Overkillin D.D. Verni on julkaisemassa toisen sooloalbuminsa – Ensimmäinen single kuunneltavissa

Overkill -yhtyeen basisti D.D. Verni julkaisee Verni -nimisen sooloprojektinsa toisen albumin ”Dreadful Company” 26. heinäkuuta M-Theory Audion kautta. Kuten edellisenkin albuminsa, on Verni kirjoittanut kaikki levyn kappaleet, soittanut kitara- ja bassoraidat sekä vastannut vokaaleista. Levyltä on nyt julkaistu myös ensimmäinen single ”Lunkhead”.
Verni kertoo uudesta albumistaan:

”This one has been a long time comin’. So psyched to finally do a punk-ish record. The best thing about these solo ventures is to be able to try out different stuff.

”When Covid came, I found I had a lot of time in the studio, which is not normally the case, so I used it to really ramp up on writing stuff and getting to some things on my bucket list done…this was one of ’em.

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”The mantra for the record was write it like a punk band and play it like a metal band. So, when I was writing there was no palm mutes or metal twinged anything, all wide-open RAMONES chords and then big melodies, then I came back later and started to add in the metal flavor, and more how I typically play guitar. I asked Jason Bittner (OVERKILL, SHADOWS FALL) to do the drums ’cause I knew he would kill it, and told him the same thing — play it like you would do it… only parameter I had was no double kick, which I think kind of made it interesting for him too, because that’s out of his norm too.”

”Lunkhead” -kappaleesta hän kertoo:

”I did most of the solos, but I knew I didn’t want to do ’em all. I thought about the last solo record I did where I had kinda a lot of shredders, and that didn’t make sense on a lot of these songs. So, I started to think outside the box: who do I know who can slip from punk to metal easily? I’m driving scanning through stuff that is kinda punk/metal mix, like VOLBEAT, MOTÖRHEAD, some of those METALLICA MISFITS cover tunes, etc., and S.O.D. [STORMTROOPERS OF DEATH] comes on… and I’m like, oh yeah forgot about them and I love that S.O.D. record! Who doesn’t? I remember the credits saying Charlie Benante drums and one solo, and so I thought… ’I wonder if Charlie would do it.’ I reached out and he was into it, so I sent him a few tunes. He gravitated to ’Lunkhead’ and just went for it. It’s great, I think! I wish he had the time to do more of ’em. So, for the lead song of the album, it’s a bass player and two drummers doing all the tracks hahaha! Awesome!”

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