A year ago Cober Mouth were playing small village festivals in the Welsh countryside. This summer they’ll open Till Fest in a 15,000-capacity arena in Leipzig, their first show outside the UK. Adam Jones, the band’s vocalist, puts the shift dryly: “No offence intended to the village fests, we were raised on them and still love it, however a 15k arena in Leipzig is quite a change. It still feels hard to believe our music resonates with people to quite that extent.”
The Bristol trio’s new single “CESSPIT” arrives May 15. It’s the next move on from their 2025 release “III: DARK AS IT GETS” and follows two earlier singles, “GET A GRIP” and “PAIN PUSHER.” Guitarist Sam Windsor wrote 99% of “CESSPIT.” Adam and drummer Dylan Plenty added their parts. Adam sees it as a chance to give Sam’s heavier writing room: “Having only shared Sam’s more thall/metalcore writing with the world so far, it’s great to give a platform to his more grotesque and abrasive work.”
The track is also where Adam, who handles production and mixing on Cober Mouth‘s records, says he’s locked in how he wants the band to come across. He calls it the band’s hardest-hitting mix and master to date, built from the aggressiveness and thickness of the previous two singles. Dylan is just as into it: “Sam brought this track to the table and I couldn’t wait to get my teeth into it. It’s a track that highlights the heaviest of our music tastes and emphasises the aggression and brutality that resonates with us most when writing and performing.”
Adam and Dylan have been making music together since secondary school in Cornwall. Adam still remembers finding a poster Dylan had put up around the school’s music department, complete with logos of the bands Dylan was covering. “I respected that big style,” he says. “I don’t think we were ever two friends ‘messing around’, as from our first practice the aim was to do something we hadn’t yet fully achieved in our independent band ventures: to both write and perform music that would move people. Somehow we’ve managed to keep that going through the death of a band and the creation of another, until over a decade we reach today’s Cober Mouth.”
Dylan describes it the same way from his side. Their first track together as teenagers and their latest single sit on the same line. “The focus has always been to create something that resonates with us, combining our music tastes and finding/creating opportunities for us to perform those tracks in front of other people.”
The band’s earlier release “Untethered” picked up a Track of the Week from Alyx Holcombe on BBC Radio 1’s Introducing Rock, plus coverage from Metal Hammer and a Kerrang! Fresh Blood rotation slot from Alex Baker. Sold-out headline runs followed, along with support shows with Avralize, Profiler, Heart of a Coward and Osiah.
Adam doesn’t separate the small rooms from the bigger ones. “Whilst the support slots listed above have been enlightening, we honestly aim to give every room the same experience. I know that bigger shows are more work in terms of logistics, but the result is usually worth the extra graft, and seeing a crowd go off at a breakdown gets me fully gassed even on day 4 of playing shows. Bring on the hordes.” Dylan keeps the same line: “Whether it’s a hometown show, a new UK city or Till Fest, each show is getting 110% from us.”
The nu-metalcore tag gets pinned on Cober Mouth often. Adam places the band more precisely. “I believe we’re where deathcore meets nu metal, blending the breakdowns and blast beats of the former with the hip hop and groove mantra of the latter.” He isn’t sold on the broader use of the label, though. “I’ve heard some bands use the nu metalcore tag for music containing nothing that could be associated with nu metal, so in practice I find it’s thrown around a bit too loosely now.” Dylan is less concerned: “Since Cober Mouth began, we’ve never sat down to write a track to fit a certain label. It’s always been about developing each other’s ideas with our own flare and identity. If that fits the Nu-Metalcore genre, then great.”
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Till Fest prep is mostly logistical for now. Adam admits to a degree of imposter syndrome but says the practical side keeps it in check. They’d hoped in 2025 that they’d be at this point by 2026; the timing has worked. Their heavier numbers travel best in a room, Dylan says, and that’s what they’ll bring to Leipzig.
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