Backstage Hangs With SPLIT CHAIN

HEAVY Music Interviews · Jan 27, 2026 · 12m · transcript

Interview by Simon Russell-White

Videography and editing by Rashid AlKamraikhi

There’s a phrase you’ll hear repeatedly when in the company of Split Chain: “The Chain does what it wants”. As mantras go, it’s used by the Bristol, UK quintet as a means of encapsulating the broad-minded, unconstrained creative freedom with which they approach their art, as well as a means through which to try to make sense of the sky-rocketing trajectory the band have found themselves on.

Call it instinct, fate, divine intervention, whatever – the whims of ‘The Chain’ have led to a moment where one thing is…