Report: OVERCAST Are Reborn On Reunion Album
August 22, 2008, 16 years ago
MTV.com has issued the following report from Chris Harris:
It's been two years since influential Massachusetts metallers OVERCAST announced they'd be reuniting for a single release - a collection of re-recorded tracks culled from the band's poorly produced back-catalog.
But on Tuesday, after what was a prolonged, yet modest, bidding war (or as close to a bidding war as you can get in metal), Overcast's reunion LP, Reborn To Kill Again, finally landed in stores. And while the band has a handful of reunion shows booked through August 30th in Waterbury, Connecticut, with DISSOLVE, the reunion is going to be short-lived - at least for the time being.
With frontman Brian Fair's first priority being SHADOWS FALL, the band he joined after Overcast's 1998 demise, and bassist Mike D'Antonio's other band, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, set to start work on their next studio effort in October, Overcast's reunion can't carry on forever. But D'Antonio said there's a chance the band could release new material down the line.
"When we recorded it, we just tried to get the songs sounding as good as they possibly could, and there are two songs we'd never recorded that are on this record," he said. "We had talked about doing another record, and there's another record on the table under our contract with Metal Blade. We can do it if we want. If we don't, whatever. But we have discussed doing another record, and I'm kind of excited about tinkering with ideas for it. That said, if we did start writing a new album, and it wasn't turning out like an Overcast record, I don't think we'd put it out. It really needs to have a certain vibe. It can't be another metalcore record, like the things that are going on these days. It really needs to have that old-school mentality, which we had held true back then. If not, it's not even worth it."Read more at MTV.com.
