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 MTV reports that it's been two years since influential Massachusetts metallers OVERCAST
announced they'd be reuniting for a single release - a collection of
re-recorded tracks culled from the band's poorly produced back-catalog.
But on Tuesday, after what was a prolonged, yet modest, bidding war (or
as close to a bidding war as you can get in metal), Overcast's reunion
LP, Reborn To Kill Again, finally landed in stores. And while the band
has a handful of reunion shows booked through August 30th in Waterbury,
Connecticut, with DISSOLVE, the reunion is going to be short-lived - at
least for the time being.
With frontman Brian Fair's first priority being SHADOWS FALL, the
band he joined after Overcast's 1998 demise, and bassist Mike
D'Antonio's other band, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, set to start work on their
next studio effort in October, Overcast's reunion can't carry on
forever. But D'Antonio said there's a chance the band could release new
material down the line.
"When we recorded it, we just tried to get the songs sounding as
good as they possibly could, and there are two songs we'd never
recorded that are on this record," he said. "We had talked about doing
another record, and there's another record on the table under our
contract with Metal Blade. We can do it if we want. If we don't,
whatever. But we have discussed doing another record, and I'm kind of
excited about tinkering with ideas for it. That said, if we did start
writing a new album, and it wasn't turning out like an Overcast record,
I don't think we'd put it out. It really needs to have a certain vibe.
It can't be another metalcore record, like the things that are going on
these days. It really needs to have that old-school mentality, which we
had held true back then. If not, it's not even worth it."
Read more at MTV.com.
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