I grew tall in the seventies and eighties in East Texas, a geography which, in a very real way, was about the third notch of the Bible Belt-nice and snug. Because the truth is, I don’t ever want to be gone.
But I no longer say, You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone. Oh, rest assured I continue to perform all those services-most often gladly I might add-and even some new ones. To pause in the course of our everyday ordinary lives together and give thanks, again, for me-and-my-services, like taking out the greasy coffee grounded snotty tissue trash, and slacking the gas-thirst in their eternally panting cars, and of course being the last of these-you know, the one who turns off all the lights while locking all the doors before whispering to our home, Goodnight, sweet hearth.īut I’ve stopped with that phrase enough is enough. Always voiced with a slight grin, it has been my usually utterly futile attempt to get them to stop and smell the rose of me, so to speak.
For years stacked on years, I’ve said that to my immediate-vicinity family members. Keep up to date with everything they're doing and given them a follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Spotify, too.Y ou’re gonna miss me when I’m gone. "For the most part, my teenage years were mainly about finding out what was the fastest thing I could find," he recalls.Ĭheck out the must-see video for "Electrified Brain" first, though, and pre-order your copy of Municipal Waste's new album here. Witte's teenage music experience was a bit more direct. Here are the records that gave me that certain music addiction a lot of us have and helped make me the slave to the music industry that I am today!" I met a lot of cool people that influenced me toward a lot of different things and helped make me the weird person I am," he continues, "I listened to a lot of metal and thrash bands a bit later in the game, but I caught up fast. "I went to three different high schools and lived in two different states that weren’t very close to each other. "I was a '90s kid, so my influences are kind of all over the place," warns Foresta. Those stylistic applications only offer a glimpse into those influences though, so, further down this page, Foresta (who turned 46 this year), and Witte (who will turn 51 this summer), take it back to the records they couldn't stop listening to as kids, before there was any such thing called Municipal Waste.
They're not just one of the great neo-thrash groups anymore - they're every bit deserving of being mentioned in the same breath as all of those '80s bands we all adore so much.Īnd with their seventh full length, Electrified Brain, arriving July 1 on Nuclear Blast, Municipal Waste are keen to show off some of their more classic/traditional metal influences, as heard on new cuts "High Speed Steel" and the title track in particular, while "Grave Dive" maintains the chugging, mosh-positive vibe that has always offered balance to their sound.
Yes, they're scene veterans now just like any of the Big 4, Testament, Kreator, Death Angel, Overkill, Sodom.