Conjurer: The Art of Unselfing. A lovely chat with Brady.
Conjurer: The Art of Unselfing
There's a moment about two minutes into "Hang Them In Your Head" where everything collapses inward before detonating outward—a gut-punch transition that encapsulates what Conjurer have been chasing across three albums: the space between suffocation and release, the razor's edge where brutality becomes catharsis. Unself, their third full-length released October 24th, 2025, exists entirely in that uncomfortable in-between, refusing tidy categorisation to instead carve out something more feral and urgent.
This isn't evolution—it's exorcism. The Rugby quartet have spent years dismantling expectations, and Unself completes that demolition with a record that sounds like Neurosis and Converge locked in a cage match, filtered through the UK's muddier, grittier tradition. But what does "unselfing" actually mean? What does it cost to access the deepest parts of yourself and translate internal chaos into structural violence—songs that lurch and heave with the unpredictability of a panic attack, where the heaviest moments aren't always the blast beats but the silences that precede them?
When Dan Nightingale screams "let us live" on the doom-crawl devastation of that track, it's not a request—it's a demand against erasure. Unself carries the weight of personal reckoning, threading identity and internal struggle through riffs that refuse to settle into predictable rhythms. The album's emotional architecture feels deliberately cyclical, trapped rather than resolved—suffocation and catharsis on repeat, beauty woven through brutality without ever feeling exploitative or empty.
I sat down with Conjurer for the third time (2nd time with Brady Deeprose)—a rare privilege in the underground, this kind of continuity—to discuss ego death, the vulnerability required to create something this exposed, and how Conjurer calibrate that impossible balance between restraint and obliteration. We talked about what "heavy" means in 2025 (spoiler: it's existential, psychological, sometimes even gentle), whether underground music can achieve longevity in an increasingly disposable landscape, and what happens in the studio when someone plays something and the room goes silent because you all know you've hit something real.
This is the rare heavy album that earns its emotional weight through craft rather than volume, where every crushing riff serves the larger narrative of dismantling and rebuilding. This is music for anyone who believes heavy music should hurt in the best way. This is Conjurer, hollowed out and strangely invigorating, refusing to look away.
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