Jason McMaster
Evil United
I am up to a lot, playing shows with DANGEROUS TOYS and EVIL UNITED, releasing the new IGNITOR CD in April called "Year Of The Metal Tiger" through MVD Audio Worldwide. It's a return to True Metal. Also I have been writing new broken teeth material.
It is a group of old friends, and Texas Metal alumni, getting together time allowed, writing and record a selection of new material is all we wanted to do. Turns out, releasing it, and playing shows has been more fun than we expected. We met up and discussed writing together a few years ago. It took us that long to finish, since all of us are in many bands and working a lot.
We didn't have any game plan; we just wrote what we were feeling. We knew it was going to be a heavy record, and it did seem to take its own shape once we got it up and running. As far as it being odd, its stock Metal in some parts, and very modern in some other places.
I love Rock N' Roll, Heavy, Thrash, whatever. Being able to use my voice in different ways is a luxury and I am very happy that I am able to make music with a lot of my friends I have known for over 20 years in many of my bands. I have had many heavy fast bands in my career. Growing up on QUEEN and KISS, ALICE COOPER, and stuff like that, it was obvious that I was going to get into all sorts of Rock and Metal.
My band GAHDZILLA motor company had a lot of this sort of Metal dirge into a Thrashy type. This with peaks and valleys in style, meeting up with progressive stop start riffing like old WATCHTOWER stuff is not new to me, it was very comfortable and seemingly songs were writing themselves.
"Blasphemer"and "Hexorcism" lyrically for me are extremely interesting to me. Shouting out at the unlearning of the ignorance being taught to the young public social soup by teachers and parents about what they are supposed to believe and not to think for themselves or they will be subject to punishment is hexorcism, and blasphemer is who they are if the revolt against those beliefs and have chosen to believe what they feel is right instead of follow all trends.
These are your words…"fresh with an old school orientation"...is exactly what we did, and exactly what we wanted.
We are already writing the new material for another release and playing shows.
Thanks!
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