After more than six years apart, the members of influential metallic hardcore band Earth Crisis are back together working on a new album, reports MTVnews.com’s Metal File.
So far, the group has written six songs for the disc and hopes to enter the studio later this year for a release in 2009. The yet-untitled disc will be the band’s first since 2001’s The Last of the Sane, but all that time apart hasn’t changed Earth Crisis’ motivation or approach.
“Our goals are the same as they were back in 2001,” says frontman Karl Buechner. “Our goal as a band was to write songs that appeal to our taste in music, Hopefully, we can make our old fans happy and get some of the younger guys into some of these ideas too.”
Earth Crisis will to play some of their new during their reunion tour, which launches tonight in Tuscon, Arizona and runs through March 23 in Albany, New York. The bill also features Sworn Enemy, Shai Hulud, Terror, Down to Nothing and Recon.
“People ask me what the [new] songs sound like,” says Buechner. “The best way to describe it is it’s a mixture between [1995's] Destroying the Machines and [1998's] Breed the Killers. Stylistically, it’s most like songs from those albums.”
Buechner hopes the return of Earth Crisis will help reinvigorate the hardcore scene, just as it did when they were around the first time. And, unlike some naysayers, he’s convinced the music genre is alive and well.
“There’s plenty of quality hardcore out there, but a lot of the bigger labels now are not supporting and nurturing the genuine hardcore bands,” he says. “They’re just going for the easy sell, for shock-value stuff, where these guys basically wear a costume and their music is pop — anything that will sell to seventh- and eighth-graders. Hardcore brought us up, it taught us a code of ethics, and it gave us a scene — a group of friends to unify with, to accomplish things with. I want us to be able to nurture that.”
For the complete interview with Buechner, check out this week’s Metal File.
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