Sat down today with Carson Wilcox, the drummer of the Dallas, TX bands BLEED & NARROW HEAD.
Bleed just released their excellent S/T DEBUT LP on 20 Buck Spin. It fuses a wide range of styles from the alt-metal of the late '90s & early 2000s, but it's also got elements of lesser-cited bands like Curve, Filter, & God Lives Underwater. It's a super cool compound of things. I also highly recommend the SOMEBODY'S CLOSER EP that came out a couple years before it.
Bleed are currently touring the West Coast with One Step Closer until early June, & this October Narrow Head are going on the road with Rival Schools.
In this episode, we talk about owning your influences, '90s-specific mutations of the “Paradise City” riff, & why drummers going slightly off-grid can work so well.
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https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/bleed
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https://narrowheadtx.bandcamp.com
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TIMESTAMPS:
02:21 // \"Marathon\" (Bleed)
03:24 // Bleed LP: Mixing & Influences
10:19 // \"Silver\" (Bleed)
12:10 // Programming & Post-Production
15:40 // \"Ash Anywhere\" (Narrow Head)
17:09 // Hearing (& Playing) HUM
27:44 // \"Firehead\" Discussion
48:30 // \"Through the Cylinder\" (Bleed)
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