USURPER - New Material To Surface This Year
January 18, 2010, 14 years ago
SCYTHE, the band featuring USURPER guitarist/founder, Rick Scythe, have issued the following update:
"If you need a fix of Usurper, prepare for SCYTHE (the band - Rick Scythe: guitar/vocals/bass; Joe Martinez: lead guitar; Ben Mulvey: drums) will record some material and put up a MySpace page in about eight weeks. This is the closest to new USURPER material you will hear. Song titles include:'Bonesmen And Barbarians'
'Prison Planet'
'Talons Of Steel'
'Reptilian Bloodline'
'Witchcult'
Also we are doing some Usurper material for live concerts:
'Lycanthropic'
'Kill For Metal'
'Metal Lust'
'1666 Ad'
... and most likely more than that."
Usurper songwriter/founder Rick Scythe had this to add:
"Speaking of Usurper, I am planning on releasing at least 1 or 2 (maybe more) new Usurper songs in 2010. I have these demos of songs we never put out. I used to write everything for Usurper. I would show up to rehearsal with a four track recording of guitar, drums, bass and vocals - show them to the band, and then everyone would just learn their parts and enhance the basic concept.I was thinking of taking some of those tracks and adding perhaps like The General D. Slaughter or another past member to complete the recordings... or possibly record some entirely new Usurper material... or possibly just releasing some of those raw demo tracks... just to fill the void before the Usurper DVD, but not 100% definite right now.
As for Scythe (the band) this will be the closest to a Usurper reformation you will get. The music is in the vein of Usurper, plus live we will play Usurper material... perhaps even have guest Usurper vocalists to help with a couple songs here and there.
The musicianship is even better than Usurper. Just kind of 'one-upped' everything that kicked ass about Usurper. I really want to bring it over-the-top. I'll do a few leads, but I've enlisted a complete axe shredder named Joe Martinez on lead guitar - he's kind of like a death metal Yngwie, as well as a very rock solid drummer with some of the fastest double bass I've worked with, named Ben Mulvey. We want to add a bassist real soon, but for now I'll record all the bass parts."
