-(16)- have set a May 01st release date for their new covers albums “Forgeries (72–84)“. While one may have some basic expectations of tracks for the Californian sludge metal band to cover, there’s at least one prominent left field choice on display here: their newly released take on the Bee Gees‘ 1979 disco hit “Tragedy“.
Speaking on what drove them to go this route, -(16)- offered:
“We have partnered with Heavy Psych Sounds Records to release a collection of covers that function less as homage and more as a possession to be given away. The artwork, rendered by the ever-amazing Marald, completes the ritual, iconic, unsettling, and unafraid.
We’ve always believed that a great cover is not mimicry but revelation. It’s finding a song that’s already lived inside you since youth and letting it crawl out, bruised and changed. From the early ’90s onward, -(16)- have treated covers as translations rather than as replicas, acts of tribute and emulation, filtered through distortion, fatigue, and lived experience. These are songs that taught us how to stand, how to fall, and how to keep going.
In our collective head, this album exists because these songs demanded it. Because they screamed copy me, and we listened. In the end, Forgeries (72–84) stands as both a thank you note and a theft, a reminder that all music worth a damn is borrowed, broken, and passed on between friends.
The selections on Forgeries 72–84 span eras and attitudes, unified not by genre but by necessity. Each track is a document of obsession, of influence absorbed and re-expressed without permission.”
“Forgeries (72–84)” track listing:
01 – “Can’t Get Enough” (Scorpions cover)
02 – “Nausea” (X cover)
03 – “Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll” (Blue Öyster Cult cover)
04 – “Rotten To The Core” (Rudimentary Peni cover)
05 – “Mother Mary” (UFO cover)
06 – “Tragedy” (Bee Gee cover)
07 – “Bloodstains” (Agent Orange cover)
08 – “Beat My Head Against The Wall” (Black Flag cover)
09 – “St. Vitus Dance” (Black Sabbath cover)
10 – “Foreign Policy” (Fear cover)
11 – “Rocket Ride” (KISS cover)
Pre-orders are available through heavypsychsounds.com and Bandcamp.
