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And, hopefully, the business end will pay off as much in the long run as it has in the short term. In other words, it’s fun music made by guys with an interactive approach and the approach has thus far paid off.
Even with the small change, this music is punkified sludge: it’s a musical amalgamation of Melvins, Bison b.c. Martin adds extra mustard on the original parts by former guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Toshi Kasai, who officially departed earlier this year due to his recording career skyrocketing. A quick listen to the new material online reveals an updated guitar dynamic in the act, whose music has consistently featured bluesy, sludgy instrumentation that’s massively bombastic, with ride cymbal-heavy percussive embellishments and bellowing, stentorian vocals. The record will be the first full-length to feature Scott Martin, following his inclusion on 2011’s Quadruple Single EP and 2012’s Wild Kingdom 7″.
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We have a distribution deal and everything, so we can still get our records into stores, plus we have our online web store,” he says. “The album is likely to come out in the fall. Hopefully, February or March, we are going to be recording,” explains Willis, who describes the new material as “really dynamic…. “I’d say we are about 75 per cent there as far as songs and everything. It probably helped that the Big Business half of the band was given a break in 2012 after King Buzzo and Crover recorded and toured as the Melvins Lite incarnation alongside bassist Trevor Dunn. Starting this label was a big step for us in terms of just taking our own lives into our hands.” “The last couple years for us has been trying to bring Big Business back to the forefront for us and be able to do both bands, just us getting our shit together to actually organize tours and put out records. It’s their careers,” explains Willis, who plays drums in the act alongside Dale Crover. “The first couple years we were in the Melvins, we kind of had to – not intentionally – put Big Business on a bit of the back-burner because we had to be in this other band that stays busy. Willis and Warren have made up half of legendary weirdo act Melvins since 2006, forcing their main project to the back-burner as they negotiated the logistics of being in one of the most influential underground metal acts alive. “It’s our attempt at doing things our way and getting to choose where we spend our money and having complete control over everything we do.”īig Business was equally inspired to start their own label to give themselves a kick in the pants. Himself, bassist/vocalist Jared Warren and guitarist Scott Martin spearheaded the endeavour. “In general, we were just dissatisfied with being on a label and the ambiguity of it - money-wise and where money was being spent, and not having control over that,” explains drummer and vocalist Coady Willis.
Their fourth full-length will be unveiled in the fall. The sludgy trio created Gold Metal Records and has thus far released two morsels of music on the imprint. Creating subsidiary and personal imprint labels is an experiment in action, explored by bands like Dillinger Escape Plan (whose personal label, Party Smasher Inc., was announced in late November to have merged with Sumerian Records), Clutch (who made Weathermaker Music in 2008 after a string of disappointments with previous labels), Metallica (who announced the creation of Blackened Recordings for past and future releases on November 30) and, now, Big Business. As a result of the robust decline of the physical music industry, underground acts are constantly working to find ways to sustain their marginal profits.
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