Cryogenic: Cold Play.

Cryogenic play Overcranked at the QUT Club, Gardens Point on Saturday.

Cryogenic bassist Henno sounds far to happy to be in one of the countries heaviest metal acts.

“We’re some of the happiest bunch of blokes you’ll ever meet,” he laughs. “We couldn’t be happier at the moment. Everything is just going fantastic, thing’s couldn’t be better for us at the moment.”

It’s been some time since Sydney’s self proclaimed westie headbangers have been spotted up around this way, and there’s a number of factors coming into play, none the least is the new addition of ex-Henry’s Anger vocalist Simmo to the line up, and the long drawn writing process for the follow up to the acclaimed 1999 release Ego Noria.

“We’ve only done a handful of shows in the last couple of years,” Henno confirms. “About eight months ago we parted ways with Sloane and Simmo came in and it’s just full steam ahead. We’ve written about 25 songs for this album. Hopefully we’ll be recording by the end of the year. That’s the last two years in a nutshell.”

We your part way through the writing when Simmo joined the band, or did you scrap what you had been working on and start again?

“We’d written about eight songs with Sloane. Things we’re going on a bit slowly. We were kind of un-motivated I guess. Simmo’s come in with a lot of fresh ideas, things we would not have thought of doing before.”

We the other guys in the band big Henry’s Anger fans?

“Huge Henry’s fans,” He confirms. “When everything happened with Sloane and he left the band I said to Jenks (drummer) that there was only one bloke I knew here in Australia that would be capable of filling the place, and if it didn’t work we were going to look overseas. Jenks said ‘I’ve got an idea, but you tell me yours’, no, you tell me yours… I said Simmo from Henry’s and he was like, ‘Fuck, I was thinking the same thing’. We got him down for a jam, and it was so intense. It was amazing.”

A match made in heaven, it would seem. Or perhaps more appropriately, a match made in hell…

“Everything is just falling together in our little master plan quite well. With Henry’s Anger Simmo was a bit restricted with what he could do with the songs, because they’d just released their album, and they wanted him to do everything their old vocalist did. We said, whatever you want to do, do it. If it’s different, that’s fine. The little bastard keeps talking us around to his way of thinking…”