In his defence, he’s additionally been bloody busy. Describing himself as a “actually dangerous time supervisor”, Oli’s had much more on his plate than traditional, making setlist tweaks and developing brand-new manufacturing for the band’s last reside dates of the yr – which is a full-time job in itself. To not point out he’s additionally given himself the laborious process of “attempting to take the POST HUMAN story to totally different mediums”.
Cling on… what does that imply?!
“I’m not even certain myself but!” he admits. “One thing I’d positively love to do is a manga. After we have been in Japan final, we went and spoke to some those who mainly do the most important mangas – like Ghost In The Shell and Akira. I’m speaking to quite a lot of totally different people who find themselves actually good at this sort of stuff, and thru some serendipitous occasions I’ve met individuals who might be actually cool to work with. I’ve had this story in my head for years, and now it’s like, ‘If you’d like it to be like the way you see it, you’ve bought to jot down all of it out.’ At first it began off like, ‘I’ll simply offer you a abstract of every chapter.’ However as I’ve been writing, there’s a lot extra in my head than I believed there was…”
Whereas it’s nonetheless up within the air till he finishes it, what Oli does whole-heartedly imagine is that this must be achieved proper. He’s not going for the simple cash-grab.
“Bands will do a comic book ebook and it’s a cute strategy to promote some extra data, but it surely’s not a severe factor,” he stresses. “I’d actually love this to be a correct factor. Not simply, ‘Our followers will purchase it and prefer it,’ however one thing that would attraction to wider followers of anime, or younger grownup fiction.”
Ever probably the most hands-on of artists, Oli’s had his head buried within the dystopian and sci-fi world of POST HUMAN for a very long time now, creating all of it. Intense because it sounds, it has been helpful on a private stage, as a result of he’s come to understand simply how a lot of his personal life has been the idea of this fantastical story.
“Whether or not it’s a personality who turns into well-known after which falls into medication, or there’s a personality who’s a cult chief,” he says. “It seems like I’m writing about one aspect of my persona, after which there’s one other character who’s the other, and it’s this duality, or battle between who will prevail. As I’m writing, I look again and go, ‘Truly, this implies a lot extra.’ In the identical manner that lyrics are a type of remedy, that is virtually like that, too. You understand if you watch a film? I all the time used to suppose, ‘I’m wondering if the author ever considered it that deeply, or if it’s simply us decoding all of it on a loopy stage?’ However you realise that you simply’re actually writing from a lot private expertise.”
And he already can’t wait to see how BMTH’s followers eagerly eat this newest enterprise. He’s launched them into his intricate world-building by way of secret web sites, hidden codes, spectrographs and extra throughout the POST HUMAN period – “They’re all the time like, ‘It received’t be Oli,’ but it surely actually is me writing all these diary entries and making these little audio clips,” he laughs – however now it’s time to take it to the following stage. It’s one thing he could not have had the arrogance to strive earlier than, however spurred on by the encouragement of his co-creative companion Jacob Harry Carter, he’s proud so as to add a complete new string to his creative bow.
“At first I believe I felt a bit of bit insecure about it,” he squirms. “However it’s made me realise that anybody can write a narrative, and anybody can do most issues. You’ve simply bought to take a seat down and begin someplace. It begins off a bit okay-ish, however you simply maintain doing it, and day by day [it builds and changes]. Now I’m on the level the place I’m like, ‘That is actually good’ (laughs). I’m stoked on it!”