SPINESHANK performed its second present in almost 13 years this previous Thursday night time (July 10) at Come And Take It Stay in Austin, Texas. Becoming a member of vocalist Jonny Santos, drummer Tommy Decker and bassist/vocalist Robert Garcia in SPINESHANK‘s 2025 lineup are new recruits Tommy Decker, Jr. (Tommy Decker‘s son) and Jason Hager (ex-CHIMAIRA) on guitar. Fan-filmed video of all the live performance could be seen beneath.
Featured songs:
00:54 Asthmatic
04:20 Artificial
07:40 (Cannot Be) Fastened
10:26 Cyanide 2600
14:40 Play God
18:33 Malnutrition
22:10 Seamless
25:33 Adverse Area
28:25 (Introducing the band)
29:35 Clear
34:48 New Illness
37:58 The Top Of Callousness
42:12 Smothered
45:22 Violent Temper Swings
49:38 Starting Of The Finish
53:12 Useless To Me
SPINESHANK has teamed up with THE UNION UNDERGROUND for the “25 Years Of Insurrection & Callousness” tour this summer time. This commemorative, co-headline trek, with particular visitors ADEMA and SICKSENSE, is celebrating the twenty fifth anniversaries of SPINESHANK‘s sophomore studio album “The Top Of Callousness” and THE UNION UNDERGROUND sole studio LP, “…An Training In Insurrection”.
Final month, SPINESHANK vocalist Jonny Santos confirmed to Rock Feed {that a} new track from the reunited band will arrive within the coming weeks. “We’re actually within the studio making an attempt to complete proper now,” he stated. “The track has been recorded. Proper now it is within the last means of being edited. We’re gonna really begin listening to roughs this week.”
Santos additionally addressed the explanation he and the remainder of SPINESHANK‘s 2025 lineup have determined to launch one observe versus specializing in making a full-length report. “Individuals are, like, effectively, why are we solely doing one track?’ Jonny stated. “‘Trigger we do not know. We have not put a report out in 12 years. “Trigger let’s face it, the SHINESHANK factor proper now, [the upcoming tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of] ‘The Top Of Callousness’, that is nostalgic. We’re not on the market pumping a brand new report. We’re celebrating one in every of our greatest information. That is what we’re doing. So what we determined to do is… Will we wanna do a brand new report? ‘Trigger now we have now little Tommy taking part in guitar, which is fucking superior; he shreds. And we have Jason Hager; all people is aware of Jason. He is from CHIMAIRA. So we get these two new guys, they usually clearly wanna do a brand new report. However 5 months in the past, we did not even know folks even cared about SPINESHANK. So let’s maintain on right here a second earlier than we begin placing new information out. I stated, ‘Let’s do one track. Let’s put this track on the market. We’ll get it out to the plenty, and let’s have a look at the way it’s obtained.’ That is gonna inform us proper there — I really feel it’s going to inform us if we’re only a nostalgic act, that folks simply wanna come hear the hits and really feel like they’re 18 once more, or we put this new track out. Does it development? Does it fucking blow up? Then that can point out proper there, ‘Okay, guys, let’s go do a brand new report and begin placing new songs out.’ And I believe that is a good means to have a look at it as a substitute of simply assuming that since we’re doing effectively and exhibits are promoting out proper now, that we’re simply gonna put an album and all people’s gonna like it.”
Concerning the musical path of the brand new SPINESHANK track, Jonny stated: “Nicely, I’ll let you know this a lot. It is received all the weather that’s what is SPINESHANK. One of many largest complaints we had on the final SPINESHANK report was followers had been, like, ‘It isn’t digital sufficient.’ And I noticed that. I felt that in a means. There was a whole lot of programming on that album; we had been simply utilizing natural sounds because the loops and stuff. However I perceive what the followers meant. So this time round, the SPINESHANK recipe, if you’ll — the track’s gotta have vitality. It is gotta be heavy. It is gotta be catchy. It is gotta have a hook. I do not care. I fucking love singing in fucking metallic songs. All these folks on the market [who say], ‘That is lame that you simply sing’ — fuck you. You have gotta carry ladies to the present too. So you have gotta have vitality. It is gotta be heavy. You have gotta have a hook. And with SPINESHANK, it is gotta have that digital side and that soiled, nasty, digital side. Very industrial — ‘Antichrist Famous person’ [MARILYN MANSON] industrial. I like when you might have a cool loop. Distort that motherfucker. So it is that entire ATARI TEENAGE RIOT dirtiness to it.”
When SPINESHANK‘s return was first introduced, Decker stated in an announcement: “We’re past excited to have the ability to have a good time 25 years of ‘The Top Of Callousness’. That is the report that outlined us as a band and altered our lives. We won’t wait to play all of those songs and share the recollections with all of you who lived it with us.”
