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For some reason, over the last decade or so, bands have been doing tribute albums of themselves, for lack of a better term. Some may call this re-recording, but more and more bands are “re-recording” themselves AND bringing in their musician friends.
“When I saw my schedule for PRIMAL FEAR, I thought, there’s not enough space to do anything with SINNER.” - Mat Sinner
”I thought it was really important that this shouldn’t be a continuation or a copy of anything that we’d done previously.” - Andy LaRocque
“We’ve had people that have come up and said, fifteen records? Do you think anybody really wants to hear anything new? Then this [album] comes out, and it actually [does] really well…I guess we’ll keep making ‘em.” - Morgan Rose
“When [JORN] came back for the ‘Time To Be King’ album, there was a big compromise. He said I’m only coming back…when it's less Power Metal sounding…but this album, ‘Metalmorphosis’, is definitely free, without compromise.” - Roland Grapow
“I had kind of shut down creatively, I wasn’t really sure I wanted to do this anymore” - Russell Allen
“I’m not a huge fan of really long records…when CDs came out it was like, oh my God we can put like 75 minutes worth of music on this thing, let’s do it…for me it was too much.” - Joey Vera
“[On “Chasing The Hydra”] I feel like its the dragon that CRIMSON GLORY has been battling through our whole career, we cut one head off and there’s six more…life in the band, it’s been really cool, but also it’s been a bit rocky.” - Ben Jackson
If you’ve read any of my show reviews this year then it wouldn’t surprise you to learn that it has been 20 years since I have seen CLUTCH live. For some reason I like to wait a couple of decades before seeing a band more than once...
“I had no intention of starting [METAL CHURCH] up again. I couldn’t start it up with the previous line up.” - Kurdt Vanderhoof
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