Stephen Brine

December 20

Romford, UK (Born in central London)

Have a genuine passion for metal music since a young age and started playing bass in my late teens. After cutting my teeth in a mix of local thrash and death metal bands, am always on the look out for new challenges and to further progress my playing, so the opportunity to join Intense back in 2004 proved to do exactly that. Since then, to date, I've been involved with three studio albums, and live shows across the UK and mainland Europe. Which have all been immensely fun to do and look forward to much more in the future!

Spector Euro 5 LX, Jackson Concert Professional Bass, Warwick Vampyre SN5 (fretless), ESP Ltd F-255, USA Fender P-bass with Seymour Duncan SPB-3 ‘Quarterpounders’, Ampeg SVT Pro-3 head, Peavy 4x10 TX cab, Darkglass B3K Overdrive, EBS Multicomp and Unichorus pedals, Rotosound strings swing 66 roundwounds 105-45 on the 4’s, 130-45 on the 5’s

Steve has appeared on the following Intense recordings: Songs Of A Broken Future (2020), The Shape of Rage (2011), As Our Army Grows (2007),

Iron Maiden, Death, Forbidden, Megadeth, Annihilator, Obscura, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer and most 80s-90s thrash and death metal (with a touch of power too).

Steve Harris, Steve DiGorgio, Steve Bailey (and all other bass players called 'Steve'), Sean Malone, Alex Webster, Jeroen Paul Thesseling, Roger Patterson, Cliff Burton, Jaco

Alien, Day of the Dead (original), Prince of Darkness, Star Wars, most late 70s and 80s horror especially works by Argento, Fulci, Romero, Carpenter, Raimi, Cronenberg. TV - Walking Dead, Family Guy, Simpsons

Anything by Stephen (God) King especially the Dark Tower series, The Stand, It, The Dead Zone, Pet Sematary. Tolkien's LOTR and other horror/sci-fi/fantasy works from Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, James Herbert, Philip K Dick, Raymond Feist, Frank Herbert

Football

Playing bass, Xbox (mostly any Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Halo). Watching horror movies and occasionally going to gigs

Cake, beer!! Pizza, curry and anything take away and unhealthy