Category 7, the new project featuring Phil Demmel (ex-Machine Head), Mike Orlando (Adrenaline Mob), John Bush (Armored Saint), Jason Bittner (Overkill), and Jack Gibson (Exodus), will be releasing their self-titled debut album on July 26. Pre-orders can be found HERE.
“Category 7” Track Listing:
01. “In Stitches”
02. “Land I Used To Love”
03. “Apple Of Discord”
04. “Exhausted”
05. “Runaway Truck”
06. “White Flags & Bayonets”
07. “Mousetrap”
08. “Waver At The Breaking Point”
09. “Through Pink Eyes”
10. “Etter Stormen”
Demmel said the following about the project:
“I think we’re pretty super. Really, I feel like this is a band, not a side project. And I feel like we have written this incredible piece of music, and we’re not done. I’m so proud of the way this came together and the people who were involved. And I think we all feel super positive about this and what else we can do with it going forward.”
Orlando continued
“It’s all about big verses and big songs, and it has a lot of the elements we’ve explored in our other bands.”
A video for the band’s first single, “In Stitches,” can be found below. Orlando also commented on that:
“It gets heavy, it’s thrashy at times, but it opens up in the verses, and then the double-bass drums come in and knock you off your chair, but in a great way.”
Bush added:
“I read an article on an unhoused pregnant woman named Stitches who resided in Los Angeles obviously living a very difficult life that was compounded by mental illness and drug abuse. The encampment situation in my beloved city drives me bats. I balance between serious empathy and complete anger. The combination of imagining her life as well as my own internal turmoil led me to an almost humorous insanity state while writing this scathing album opener.”
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