South London metal unit Burner already have the support of the biggest names in the game.

Signed to Church Road Records the band released their debut EP A Vision of the End in 2022, produced by Lewis Johns (Svalbard, Conjurer, Employed To Serve). Metal Hammer promptly named Burner one of their bands to watch, and their 2023 debut album It All Returns To Nothing cemented a brutal sound that pulls from death metal, hardcore, black metal and crust punk all at once. Now they’re back with their second album, No One Is Coming to Save Us, coming out on 25th September, and the company Burner find themselves in has jumped to another level entirely.

Lead single Sunrise, Parabellum features a guest vocal from Trivium’s Matt Heafy, a hero of vocalist Harry Nott’s, What Will You Give? pairs up with Josh Middleton of Sylosis after the bands toured together in 2024, and Cult Leader’s Anthony Lucero features on the song Kurtz. These guest features are all a result of Burner’s relentless touring, punishing live reputation and genuinely distinctive sound. The album’s release is marked with a London show at The Lower Third on 26th September before the band heads out on a full UK headline tour, and we strongly recommend you catch them in a small venue while you still have the chance.

We caught up with the band to find out more:

Hi guys! No One Is Coming to Save Us is a bleak but truthful title, is that the driving theme of the whole record?

This is your second album with Lewis Johns, who has been making all the best UK metal bands sound absolutely huge. Can you tell his process and how he’s always able to get such massive results?

How did the guest features come about, and what inspired the choice to reach out to so many other artists this time around?

Take us back to the very beginning before you were gigging. What was the initial spark that formed Burner?

Church Road are a terrific label who are doing fantastic things for the metal scene, how did you link up with them so early on?

Who are the bands that inspired you to do this in the first place, whether sonically or in attitude?

What are the non-metal influences that are most important to Burner?

Do the four of you come with similar music tastes or do you pull from different corners?

If you had a time machine and went back to tell your thirteen year old selves you’d one day record a track with Matt Heafy, how would they react?

Finally, what is the ultimate goal of Burner?