Winds Of Plague is again and so they’re prepared to provide you all some extra symphonic deathcore goodness! Winds Of Plague just lately reunited for Louder Than Life, Aftershock, and a one-off membership present at The Forge in Joliet, IL – and apparently there’s extra within the works in line with frontman Jonathan “Johnny Plague” Cooke-Hayden.
“Actually, we obtained requested to do these two exhibits, which type of blew our minds,” mentioned Cooke-Hayden in an interview with Sultans Of Slack. “Like, properly, we will not not do it, proper?! So I reached out to all the unique guys. All of us grew up, going to highschool collectively and we began the band there… and I used to be, like, ‘Hey, it might be actually cool to do that’ as it is the precise 20 years since we began Winds Of Plague; that is once we obtained the identify and all that. So, all people needed to do it.”
Initially deliberate as a restricted run, the exhibits seem to have rekindled extra than simply nostalgia: “We have been, like, ‘Let’s have a look at how these two exhibits go.’ And it was a number of enjoyable. I believe that the overall consensus is, sure, we wanna hold doing extra. However as of now, that is all we now have deliberate. Right this moment was the top of it. So I assume we’ll see what’s subsequent, however I believe there’s positively extra to return.”
And yeah, there’s in all probability new music coming too: “We’ve [talked about it]. And we even have a pair songs that we by no means recorded, from a pair years in the past. So we began type of revisiting these, punching these up slightly bit. So there’s nothing set in stone proper now, however we’re positively leaning in direction of making new music, enjoying a few extra exhibits, attempting to do a pair a 12 months. And it is enjoyable. It is actually superior.”
The vocalist additionally touched on how the band’s mindset has shifted since their early days grinding within the deathcore scene: “We have all type of moved on from the band stuff in our private lives. And it is enjoyable to take a step again into it. It looks like a former life, and we’re all simply right here only for the love of it at this level. It has nothing to do with paying the payments or being the most important band or something like that. It is only for the love of it. It is superior.”
The Winds Of Plague 2025 lineup featured longtime drummer Artwork Cruz, who’s been holding down the equipment for Lamb of God since 2019 — including much more weight to the reunion’s already stacked legacy. So keep tuned!
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