By Monk
The self-styled New Jersey dirt rockers return to take us a place #BeyondBelow with their first new music in almost seven years, in turn the first sample of their upcoming fifth album, which is scheduled for release in heat of July:
Firing up the trans-Atlantic hotline, guitarist Tommy Southard told us:
When we released our last record, ‘The Brink’, I swore it wouldn’t take another nine years till the next one.
Well, it took us six and a half, which for Solace is pretty good! About the first single, I had a couple of riffs that Timmy and I used to play years and years ago in the pre-Godspeed days.
Last year at a Solace practice, I started jamming one of the riffs as a goof to Timmy [Schoenleber – drums] and Justin (Goins – keyboard, vocals] heard it and asked me: “What the hell is that man? That needs to go on the new record!” At first, I laughed it off, because I had been a 14-year old metalhead when I wrote this tune, but once we tweaked it a bit – Mikey threw a part in the middle and we worked it into a complete song – it was obvious that it was going to turn into a monster.
The track came out pretty amazing considering how far back in the archive it went, but that’s the perks of doing this your whole damn life.
I can hardly believe it’s been 30 years since I started this band. Yet Solace is still here somehow, and ‘Fading Failing Ruin’ is the best thing we’ve ever musically done. Literally everybody in this band played and worked their asses off for this record!
- ”Fading Failing Ruin‘ will be released via Magnetic Eye Records on 3 July.
- Solace will tour in May:
