New Music Report – May 29, 2020

I actually had a pretty solid list of releases for this week but literally all of them got pushed back (New Found Glory, The Killers) or the releases ended up being something completely different than I was expecting and weren’t really worth commenting on (Behemoth EP), or whatever. So I briefly ended up with nothing. That said, the FFAF/WCAR release I’m going to talk about was really neat and pretty unexpected, so this week isn’t a total wash. Next week is HUGE though, so stay tuned.

Fit For a King/We Came As Romans – This was very interesting. Basically, FFAK and WCAR came together and reimagined a few of their existing tunes and recorded a new version after swapping vocalists. I thought redoing “Backbreaker” was an interesting choice, but to be honest, I had very little faith that Dave Stephens (WCAR) would be able to do justice to Ryan Kirby’s (FFAF) vocals. Especially that 30 second scream at the end of the song. But man, I was wrong, he did a great job. This definitely isn’t a full scale release, but just a neat little collaboration that’s very unique to the times we’re living in right now, so it’s worth checking out.