Nine Black Alps

In Depth

Love and Hate: Nine Black Alps shed the scars of grunge

It’s been two years since Nine Black Alps arrived, seemingly from nowhere, to a flurry of anticipation and expectation with their debut album, Everything Is. Now, as they prepare to release its follow-up, singer Sam Forrest is keen to distance the band from all those Nirvana comparisons...
"I don’t want to be seen as being Mr Grunge Lite in 30 years’ time..."»

Climb Every Mountain...

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

If Manchester still has so much to answer for than I guess nobody bothered to ask the right questions. As the city prepares for the latest Oasis comeback, no doubt superseded by a million and one Gallagher impostors, Nine Black Alps have emerged amidst the black smoke and boggy canal like a Glade sponsored breath of fresh air.»

"I've lifted enough amps in my life. I think I've suffered enough."

In Depth by Anthony Gibbons

Nirvana. There we said it. Nine Black Alps will no doubt groan collectively at the very mention of the name. Yet, the influence of Seattle's finest infuses infectious new single 'Shot Down' with pure, punk rock adrenaline, an angry energy which fuels Nine Black Alps live, driving them on even when they are virtually on their knees with 'flu, as they were in Cambridge when DiS went to meet them at the run down local polytechnic.»