Brighton-based four-piece Every Hell - who feature ex-members of Black Peaks, Broker and Memory Of Elephants, no less - have just dropped their highly-anticipated debut EP, 'Vertebrate'. Arriving on the spookiest of days (31st October, date fans), it's a no-edits, straight-to-tape testament to the group's raw, unfiltered sound and intense live performances, as well as their experimental spirit. Vocalist Will Gardener introduces the new record, and gives us five of his most interesting facts about it.

"The whole process of making 'Vertebrate' has been nothing but inspiring for me," he says. "It's really let me find my feet as a writer and build trust and chemistry with the guys. I felt very nervous at the start as it's a very weird way of writing, bringing whole riffs, choruses and chord sequences but written on saxophone and then trying to see if it works with us all. It's been a real learning curve but one that I have embraced wholeheartedly and with all my soul.

"The studio was one of my favourite recording experiences I've ever had, and the songs just grew so organically and with so much power it was really something special. As a vocalist, I have never felt as comfortable and in a free-flow state as when I was in the booth for this session. Something about tracking it all together and live, to tape added this extra adrenaline bump that I think you can really hear in the finished article."

All the video stuff and artwork with crazy pigs and chickens was made by Will and Mark using a combination of AI video software and hand line drawing. Will has been working for four years in AI animation now since making comics for Skin Failure and bits of artwork for various projects. Mark is a wizard with Photoshop and uses a hand drawing pad to trace over bits and then edits it all together into the insane mash that is our videos and artwork!

A lot of the riffs and chords featured across the EP were written on saxophone. Will has a special set-up using a Quad cortex amp and cab modelling pedal that makes the sax sound like heavy guitars or a synth. " I write a lot of the riffs at home or at the studio in Brighton and then take them to the rest of the guys to expand on and turn into real songs.

Most of the EP was recorded in one take, straight to tape. Everything you hear is what we did, all together in one room (apart from a piece of glass separating the vocals). We did this at Middle Farm Studio, engineered under the watchful gaze of recording wizard Pete Miles. It was a very intense, high-octane, but incredible experience.

As we are a very bass riff-driven band (a lot of the meat and potatoes comes from the bass), Andrew uses two bass amps and cabs to achieve spectral audio dominance; this is all over the EP recording.

We mixed the EP ourselves, in-house, with our stylish and sexy egg man, Mark Roberts. It was liberating to have Pete take the reins while we were tracking. But, equally great to be able to take it home and have the control to mix it how we wanted.