BELIEVE IN NOTHING

Believe In Nothing is a band from Eastbourne creating unsettling heavy music that leaves an indelible friction burn on anyone who encounters it. There is no pidgeonhole to contain the cripplingly heavy and untethered sonic mass that arrives like a runaway freight train.

Their sound is both lunging and dense and their backdrop a world in ruin. An arsenal of noise effects produce a heightened paranoia to set things off, before giving way to guitars like atonal breeze-blocks of sound flanked by unhinged vocals and the drums of war, each element adding its own nightmare layer to the band's barren and unsympathetic musical fever dream.

Emerging in 2023, the band consists of Caine (vocals and noise gadgetry), Lawrence (guitar), Steve (guitar / bass) and Jasper (drums). These guys other projects past and present include Torrid Horror, Street Grease, Tempest, Blessed Burden, [REDACTED], Safe Harbour, Karnius and several more.

After practicing with a few different line-ups, Jasper who had originally been on guitar jumped behind the drumkit and all of a sudden the tectonic plates of the band's sound finally aligned. The band intentionally avoids formulaic songwriting, opting instead for collective improvisation.

Their set is often strung together in a single dissonant flow, broken only by jarring silences to heighten discomfort. On stage you'd notice that Believe In Nothing appear to be missing a bass player. Steve's guitar signal is split between a regular amp and an octave dropper routed through to a bass amp, giving the band an enormous and tight sounding low end.

Their debut set was at The Eagle pub in Eastbourne on May 11th 2024 with their friends Black Shape and Black Groove, before playing on some similarly heavy line-ups in Brighton and London, then returning to their home turf of Eastbourne for an already legendary Eastbourne Pier gig with Mortal Karcass and Harrowed on 25th October 2024.

November 2024 was busy - the band playing several Brighton gigs, another London bill, and closing the month out with a third Eastbourne gig.

Until now the band has kept listeners hungry. One solitary track Boiling Stone sits marinading on Bandcamp since Summer 2024. The track marks out Belive In Nothing's turf impeccably, a minimal yet bludeoningly heavy debut offering that plants its flag deeply and unmistakably on a scorched and abandoned earth.