Legendary post-hardcore band Botch has released a brand new single, the first new music since their break-up in 2022 following the community
An Anthology of Dead Ends EP (Hydra Head). “One Twenty Two” is streaming now on all DSPs! The band has remained cryptic and has shared no other news on social media. Check it out now!
Legendary post-Hardcore band Botch may be teasing a reunion. Bassist Brian Cook, also of Russian Circles, shared a photo on his Instagram account sharing a rehearsal room and the caption: Hung out with some friends from high school today”. After releasing two seminal genre-defining albums, The band has been largely inactive since playing their last show on 2006, only to release a live album and repeatedly sharing that the band would “never reunite” on many occasions. The band has been active on Facebook of late, honoring the anniversary of the farewell show. Following their retirement members went on to join Russian Circles, Minus the Bear, Narrows, Roy, Russian Circles, and These Arms Are Snakes. Botch was an early peer of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, and along with other similar bands, and was an influence on a countless number of today’s bands. We’ll monitor this situation as it develops.
Thanks to social media posts, some well-placed sources, and a newly published report over at MetalInsider.net, we may finally get new music from Fear Factory in 2020. However, it may not be under the Fear Factory moniker as we know it. Dino Cazares has been posting to social media a lot lately, hinting at a new album while stating, Fear Factory is not coming back. Confused? Us too! MetalSucks reported on the ongoing lawsuit and continuing issues between Dino, Burton C. Bell, and former members/name and IP owners Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde-Wohlbers (Powerflo). You can read about that here. Dino has been tagging his numerous recent posts with #fearcampaign and monolith. ‘Fear Campaign’ is, of course, a FF song and Monolith is the name vocalist Bell said previously is the definitive title of the new album in a post earlier this year, in a story broken by Ghost Cult. Recently our site interviewed drummer Mike Heller’s band Malignancy and they basically said Mike can’t tour or finish their new album because he is booked solid for Fear Factory in 2020. Hopefully, we get some new music from these guys in some way, shape or form in 2020. Continue reading