EP. 338 - Dani Winter-Bates (Bury Tomorrow)

May 15, 2025

Dani Winter-Bates, the dynamic vocalist of metalcore band Bury Tomorrow, juggles his music career and a role in mental health for the NHS. He shares his journey of transformation and the band's exciting evolution since lineup changes. Dani also dives into meaningful songwriting, chaotic touring tales, and the importance of community support for mental well-being. With nostalgic anecdotes and a focus on camaraderie, he reflects on how embracing growth has shaped his identity both on and off the stage.

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ANECDOTE

Dani's Fitness Journey

Dani Winter-Bates shared how he transformed his lifestyle by committing time to gym workouts, initially overcoming excuses about not having time.
He and his bandmates now embrace fitness, creating camaraderie while touring and improving overall well-being.

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Growth After Lineup Changes

Dani emphasized that despite lineup changes, Bury Tomorrow are improving and evolving musically and live performance-wise.
The band embraces effort, fitness, and fun to keep growing and avoid complacency.

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Evolution of Lyric Writing

Dani highlighted how his lyric writing matured from self-reflection to broader themes, inspired by bands like La Dispute.
This growth lets him mix extreme personal content with varied subject matter authentically.

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Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience? Metelcore juggernaut, mental health worker and recently transformed gym beefcake, Dani Winter-Bates, is our guest on Episode 338 of Sappenin’ Podcast! The Bury Tomorrow vocalist returns for his own solo takeover, to celebrate their new album, his promotion within the NHS and juggling the importance of life, for the last two decades. In this conversation, Dani reflects on the bands fresh sense of hype since changing line up, BT 2.0 mantras vs early fights, embarrassing MySpace selfies, touring strip bars, evolving as humans, meaningful lyric tactics, earning his scene status, obscure fan comments, well-being guidance, never taking time off, day-to-day tour mayhem, a new circus idea, ignoring frontman stereotypes and more! Turn it up and join Sean and Morgan to find out Sappenin' this week!

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