PRYMA

Who are you?

A heavy rock/metal band from South England. Imagine you mix witchcraft, heavy riffs, Jack Daniels, and a loud ass party into one - That’s a PRYMA experience…

From conquering our local scene in Canterbury and surrounding areas, we are now ambushing areas all over the UK and headlining shows in that there London. Expanding our sound and collecting #Prymates at every show.

We let the music do the talking but we do add something extra at every show that will keep you entertained and wondering if you want to watch the antics on stage or join that pit that keeps growing in front of you.... If you want to fit in anywhere, you’ll fit in being a Prymate.

Roll call?

Vocalist - Gabi George

Guitar - Max Raven

Bass - Ant Durrant

Drums - Dom Smith

Hailing from?

Raised in Canterbury born in HELL.

Journey so far?

In the beginning, just after God created light, the band began with Gabi who started her 1st band at twelve years old. After years of practising, blood, sweat, tears, tantrums etc, Gabi found Ant, who as bass players tend to do, was learning how to drive a van, turns out he can actually play bass as well.

Finding members that fit into an idea you have, that have the same drive, the same need you do is almost impossible, but sometimes strange sh*t just happens. After two long years of writing and finding a starting point, Ant and Gabi found Max who was practising guitar in his dungeon (Mum’s Basement) after he responded to an advert on social media. About a year later, Dom stumbled into the picture, he pretty much instantly became our beer soaked naked Jesus (watch him play live, then you will understand). Dom genuinely was the final piece to a puzzle that cemented the Pryma sound.

The band have been destroying Kent and London over the last 12 months and are about to tear into the rest of the UK. We recently released our EP - “Uncaged” which achieved a 10/10 review from Smudge over at Powerplay Mag. Pryma will be playing all over the UK in 2023. It may be true when they say good things come to those who wait. Pryma wouldn’t be complete without the cherry on top - Alpha Band Management - Dave and Chris… THANK YOU for not shouting at us…often.

Influences/sound?

We find the sound is usually something the band and audience may struggle to label. We have a huge range of influences and this is portrayed through the music, creating a sound unique yet recognisable. We allow ourselves to think outside the box when it comes to creating new music, so many bands are aiming at perfection, that’s not gonna happen, we play what we feel and if something sticks we work with it. How do you define a mix of AC/DC, Bjork, Evanescence, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Alter Bridge?

Biggest gig/proudest moment to date?

The biggest audience we have performed to would be Kent’s M2TM (Metal to the masses) Final. The audience were extremely engaging and the whole atmosphere was bursting.. With sweat and people singing our songs back to us.

We have our biggest shows to date coming up in 2023 and couldn’t be more proud to be given the opportunity to play at some of the UK’s Legendary venues (The Waterloo in Blackpool, The Brickyard in Carlisle) and mix with such a wide variety of music and people. In May 2023, Pryma will be appearing at “Call of the wild festival” in Lincolnshire, which is a massive event for us, playing the same stage as Black Spiders, we can’t wait. As a band the proudest moment has to be when we received a hard copy of our EP - “Uncaged”. This was the moment when we looked at one another and couldn’t say anything; we could only sit and smile. We put everything into that EP, we learnt an incredible amount about ourselves as musicians and we can’t wait to go do it all again.

What does the future hold for PRYMA?

A truck load of gigs, recording and creating new music for our fans, old and new to enjoy, some announcements and competitions for our supporters to enter. But mostly we will be working our asses off, staying humble and making sure we deliver the best of Pryma every time we step onto a stage. Our fans and supporters deserve that, the support we receive from them is something we will never be able to say thank you enough for.