Bassist Butler tells Metal Hammer: "Nobody believed that we'd ever do anything. And we didn't either. We thought we might get to do an album or two if we were lucky, and then we'd have to get proper jobs.

"Because we'd been turned down by so many record companies, told to come back when we could play our instruments - all the insults you could think of, they'd say to your face. We'd do showcases for record companies and they'd walk out after the second song.

"So it was a real battle trying to get that album done. And then when it came out, all the press hated it and slagged it off. It really was us against the world." Read more - here.

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