1. Please introduce yourself for anyone who may not know you. Tell us a little bit more about you as a band.
We are Paradox To Stay, a 5-piece metalcore band from south wales, UK with influences in both the melodic and deathcore side combined to create and deliver melodic, heavy and hard hitting anthems.
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
We took part in Metal To The Masses last year and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and gained a lot of experience in working in this kind of environment and really enjoyed the overall experience of it. We even managed to network with other bands and have expanded our contacts list with new and like minded bands. We wanted to take the opportunity to participate again and take the chance of potentially performing at bloodstock open air, but most importantly to take part to have fun, meet new people and maybe even get in a few more gigs with different bands and to network even further.
3. M2TM is all about supporting your local scene. How important is the local scene to you as a band?
The local music scene is probably the most important thing to us, as without it, ourselves along with other bands wouldn’t be where they are today. That goes for bigger bands as well, as without the local scene, they wouldn’t have even had the chance to get anywhere near where they are now.
4. What are your expectations from being a part of M2TM?
Our biggest expectation of being a part of Metal To The Masses would be performing infront of a near full room of metal heads/ people that enjoy live music along side other bands and having a blast on stage and then networking with other like minded musicians to help each other grow. To be able to play at bloodstock would be a massive milestone for us and would mean a lot, especially since it is one of our main goals within the next few years to play at a festival, and bloodstock is high up there on our list if festivals we would love to play at.
5. What would playing a Sold Out Bloodstock Festival mean to you?
It would honestly mean the world to us, as a lot of bands we look up to have been on the bloodstock lineup multiple times, and to be able to be on the lineup where our influences have been one day is something we have set as a goal.
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?
We would encourage all our fans to see as many bands that are apart of this as possible to not only give the other participants a fair chance and opportunity, but also to potentially help grow their fan base’. The bands we are most looking forward to as part of the heats, would definitely be Akuma, Beyond Sorrow from the Cardiff side, but Swansea side would be Hollowed Existence and Lead By Lies.
We took part in Metal To The Masses last year and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and gained a lot of experience in working in this kind of environment and really enjoyed the overall experience of it. We even managed to network with other bands and have expanded our contacts list with new and like minded bands. We wanted to take the opportunity to participate again and take the chance of potentially performing at bloodstock open air, but most importantly to take part to have fun, meet new people and maybe even get in a few more gigs with different bands and to network even further.
3. M2TM is all about supporting your local scene. How important is the local scene to you as a band?
The local music scene is probably the most important thing to us, as without it, ourselves along with other bands wouldn’t be where they are today. That goes for bigger bands as well, as without the local scene, they wouldn’t have even had the chance to get anywhere near where they are now.
4. What are your expectations from being a part of M2TM?
Our biggest expectation of being a part of Metal To The Masses would be performing infront of a near full room of metal heads/ people that enjoy live music along side other bands and having a blast on stage and then networking with other like minded musicians to help each other grow. To be able to play at bloodstock would be a massive milestone for us and would mean a lot, especially since it is one of our main goals within the next few years to play at a festival, and bloodstock is high up there on our list if festivals we would love to play at.
5. What would playing a Sold Out Bloodstock Festival mean to you?
It would honestly mean the world to us, as a lot of bands we look up to have been on the bloodstock lineup multiple times, and to be able to be on the lineup where our influences have been one day is something we have set as a goal.
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?
We would encourage all our fans to see as many bands that are apart of this as possible to not only give the other participants a fair chance and opportunity, but also to potentially help grow their fan base’. The bands we are most looking forward to as part of the heats, would definitely be Akuma, Beyond Sorrow from the Cardiff side, but Swansea side would be Hollowed Existence and Lead By Lies.
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