Metal Anarchy

Guitarist Steve “Stevic” MacKay has shared a new update on Twelve Foot Ninja. The band’s future is still uncertain, but fans can still expect a new acoustic album in the near future.

MacKay said the following:

“Thank you for all of the thoughtful, positive comments about Twelve Foot Ninja. When you’re in the swamp and your band is Artaxing into glue; its therapeutic to read such an outpouring of genuine appreciation.

Speaking for myself here…

Isn’t that a weird expression? I imagine grabbing someones lips and flapping them around in time with my voice. Maybe if you hulk punched someone up the ass mega hard you could puppet their jaw from inside their own head? You’d either need massively long arms, or the other person would have to be one of those extremely tiny people. Regardless, that type of manoeuvre is unsociable, difficult to execute, and probably fatal. I digress…

Speaking for myself (this is Stevic btw), the kind words I’ve read make me feel like I didn’t just spend 15 years completely off my face, aimlessly wandering around a paddock imaging it all…Like when you see someone who’s never played Halo just point their gun up to the sky; walking on the spot facing a wall…

I updated the images on all the socials because they needed updating for the impending Acoustic album release. I added the start/end dates to try and manage expectations a bit, vs. get any false hopes up that this band will continue.

So until the release, I wanted to clarify a few things to satiate the curiosity of those who are curious:

1. The current trajectory is that the acoustic album will be released (hopefully) sometime within the next fortnight. We don’t press the button, our label does. I cannot provide specifics. I can confirm it’s finished; we just wanted to see what it feels like to be a pregnant elephant.

2. We will post a collective announcement when we launch the album. Perhaps I shouldn’t be speaking on my own behalf…But this band is “my band” when shit is shit, and “everyone’s” band when shit is awesome. Can’t bloody win with that revolving door logic can I!? All I know is, I’ve spent over a decade talking to people on our various platforms and I feel a strong connection to our supporters – I’ll talk when I feel like talking.

3. “The internet on Franco’s computer screen” is a strange and evolving place; but I want to branch out and ask for some understanding (this is probably applicable to all musical artists):

Every decision a band makes is not made in real time via a social media post…And more often than not, everyone in the band isn’t hunched around the computer sculpting posts collaboratively in the same room. For example: I’ve been in Minnesota for the past 12 months training squirrels.

Reading a post isn’t the equivalent of being in the room when whatever is happening is happening either. Therefore, suggestions like “hug it out and get on with it”, as though we’re all getting hammered and got into a punch on over whether Mike Tyson is going to annihilate Jake Paul…and REALLY just need a Facebook philosopher to trot in on their high horse and recalibrate our priorities for us 🤡 Those “get over it” suggestions…As well intentioned as they are…Yeah nah, chuck those.

Situations like this are the outcome of accurately identifying untenability. Simply having a different attitude or bromantic getaway cannot alter fact (by “literally”, I don’t mean “figuratively literally”, I literally mean “literally literally”).

4. This band’s creative output is not interdependent. In other words; just because the band ceases to exist, does not mean our abilities vanish as though the band was some kind of enchanted Voltron that only works when everyone summons Captain Planet.

Anyway, that’s about it. Hope that clears a few things up. Thanks for the chat. Make sure you keep an eye out for the launch announcement and band statement; it’s just grabbing a coffee round the corner and will be here in a tic – Stevic MacKay STEVIC WROTE THIS POST. THIS IS ME, STEVIC WRITING NOW. 😉🤌”