9/13/2023 0 Comments Scars of life another tomorrow![]() ![]() And we just kind of wanted to close the book on that whole thing and finally put it to rest, and with that story, seemed to be a really good time to do it. You know, we had that whole Doors mentality-one for all and all for one. ![]() You know, we couldn’t see eye to eye, and so we made changes, we all made changes, and we just felt like we wanted to put some closure …. We were tired of just butting heads constantly. There was not any closure… and we just wanted to go into 20 with just joyful anticipation. And, you know, with River Runs Red,we left the whole dialogue and the whole story up in the air. Since we made, we wanted to do some kind of full-circle thing. Well, Alan (Robert, bassist) had mentioned it to us. So at what point, in your memory, did the idea of doing a sequel to River Runs Red first come about? Now that we can be a band again, you’re listening to what we can really fucking do and what kind of records we can really make. I mean the owner of Napalm is a huge fucking fan, he loves the fucking band. ![]() And it’s great to work with people, like labels that absolutely respect your creative control and don’t want to interfere with that, and that’s what we got going on. We’re kind of like standing outside of it all in a way. You know, we don’t fulfill that matrix mentality that everyone is under. We’re not really politically correct, in a sense, or any of that kind of stuff, because we don’t believe in any of these institutions. I think the industry doesn’t know where to put us or shove us, because we’re still against the grain and so outspoken. And I think the industry treats us like that, too. I don’t know if it’s just us, but we kind of stand outside of everything, in a way. We’re like biologists, trying to discover a new strand of DNA…. We’re not interested in making some fucking Carvel-McDonald’s-fast food song that sounds like everything else on the radio… you know we’re more into the creative. We were one of those bands, obviously, that grew up in the seventies and eighties and we love making records. Like, here’s the deal with us: We could give a fuck who’s doing what-and we were always like that. I think Life of Agony was so bold in doing a concept album, because a concept album almost necessitates the art of listening, right? Life of Agony will be bringing The Sound of Scars to the Starland Ballroom on December 21, and throughout our entire thought-inspiring, candid conversation, Caputo’s kindness and unwavering spirit exudes an energy that is infectious and gratifying. So I get the whole nostalgia thing, but we go so much beyond the nostalgic act.” I just didn’t understand how these bands, these groups, made these things that I’m holding in my hand that made this beautiful music which completely moves me. I was enthralled and completely mind blown. I couldn’t understand beautiful Robert Plant was as a man and how he had this voice. I couldn’t understand how these songs were made. You know, I’ll throw on an album, and it’ll take me right back right to my bedroom, when I used to stare at Freddie Mercury, and sit really close to the speakers as a 10-year-old. “Because I get it-music is like the eternal fountain of youth. “It doesn’t talk about the history of a band or, or you know, the feeling that everyone’s holding onto the past, or the past album,” lead singer Mina Caputo tells The Aquarian. In other words, The Sound of Scars offers fresh perspective of the human condition without any trappings of a nostalgia trip. So, it is fitting that The Sound of Scars-the follow up to the band’s 2017 release, A Place Where There’s No More Pain-is a sequel to River Runs Red, picking up where that album’s narrative left off: a young man attempting suicide after the weight of the world becomes too unbearable for him to continue living.Ī concept album in every sense possible, The Sound of Scars finds Life of Agony once again digging deep into the emotional, physical, and spiritual burden of life’s endless journey-emerging hard and heavy from the lineage of yesterday like a catapult into tomorrow with each emotionally hammering track. The release date held a special significance, as The Sound of Scars was set loose upon the world nearly 26 years to the day of the release of LOA’s debut, the timeless classic, River Runs Red. On October 11, seminal alt-metal act Life of Agony released their sixth album, The Sound of Scars (Napalm Records)-which has been named The Aquarian’s official “Album of the Year” for 2019. ![]()
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