Interview: Getting to Know Opensight

Diverse powerhouse hard-hitters, Opensight, announce their breathtaking new album, ‘The Outfit’, set for release on Friday 15th May via Inertial Music. The band have also just released the engulfing new single and video, ‘In Plain Sight’. In this interview, we get to know them a little better (again).

1. Hello! Thank you for taking the time to chat with us. First things first, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started.

Thanks so much for having us. We’re Opensight, a London-based heavy rock and metal band with a vintage film-music edge. The band first sparked years ago in Colombia, but we’re based in London now, and the current lineup came together through the London metal scene over time. We’ve been playing together for a good few years at this point, and the chemistry has really been forged through shows, rehearsals, and building this world around the music. It felt like a slow convergence, like the right people finding the right room at the right time.

2. Someone comes to you and asks you to sum up what kind of music you play – what do you tell them?

Imagine a band that could score a hardboiled ’70s crime film like Dirty Harry, a smoky Italian thriller, or a vintage horror flick. We grew up obsessed with heavy music, but we’re equally into cult cinema, old scores, grainy VHS visuals, and vintage videogame soundtracks, so that sense of mood and imagery finds its way into the songs one way or another. It’s heavy, melodic, and dramatic, but it always feels like it belongs to a scene or a sequence. We like music that feels like somewhere you can step into.

3. What’s currently keeping you busy? A new album/EP/single release? A new video? Playing live, or planning ahead?

All of the above. Our new album The Outfit is ready to be unveiled, and the first single, “In Plain Sight”, drops on Friday 13th March alongside a pretty cinematic video, very much “’70s crime film meets Italian thriller” energy. The full album The Outfit lands on May 15th via Inertial Music, who have been amazing to work with, with Season of Mist handling North American distribution.

Live-wise, it’s been an exciting period too. We played Z! Live Festival in Spain last year alongside bands like Dream Theater, Meshuggah, and Sepultura, and our drummer Redd jumped on for “Kaiowas” during Sepultura’s tribal jam, which was a dream come true. We’ve got shows coming up including Taunus Fest in Germany in late March, and we’ll be continuing with UK dates around the album release too.

4. What is about this current period that is particularly exciting for you?

First and foremost, finally bringing our new album The Outfit into the world. We’re really thrilled with how it sounds, how it looks, and the atmosphere it carries. We’re drawn to ’70s crime-film tension, Spaghetti Western drama, vintage-horror vibes and so on, and it feels like we pushed further into that sense of adventure and drama this time. There’s a stronger thread of story and tension running through everything.

It’s also exciting because we’ve had really encouraging feedback from a few people in selected circles who heard the record early, and because joining forces with Inertial Music feels like a genuine vote of confidence. It’s the feeling that we’re stepping into a bigger room, with more momentum behind the release.

5. Tell me about the work that has gone into making it a reality and what it means to you.

A lot of the core ideas arrived very spontaneously. Some motifs came in dreams, or in that dream-like state where ideas feel oddly vivid, the closing track “Delusion” is a good example.

With our previous album Mondo Fiction, we had that fresh energy of new personnel and new ways of working, shaped in part by the strange conditions of the lockdown era. With The Outfit, we wrote after becoming more consolidated as a live band, our chemistry is stronger, and we were eager to take bigger risks without losing the Opensight identity.

We worked hard on performances and sonics, and having Will Maya engineering again helped us achieve the exact vibe we were chasing. More than anything, what’s meaningful to us is the excitement and sense of adventure. The best sign is that even after all the work, we still feel entranced when we play the songs together, especially live.

6. Making music and being creative can be a very positive experience and can be very good for the mind. In what way has making music had a positive impact on your mental health?

Creating feels natural and it’s grounding. When you’re writing, there are moments where time slows down and your focus narrows to one thing, it’s like everything becomes clearer for a while. It’s similar when we perform. Playing the songs together can feel strangely entrancing, and then live, that feeling expands into the crowd. The experience of music is liberating, both individually and collectively.

7. It can also be incredibly challenging, more so in the modern times. What have been some challenging aspects of making music and how have you overcome them?

Most of the biggest challenges are outside the creative process. If a song isn’t working, usually it’s just time, patience, and letting the right idea arrive. The things that feel most challenging are the logistics and admin, basically everything that needs to happen to keep the band moving while you’re also trying to protect the creative headspace.

We try to be organised and to prioritise. The music has to stay at the centre. There are times to concentrate on admin and times to devote to the creative. Patience is a big part of it too, creating something worthwhile often takes time.

8. How do you handle the online aspects of being in a band? Having to put out content constantly, promoting across several different social media platforms, and having your success measured in likes and follows?

We try to make everything online feel like an extension of the band. If we share something, it should look and feel like it belongs in the Opensight universe. That keeps it honest and stops it becoming a numbers chase. Of course it’s great to see growth and engagement, but what matters most is genuine connection, the people who really listen, come to shows, and stick with us.

9. How do you make this part of things enjoyable, and fulfilling, for yourself?

By treating it as an opportunity to present our world the way we want to. We enjoy building the visual side, teasing the concept, creating clips that feel exciting, and making the whole release cycle feel like an unfolding narrative. When it feels like we’re unveiling the world, it becomes more fun, and it also feels more honest.

10. Speaking directly to listeners – what would you ask they do to help support you?

The biggest thing is simple: listen properly and share it if it hits you. Send it to a friend. Add it to a playlist. Put the video on in full, not just 10 seconds.

We are a live band and that is a huge part of the experience, so if you come to a show you will connect with it in a deeper way. Keep an eye on our live dates. We’re very thankful when people buy a ticket, grab a record or a shirt, follow the band, and stay with us through the releases and shows. For a band at our level, that support is vital, it keeps the wheels turning.

11. Outside of music, what do you like to do to relax?

Outside the band we try to decompress, even if The Outfit keeps the calendar busy. Apart from the obvious film-watching, cult cinema to classic thrillers, Westerns, horror, noir, reading is a big one too (you can sometimes spot sci-fi books hidden in the drum gear, and our lead guitarist is basically a bookworm). Old-school videogames come up a lot, there are people in the band who like hiking, others with Warhammer models and RPG tendencies, and some of us are into exercise. We enjoy a drink after rehearsal here and there, and we go to live shows, some more often than others.

12. Where can people find you?

See you at a show. But in the meantime feel free to connect with us through the links below. If you enjoy what we do, the trail starts here. And if you want the new album, visit the Inertail Music site here.

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