He Is Legend new drummer/album 2013-06-01 by Forevermore | 57 Comments |
It's been a long time since HIL has said anything about the status of the band, only playing the occasional show and never answering questions about when/if new music would be coming. Until today:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151970514338957&id=6758 123956
What's up dude babes,
Since 2009/2010 we have been fairly inactive with the exception of a few regional shows here and there, we have also not released any new material, we're sure this is all obvious to all of our fans, so we just wanted to explain that there is a reason for all of that bullshit. Between financial and legal issues and certain members pursuing higher education our activities have been extremely limited. Our drummer, Steve Bache, started going back to school. Obviously that started taking up all of his time, as well as him moving to a new city, so that put a damper on the band as a whole doing anything substantial like writing/recording new music or getting on the road and touring extensively. In accordance all other members of He Is Legend found jobs to supplement income, real life shit, yada yada yada.
We've been trying to put together an album since 2011 but obviously with the aforementioned factors, that shit was not really working out. Steve chose to pursue his degree to allow him another career in life which left us with the need to find a drummer. Steve has deep roots in this band that extend to when we were all 16 years of age and we have been playing together as "He Is Legend" for ten + years. Trying to fill that void with just anyone would be unacceptable for us since his drumming played such a big role in our band, our music, and our sound. It was like trying to find a kick ass drumming needle in a hay stack. We have always and currently support Steve to the fullest and wish him the best in life and thank him so much for the time and dedication that he has put towards the band. We do miss him very much, but we all have been keeping in constant contact and we all are totes hella cool, brah.
Filling Steve's drumming feet, because that dude doesn't wear shoes, was a son of a bitch. After hashing through drummers via craigslist, methadone clinics, christianmingle.com, and drummers we knew we came upon an acquaintance of ours, Sam Huff, who happened to be working on a pit crew for NASCAR at the time. Within 15 minutes of rehearsing one of our newer ideas with Sam we realized that he was the perfect person for the position. Obviously we knew of Sam through a eatshitifyouthoughtthenascarthingwastrue bunch of people we know (Katie and Stacey, whut whut!!!) but we didn't know how connected we actually were. We found out that Sam had been in a band with some friends, the same friends that we know now, back in 2002 and we (under a different band name) played together at the college in Wilmington. We feel like fate has intervened in our band somehow and we are completely happy to have Sam join He Is Legend as an official member and drummer.
As of 2007, Worth Weaver has been doing an excellent job handling our live guitar duties for He Is Legend. He is a self-made producer out of Leland, NC, owning Red Room Recording. We hope to do pre-production for our new album with Worth at his studio. We're stoked to have Worth on board, as always, offering up his technical expertise to our feral nonsense.
Having said all that, we have been working on new material since 2011 and now with Sam Huff behind the kit we are finally able to put some things together and we are planning on recording a new album with producer and friend, Mitchell Marlow, who produced It Hates You. We have a lot of history with Mitch, him having been in our band at one point, and we know that with him we are going to get the kind of awesome fart sounds that we want on a new record and we will be completely at ease and comfortable. He always seems to know how to make us feel secure and confident, like a father penguin coddling a young pestilent penguin under it's blubbery belly.
In summary, realize that we have not been in the position to be able to move the band forward as we would have wanted to. With a new drummer and new music our goal is to move forward as planned and do all the things we haven't been able to do over the past few years, which includes releasing new music, touring worldwide and sonically summoning the Apocalypse. We appreciate the shit out of anyone that has stuck with us through our down times and we look forward to ripping everyone a new asshole in their earhole (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHRtdyW9ong).
So, stay tuned for more news coming from the He Is Legend camp. Fuck.
One love,
- He Is Legend
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Tagged: He Is Legend
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Holy shit.
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YES!!!
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excellent
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new HIL and NIN, im soooo stoked
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OH MY GOOOD. TRAMOPOLINE. TRAMBOPOLINE.
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👏
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Sonically summoning the apocalypse sounds pretty cool. That should be the new album name.
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TRAMAMPOLINE. TRABOPOLINE. [2]
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he said what now
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YES YES YES.
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fuckin eh
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well if it's better than It Hates You, I'm game
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Awesome. I haven't listened to these guys in a while, time to get back into them.
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Arguably one of my top 3 bands. Fuck. Fucking. Yes.
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Read this on Alt Press earlier today, so pumped. When things fell apart for HIL last year I lost hope.
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why is this in my discussions?
I DONT KNOW
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why is this in my discussions [2]
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Not a fan of these guys but dudes got a nice sense of humor
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I don't like this band lol
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HE IS LEGEND
WAS ALL SHE WROTE
i barely even listen to their other albums but Hollywood is a damn masterpiece
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saw that coming lol
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Both are pretty unexciting :/
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Don't want to wait it out
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Lmao
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Wow
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Nice try Fourth but wait it out
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It's not helping no offense
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You're a complete and utter bitch.
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andcas you need some jail time.
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Except Graf Orlock does it better cause they take them from 80s action movies
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And they have a Jurassic park riff
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i dont even drink LOL
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About fucking time
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I would somehow like to make love to this article. Im figuring it out...
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Looking forward to this for sure. these guys take me to a strange place with upside down trees and birds that know English and shit.
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It Hates You is one of the most underrated, under-appreciated albums I know of. It's absolutely incredible. Whenever He Is Legend gets mentioned, people are always like, "They need to go back to I Am Hollywood style music" and I'm always like...yeah right. All their albums are fantastic, but It Hates You takes the cake. And I didn't even like it at all when I first listened. Now it's easily one of my favorite albums.
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^ this. A thousand times this
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I liked Suck Out The Poison the best haha.
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Well damn, and I was just thinking to myself about how we heard about a new album back in like December but then that was it. Really glad they're coming back. They haven't released much material so more of these guys is definitely better. I personally loved It Hates You. Their other stuff had some fantastic tracks as well. Can't wait for new material, especially if it's like It Hates You with some more heavy stuff like I Am Hollywood, although I hear his voice isn't as good with that type of harsh vocsls.
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I thought I remember him doing some screaming on It Hates You, maybe I'm wrong. I still love his regular singing though. Just hope they can still write songs as good as they always have before.
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Okay, yeah that's it. It Hates You got damn heavy at times, he just never did any pure screaming.
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he screams in everyone i know has fangs at the very end.
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sounds damn good too
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they all come crawling back sooner or later.
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come back HORSE the band!
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band is legendary
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Just because he hasn't done any mids or lows doesn't mean he can't do em anymore. I knew he stopped doing them before because he thought they were immature.
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Most of his screams were only mid and highs in first place, occasional lows. It's just strange to imagine for how low and raspy his voice is he can't even do mids.
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I mean they do have a sense of humor so the southern rap seems sort of understandable.
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i am hollywood without mids?
RASP
RASP
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been jamming hollywood all day
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Sounds pretty beat on andcas. I'd rather just listen to them play SOTP and ITY you songs instead of hearing vocally botched versions of IAH songs.
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I wouldn't doubt it, I just hate when a singer fakes it for stuff they can't pull off in real life or anymore, or just doesn't try is even more annoying.
Sucks, the only time they played here I didn't get to go see em. I think the show actually got cancelled if I remember right.
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True, sadly. I like SOTP more and IHY equally too. People can be such wanks when a band decides to change their sound a bit.
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"he doesn't do mid or low screams anymore. just highs. "
that shit hurts lol
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"it hates you was amazing. get bent"
i feel like we discussed this once on the album thread
IHY was mediocre
Hollywood is their best by a long shot
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Suck Out The Poison is still my fav
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