In a brand new interview with DJ Ramo (a.ok.a. Omar Rodriguez) of The Metallic Mixtape, GOD FORBID frontman Byron Davis was requested if there have been any conversations between him and his bandmates about new music. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We have had an preliminary dialog like that. And I am making an attempt to convey again these conversations.
“All of us stay separate lives,” he defined. “Two members have full functioning households, so if we’re gonna do one thing, it has to make sense. Sadly, we’re not at a stage the place we have now a stockpile of cash to make this stuff occur, so we have now to be fiscally accountable each time we resolve to do that, to see if it financially is smart to do it. It isn’t like a band that dissolved and all people nonetheless lives in the identical space. We’re scattered throughout the U.S. now. So all that comes into play.
“So long as individuals actually wish to come see us, I am very happy to get on the market, nevertheless it has to make sense. As a result of I am not gonna jeopardize the way forward for my private [life] that I needed to rebuild. And I do not anticipate anybody or know that anybody else within the band to do the identical for themselves. We now have to be sensible about it, and it must make sense.
“I feel that till we get new music, something extra is simply taking part in… It is not likely taking part in ourselves out. It is simply… Dude, I would like new music,” Byron added. “The dudes within the band need new music. I would moderately spend the time writing music than taking part in reveals at this level, to be trustworthy. I wanna get on the market and have one thing new. Yeah, we have now a few B-sides that nobody’s ever heard, however I wanna have new present music. So, we’ll see what occurs. Everybody has schedules. After which GOD FORBID will not be a kind of bands that simply throws something collectively. Once we write, we take our time and we write. Fortunately for us, everybody in our band is about integrity, so they are not simply gonna throw out some slop. So, it is gonna need to undergo the gauntlet a few occasions earlier than elements get cemented because the elements. After which from there, then we’ll put it collectively, run some demos. I already began chatting with my man that produced loads of the fabric that we did, on the vocal tip. So once we do some materials, it is gonna be a document worthy of being known as a GOD FORBID document; it is not simply gonna be thrown collectively. So if it takes just a little bit longer, it is price it. Nah, man, we will not be coming in with that bullshit. We have gotta stamp it with the GOD FORBID. It could actually’t be lower than; it is gotta be higher than. We have a we obtained a again catalog that stands the take a look at of time, and the brand new shit wants to face the take a look at of time as effectively. In order that’s how we go into the writing course of.”
GOD FORBID, a New Jersey-based band which helped pioneer the metalcore and New Wave Of American Heavy Metallic sound within the late ’90s and early ’00s together with acts like LAMB OF GOD, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and SHADOWS FALL, broke up in 2013. The band reunited in 2022 for the Blue Ridge Rock Pageant in Virginia.
GOD FORBID carried out extra reunion reveals in December 2024 celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the band’s breakout album, “Gone Perpetually”.
GOD FORBID‘s efficiency on the Blue Ridge Rock Pageant in September 2022 on the Virginia Worldwide Raceway in Alton, Virginia marked the band’s first stay look in over 9 years.
GOD FORBID‘s lineup for its current concert events has included Doc Coyle (guitar),Byron Davis (vocals),Corey Pierce (drums) and John “Beeker” Outcalt (bass),together with Nick Hipa (guitar; ex-AS I LAY DYING),who joined the group in July 2022.
GOD FORBID formally known as it quits in August 2013 following Doc‘s departure.
GOD FORBID‘s newest album, “Equilibrium”, was launched in March 2012 through Victory Data. The majority of the CD was recorded by Mark Lewis (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, WHITECHAPEL, DEVILDRIVER, TRIVIUM),with Jason Suecof (TRIVIUM, ALL THAT REMAINS, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, CHIMAIRA, DEVILDRIVER) stepping in in the course of the the vocal-tracking stage. The trouble was combined by acclaimed Swedish producer Jens Bogren, who beforehand labored with such acts as KATATONIA, OPETH, PARADISE LOST and AMON AMARTH.
“Equilibrium” offered 3,400 copies in the USA in its first week of launch to debut at place No. 156 on The Billboard 200 chart. The trouble landed at No. 7 on the Prime New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and creating artists, outlined as those that have by no means appeared within the Prime 100 of The Billboard 200.
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