Redefining Metal with Improvised Chaos, Saxophone and Heavy Riffs

The Copenhagen avantgarde-metal quintet delivers an unpredictable, high-energy live show bridging heavy sludge and structured improvisation.
Now booking European festival, club, and venue slots for all of 2027.

Better Life delivers an intense live experience that challenges the fundamentals of conventional metal. By blending avantgarde, art-rock, and improvisation with heavy music, the Copenhagen-based quintet creates a captivating sonic landscape that shifts rapidly from absolute walls of noise to moments of quiet beauty.Formed at the Rhythmical Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, their songs rely on structured improvisation, dissonance, and hard-hitting riffs. Booking Better Life means bringing an intense, genre-blending performance featuring elements of metal subgenre; sludge, black metal, noise-rock, together with post-rock, saxophone and vocal samples.
Backed by industry support - including an upcoming album featuring Shane Embury of Napalm Death, and an album release through Over The Under - they offer bookers a unique act that leaves audiences reconsider how to describe a metal performance.

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Better Life plows through the veil of the recognizable features of metal music. Only to reveal a box of art-rock and avant-garde methods that open up and challenge the fundamentals of conventional genre characteristics with new aesthetics.

Driven by darkness and chaos, the music shifts rapidly between extreme dynamics, from walls of noise to silent beauty. Their sound is based on an in-depth exploration of metal songwriting methods, combined with improvisation and field recordings. That turns into songs that are built on hard-hitting riffs, dissonance, and loose time structures. Musical references span from Chat Pile, Oranssi Pazuzu, This Heat, early Korn and Slint.

The Copenhagen-based band was formed in 2024 by Simon Hiemstra, during his studies at the Rhythmical Music Conservatory. Better Life consists of Anders Justiniano (drums), Harald Ingvarsson (guitar), Mads Ulrich (bass), Oscar Alstrup (saxophone, synth) and Simon Hiemstra (vocals, guitar).

Better Life will release their self-titled debut album in February 2027.

Music

Better life's debut single is a fast-paced track that leaves no room to breathe, until it collapses into a desperate meltdown of self-reflection. Built from dissonant guitars, vibrant drums and loud screams.
'Shy' was released on September 23rd 2026 and is the first single from Better Life's self-titled debut album.

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Better Life's live set brings the band's extreme dynamics and improvisational approach into a physical performance,
moving between dense walls of sound, tightly structured passages and moments of quiet beauty.

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📍 Copenhagen, Denmark📧 Booking & Management
[email protected]📞 Phone (Anders Justiniano)
+45 2342 6559