Matt Kuch talks Dungeons and Dragons and metal
By Cai Bardsley
Like many modern-day artists, Matt has mastered the art of combining a bedroom and a studio into one small room of a share house. The space is filled with colourful painting supplies, board games, boxes of Warhammer figurines – some still in their plastic wrap – and an ornate shelving system filled with tubs labelled things like ‘moss’ and ‘wild tufts’. Despite the clutter, everything is meticulously organised in a master-of-chaos fashion.
We sit down next to the large dual monitors, one of which is open on Hero Forge, a character creator software that lets you design 3D miniatures, and the other is blasting a Spotify playlist called Matt’s metal fuckfest. We trade metal recommendations for a while and shoot the shit. I find out that Booka Nile, the keyboardist from Australian metalcore band Make Them Suffer, was also on Married at first sight. In return, I show Matt a band called Vatican who released a remixed edition of one of their albums where they ran all the songs through an 8bit synthesiser to make it sound like a Nintendo.
Matt sets up his tools on the painting mat and holds my newly printed Firbolg druid underneath the LED light, squinting at it through his glasses. He cleans it up with some tweezers and tells me his memories of getting into painting. ‘So it was Grade 6, and my friend Liam brought in a little box, which was an old Games Workshop Tau Broadside, which is like a kind of a big mech robot thing with giant cannons on his shoulders. The box had the art of it fully painted on the front and I was like, “that's really cool. What is that?” …
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