That is music to my little deathcore ears. Winds of Plague, who not too long ago reunited with their unique members, haven’t launched something since 2017’s Blood of My Enemy. Now that they’ve acquired three exhibits—together with enjoying this yr’s Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky and Aftershock in Sacramento, California—underneath their belt, they could be itching to a bit extra.
Whereas at Aftershock final weekend, frontman Jonathan “Johnny Plague” Cooke-Hayden spoke with Sultans of Slack about a couple of issues, considered one of them being how this lil reunion happened within the first place.
“ Actually, we acquired requested to do these two exhibits, which form of blew our minds. Like, properly, we will’t not do it, proper?! So I reached out to all the unique guys. All of us grew up, going to highschool collectively and we began the band there, and I used to be, like, ‘Hey, it’d be actually cool to do that’ because it’s the precise 20 years since we began Winds of Plague; that’s after we acquired the title and all that. So, all people needed to do it. We had been, like, ‘Let’s see how these two exhibits go.’ And it was plenty of enjoyable. I believe that the final consensus is, sure, we wanna maintain doing extra. However as of now, that is all we have now deliberate. Immediately was the top of it. So I assume we’ll see what’s subsequent, however I believe there’s undoubtedly extra to return.”
When requested about band discussions on chance of that 2008 shit turning into some 2025 and past shit, Johnny Plague had a hopeful response:
“…We even have a pair songs that we by no means recorded, from a pair years in the past. So we began form of revisiting these, punching these up a bit of bit. So there’s nothing set in stone proper now, however we’re undoubtedly leaning in the direction of making new music, enjoying a few extra exhibits, making an attempt to do a pair a yr. And it’s enjoyable. It’s actually superior.
“We’ve all form of moved on from the band stuff in our private lives. And it’s enjoyable to take a step again into it. It appears like a former life, and we’re all simply right here only for the love of it at this level. It has nothing to do with paying the payments or being the most important band or something like that. It’s only for the love of it. It’s superior.”
They’re doing it for the love of it, and we’re listening for the love of it. I’m manifesting new Winds of Plague. Finish of story.
