O Zorn! is here to show you how to write a slow-burning track that's heavy, but will also get real stuck in your head. O Zorn! is now streaming "Slow Down" from their upcoming record Vermillion Haze, which I'm really not sure I've listened to less than a dozen times now.
"For many years, no matter the social situation, I could never hang," said guitarist and vocalist Bill Kielty. "If I was at a party, a bar, maybe playing a show, it would always feel like the walls were closing in. Alcohol would certainly help, but then you risk becoming a drunk. I've been on and off medication. Medication always worked, but I was never comfortable with being that person who needed to take drugs in order to feel and act normal.
"Unfortunately, my approach was always inconsistent. So, for a few months, I'd be a social butterfly, and then stop taking meds and disappear on everyone. Then the whole mixing meds and booze. Whew. You do that for long enough and it will certainly catch up to you. At some point I made the decision to get off meds completely and just work through my nonsense. Been good for years now."
Vermillion Haze is out March 15. The record was produced by Ryan Boesch (Whores, Andrew WK, Tomahawk, The Eels) and has pre-orders available here in the United States and here in Europe.
