AUDIOTOPSY, the new band featuring guitarist Greg Tribbett (MUDVAYNE, HELLYEAH), drummer Matt McDonough (MUDVAYNE), vocalist Billy Keeton (SKRAPE) and bassist Perry Stern, will release its debut album, “Natural Causes”, on October 2 via Napalm. The CD was produced by the AUDIOTOPSY bandmembers at The Porch Studio in Orlando, Florida with engineer Tim Laud.
Audio samples of all the songs that are set to appear on “Audiotopsy” can be streamed below.
Said Greg: “The focus was to write solid, hooky, big riff songs. We didn’t want to sound or look like every other band. It’s not supposed to be regular. We’re all building this vision together.” Merging intricate instrumentation with a seamless knack for melody, they conjured up a style as heavy as it is hypnotic. “We got a vibe going”, added Greg. You could call it ‘progressive hard rock.'”
“Natural Causes” track listing:
01. Headshot
02. All We Know
03. LYLAB
04. The Calling
05. H2O (Interlude)
06. Swim
07. Disguise Your Devils
08. Burn the Sky
09. Distorted
10. Darken the Rainbow
11. Frozen Scars
12. Natural Causes (Outro)
Regarding the CD’s opening track, “Headshot”, Billy said: “It’s from the point of view or the eyes of, not necessarily a soldier, but anybody who’s in battle and in the trenches. Metaphorically speaking, it’s life through the eyes of somebody fighting a battle.”
Tribbett, who was also a member of HELLYEAH until early 2014, said about his project: “I’m extremely excited about AUDIOTOPSY. The music has everything you want in a record… heavy, melodic, atmospheric, big, hooky riffs/singalongs as well. The guys in the band are great and we all feel as if this was meant to happen.”
Tribbett and bassist Bob “Zilla” Kakaha were dismissed from HELLYEAH in 2013. HELLYEAH guitarist Tom Maxwell explained: “They just pretty much had a lot of other stuff going on in their life that just took the focus of the band away, and for us to continue, we had to part ways with them.”
HELLYEAH and MUDVAYNE singer Chad Gray told The Pulse Of Radio that the split with his longtime bandmate and friend Tribbett was painful. “It was really, really tough, I mean, kind of watching Greg go through the things he was going through, you know, as his brother, as somebody that’s worked with him for 18 years,” he said. “I was watching this decline in him, you know, and it was really, really difficult.”
Meanwhile, it’s been six years since MUDVAYNE released its self-titled fifth album, which was barely promoted and sold weakly upon release.
The band has been silent since then, although a message was posted at its Facebook page last year saying that the group had not broken up.
Source: Blabbermouth
