about us

The fields in the header above are no ordinary fields, they were a catalyst for our journey in music.

So, you're probably thinking, who is not max, and usual gang?

When I was 14, I had no friends and no interests as I was plagued with insecurity and self-hatred at a young age. I turned to music as a way of dealing with this when my dad bought me a drumkit. Since then, I’ve been obsessed with anything with a beat, from rock to rap to trap. A year or so later I acquired (pirated) a free version of FL Studio a started to mess around with it, creating meme style songs and beats for youtube. Right before lockdown happened is when I finally started to feel like I had found 2 friends, Joe and Dylan, who I had alot in common with (our shared interest in emo music and souls games helped alot) and this friendship only got stronger in lockdown. Me and Joe started making music together on FL studio during online lessons to counteract the boredom and while it was terrible it was also really fun. Our name ‘Usual Gang’ comes from a recorded online lesson where we were called out by our english teacher – as soon as he said it in the way he said it, it just seemed like a perfect name.

Building our identity online

After over a year of trying to get better everyday while stuck inside we finally decided to create a Soundcloud account and decided we would be called ‘RapGod21’ and ‘FISHBOY’ – obviously, we aren’t still using these. During frees at school is when all 3 of us went to the fields where there was a massive pylon to sit on and think about life, it gave me alot of time to think about my future and I realised taking Economics, English and Sociology was a horrible mistake and that I’d rather do something I enjoy even if people don’t like it. After releasing a few songs on soundcloud, we were getting a few hundred plays on each one which isn’t much but the response we got from other creators on Soundcloud via messages was bigger than I could’ve imagined. Now, we go by v4mpgod and CARVER and have worked with artists from Slovakia to America, and according to Soundcloud, even have listeners in Rio De Janeiro (I dont know why).