Former Scar The Martyr vocalist Henry Derek Bonner has been confirmed to have joined the new outfit featuring former Megadeth guitarist Chris Broderick and drummer Shawn Drover.
Drover commented:
“At this point, I can reveal to you that Chris Broderick and myself have the ‘music’ for our debut record written. Henry Bonner is our singer, who has sang on six songs in demo form at this point, to which its all sounding 100 percent heavy metal. Some of the songs are very aggressive and fast, others are more ‘accessible’ to the average heavy metal listener.
“I don’t like to label everything into the 100 subgenres of metal. To me, ACCEPT is pure heavy metal, yet so is KING DIAMOND and GOJIRA. Do they sound the same?? No, but they are all metal!!
“Chris, Henry and myself are all fans of all kinds of heavy music, which is great, as we are not putting any musical parameters on what we are creating here, which is very liberating, I must say.
“There is still a ton of great things going on that we cannot reveal at this point… Just know that we are all working hard to bring you the best heavy metal music we can.”
Any album that goes well over an hour sets itself a huge challenge. When your songs are not dynamic, mesmerizing drone or telling an epic story through a journey of emotions, but instead mid and fast paced songs of five minutes or more that swing between loud and louder, it’s an epic onslaught tailor-made for a special kind of the metalhead. If you’re gonna unleash this monster, make sure you’ve got the stamina.
With Slipknot on the backburner for the foreseeable future, drummer Joey Jordison has had plenty of time on his hands. He used it wisely by writing and demoing a swathe of new music, which wasn’t necessarily suited for his main band. He decided to use it as the basis for his latest musical venture, called Scar The Martyr. Ghost Cult caught up with Slipknot’s ‘#1’ (aka Mr Jordison) to ask him all about his new project, the therapeutic value of staying active, his other musical ventures with Ministry and Satyricon and what the future holds for his main band.