Who are you?
We are Godeth. (Pronounced; God-eth)
An outfit of 5 individuals, with one aim. To blend groove, death and hardcore into one sound giving our listeners a little bit of everything that they could want in our sound.
Roll Call?
Vocals – Miles Case-Watson: Joining the band only a year ago, Miles has made a huge impact on the progression and tenacity of us and our fans. The delivery of his vocals are heartfelt, impactful and will leave an overwhelming sense of longing.
Dylan Walters – Rhythm Guitar: Dylan is one of the 3 founding members of the band and essentially began the journey for us with a drive to progress and improve. With a huge background in goth, metal and rock, he has assembled a sound in the band which we all resonate with, as do our fans.
Danny Campey – Drums: Another founding member of the band. With a strong education in music, Danny is a powerhouse behind the kit, establishing a huge sound with any track put in front of him. Growing up on punk and metal, he has found a ferocious attack that brings the band together.
Luke Dyde – Lead Guitar:The final founding member of the band, Luke Dyde creates the front and signature leads that come with our tracks. By way of his apparent influence from the metalcore genre, this style adds to the bands cacophony of sounds in a dark and threatening manner.
Jimmy Johnstone: Last but not least, Jimmy joined the band 2 years ago and immediately provided a bite in both the writing and recording process with his style of playing. Alongside this, he also craves making our life performances as manic and as big as possible, involving himself with the crowd in mosh pits/ circle pits etc
Hailing from?
We all grew up in Leeds, West Yorkshire with the exception of Miles who is a southerner living in Knaresborough, we always joke with him about the fact that he’s a fake Yorkshireman, but he is one of our own! Danny and Dylan both went to the same high school growing up, which soon led to the start of the band after Danny posted a Facebook post about wanting to start a band. We met Luke from an advert on Joinmyband, and Jimmy was a fan of the band before joining. We had met him on nights out in Leeds and became friends that way. There’s a really cool photograph of him crowd surfing at one of our early gigs, which is really cool to look back at now he is a member of the band! Finally, Miles joined us as he and Danny went to the same music college so when we were after a new vocalist he auditioned and absolutely blew us away
Journey so far?
Godeth was created in 2018 and we started playing shows in 2019. We didn’t really know what we were doing back then but we were initiating the chemistry and desire that we have today. We began building some a lot of traction in our local scene, headlining shows at The Key club, and performing at the O2 Academy Leeds but was met with a brick wall in the form of COVID which put the breaks on hard for us, when COVID ended we struggled to find out feet a little bit, this lead to our old vocalist and bassist leaving the band.
We then found Jimmy and Miles and since then we’ve gone from strength to strength by playing the likes of Bloodstock Open Air Festival as well as a bag full of shows across the UK, as well as recording our best material yet.
Influences?
We’ve all got a variety of influences, Danny draws a lot of inspiration from punk bands. Jimmy runs with hardcore and classic metal. Luke from Nu metal/Metalcore. Dylan with death metal and black metal.
Miles by way of hardcore and slam. So we cover a lot of ground which is what makes our sound very enigmatic.
Biggest Gig
For us so far, it’s got to have been Bloodstock 2023.
We were all so nervous the day of the show, having spent the weekend watching bands we idolise. As soon as we were on stage we were right at home and had the crowd eating from our hands.
To stand on a stage with that capacity, looking out to a mostly new audience, people getting involved and partying to our music it felt amazing and since then has cemented the direction and the passion of the band. It felt like 5 years of hard work is just starting to pay off.
The future:
We’ll be releasing our EP titled “The Path of Destruction” on April 26th and we look forward to touring it as wide as we can. Thanks to Slam Dunk, we will be hosting our EP release show at The Key Club in Leeds on the 11th of May. We have worked incredibly hard on this and know it’s going to be an amazing night. In addition to this we are already on our way with planning our next release so be prepared. We are looking forward to what the rest of this year should bring and if it doesn’t, we will take it.
Interview by Viki Ridley
Photo Credit: Alex Dixon
