New USURPER Material To Surface This Year

January 19, 2010

Guitarist/founder Rick Scythe of Chicago's now-defunct band USURPER has issued the following update:

"I am planning on releasing at least one or two (maybe more) new USURPER songs in 2010.

"I have these demos of songs we never put out.

"I used to write everything for USURPER. I would show up to rehearsal with a four-track recording of guitar, drums, bass and vocals, show them to the band, and then everyone would just learn their parts and enhance the basic concept.

"I was thinking of taking some of those tracks and adding perhaps like The General D. Slaughter or another past member to complete the recordings... or possibly record some entirely new USURPER material... or possibly just releasing some of those raw demo tracks... just to fill the void before the USURPER DVD, but not 100% definite right now."

Rick Scythe is currently involved in a brand new project called SCYTHE, featuring Rick on guitar, vocals and bass; Joe Martinez on lead guitar; and Ben Mulvey on drums. The band will record some material and launch a MySpace page in about eight weeks. Among the tracks that are set to be recorded during the sessions are "Bonesmen And Barbarians", "Prison Planet", "Talons Of Steel", "Reptilian Bloodline" and "Witchcult". The group is also planning on performing several USURPER tracks during its live concerts: "Lycanthropic", "Kill For Metal", "Metal Lust" and "1666 Ad".

Commented Rick: "This will be the closest to a USURPER reformation you will get." He added. "The music is in the vein of USURPER, plus live we will play Usurper material... perhaps even have guest USURPER vocalists to help with a couple songs here and there. The musicianship is even better than USURPER. Just kind of 'one-upped' everything that kicked ass about USURPER.

"I really want to bring it over the top. I'll do a few leads, but I've enlisted a complete axe shredder named Joe Martinez on lead guitar — he's kind of like a death metal Yngwie, as well as a very rock-solid drummer with some of the fastest double bass I've worked with, named Ben Mulvey. We want to add a bassist real soon, but for now I'll record all the bass parts."

USURPER's fifth and final full-length album, "Cryptobeast", was released in 2005 via Earache Records. The follow-up to 2003's "Twilight Dominion" was recorded at Chicago's Rax Trax Studios with producer Neil Kernon (JUDAS PRIEST, DEICIDE, CANNIBAL CORPSE).

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