Bassist Lucas Camonier and guitarist Marvin Wesdorp are the sons of Ronald Camonier and Erwin Wesdorp, who played xogether in Polluted Inheritance. Back then, getting a metal band heard outside Zeeland meant sending tapes and letters through the post, rehearsing in a barn and travelling out of a fairly isolated part of the Netherlands to find people willing to put on a show. These days their sons are signed to Mascot Records, have played Wacken Open Air and are recording with producers whose work they grew up hearing in heavy music.
The two generations even share a rehearsal space, with some of the old equipment still being used. Ronald and Erwin now play death metal in Klaïton, and their sons have the same room available for Inherited. There are guitars from the Polluted Inheritance days, old records, shirts and plenty of advice about the less exciting business of getting five people and their gear to a gig.
The connection runs like a tank through “ALL 4 ONE”. The title track is about helping each other through difficult times, “WASTED SPACE” deals with keeping good friends close, and “WON’T BREAK” is concerned with standing your ground when things get difficult. On “INHERITED”, Jamie sings, “the ones before gave it all they had, they will not be underestimated”.
“Our parents always drive us everywhere and help unload as well as manage things behind the scene. Our friends always show up to support and mosh. I think in that way ‘Inherited’ became our identity; unity and loyalty.”
That answer, given by Marvin and Jamie, covers the whole five-piece, including guitarist Midas Giele and drummer Neill. Parents getting everyone to the venue, friends turning up in the pit, people who’ll help out with a van or a drum kit. The guys have been able to count on quite a few of them.
Polluted Inheritance started when Ronald and Erwin, then guitarists in Pollution, joined forces with drummer Friso van Wijck and bassist Menno de Fouw from Sacrament. That was 1989, when finding a place to practise was already a small victory. Friso lived with his parents on a farm, so the band could make as much noise as they liked without bothering the neighbours.
Ronald remembers sometimes rehearsing three times a week. They were young, had time on their hands and wanted to play death metal. They began with local bars and smaller venues, eventually travelling further through the Netherlands as their demos and debut album “Ecocide” got around. There were also shows in Belgium and Germany.
“Getting our name out there as a band from Zeeland was quite a challenge back then,” Ronald says. “First off, making “good” music was key, of course—but honestly, that’s still the case today. In those days, we didn’t have the internet, so we had to do all our promo the old-fashioned way, by mail (you know…with pen and paper!) and sending promo tapes to all the venues and magazines.”
The old photographs and recordings are still knocking around. One cassette sleeve reads “DEMO 94”, with a handmade design and a list of songs on the back. There’s an old Dutch newspaper clipping about Polluted Inheritance, band photographs from the early days and shots of long-haired musicians playing in small rooms, decades before anyone thought about making clips for Instagram.
The first album helped them get onto bigger bills and festivals around the country. Their record deal with West Virginia Records, however, didn’t quite go as they’d hoped. Erwin doesn’t sound too bothered by it now.
“I think we had a really great time; some people say we could have gotten more out of it, but it’s fine as it is. I suppose we had expected more from our first record deal with West Virginia Records, but things turned out differently.”
Marvin was only two when Polluted Inheritance came to an end. Lucas and Marvin were too young to experience the band’s active years themselves, although there was certainly no shortage of death metal at home.
For Marvin, a lot of that music came from the upstairs guest room, where his dad kept guitars and amplifiers. He didn’t really understand why the room was full of all that stuff when he was little.
“For me it was the endless death-metal being played upstairs in our guest room. This room had all the amps and guitars, which I really didn’t get when I was little.”
One of his earliest memories of actually getting involved came when he was around eleven. His father was playing De Pit in Terneuzen, and Marvin had to help unload the equipment. He didn’t get to stay for the gig.
“I wish I stayed that night, but I think mom made me go to bed early. Later I also learned that they were a closing act for the metal battle back then, which is very ironic.”
Lucas came around to the music through Klaïton. Ronald took him to see the band at De Pit, giving him his first proper metal gig and getting him interested in the local scene.
Ronald remembers that neither boy was especially keen on picking up an instrument at first. Lucas didn’t start playing until he was around eighteen. Marvin initially showed little interest when Erwin suggested he try one of the guitars lying around the house. Things finally started happening around the beginning of the COVID period. Marvin began playing, moved from acoustic to electric guitar and eventually asked Lucas to join him on bass.
A pretty decent record collection came Marvin’s way as well. His dad passed on a big pile of vinyl, including original pressings of Slayer albums, and taught him a few things about playing death-metal guitar.
