Long-form conversations with the artists shaping heavy music's underground

Elena Voss on Burning Down the Machine That Made Her

The former post-metal architect turned solo provocateur talks leaving the major-label circuit, working out of a converted granary in Galicia, and why her new record is an act of war against the algorithm.

"I spent fifteen years writing choruses that were designed to be skipped. This record is the first time I've made something I'm not embarrassed to play my mother." — Elena Voss, on Granary Hymns

Across two hours in a kitchen that smelled of black coffee and sea salt, Voss walked us through the dissolution of her band Vespera, the lawsuit she won't talk about, and the recording process that involved burning the masters once before re-cutting them from memory.