Beneath The Hollow is a heavy metal band based in Chicago, IL.
Please list all of your band members and their roles in the band:
Jewell Yocum - Vocals
Jesse DeGroot - Guitar
Tyler Williams - Bass
Matt DeGroot - Drums
For starters, what bands were you guys a part of prior to Beneath the Hollow? How long has the band been around?
Jewell: NDX, Decondtruct, Habit of Force, OnlySound
Jesse: none really, this has been my main thing since it started.
Matt: none
Tyler: this is the only band I’ve been in worth mentioning haha
What’s the origin of that name and have you changed the band’s name before?
Jesse: Beneath the Hollow was just something we came up with as angry youngsters. I remember (vaguely) it being stemmed from the point of view the vast majority of society bow and follow all these entities void of any real substance. Be in religion, political figures, reality stars, excess culture. And all the people on the outside of the norm that had different values, or didn’t need those things were looked at like they were less than or strange.
Who writes your songs? What are the main themes or topics for most of your songs and do you think these topics will change over time?
Jesse: musically I usually present a demo to the rest of the guys and it goes through rounds and rounds of revisions and adjustments. Lyrics / Vocals/ melodies are all Jewell.
What bands are currently inspiring the music that you’re making?
Jesse: the music that has been inspiring me lately would be: Knives Out!, Dillinger Escape Plan, Murder by Death. Which is odd because we don’t really sound similar to any of those artists. But their music is so good it makes me want to go write better songs.
Was there a particular band/artist or concert that inspired you to start a band?
Jesse & Matt: Pantera, Alice In Chains, NothingFace and so many more we couldn’t begin to list them all.
What do you do to prepare for a show? Any flexing, exercises, etc …
Just the basics. 30-45 mins warming up preset. Light stretching.
What has been the biggest highlight of the band’s career so far?
We have been lucky enough to share the stage with so many bands we looked up to we couldn’t possibly narrow it down to one.
If you could tour with any bands, past or present, who would they be and why?
Past: Pantera / Black Sabbath
Current: Clutch, Alice In Chains
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Thanks for having us! We appreciate outlets like Kill the Music for shedding some light on underground bands such as Beneath the Hollow!