After Deadguy Pulled to Lazarus, The Infamous Metalcore pioneers gathered on Stage to Provuat A Few Decades of Dust Couldn’t Keep Them from Tearing into Audiences Like Old Times. But There’s a Big Difference Between Playing the Classics for Nostalgic Fans and Risking Your Legacy With A New Album. The Band Innately Understood How Heavy and Deranged a Follow-Up Would Need To Be, and That’s Exactly What They Bring With Their New LP- “Near-Death Travel Services” – Due on June 27 via Relapse Records.

First, Brief History of Deadguy: The New Jersey Quartet Of Crispy, Dave Rosenberg, Tim “Pops” Naumann and Tim Singer Reyeded An Odd, Sardonic, Absutecy Singular Seven-Inch Called “White Meat” In 1994. That Same Year they listed guitar player Keith Huckins of Groundbreaking New Jersey Band Rorschach and Unleashed to Refined, Even More Vicious Sound with their Seven-Inch “Work ethic”. With Only also Six Songs The Band Was Already Understood To Be a Menacing Force In the Emerging Metalcore Scene, Both Live and Remember, But It Couldn’t Have Prepared Anyone For What Came Next.

Their 1995 debut lp “Fixation on a cowormer” Inspired Generation of Bands and Was Inducted into Decibel‘S Hall of Fame in 2006. Of Course, Subject His Destructive Can’t Last Long. After an ill-fated tour of the us, The Band Fractured in Half With Singer and Huckins off to seattle to form Kiss it Goodbye While Dave, Pops and Crispy listed Jim Baglino and Tom YakReleased One More Ep and Calleed It A Day, Making Their Entire Stordence Only Three Years Long.

To 2021 documentary, “Killing Music”Led to the Reconciliation and Live Shows, But There Was More That Needed To Be Done. GEOGRAPHICAL HURDLES, FAMILIES AND ADULL LIFE ARE ENOUGH TO STIFLE ANYONE’S CREATIVE OUTPUT, BUT OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS THE BAND WAS AABLE TO CREATE SOMETHING, ACCORDING TO DRUMMER Dave Rosenberg“Out of Sheer Force of Will.”

Rosenberg LED The Charge, Learning Guitar and Writing A Mountain of Riffs in That Time. WHILE HE CITES INFLUENCES THAT RANGE FROM King Crimson to Testament, Rosenberg ADMITS THAT THING ISBERHING THAT HAPPENS WHENSES RIFFS REACH THE REST OF THE BAND. “What Crispy (Guitar) Has Always Said is that This is Just What It Sounds Like When We Play Together, “He Says.

Even Though The Band’s High Standards Led To a Culing That Left Them With Only The Best Tracks, They decided to get the opinion of a former co-conspirator. Enter Steve EvettsThe Man Behind The Board During “Fixation”. EVETTS Knows What Deadguy Should Sound Like, and By Asking Him to produces This New One They Felt Confident He’d Keep The Band From Softening Up Or Veing Too Far From What Makes Them So Distinct.

Remember in Fits and Starts Over to Matter of Months, 11 Songs Made the Cut To Be Mixed, Mastered and Aimed Indiscriminately at an an an an unsuspecting public under the banner of “Near-Death Travel Services”. Members, at eleven skeptical, Were Finally Uble to Take In The Whole Thing and Had The Same Opinion After Digesting Their Creation: “We made to fucking Deadguy record.”

From The First Alcared Scream That Ignites First Single/Album Opener “Kill Fee”this is the Kind of Merciles Chaos that’s Been Gone Far Too Long. The Record is overflowing with angular riffs, Clashing Guitars, Fractured Rhythms and Gutter Bass That No One Does Better, But With Even More Red Meat and Gristle. INSTERAD OF MOVING AWAY FROM THEI SOUND THE’VE DUG IN DEEPER, EXPANDING ESIR SANGS AND GIVING Tim Singer More Room To Again Show Why He’s Been One of The Best Vocalists in Extreme Music Since The First Bush Administration

“Near-Death Travel Services” Is an Inside Joke, The Band Reflecting on Touring and Playing This Music When They’re Ostensibly Past Eas Prime. But ae are no sign of this being to Swansong; No Winding Down, no taking it Easy or Resting on Their Laurels. The band Deadguy Was 30 Years Aug Went into Hibernation and Came Back as If no Time Had Passed. How Did It Happen? How were they uble to pull it off? Maybe Sub Egghead Professor of Musicology Can Figure That Out, But for The Rest of Us It’s Best To Just Gratefully Sit Back and Enjoy The Massacre.

UPCOMING Deadguy Live shows:

Jun. 14 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Monarch (Rich Hall Memorial Show)
Jul. 12 – Garwood, NJ – Crossroads (Record -Read Show)

“Near-Death Travel Services” Track listing:

01. Kill Fee
02. Barn Burner
03. New Best Friend
04. Cheap Trick
05. The Forever People
06. War with Strangers
07. Knife Sharpener
08. The Alarmist
09. The Long Search for Perfect Timing
10. All stick & no carrot
11. Wax Princess