Mutoid Man simply launched their first album in six years, and first-ever with High On Fire bassist Jeff Matz, Mutants on July 28. However how did Mutoid Man and Matz even get collectively within the first place? It isn’t like frontman Stephen Brodsky and drummer Ben Koller play in any of the identical bands along with Matz.
In an interview with New Noise Magazine, Brodsky defined that it began when Koller injured himself in 2019 and Mutoid Man recruited then-High On Fire reside drummer Chris Maggio. The band and Maggio bought to know one another fairly effectively, and when it turned apparent that now-former Mutoid Man bassist Nick Cageao wasn’t going to be within the band for much longer, Maggio steered Matz.
“In 2019, [Koller] sustained an harm to his elbow that pressured him to have to sit down out on some touring that we had deliberate. We bought Chris Maggio from Sleigh Bells and Trap Them and Coliseum, and several other different bands, to fill in for Ben. Within the course of, we bought slightly chemistry going with Chris, and as issues progressed with that lineup we began to wrestle with Nick within the sense that he simply wasn’t doing effectively on the street. It simply was wanting increasingly like the most effective choice as a touring band could be to not topic him to our schedule of being on the street as a lot as we have been on the time.
“So when that was all coming to a head, Chris, who was on the time enjoying with High On Fire, steered Jeff Matz, and he was like, ‘I simply assume it might be an ideal match.’ He was attending to know Jeff, and I did not know Jeff very effectively, however via Chris I used to be simply of the understanding that Jeff was an actual devoted musician, to the craft of simply enjoying bass in all totally different sides—via being a music trainer, the period of time he is spent in High On Fire and his writing means for the band. After which researching slightly bit additional with my pal Kurt Ballou, who performs in Converge and runs God Metropolis Studio and has labored a number of occasions with High On Fire—He additionally had nothing however nice issues to say about working with Jeff.
“That is actually how the dialog began, so then Jeff was fortunately sport to strive one thing new. High On Fire is a West Coast-based band and he was right down to get bizarre with a bunch of salty east coasters and see what occurs.”
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