Members of My Chemical Romance, Coheed And Cambria, Thursday and extra type supergroup L.S. Dunes
After months of teasing, the previously mysterious L.S. Dunes – phrase of whom first emerged after they appeared on the Riot Fest poster again in Could – have revealed themselves to be a supergroup comprised of members from a number of the most iconic emo and post-hardcore outfits.
The five-piece band is fronted by Circa Survive vocalist Anthony Inexperienced, who’s flanked on guitar by Frank Iero (of My Chemical Romance) and Travis Stever (of Coheed And Cambria). They’re joined by Tim Payne on bass, along with his Thursday bandmate Tucker Rule (who additionally performed in Yellowcard for a time) rounding out the fold on drums.
To coincide with their formal unveiling, L.S. Dunes have debuted their first single, a melodically charged emo rager titled ‘Everlasting Rise up’. In a press launch, Iero stated the music is about “taking again what’s rightfully yours”. For L.S. Dunes, that meant performing dwell – the band shaped within the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as Iero famous: “We by no means knew if we’d ever get to play these songs collectively, in truth none of us lifelong musicians actually knew if we’d ever be capable to play music for a dwell viewers ever once more.”
Take a look on the music video for ‘Everlasting Rise up’ beneath:
On the modus operandi for L.S. Dunes’ sound, Rule defined: “We needed to do one thing the place you’ll be able to hear all our bands in it and but, not have it sound like all one particularly. Our roots are punk rock and hardcore, and the vibe is hope for all of the misplaced souls.”
In line with yesterday’s (August 26) press launch, the seeds for L.S. Dunes had been sown throughout rehearsals for Thursday’s 2020 Christmas livestream, the place alongside Payne and Rule, Iero and Stever engaged in “serendipitous, impromptu jam classes” the place they discovered that they locked into an “instantaneous” chemistry.
‘Everlasting Rise up’ will seem on L.S. Dunes’ debut album, ‘Previous Lives’, which is due for launch on November 11 by way of Fantasy Data. The 11-track file was produced by Will Yip (Quicksand, Turnstile, Code Orange), who tracked the band at his Studio 4 Recording area in Philadelphia. Per the press launch, writing for the album was wholly collaborative, with themes together with “fearlessness, dependency, nonconformity, and impermanence”.
See the duvet artwork and tracklisting for ‘Previous Lives’ beneath, then discover pre-orders for the album here.
1. ‘2022’
2. ‘Antibodies’
3. ‘Gray Veins’
4. ‘Like Without end’
5. ‘Blender’
6. ‘Previous Lives’
7. ‘It Takes Time’
8. ‘Bombsquad’
9. ‘Grifter’
10. ‘Everlasting Rise up’
11. ‘Sleep Cult’
Following their dwell debut this 12 months’s Riot Fest – the place they’ll play on Friday September 16 alongside Alkaline Trio, Placebo, The Surprise Years and extra (in addition to My Chemical Romance themselves) – L.S. Dunes will carry out at Sacramento’s Aftershock competition on Saturday October 8. The band have a run of their very own reveals within the pipeline, with these as a result of be introduced within the coming weeks.
L.S. Dunes’ reveal comes at a busy time for a few of its members’ main bands. My Chemical Romance are at the moment on the North American leg of their international comeback tour, on which they not too long ago made waves for enjoying the ultra-deep minimize ‘Bury Me In Black’ for the primary time in 19 years, and staging a present the place frontman Gerard Approach carried out in a cheerleader’s outfit.
In the meantime, this 12 months has seen new releases come from each Circa Survive and Coheed And Cambria. The previous launched the second EP of their ‘Dream’ sequence, ‘A Dream About Demise’, again in February, whereas the latter launched their tenth album ‘Vaxis – Act II: A Window Of The Waking Thoughts’ in June. Coheed may also tour the UK all all through October – see all the main points for that run right here.