GENERATION KILL, the band featuring EXODUS frontman Rob Dukes, is back in the studio working on its second full-length album. The group is in talks with producer Chris “Zeuss” Harris (SUICIDE SILENCE, ALL THAT REMAINS, SHADOWS FALL, SOULFLY) to produce the CD and promises two things with this album — it will be different and it will be heavy.
Regarding the musical direction of the new effort, Rob Moschetti (bass) and Jason Velez (lead guitar) explained that they basically wanted to “stick to the direction of there is no direction, we want to be artists, people forget that music is art and we want to deliver something that makes people think and want to go back and listen again and again.”
A new GENERATION KILL video blog in which they can be seen laying down tracks for the upcoming CD are available below.
GENERATION KILL‘s new CD is due later this year via Season Of Mist. Zeuss “has a guiding hand in all the songs the band has written” for the upcoming CD so far, according to Dukes.
GENERATION KILL‘s debut album, “Red White And Blood”, was released in September 2011. The CD was recorded at J. Rod Production Studios in New City, New York (where the vocal tracks for EXODUS‘ “Let There Be Blood” and OVERKILL‘s “Ironbound” were previously laid down).
GENERATION KILL is:
Rob Dukes – Vocals Rob Moschetti – Bass/Backing Vocals Jason Trenczer – Lead Guitar Jason Velez – Lead Guitar James DeMaria – Drums
On Sunday, September 9, Jo Schüftan of Horns Up Rocks! conducted an interview with EXODUS and GENERATION KILL frontman Rob Dukes at Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey. You can now watch the chat below.
Asked about EXODUS‘ plans to record a new studio album, Dukes said, “It’s gonna fast, I know that. It’s gonna be fast and short. Everybody fucking complained abut how long the last one was, we’re, like, ‘Fuck ‘em! We’ll give them about a fucking 38-minute record.”
He continued, “I don’t know. I’m just talking shit. I don’t know what we’re gonna do. We’ve got no plan. We’re just going with what feels right. If we end up with another 74-minute record, so be it.”
Regarding who will end up producing the new EXODUS CD, Dukes said, “I don’t know yet. There are a couple of people on the table. I think [British producer and longtime EXODUS collaborator] Andy [Sneap] is taking some time off [from producing]; I don’t know if he’s gonna do it with us again.”
In a June 2012 interview with Peek From The Pit, EXODUS bassist Jack Gibson stated about the band’s plans for the follow-up to 2010′s “Exhibit B: The Human Condition”, “We’re way overdue to do it. We’ve just been so busy. Actually, we’ve been getting great tour offers over and over, and we just keep wanting to take them, and that, coupled with the fact that Gary [Holt], our main guitar player and songwriter, is out playing with SLAYER, he’s filling in for [SLAYER guitarist] Jeff [Hanneman] on this whole [SLAYER tour]. Nobody really knows how long that’s gonna take, how long Jeff‘s gonna take [to recover from contracting necrotizing fasciitis, likely caused by a spider bite, in January 2011]. I mean, it was pretty severe what happened to him, from what I understand. So we just haven’t had the time, to be perfectly honest. I know that Gary has songs, and Lee [Altus, guitar] has some stuff — they’ve been coming up with stuff — [but] we just really haven’t had the time to sit down and hammer it all out and then record it. That takes a few months together to make that happen, and we just haven’t had the time, basically. But there is gonna be another album, for sure. The way that our writing has been going and our albums have been going, it’s gonna be great — I know it. What I’ve heard Gary noodling with. Me, him and Tom [Hunting, drums] have kind of just fooled around with it here and there, and man, it’s gonna be good. Gary, he’s the main driver, and [the songwriting] keeps evolving. It’s one of the things I really like about the band — the music keeps getting good; it doesn’t just stay the same or we don’t rewrite the last one. We kind of throw the last one out and do something new each time. So I expect the same and more from the next album.”
“Exhibit B: The Human Condition” was released in North America on May 18, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records.
The CD sold around 4,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 114 on The Billboard 200 chart.
EXODUS‘ previous album, “The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A”, opened with 3,600 units back in October 2007.
Multi-camera video footage of EXODUS‘s headlining performance at the third annual Slaughter By The Water festival, which took place on August 25 on the USS Hornet Aircraft Carrier in Alameda, California, can be seen below (courtesy of Capital Chaos TV).
EXODUS/GENERATION KILL frontman Rob Dukes joined PHILM on stage last night (Sunday, September 9) at Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey to perform a cover version of BLACK SABBATH‘s “Symptom Of The Universe”. Video footage of his appearance can be seen below.
PHILM is the Los Angeles-based experimental post-hardcore triumvirate featuring drummer Dave Lombardo (SLAYER), guitarist/vocalist Gerry Nestler (CIVIL DEFIANCE), and bassist Pancho Tomaselli (WAR).
The band’s debut album, “Harmonic”, was released on May 15 via Ipecac Recordings.
“When people hear about my involvement in PHILM, they automatically assume that it will compare to SLAYER’s sound,” explained Lombardo. “They couldn’t be more different. I have scaled down my drum set to a four-piece, reminiscent of the drummers from the late ’60s that influenced me. Each song is unique in itself, I like to refer to it as ‘rhythmic emotion.’ It’s almost like taking all the heavy songs of the ’60s and bringing that era to a modern plateau, then blending them with the modern trance and psychedelic sounds of today.”
“We decided to record ‘Harmonic’ in the intimate setting of a home, with various vintage recording equipment,” added Lombardo on the band’s debut album. “The music was written collectively in an improvisational manner, unlike the majority of recordings I’ve done before. This was very important given this is my first recording where I’m carrying the title of producer and performer. The album achieves a dense, unholy convergence of tones and discords. We also touch on haunting, desolate, ambient sounds. Our music tends to be written in a manner where we never know the outcome until we listen back to what we recorded. A harmonic journey.”
