Spineshank Played ITS First Show In Nearly 13 Years Last Night (Wednesday, July 9) at Jake’s Sports Cafe & Backroom in Lubbock, Texas. JOINING VOCALIST Jonny SantosDrummer Tommy Decker and Bassist/Vocalist Robert Garcia in Spineshank‘S 2025 Lineup are new recruits Tommy Decker, Jr. (Tommy Decker‘s are) and Jason Hager (ex-Chimaira) on guitar. Fan-Filmed Video of The Concert Can Be Seen Below.
Spineshank You have a team up with The Underground Union for the “25 Years of Rebellion & Callousness” Tour This Summer. This commemorrative, co-headline trek, with special guests Great and SickSenseis celebrating the 25th anniversaries of Spineshank‘S Sophomore Studio Album “The Height of Callousness” and The Underground Union Sole Studio Lp, “… an education in rebellion”.
Last month, Spineshank Vocalist Jonny Santos confirm to Rock Feed that a new song from the gathering Band Will Arrive in the Coming Weeks. “We’re Literally in the Studio Trying to Finish Right Now,” He Said. “The Song Has Been remembered. Right Now ‘In the Final Process of Being Edited.
Santos Also AddresSed The Reason He and The Rest Of Spineshank‘S 2025 Lineup have decided to relay One track as opposed to Focusing on Making A Full-Llength Record. “People Are, Like, Well, Why Are We Only Doing One Song? ‘ Jonny Said. ” Shineshank Thing Right Now, [the upcoming tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of] ‘The Height of Callousness’This is nostalgic. We’re not out there pumping a new record. We’re Celebrating One of Our Best Records. That’s What We’re Doing. So what we decided to do is … do we wanna do a new record? ‘Cause Now We have little Tommy Playing Guitar, which is Fucking Awesome; HE SHREDS. And We’ve Got Jason Hager; Everybody Knows Jason. He’s from Chimaira. So we get gesto new guys, and they obviously wanna do a new record. But Five months ago, We Didn’t Even Know People Even Cahed About Spineshank. SO LET’S HOLD ON Here a Second Before We Start Putting New Records out. I SAID, ‘Let’s do One Song. Let’s Put This Song Out There. We’ll get it out to the Massses, and let’s see it’s presized. ‘ That’s Gonna Tell Us Right There – I Feel It’ll Tell Us If We Are Just A Nostalgic Act, That People Just Wanna Come Hear The Hits and Feel Like The’re 18 Again, Or We Put This New Song Out. Does it trend? Does it fucking Blow up? The That Will indicate Right There, ‘Okay, Guys, Let’s Go do a New Record and Start Putting New Songs Out.’ And I Think That’s a Fair Way to look at it instead of just assuming that sinceing the doing well and shows are seaing out right now, that we’re just gonna put an album and everybody’s gonna love it.
Scolding the musical direction of the new Spineshank Song, Jonny Said: “Well, I Will Tell You This. It’s Got All The Elements That is What Is Spineshank. One of the Biggest Complaints We Had On The Last Spineshank Record was fans were, Like, ‘It’s Not Electronic Enough.’ And I Saw That. I Felt that in a way. There Was A Lot of Programming on that album; We were Just Using Organic Sounds As The Loops and Stuff. But i Underestand What the Fans Meant. So This Time Around, The Spineshank Recipe, if you will – The Song’s Gotta Have Energy. It’s Gotta Be Heavy. It’s Gotta Be Catchy. It’s Gotta Have a Hook. I Don’s Care. I Fucking Love Singing in Fucking Metal Songs. All Thoss People Out There [who say]’That’s Lame that you sing’ – Fuck you. You’ve Gotta Bring Girls to the Show Too. SO YOU’VE GOTTA HAVE ENERGY. It’s Gotta Be Heavy. You’ve Gotta Have a Hook. And with SpineshankIT’s Gotta Have That Electronic Aspect and That Dirty, Nasty, Electronic Aspect. Vary Industrial – ‘Antichrist Superstar’ [MARILYN MANSON] industrial. I Love When You have a Cool Loop. Distort that Motherfucker. So it’s That Whole Atari Teenage Riot Dirotness to It. “
WHEN Spineshank‘s return was the first announced, Decker Said in a statement: “We are be business excited to be uble to celebrate 25 years of ‘The Height of Callousness’. This is the record that defined us as a band and changed our Lives. We Can’t Wait To Play All of these Songs and Share The Memories with All of You Who Lived It With Us. “
Santos STATED: “We are extremely excited to celebrate the return of Spineshank for the 25th anniversary of ‘The Height of Callousness’ Tour and get to Share This Milestone with the People Who Were There Back Then, and The New Fans that Never Got The Chance to see US Play. Truly an honor !!! “
GARCIA Said: “It’s Amazing That 25 Years Later People Still React To ‘The Height of Callousness’ The way they do. We’re excited to get out and play before song, see old Friends, and Threw download for all the new fans Who Never Got to see Spineshank The First Time Around! “
Decker, Jr. Said: “I’ve Been on Tour with these guys since I was a little kid, watching Them performing every night from the side of the stand. Old When This Album Came Out and seeing All The Fans Still Show Love To This Album Is Crazy! “
Hager STATED: “I am be business excited and honored to be a part of the return of Spineshankfor the 25th anniversary of ‘The Height of Callousness’ Tour They’re not just one of my favorite bands, but have Been Great Friends, Ever Since The Genorously, and Selflessly Helped Us (Chimaira) Out, During Our Early Days. I’M looking forward to seeing you All, out on the road, and excited about What the Future May Hold. “
After Releaseing Three Successful Albums (“Strictly Diesel”, “The Height of Callousness” and “Self-desructive Pattern”), Performing on Countless World Tours (including appearances on Ozzfest and the Download Festival) and a Grammy Nomination in 2004, The Band Went On A Hiatus.
