INTERVIEWS
The GFM Band:
Defining “Beautycore” for the Women Movement in the Metal World By Tara Low
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unny how great developing talent makes its way to GGM, and maybe this could be categorized under the heading “Divine Intervention.” The Christian “Beautycore” sister trio Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh (or simply GFM) based in Jacksonville, Florida (as was Lynyrd Skynyrd) featuring sisters CJ, Maggie, and LuLu English is no exception. These young sisters were mentioned to one of GGM’s contributors by none other than his cable guy, and after he checked them out, he went straight to our editing team; and now we are excited to share with you what we learned in a great interview with this very cool band, GFM!
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Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh is described as a “beautycore” band. Tell us more about GFM and beautycore. We came up with the term beautycore in 2016. People were always asking what genre of music GFM was, and we would tell them metal or metalcore, but we didn’t feel that we completely matched up with the “definition” of metalcore. Obviously, we aren’t your average metalcore band because there are only three members of GFM, and we are all girls who are 19 and younger. We started using beautycore as a joke between the three of us, but a bunch of bands we were playing with actually liked it, so we started running with it. Now it stands as the title of the women movement we are trying to bring to the metal world.
