014: "Firehead" feat. Carson Wilcox (Bleed, Narrow Head)

Sat down today with Carson Wilcox, the drummer of the Dallas, TX bands BLEED & NARROW HEAD.

Bleed just released their excellent S/T DEBUT LP on 20 Buck Spin. It fuses a wide range of styles from the alt-metal of the late '90s & early 2000s, but it's also got elements of lesser-cited bands like Curve, Filter, & God Lives Underwater. It's a super cool compound of things. I also highly recommend the SOMEBODY'S CLOSER EP that came out a couple years before it.

Bleed are currently touring the West Coast with One Step Closer until early June, & this October Narrow Head are going on the road with Rival Schools.

In this episode, we talk about owning your influences, '90s-specific mutations of the “Paradise City” riff, & why drummers going slightly off-grid can work so well.

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https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/bleed

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https://narrowheadtx.bandcamp.com

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TIMESTAMPS:

02:21 // "Marathon" (Bleed) 03:24 // Bleed LP: Mixing & Influences 10:19 // "Silver" (Bleed) 12:10 // Programming & Post-Production 15:40 // "Ash Anywhere" (Narrow Head) 17:09 // Hearing (& Playing) HUM 27:44 // "Firehead" Discussion 48:30 // "Through the Cylinder" (Bleed)

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