Santos acknowledged: “We’re extraordinarily excited to have a good time the return of SPINESHANK for the twenty fifth anniversary of ‘The Top Of Callousness’ tour and get to share this milestone with the individuals who had been there again then, and the brand new followers that by no means received the possibility to see us play. Really an honor!!!”
Garcia stated: “It is wonderful that 25 years later folks nonetheless react to ‘The Top Of Callousness’ the best way they do. We’re excited to get out and play these songs once more, see previous buddies, and threw down for all the brand new followers who by no means received to see SPINESHANK the primary time round!”
Decker, Jr. stated: “I have been on tour with these guys since I used to be a bit child, watching them carry out each night time from the facet of the stage. I am unable to imagine it is come full circle and I get to share the stage with my dad and the remainder of the blokes who I take into account my household. I used to be 4 years previous when this album got here out and seeing all of the followers nonetheless present like to this album is loopy!”
Hager acknowledged: “I’m past excited and honored to be part of the return of SPINESHANK, for the twenty fifth anniversary of ‘The Top Of Callousness’ tour. They are not simply one in every of my favourite bands, however have been nice buddies, ever since they generously, and selflessly helped us (CHIMAIRA) out, throughout our early days. I am wanting ahead to seeing you all, out on the street, and enthusiastic about what the longer term might maintain.”
After releasing three profitable albums (“Strictly Diesel”, “The Top Of Callousness” and “Self-Damaging Sample”),acting on numerous world excursions (together with appearances on Ozzfest and the Obtain pageant) and a Grammy nomination in 2004, the band went on a hiatus.
SPINESHANK‘s fourth album, “Anger Denial Acceptance”, was launched in June 2012 by way of Century Media Information. The CD was produced by SPINESHANK guitarist Mike Sarkisyan and drummer Tommy Decker and combined by Mike Plotnikoff (PAPA ROACH, BUCKCHERRY).
SPINESHANK‘s third LP, “Self-Damaging Sample”, was launched in September 2003. The album’s lead single, “Smothered”, was nominated for a Grammy within the class of “Greatest Steel Efficiency”.
This previous April, Jonny informed the “Speak Toomey” podcast about the opportunity of SPINESHANK releasing new music to coincide with the upcoming tour: ”We by no means received an opportunity to actually exit on a excessive notice. And so after we first began on the point of do all this, doing one other report wasn’t actually even talked about. It was extra of simply, like, ‘Hey, let’s simply exit and do [‘The Height Of Callousness’] in its entirety’ and provides the band its warrior’s dying, if you’ll — going out on a robust notice as a substitute of simply falling into obscurity.
“Now it is gotten to the purpose… So proper now I am within the studio ending up some edits and mixing the primary SPINESHANK track since 2012,” Santos defined. “So we have now one new track popping out. As a result of I believe the best way that we really feel that we’ll know is, let’s have a look at how this SPINESHANK track does. If it is accepted effectively and persons are enthusiastic about it, if it does effectively, then perhaps there could possibly be one other album within the works. Or if something, perhaps even an EP. Who is aware of?”
Referencing the resurgence of “nu metallic” in recent times, Jonny continued: “It is type of bizarre how — it is uncharted territory. It is, like, is that this right here to remain? Is that this gonna be a staple in heavy music or is that this only a style fad for teenagers in the present day? So I believe as soon as we launch this new track and tour for the higher a part of this yr, then I believe we’ll know if we’re gonna put a brand new report out subsequent yr or not. I want to, however I solely wanna put a report out if it is gonna matter. I do not wanna put a report out if no person’s gonna give a shit.”
Elaborating on his reluctance to launch a full-length assortment of recent materials, Jonny stated: “Not evaluating us to the scale of THE ROLLING STONES or something, but when I used to be gonna go see THE ROLLING STONES, I am not too involved with something that they’ve completed put up 1979. You already know what I am saying?
“I believe you hit a sure level in your profession as a band when you might have a official and fixed following that folks simply wanna go hear the hits.
“I’ve seen, I am going to put music out or no matter, and persons are, like, ‘Oh, man, it would not sound like ‘The Top Of Callousness’.’ It is simply, like, dude, me placing out the identical report twice just isn’t gonna make you younger once more,” he stated. “As a result of that is how it’s.
“Only a few bands can get away with placing the identical report out. AC/DC‘s completed it. SLAYER‘s completed it. However it works — that works for them, and it is fucking superior. However for me, it would not.
“The considered placing a brand new SPINESHANK report on the market, it is thrilling. However on the similar time, we’re gonna see how this goes.
“We’re going into this with no expectations. That is actually enjoyable for us to do, and I believe it is an opportunity for lots of people which have develop into SPINESHANK followers within the final decade or in order that have by no means seen us to get to see us. And being that ‘The Top Of Callousness’ was by far our best-received album, I am unable to consider a greater report to do in its entirety out of our catalog.”