1. Please introduce yourself for anyone who may not know you. Tell us a little bit more about you as a band.
We’re Mudlarker, a stoner metal/doom band from Hereford. We combine classic rock style vocals with psychedelic heavy stoner riffs. We are heavily influenced by older stoner bands such as Kyuss, Cathedral and Orange Goblin but add our own spacey, sci fi led spin on it.
2. What made you want to participate in the Metal To The Masses South Wales 2025 campaign? Have you had previous experience? Or is this your first time?
This is our first time at M2TM. The reason we entered is to get more exposure in another city, our hometown of Hereford doesn’t have much of an original music scene and any excuse to get out there to larger cities, with more metal fans, is always a good thing!
3. M2TM is all about supporting your local scene. How important is the local scene to you as a band?
Local scenes are massively important for all bands! Our hometown was so bereft of any scene at all for a long time, so we did something about it and started putting shows and booking bands ourselves. Under the name of Lostronaught Promotions we put on 3 shows last year and we have another 4-5 planned for this year. All our profits go to the bands as they all need support, and of course, it was a good excuse to play another gig ourselves!
4. What are your expectations from being a part of M2TM?
We hope to enjoy it and make new friends amongst the heavy community. We don”t take ourselves too seriously and just enjoy playing together and jamming, of course winning would be incredible and we’ll give everything we have on stage to do that, but every other band will be doing the same and we’re under no illusions that competition will be tough!
5. What would playing a Sold Out Bloodstock Festival mean to you?
Everything! It will be the pinnacle of our time together. We do this for the thrill of playing live and that would be the ultimate thrill. We’ve attended bloodstock and other heavy festivals such as Download, Desertfest and ArcTanGent, and to play any of them would be unreal.
6. We encourage all the bands in M2TM to try and check out the other bands, who are you most looking forward to? Who should your fans also try to catch?
Our friends Painted as Monsters are a great band and we’ve shared the stage with them before, we’ve recently booked Risperidrone for one of our shows that we’re putting on in May after hearing great things about them. Of course every band will be worth seeing as we know how much time and work we all put in to create the music we love. We wish good luck to every band and we can’t wait to see you.
Local scenes are massively important for all bands! Our hometown was so bereft of any scene at all for a long time, so we did something about it and started putting shows and booking bands ourselves. Under the name of Lostronaught Promotions we put on 3 shows last year and we have another 4-5 planned for this year. All our profits go to the bands as they all need support, and of course, it was a good excuse to play another gig ourselves!
4. What are your expectations from being a part of M2TM?
We hope to enjoy it and make new friends amongst the heavy community. We don”t take ourselves too seriously and just enjoy playing together and jamming, of course winning would be incredible and we’ll give everything we have on stage to do that, but every other band will be doing the same and we’re under no illusions that competition will be tough!
5. What would playing a Sold Out Bloodstock Festival mean to you?
Everything! It will be the pinnacle of our time together. We do this for the thrill of playing live and that would be the ultimate thrill. We’ve attended bloodstock and other heavy festivals such as Download, Desertfest and ArcTanGent, and to play any of them would be unreal.
6. We encourage all the bands in M2TM to try and check out the other bands, who are you most looking forward to? Who should your fans also try to catch?
Our friends Painted as Monsters are a great band and we’ve shared the stage with them before, we’ve recently booked Risperidrone for one of our shows that we’re putting on in May after hearing great things about them. Of course every band will be worth seeing as we know how much time and work we all put in to create the music we love. We wish good luck to every band and we can’t wait to see you.
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