In a latest interview with Steel Hammer, Kyuss drummer and founder Brant Bjork revealed he noticed Metallica as the kind of band he didn’t need Kyuss to develop into.
“Our man on the label would at all times say, ‘You guys would be the subsequent Metallica,’ and that bummed me out,” Bjork defined. “I needed to be this Kyuss!”
“I felt like we f*cking rocked and had hit the height of our chemistry on the time, and Metallica had been super-cool guys and actually supportive, however seeing all of it on that scale, it was similar to, ‘This isn’t for me.’ If that’s the epitome of success in a rock band, it simply appeared unrewarding,” he added.
“They acquired up and performed the identical issues each night time, stated the identical issues… I may inform it’d develop into a touring circus, a machine. I used to be nonetheless 20 years previous, and extra interested in what we had been doing by way of improvising onstage and being unfastened. I needed Kyuss to go extra in that route.”
Although Kyuss disbanded in 1995, Bjork admitted in a 2021 interview with TotalRock’s Hobo On The Radio present that he’s open to a reunion, and even reopened communication with former bandmate and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.
“I used to be actually bummed by the best way that Kyuss broke up in ’95 – I didn’t need it to finish that approach,” he stated.
“Had we recognized preserve a band collectively, we may have simply had that band transferring all alongside and taking breaks every so often to pursue different issues. However, yeah, it has this sort of cease and rebirth and reinvention… I share his frustration. However there’s at all times a approach to do it, and it simply takes communication,” he added.
