Maintaining Altitude With MATTY DEE From DIRTY PAGANS

Maintaining Altitude With MATTY DEE From DIRTY PAGANS

Author: HEAVY Magazine June 17, 2025 Duration: 10:04
Interview by Kris Peters
Dirty Pagans have been on a crusade to return airwaves to the meatier sounds of hard rock and heavy metal for the best part of ten years now. Self dubbed riff n roll, the Adelaide outfit focuses on massive guitar riffs, dirty grooves and unapologetically loud undertones, hitting with the force of a sonic sledgehammer before ramming the point home.
Fresh from last year's national support run with Deep Purple's Glenn Hughes, Dirty Pagans are on the cusp of releasing their next slab of goodness in the form of Forever High, with vocalist Matty Dee joining HEAVY to take us through life with Dirty Pagans.
"We don't really try and stray away from what we love and what we want to sound like," Matty expressed of the musical direction on Forever High. "And that's the classic 70s kind of rock and roll heavy metal stuff. We pretty much tried to stay true to that and deliver that once again, so we're hoping that we've done that, and we'll let the fans decide if we have."
Dirty Pagans road tested most of the new album in the live arena, with Matty smiling at the memory.
"We got kind of like thrown in the deep end on that one because we were doing it for Glenn Hughes," he laughed. "So if it wasn't going to be liked, it was not going to be liked by people who love Deep Purple and Glenn Hughes' music. And they're probably old enough not to really hold back their opinion (laughs). I think we were alright. We didn't have any negative reviews."
In the full interview, Matty spoke more about Forever High and what to expect, the importance to Dirty Pagans of staying true to their roots, the tour with Glenn Hughes and how the band approached it, new drummer Gareth Briggs and what he brings to the band, their upcoming hometown album launch show and more.


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