Subrosa
got a lot of attention in 2011 for their excellent album "No Help for the
Mighty Ones", and for good reason. The band's brand of unique heavy music
fuses elements of doom and sludge with violins and female vocals. It is one of
those albums that once you put on, hooks you in and won't let go. I caught up
with band leader Rebecca Vernon to talk about "No Help for the Mighty
Ones" and Subrosa in general.
"No Help for the Mighty Ones" was extremely well received by critics, and even managed to show up on Decibel Magazines Top 40 of 2011 list. I personally also thought it was one of the best albums of last year. You didn't get much press prior to that album, so could you fill in the blanks and give some background on the band?
“Subrosa
started in 2005. We self-released our first album, ‘The Worm has Turned’. It's
really lo-fi and was only meant to be an internal band demo. But then it turned
out well enough that we released it. After ‘The Worm has Turned’, I became
friends with the owner of I Hate Records in Sweden, Ola Blomkvist. He liked
Subrosa but said there was no way he could sign us; we were too different from
what I Hate usually signs. But after I sent him "Strega," our next
album, he liked it better than ‘The Worm has Turned’, and somehow convinced his
partner to sign us. :) We had a couple features in Terrorizer and Metal Maniacs
and some European music magazines, but you're right, we didn't receive as much
press as with ‘No Help…’ Definitely no year-end lists."
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