"It's the best stuff we've written so far," says
bassist/vocalist Amy Tung of the material on Year of the Cobra's adventurous
new Billy Anderson-produced EP, Burn Your Dead.
"We had just gotten back from tour and had some ideas
floating around, and they all came together really quickly and easily. Magnetic
Eye Records had asked us to contribute to their upcoming Pink Floyd Redux
project, so we thought that since we'd be in the studio, we'd record the new
songs and put them out. With two Floyd
songs and the five songs for the EP, we essentially recorded an album of work
in six days, and we think it's our best stuff to date."
Hitting stores (online and regular) as of today, the new
record gets the premier treatment via uber-selective heavy music outlet Noisey,
who offer this assessment of Burn Your Dead:
"As it scales through guttural riffs,
industrial-strength beats, and mysterious lyrics, things only gets more
compelling along the way. The band's
core still lies in a hybrid of doom, desert rock, and punk, but here it steps
up its game with new twists and experimentation."
Having just completed a multi-week tour to bring the new
tunes to their fans, the band arrived home to learn that their Seattle EP
release party gig was juxtaposed with a show featuring none other than the new
band of Bill Ward. Yeah. That Bill Ward.
It's complicated, but the simple explanation is that Portland's Witch Mountain had agreed to play Year of the Cobra's EP
release show, but then a tour between Witch Mountain
and Ward's band Day of Errors came together.
Witch Mountain and Day of Errors share a
booking agent, who wisely saw no need to re-route anything when Year of the
Cobra's infectious, sultry power was a perfect match for both bands.
And just like that, only a couple years into a fast-accelerating
career, the rising young duo from Seattle
will be sharing an evening and a stage with one of metal's founding
fathers. Not a bad way to commemorate
the release of your new record.
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