Beggar absorb post-metal at its heaviest and most darkly psychedelic, grunge and stoner at the heady peak of their melodicism, and death metal and grind’s berserk kinetics and manic belligerence – all with the pure heft and nihilistic bluster of sludge. Beggar’s debut album, Compelled to Repeat, recorded with Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse, London, is released in April 2020 on APF Records.