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Mat McNerney Biography

Kvohst (born Mathew Joseph McNerney in 1978) is a British singer and songwriter. He has lived in Norway and The Netherlands and now currently resides in Helsinki, Finland. He is the guitarist, singer and songwriter for the band Hexvessel and the lead singer of Grave Pleasures (formerly known as Beastmilk) and Gangrenator. He is the former lead vocalist of the Norwegian band Dødheimsgard and Code. He began singing in a SW-London based band called Vomitorium, releasing a demo in 1993 titled Haurium Oscula De Te. Later changing their name to The Tragedians, they released one demo cassette in 1995 entitled Krull. He went on to form the UK band Void (as Ionman) and they released the album Posthuman on Samoth from Emperor's Nocturnal Art label in 2002. Co-founder of the band Code, they released one demo in 2003 titled Neurotransmissions and went on to sign to Spikefarm Records for their 2005 release Nouveau Gloaming. Joining Dødheimsgard from Norway in 2004, he wrote lyrics and performed vocals on the critically acclaimed album Supervillain Outcast released in 2007 by Moonfog Productions. This album gained full points in all three major National Norwegian Newspapers including Aftenposten. In 2009 Kvohst was nominated for a Norwegian grammy or Spellemannprisen with Code for their album Resplendent Grotesque. He has written lyrics for the Norwegian band Virus for their albums Black Flux and The Agent That Shapes The Desert. Kvohst runs a weekly club night in Helsinki called Club Mega Therion, booking bands and DJing. He has also worked as a freelance graphic designer and copywriter since 2000.

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You never leave a band like DHG. There's very few who are insane enough to be a part of something like that and you just can't take it out of you that easily!

Band, Enough, Insane, Like, Part

I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a band called Spiderpact. There's a great scene there where they don't really care what's going on elsewhere and create music in their own vacuum.

Band, Care, Like, Pazuzu, Scene, Vacuums

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

Past, Stories, Tethers, World

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

Character, Isolated, Quite, Style, Think, Thinking

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Attention, Bands, Giving, Listen, Scene, Trying

Most every album - and especially metal albums these days - are made in a way that you can grow tired of them very easily: They're made to be dissected and played on radio, released as singles or stuck on at parties.

Album, Albums, Parties, Party, Released, Tired

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

Childhood, Religion, Tendons, Trying, Veins

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.

Back, Heavy, Play, School, Thinking, True

I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant.

Band, Evolving, Interesting, Period, Stuck, Thinking

The religion and it's many barbed indoctrinating tendrils just start to become what makes you who you are, so you have to kind of destroy yourself to be able to rebuild yourself and make yourself whole again.

Able, Barbed, Indoctrinating, Kind, Whole

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

Brought, Catholic, Mental, School, Years

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

Barriers, Bring, Ideology, Music

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

Essence, Failing, Gloaming, Hate, Think, Thinking

Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again.

Became, Black, Record, Records, Tools

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

Magazines, Mean, Needs, Risk, Take, Willing

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.

Albums, Basically, Modern, Song, Track

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

Band, Metal, Modern, Think, Thinking