From Autumn To Ashes‘ reunion kicked off over the weekend with a few shows. The group will of course be touring this summer as well. Altpress sat down with guitarist/vocalist Brian Deneeve to pick his brain on the bands return, some excerpts from that can be read below.
On why they chose to return:
“Money isn’t the motivation. It certainly is necessary in order to do these things. Individually, we all toyed around with the idea [of reuniting]. I don’t know if any of us actually talked about it over the last seven years or so. It’s really been a question of timing. When we stopped playing, it felt like that time had come and gone: The zeitgeist had expired. People had moved onto other things at the time. I’m not saying us—we had a great time—but [the scene] didn’t have the fire that it once did. And that was okay; I get over things, so does everyone else.
This time, Amnesia came to us and said they’d like for us to play their festival. We were like, “That’s interesting. We’re all a bit older now, maybe this is the time to do it.” We all got on email and everyone was like, “Why not? Let’s do it!” We agreed to do Amnesia, and then it was suggested we should do a couple other shows around it. If we’re going to do this one, why don’t we book some other shows and do some proper full sets? That was the motivation: It simply felt like it was the right time in years.”
On why only the “Holding A Wolf By The Ears” lineup is participating:
“We all agree that Holding A Wolf was the record we wanted to make and that was the lineup that really worked well. When we initially got the offer to play Amnesia, I don’t think we sat down and said, “Should we talk to the other guys from other incarnations of the band?” This lineup of the band played songs from every previous record. It would be weird otherwise.”
On their future plans:
“We don’t know, honestly. We’re doing this. There have been some riffs thrown around [at practices], there’s been jamming—and not just jamming on Warrant songs, which we have been doing a lot of. [Laughs.] Before we worry about anything else, we just want to focus on these shows. For that kid who was two years old when we started playing, we want to make it really good for him. After these shows, I can’t imagine we won’t continue to move ahead as organically as possible. We’ve waited this long; I don’t think it’s going to do anyone any good to think, “Oh, let’s put out a record tomorrow.” We enjoy being around each other and getting together in a room to play music.”
There’s more to be read over at Altpress.
