DEITY’S MUSE

South African prog metal that’ll make your brain explode and your heart sing

WHEN YOU ASK Deity’s Muse frontman Wayne Boucher what his band sounds like, his default answer is always:

“If Alice in Chains and Tool had a baby with Tesseract.” A heavenly combination on paper, what this means to him is prog-metal with big riffs, fat groove and songs packed with melody.

Over the past few years, Deity’s Muse have smashed UK festival slots at

Bloodstock and Techfest as well as supporting Jinjer across the country.

However, in their home of South Africa, the band are presented with something of a glass ceiling: the music scene is small, there aren’t many venues and few international bands tour the country.

“It’s very easy to oversaturate your market here,” says Wayne. “Last year we played more shows in the UK than

South Africa!” It’s clear that the band’s technicality and focus on writing anthemic metal has struck with British metalheads.

About to release the second EP in their intended trilogy, the band have tunnel vision on how they’re going to make their sound even bigger. “We’ve really been quite meticulous in the way we’ve approached songwriting,” Wayne adds, explaining that the band want to go heavier, proggier and incorporate more melody.

Wayne looks to his songwriting heroes Maynard James Keenan and Chris Cornell for how this can be done. Like these legends, he wants his music to last forever. “I don’t want to write something that is going to get old in five years,” he says. “The goal is to try and write something timeless.”

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