NEIL MASSEY PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

One of my favourite series of photographs from my archive has got to be when I was commissioned by The Face magazine to photograph So Solid Crew in August 2001. They had just gone No.1 in the UK charts and were on top of the world. We went shopping down Oxford St in central London. 

Last week this series caught a mini viral wave on Instagram; Accounts it was shared on were @dametalmessiah, @linkuptv, @imjustbait, @grmdaily and @harveyoffical from So Solid. 

This then caught the attention of @thefacemagazine who interviewed me and...

I had the pleasure to meet Lord Spikeheart this year, a highlight for sure. A true original artist who you've got to see live to fully appreciate. He leaves it all out there, genuinely connecting with his audience. I photographed Martin at The No Bounds Festival in Sheffield and again at the ICA in London. 

As Ammar Kalia described him in his Guardian piece "Over the past decade vocalist Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, has become a figurehead of the burgeoning Kenyan metal scene: first with frenetic speedcore...