CRASHSCENE - New Song 'Don't Tell Me What To Do' Available For Streaming
CRASHSCENE - featuring members of NEUROSONIC and BIF NAKED's backing band - have posted the new song 'Don't Tell Me What To Do' Online. Check it out via the player below.
Crashscene's new album I Fall Apart was mixed by Randy Staub (METALLICA), Mike Fraser (VAN HALEN, AC/DC), and Paul Silveira (SEAL, GOB).
BW&BK scribe Carl Begai recently caught up with Crashscene guitarist Troy Healy. An excerpt from the story is available below:
Anyone who became a fan of Canadian bashers Neurosonic during their short but volatile run between 2006 and 2009 will agree the band should have been much bigger than they were. From a commercial standpoint their debut (and only) album, Drama Queen, had plenty of radio potential that was never tapped, and on the live front Neurosonic was known for delivering the same face-melting show for 2,000 or 20 people on any given night. Sadly, frontman/founder Jason Darr unexpectedly pulled the plug on April 1st, 2009 based on his growing discontent with the music industry. One of the most original almost-mainstream bands to come out of Canada in years had been silenced.
Fast forward to March 2012 and the rise of Crashscene, an outfit that is essentially Neurosonic minus Darr with a few new twists thrown into the mix. Bassist Jacen Ekstrom is now up front as lead throat backed by guitarist Troy Healy and drummer Shane Smith, with new faces Ean “E” Scream filling Ekstrom’s old boots and guitarist Josh Volkov. The band’s debut album, I Fall Apart, is a welcome picking up of Neurosonic’s pieces worthy of serious attention.
“Darr and I are in contact a lot, but he doesn’t want to be in a band anymore because it’s a lot of hard work without a lot of the rewards you’re hoping for,” says Troy Healy of choosing to move forward with Crashscene. “Jacen and I are lifers; we couldn’t run from this if we wanted to (laughs). It’s a blessing and a curse.”
“When we were on the road, me and Jacen talked a lot about writing stuff together if Neurosonic didn’t continue,” he reveals. “There were times when we sat down in a hotel room and jammed on a few things, but we didn’t know if the stuff we were working on would end up on a Neurosonic record or somewhere else, because Crashscene didn’t exist at the time. I think it was the same day I got the call that Darr was packing it in, me and Jacen were on the phone talking about what we were going to do next.”
“Jacen had written six songs and he sent them to me, I was digging them, so I decided to put a few of my songs together, fly to Vancouver and record them with Darr. At that time Jacen was doing some touring with BIF NAKED, and he happened to show up at the studio on the same day two of my songs were done. It was like, ‘Hey, cool, come and sing!’ We did a bunch of vocal tweaking because both of Darr and Jacen are amazing vocal writers, so they improved on anything I had down in a massive way. Those two songs ended up being ‘Don’t Tell Me What To Do’ and ‘Against The Wall’.”
Crashscene’s debut boasts the mixing / engineering talents of Randy Staub (METALLICA), Mike Fraser (AC/DC) and Paul Silveira (SEAL), but there’s no mistaking Jason Darr’s hand on the reins of I Fall Apart. In much the same way he shaped Bif Naked’s post-cancer 2009 comeback album, The Promise, Darr’s industrial rock production values and trademark tweaks give the record a distinctive sound immediately associated with Neurosonic by anyone in-the-know.
“Darr produced the album, so his stamp is all over it,” Healy agrees. “He and Jacen worked together on a bunch of songs, and on those ones I hear more of the Neurosonic influence. I brought in ‘A Suit For Killing’, which also has that Neurosonic vibe, but I think that comes from the three of us pretty much writing that song on the spot around a basic guitar riff I brought in. We wanted a heavy, fast-paced song and we were done writing it by the end of the day. Songs like ‘I Fall Apart’, ‘Don’t Tell Me What To Do’ and ‘Against The Wall’, I think they’re a few steps away from Neurosonic, but yeah, that sound is definitely in there.”
Click here for more. Fans can stream tracks from CrashScene's debut online at this location.
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