The family item Marvin remembers most fondly, though, is a little piece of paper Erwin gave him when Inherited started playing shows. It’s a checklist of everything the band needs to bring along. At the bottom is the word “stagemanager…” with a smiley face, referring to Erwin himself.
These days the fathers are still around the equipment. Ronald and Erwin rehearse with Klaïton at Ronald’s place, and Inherited use the same space. They have to work out who gets it on which night, but most of the amps and drums can stay where they are. Lucas and Marvin used their dads’ instruments in the beginning, and Erwin says Marvin still occasionally picks up a guitar from his Polluted Inheritance days. The younger band have worn Polluted Inheritance and Klaïton shirts at gigs, too.
After winning the Dutch Metal Battle, Inherited’s guitarists also landed an endorsement with Legator Guitars. Ronald remembers that being another big moment for the family.
There’s been a lot happening since those first rehearsals.
Inherited were still an extremely young live band when they entered the Dutch Metal Battle in 2024. In fact, they barely knew what they’d signed up for. A friend told Marvin about a chance to play a free gig at De Pit, and the guys figured it sounded good. They wanted their first show. Finding out they were taking part in a competition came later.
“Had no clue about any contest till the poster was released and even then we didn’t really care or know about the concept of the metal battle. It wasn’t till we won the second metal battle round (semi-finals in Rotterdam) that we really began understanding what the contest was all about.”
The run took them through venues including Baroeg in Rotterdam and Estrado in Harderwijk. They won the Dutch final and went on to Wacken Open Air that August, representing the Netherlands in the international Metal Battle.
By the band’s latest count, Wacken was their sixth gig together.
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The guys admit they were still figuring out the music and how to play it properly as a live band. They’d barely had a chance to build a set through regular shows, and suddenly there was a festival crowd in front of them.
“Honestly, I think we were still figuring out the whole direction the band wanted to go in musically. To look back on that show, if you’d put us there today, we would’ve delivered something far more polished and, in our opinion, better than what we delivered then. Marvin also started the intro early which probably wouldn’t happen today lol.”
The Metal Battle run also produced one of the better stories about how many people back home were getting behind them. Midas’s and Marvin’s dads helped organise a double-decker bus to take supporters to one of the competition rounds. Close friends were invited first, word spread quickly and eventually there were around a hundred people wanting to come along.
They ended up with a waiting list.
They remember doing the bus trip again for the final, and they’re convinced having that many people from home cheering them on helped them win. It also says a fair bit about the size of the support they could call on so early in their live career.
Wacken brought the parents along as well. All five members had their mums and dads there. The parents rented a house nearby and travelled back and forth to the festival, while the band slept in tents on the campground.
Ronald and Erwin had spent years in Polluted Inheritance working their way out of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, playing wherever they could get booked and hoping their records reached somebody further away. Watching their sons on a stage that size was a new experience for both of them.
“Then seeing them up on that massive stage was unbelievable. Erwin and I had to pinch ourselves a few times to make sure we weren’t dreaming. Stages like that were something we could only dream of!”
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Erwin remembers being on stage with Ronald and looking out at the festival. The younger guys were the first band on that day, and the fathers were pretty blown away by what was happening. Ronald was just as impressed by the organisation behind the festival, the stage setup and the access the families had around the site.
Plenty of Inherited’s other gigs have been about as far from a big festival production as you can get.
They’ve played a barbershop, a skatepark, a giveaway store and underground bunkers in France. One gig in a youth chapel in Belgium sounds especially difficult to forget. A girl kept asking some of the guys for kisses on the cheek, which they found rather awkward. Someone dressed as a garden gnome went around collecting donations for them and then decided to throw in €200 of his own money.
Inherited tried to refuse the cash. The guy wouldn’t hear of it, so they signed the top head of a snare drum for him and gave him a lifetime pass to their shows.
And that was only part of the evening.
An OnlyFans model was apparently hitting on somebody, windows got broken, and someone managed to put an Inherited shirt on a statue of Mary in the chapel. There’s even a photo from the night, with the shirt hanging over the statue and a guitar propped up nearby.
“Shit was crazy that night…”
Back in Zeeland, the band are keen to get people checking out their own local hardcore scene. They use ZLHC, short for Zeeland Hardcore, and talk about the area with obvious affection. There aren’t endless heavy bands to choose from, but they name Headlock, Unchained, Fist of Time, Kaakbreker and Incarnate as some of the groups making things happen. Headlock’s vocalist also happens to be Jamie’s twin brother.
