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Upcoming band Wyson are set to sweep over the nation with their first album, the Wyson EP; scheduled for release on February 20, 2015. Though recorded in mere weeks at a recording studio in Shropshire, the members are hoping that their audience will enjoy this album as much as their one off releases.

In an exclusive interview, we caught up with lead vocalist and guitarist George Woolford, to talk about their forthcoming album, and a few future gigs of theirs.

Hey George! What makes you think this album is going to be a big hit with the public?

“Well personally I think it’ll be a good seller because as well as our own songs which the band have written, we also have a few covers of the famous hits... But you’ll have to get the album to find out which ones. It’s all a bit nervy with the band at the moment, we just want it to be released, so we can see if the public do like it or not.”

If this album is a success, will you publish another?

“Defiantly! Even if it wasn't as popular as we thought it would be, I think we’d still make another album, which would hopefully be better than the previous.”

We've been told that you recorded this in a matter of weeks; do you think that this might have an effect on the songs?

“We all knew the songs really well, so when we recorded them it wasn't a surprise that some were finished fast, with only one or two retakes. Others were slightly more difficult, especially the covers… we wanted them to be as good as all our other songs and also as good and as effective as the original. I don’t really think that this will have an impact on the tracks, all of them have been refined and played well, so they should come out fine.”

You said the whole band helped write the songs, were there any major disputes among you?

“Yeah we all helped with the song writing, mostly I’d have a quick draft of a song then they would help me refine it and change certain parts if necessary. There were a few arguments over the lyrics, but it was resolved with a few compromises; but really if we hadn't have done this together the songs wouldn't be worth playing together either.”

Did any bands/songs influence you on the song writing?

“Well we really liked the style of songs from the American Idiot album, so we wanted to have that incorporated in to our playing, but we wanted it to be a lot more… heavy, if you see what I mean.”

On a personal note, you guys don’t really look like you play metal songs; is there a reason for this?

“Actually there is, we each have our own personal style, which is a mix of most things. What we wanted was to play heavy metal; but have the bands look contrast with that. This was mainly just to stand out from the other stereotypical bands, as most people have remembered us for this; which I’d like to think of as a good thing.”

You have some upcoming gigs too, right? Will any of your new tracks be on that?

“Yeah we've got a couple coming up for the Xmas holidays around our local area, there maybe one or two songs from the album, but we won’t tell you which ones... not yet anyway.”