GRIM COMET | Willy de Moya

GRIM COMET: Bienvenido

In 2014, I began searching for musicians for what would become my own project, with my songs and the direction I wanted to take without being in bands where I couldn't play my own music. After much work and many kilometers, I've achieved many of the goals I set for myself when I started with Grim Comet.

Since then, I've toured throughout Spain and abroad, taking my music on tour as far as China. We've shared the stage with many others, including Mondo Generator, Manilla Road, and Night Demon. We've also released several albums with an international label.

In late 2014, we recorded our first EP "Pray for the Victims," which was really a demo. We rehearsed very little and recorded it in two days. It was something we needed to do to start moving, and we didn't plan to release it, so we didn't overthink it. When it came out, a couple of labels showed interest, and since I didn't have money to re-record tracks, I decided it would be better to release it and start moving rather than leave it in a drawer waiting for something that might never come. We chose Art Gates Records to release it, and a few months later, in mid-2015, we would do 15 dates with Alice Cooper's guitarist's band, Casablanca, presenting our songs.

In 2016, our first album "God Is Dead, Let's Eat Him" would be released, recorded with Guillermo Laorga at Goldfish Studios, which led us to tour the entire country again with a tour of more than 30 dates that year alongside Manila Road or Nick Oliveri.

In 2017, after thousands of lineup changes, the group's formation stabilized, and after some scattered dates, we went to record at Metropol Studios with Koke Díez. There we recorded several tracks from our previous releases to reflect the group's live sound. This would be released in 2018 as Metropol Sessions, and by the end of the year, we would go to China for our first tour as headliners.

After returning from the China tour, we went into the studio to record our new album, "Afterlife," again with Guillermo Laorga at the helm. Grim Comet's latest studio work, with an approach closer to rock than metal and more direct than ever.

We began presenting Afterlife until the pandemic started in 2020, and everything stopped. We continued promoting the Afterlife album with various music videos until early 2022, but my work as a guitar teacher and the fact that I dedicated so much time to YouTube and Twitch during this period caused my personal project to take a back seat. In 2022, we returned to live performances and did several concerts to close the Afterlife tour, and our music appeared in Madrid Fashion Week thanks to Radio3 and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada.

A week after the last concert, we returned to the studio to record what would become Winter of Hate, an album paying homage to the sound and aesthetics of the 1960s, continuing the evolution of Afterlife by venturing into more melodic territories.