We've been busy.
First off, we're playing our first show in quite a while on September 20th, at the Cake Shop in Manhattan (a fairly dope venue), with acclaimed Athens, GA metal band The Dumps.
We haven't been playing shows, and here's why: we have three new masterpieces to unveil. We wanted to take a bit of time off from playing shows to focus on developing them, because they're long, complicated and completely evil. The songs:
Instability - some shipwrecked sailors, adrift on a makeshift wooden raft, contemplate cannibalism while a Lovecraftian horror lurks below the surface
No Smiles - about cancer & chemotherapy. This took a really long time to get right, because when you start writing about something deeply personal, you feel like you need to do the topic justice, and when that thing is cancer, you start feeling really sad. Seriously, does sitting down with a guitar and thinking to yourself "I will now write a guitar part that is the musical embodiment of riding home after chemotherapy anticipating the sickness to come" sound like a good time to you?
* Killefern - impotent, misplaced rage that somehow transforms into an expanding sphere of total destruction centered around your bewildered head
We're going to start playing these live. I will play them with my new guitar: an ESP MII. Yes, that's right, I bought an actual metal guitar, and it's killing it at practice.
We're also going to PUT THEM ON OUR NEW RECORD that we're making in September. We're tracking at Nut House Studios, owned and operated by Tom Beaujour. Tom is an awesome guy and his vision for the record matches ours exactly. This should be a nasty one.
More to come...
