{"id":3243,"date":"2011-08-09T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:56:05","slug":"the-damned-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/the-damned-things\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DAMNED THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"THE<\/h1>\n

THE DAMNED THINGS<\/h1>\n

Fall Out Boy + Anthrax + Every Time I Die = a different kind of rock supergroup<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The first sound on Ironiclast<\/em>, the debut album from unlikely hard-rock supergroup the Damned Things, is a monster guitar riff characteristic of six-string slingers Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano from thrash-metal mainstay Anthrax. The songs that follow are fast, tight and laser-precise\u2014kind of like Every Time I Die, singer Keith Buckley and bassist Josh Newton\u2019s veteran metal-core outfit. Meanwhile, the soaring modern-rock melodies remind one of Fall Out Boy, former home to Damned Things guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley.<\/p>\n

Trohman is used to hearing such piecemeal dissections, but he sees the band as more than the mathematical sum of its parts. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to say that, because some of it\u2019s heavy, and some of it\u2019s melodic,\u201d he says. \u201cBut we wrote what we liked. We weren\u2019t saying, \u2018Let\u2019s do an equal mix.\u2019 That was definitely never part of the equation, at least consciously. When we started, the idea was to keep it pretty heavy but have a point to everything and try to not do anything any of us had already done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Damned Things came together four years ago, before Fall Out Boy went on its current indefinite hiatus. Trohman met Ian through a mutual friend, and despite vastly different r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, the guitarists bonded over a shared love of classic rock. \u201cWe met and talked about bands we were into, especially the older rock bands that kick-started the idea of heavy metal, like Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy,\u201d says Trohman, who had played in metal groups with Hurley before Fall Out Boy formed. \u201cIt was like, \u2018We both like this stuff. Oh, you\u2019re writing music? Oh, I like writing, too. Let\u2019s do a band.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

They had no trouble recruiting the other members, but all three of their regular bands were busy with other projects at the time. It was only recently that the six musicians found time to cut Ironiclast<\/em>, produced by Trohman and Caggiano, and prepare for their first-ever U.S. tour. \u201cWe\u2019d been trying our best to wait to unleash this band and do it properly, in a way it wouldn\u2019t be offensive to the other bands we were in or offensive to the fans,\u201d Trohman says. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to confuse people.\u201d And they don\u2019t want to stop now. The Damned Things (named for a line in Ram Jam\u2019s \u201970s version of Leadbelly\u2019s \u201cBlack Betty\u201d) will tour together through at least the end of February, and plans are already afoot for another album. \u201cI troll the internet like a creep, and I\u2019ve seen people be like, \u2018This better not be a one-off, or I\u2019m going to be pissed off,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cI like that. I\u2019m already thinking of how I want the\u00a0next one to sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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