De Pit is still the place that keeps coming up, although Beest in Goes, The Spot in Middelburg and The Piek in Vlissingen have all been important local venues for them. Before working with Mascot, they also had help from Hardlife Promotions, which they describe as a one-man operation that got them plenty of early press coverage.
People outside Zeeland might know the area mainly through its geography, sitting away from the major Dutch cities. The guys are more interested in the people who’ve helped them play shows and keep going. Friends regularly turn up to support them, and the families have been involved in the day-to-day work from the start.
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The local roots are all over “ALL 4 ONE”, although the record itself came together quite a long way from Terneuzen.
Inherited travelled to Leeds to record with Robin Adams, whose previous work includes Architects, Guilt Trip and Blood Youth. He produced and mixed the EP, with Adam “Nolly” Getgood handling mastering. It was a different experience from making their 2025 debut album “No Regrets”, which had been recorded and produced with their own resources and mixed and mastered by Gyan Klomp.
Most of the new songs were already worked out before the trip. The exception was “INHERITED”, which was still only a rough demo as they were preparing to leave.
“We actually finished the song in the van on the way to Leeds.”
Recording with Robin also changed the direction they had in mind for the production. The band originally wanted something more old-school, closer to the heavy music they’d started out playing. The finished sound headed towards modern hardcore.
“We previously wanted an “old-school” sound, but with Robin it quickly turned to a more modern hardcore sound.”
Across the EP, there’s still a clear connection to thrash and groove metal. The guitars have that metallic edge, with hardcore’s direct rhythms and group vocals taking the music towards the pit. “WASTED SPACE” gets into friendship and the people you choose to keep close. “WON’T BREAK” is about pushing through adversity, and the title track is concerned with helping one another when things aren’t going well.
The closing “INHERITED” brings those ideas back to the parents and friends who have been there since the first shows. It also happens to be the song the band finished in the van, then recorded with the producer who helped them find the sound they wanted for the EP.
The five of them don’t seem to spend much time arguing over the music. They make decisions collectively and have a simple rule when it comes to writing songs: everybody needs to be happy with a track before they record it.
It’s a fairly busy existence for a group of young musicians who still have school and jobs to deal with. Marvin, Jamie and Midas are studying, with one doing a nine-to-five internship and the other two attending school full-time. Lucas and Neill already work full-time.
Thursdays are for rehearsal, and they usually have a gig at the weekend. Somewhere in there, they also try to see their girlfriends and spend time with friends outside the band.
“But one thing’s for sure; band goes first.”
Ronald recognises plenty of that enthusiasm from his Polluted Inheritance days. He reckons Inherited’s music was already pretty mature when he first saw them live. He noticed things that needed work in their stage presence, though that’s exactly the sort of stuff a band learns by playing more shows.
The equipment, sound systems and stages they have access to now are far better than what Polluted Inheritance were working with. He also notices that the younger guys have to deal with all the online promotion that comes with being in a band in 2026. They’re keen to play music and get on stage, and social media can become a chore.
Erwin sees the other side of that change.
“I think social media is an incredibly powerful medium something we didn’t have back in the day. On the other hand, it’s actually harder to break through, partly due to the sheer number of bands and the media landscape.”
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For Polluted Inheritance, the competition was largely about getting their tapes heard and travelling beyond their own region. Inherited can put their music online for people anywhere to find, although thousands of other bands are doing exactly the same thing.
There’s also a lot more going on behind Inherited than the five musicians on stage. All the parents are helping out, and Ronald is keen to make sure that support doesn’t get confused with creative control. He and Erwin have offered advice, equipment and plenty of hours of their time. The songs belong to the younger guys.
“But as fathers, we had absolutely zero influence on their creativity. That’s entirely their own doing! And that goes for all the band members, not just Marvin or Lucas!”
Erwin agrees. He hopes they’ll carry on enjoying the music and whatever comes with it. He’s happy with his own years in Polluted Inheritance, including the bits that didn’t work out as expected, and wants his son and the others to have their own experiences.
Ronald has been through enough rehearsals, loading vans, gigs and record deals to have a simple piece of advice for them.
“If there’s one thing I want to pass on to them, it’s this… just be yourself and believe in yourself, …and don’t look up to others too much!”
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Inherited’s “ALL 4 ONE” was released on 2 October 2026 through Mascot Records. The five-track EP closes with “INHERITED”, whose official video was made by Renzo van Dierendonck and Mats Kribben. You can watch the video here, find the band’s releases through their Bandcamp, and keep up with their gigs at their website.
