Members of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Each Time I Die and Match For An Post-mortem have joined forces to create a brand new supergroup, Higher Lovers. Try their debut single beneath.
The newly-formed group is comprised of former Dillinger frontman Greg Puciato, Each Time I Die members Jordan Buckley and Steven Micciche, Match For An Post-mortem guitarist Will Putney, and Orbs’ drummer Clayton ‘Goose’ Holyoak.
Based on Putney – who additionally received a Grammy in 2021 for his work on Physique Depend’s album, ‘Carnivore’ – the band is a “group of loaded weapons all firing at full energy”, and guarantees to ship the “subsequent chapter” of every member’s profession.
Now, the five-piece supergroup have shared their debut single, ‘30 Below 13’ – a blistering four-minute observe that the members declare offers the proper introduction to Higher Lovers. Try the observe beneath – that includes a music video made alongside director and former Christie Entrance Drive frontman, Eric Richter.
Explaining the explanations behind the band’s formation, the members confirmed that the undertaking isn’t one thing short-term, however fairly the subsequent step of their particular person “evolution” – and one thing they wish to pursue for the foreseeable future.
“Trying again, I’m so completely satisfied every part bought me to the place I’m,” defined Buckley. “The pandemic and the previous few years made me hungrier and extra grateful. This isn’t a pastime. This isn’t short-term. That is the subsequent evolution for every of us. Greg and Will rejuvenated me and made me much more assured. Now, everyone must know we’re a wild animal that simply broke out of the zoo—there’s no attempting to place it again within the cage.”
Puciato agreed: “Jordan despatched me some already completed instrumental tracks, and so they hit me at simply the best time.
“These tracks awoke a aspect of me that I believed was absolutely extinct however was merely evolving and altering. To my full shock, there was nonetheless one thing left in that space to dig at, and the vessel for it made sense.”
Based on a press assertion, the band are already gearing as much as take the brand new undertaking on tour, and upcoming reveals are “imminent” – nevertheless, no official dates have but been introduced.
This isn’t the primary time that frontman Greg Puciato has pursued a undertaking exterior of his work with The Dillinger Escape Plan and Black Queen. Again in 2020, the vocalist introduced his first-ever solo album, ‘Little one Soldier: Creator of God’.
Talking with NME forward of the discharge, he described the album as one freed from “any style or stylistic restrictions”.
“It doesn’t really feel wild to me, it feels pure. It’s what I needed to say,” he stated. “To me it’s extra about simply letting it’s what it’s attempting to be. Let your unconscious specific what it’s attempting to precise, and be fearless about that. Your solely actual obligation as an artist is to precise fact.”
Final yr, the frontman shared the follow-up LP, ‘Mirrorcell’.
In different information, again in December former Each Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley – brother of Jordan – additionally teased a brand new undertaking, set for this yr.
Keith – who additionally fronted the on-again-off-again supergroup The Damned Issues – made the trace on social media, when he promised followers that they may “see [him] once more in 2023”.
“I’ve been recording songs with a brand new band since September and the brand new music has by no means been heavier. See you within the pit,” he tweeted. He additionally confirmed that the forthcoming undertaking is unrelated to his work with The Damned Issues.
