Spineshank are again and so they’re not simply right here to money in on the nü-metal nostalgia wave. Properly they’re doing that too, however they’re additionally doing new music. Talking with Rock News Weekly, Spineshank vocalist Jonny Santos and drummer Tommy Decker talked comeback gigs, new music, and the unexpectedly rabid fan response to their long-awaited return: “Proper now, I believe we’re simply gonna begin releasing songs. Let’s check the waters. Let’s have a look at how individuals react.
“We actually needed to [celebrate the 25th] anniversary of [Spineshank‘s sophomore studio album] The Peak Of Callousness [on tour]. It is essential to us and, clearly, the followers like it. After which the discuss of latest music got here round. As a result of we had been form of seeing this resurgence or renaissance of bands from our period doing rather well.
“And if we wanna preserve going, we most likely ought to put some new music out. So we’re gonna begin small after which we’ll see the place that goes. But when the whole lot retains going the best way that it’s, I might positively see us placing out a full-length or preserve releasing [singles] over the subsequent 12 months after which compiling all of them on to at least one document and placing that out. As quickly as we get dwelling [from playing Aftershock], we’re gonna be engaged on one thing whereas we’re dwelling.”
Spineshank — now that includes Decker, Santos, bassist Robert Garcia, and new blood within the type of Tommy Decker Jr. and ex-Chimaira guitarist Jason Hager — kicked off their reunion with a 13-year reside hiatus breaker in Lubbock, Texas this previous July. Since then, they have been using a wave of renewed curiosity, fueled by a rising nü-metal revival and the 25th anniversary of their breakthrough album The Peak Of Callousness.
“It’s totally vindicating,” says Santos. “A whole lot of bands like us bought thrown away in the course of the ‘fuck nü-metal’ period. So now I see you on the market — the identical individuals who had been speaking shit. And now you are like, ‘Oh, Spineshank‘s again.’ I fucking see you. [Laughs]”
So what does new Spineshank sound like? In accordance with Decker, it is nonetheless heavy, nonetheless digital, and nonetheless unmistakably them — simply with 13 years’ price of perspective and hearth. “We wish to have the heaviness. We wish to have the melody. Everybody desires the electronics. So it is Spineshank — simply 13 years later,” Decker instructed Discoveringbands earlier this 12 months.
With songs within the pipeline, a doable EP or full-length launch might arrive in 2025, however the band is taking part in it good — one single at a time. Santos hinted that they will be heading straight again into writing mode after Aftershock wraps up: “We’re gonna begin small after which we’ll see the place that goes. But when the whole lot retains going the best way that it’s… I might positively see us placing out a full-length.”
Nonetheless, Spineshank aren’t pretending they have a brand new lease on immortality. As Santos places it, even when they do not stick round lengthy, they’re ensuring the legacy ends on their very own phrases: “If we resolve to not preserve going, a minimum of we get to provide the band a warrior’s dying.”
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