Sad news as New Orleans Metal drumming legend Wayne G. Fabra has died. No cause of death has been revealed. Tributes started hitting social media from friends, family, and fans. Wayne was notably a member of Graveyard Rodeo, Pepper Keenan’s pre-Corrosion of Conformity band, Necrophagia, and Christ Illusion with Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint). You can read a tribute below from Kyle Thomas of Exhorder. RIP. Continue reading
En Minor is a project that had been rattling around in Philip H. Anselmo“s head since he was a child; they are an unexpectedly emotional and deeply serious sound that freefalls out of the genres most of the band members are associated with, including Anselmo himself, and into uncharted territory. Unconventional and, in many ways, experimental, their 2020 release, When the Cold Truth Has Worn Its Miserable Welcome Out (Housecore Records) is steeped in reverence to the Jazz tradition in New Orleans, and maybe more markedly serves as a morose interpretation of a Jazz Funeral March with hints of Vaudeville; an unironic gothic twist on Tom Waits that Anselmo has since self-described as Depression Core.