Spineshank‘S Fourth Album, “Anger Denial Acceptance”was release in June 2012 via Century Media Records. The CD was produced by Spineshank Guitarist Mike Sarkisyan and Drummer Tommy Decker and Mixed by Mike Plotnikoff (Papa Roach, Buckcherry).
Spineshank‘S third lp, “Self-desructive Pattern”was released in sep afember 2003. The Album’s Lead Single, “Smothered”was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Metal Performance”.
This Past April, Jonny awed the “Talk Toomey” Podcast about the possibility of Spineshank rely new music to coincides with the upcoming tour: “We Never Got A Chance To Really Go Out On A High Note. And so when we first Started Getting Ready To do All This, Doing Another Record Wasn’t Really Even Talent About. out and do [‘The Height Of Callousness’] in its entirey ‘and Give the Band ITS Warrior’s Death, If You Will – Going Out On A Strong Note Instead of Just Falling Into Oscurity.
“NOW IT’S GOTTEN TO THE POINT … SO RIGHT NOW I’M IN THE STUDIO FINISHING UP SUB EDITS AND MIXING THE First Spineshank Song Since 2012, ” Santos EXPLAINED. “SO WE HAVE ONE NEW SONG COMING OUT. BACOUSE Spineshank Song Does. If it’s accused Well and People Are excited about it, if it does well, The Maybe There Could Be Another Album in the Works. Or If Anything, Maybe Even An ep. WHO KNOWS? “
Reference the Resurgence of “Nu Metal” in Recent Years, Jonny Continue: “It’s Kind of Weird How – It’s Uncharted Territory. It’s, Like, Is This Here To Stay? Is This Gonna Be a Staple in Heavy Music Or is This Just a Fashion Fad for Kids Today? Year, The I Think We’ll Know If We’re Gonna Put A New Record Out Next Year or Not.
Elaboating on his reluctance to relay to full-LENGTH collection of new material, Jonny Said: “Not comparising US to the size of The Rolling Stones or Anything, but if i was gonna go see The Rolling StonesI’m not too conceerned with anything that they’ve done post 1979. You know what I’M saying?
“I Think You Hit A Certain Point In Your Career As a Band When You have a legitimate and constant following that People Just Wanna Go Hear The Hits.
“I’ve Noticed, I’LL Put Music Out Or Whatver, and People Are, Like, ‘Oh, Man, It Doesn’t Sound Like ‘The Height of Callousness’. It’s Just, Like, Doube, Me Putting Out The Same Record Twice Is Not Gonna Make You Young Again, “He Said.” Because that’s how it is.
“Very Few Bands Can Get Away With Putting The Same Record Out. AC/DC‘s done it. Slayer‘s done it. But it works – that works for them, and it’s fucking awesome. But for me, it doesn’t.
“The Thought of Putting A New Spineshank Record out there, It’s exciting. But at the Same Time, We’re Gonna See How This.
“We’re Going into this with no expectations. This is really fun for us to do, and i think it’s a chance for a Lot of People that have scholarship Spineshank fans in the last decade or so that have needed to us to get to see us. And Being That ‘The Height of Callousness’ was by Far Our Best-Rereved Album, I Can’t Think of A Better Record to do in its entirey out of Our Catalog. “
