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FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Drummer Shoots Down 'Split' Rumors

April 20, 2005

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM drummer Craig Nielsen has posted the following update on the group's official message board:

"This is what's happening. The band was offered to be part of the W.A.S.P./ L.A GUNS/STEPHEN PEARCY tour and when put to the test of a real tour on the table, the band had to turn it down and take a hard look at what we want to do from this point. Most everyone in the band has finally a bit of security on the home front. We have played as many Southwest U.S. shows in the last six years as we possibly could have without degrading the bands impact. We still have a great love for writing and recording music, even Eric [A.K., vocals]. We will write and record as long as we are signed. We just spent a long six weeks in intense performance mode doing this new record, after a relatively long writing and rehearsal stretch, and we are a little fried, to be expected. Time will do its thing as it always does and we will recharge and see where we are. FLOTSAM has a life of its own, you can't kill this motherfucker."

As previously reported, Crash Music, Inc. has set a July 26 release date for the new FLOTSAM AND JETSAM album, entitled "Dreams of Death". The CD was engineered by Tom Giatron and produced by FLOTSAM AND JETSAM and Tom Giatron at Genesis Studios in Phoenix. Travis Smith did the cover art.

"Dreams of Death" track listing:

01. Requiescat in Pace
02. Parasychic, Paranoid
03. Childhood Hero
04. Straight to Hell
05. Bleed
06. Bathing in Red
07. Nascentes Morimur
08. The Look in his Eyes
09. Out of Mind

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM was formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1984 by bassist Jason Newsted, who eventually left the band to join METALLICA. The group currently consists of Eric A.K. (vocals),Craig Nielsen (drums),Jason Ward (bass),Mark Simpson (guitar) and Ed Carlson (guitar).

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