SKINLAB Begins Rehearsing For Upcoming Tour

February 21, 2007

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB have issued the following update:

"We're gearing up for [the SKINLAB tour in] May. The first scheduled practice went off nice and heavy. We ran through some of the old shit. Surprisingly enough, your boys haven't lost it! Felt just like old times, but with a lot more smiles! Rusty as all hell, we managed to run through 'So Far From The Truth', 'Slave The Way', 'Pain Comes To Surface', 'Dissolve', 'XLR8', 'Jesus Sells', 'No Sympathy', 'Scapegoat' and bunch of others we're gonna have to revisit — '10 Seconds', 'Pale Face', 'Take As Needed'. Haha, goddaaamn, back to the drawing board. We're even talking about doing a cover from one of our favorite bands, ACID BATH... ahh yeah! One thing is for sure: we have tons of bad-ass songs we're gonna pull together to give you the best SKINLAB shows ever! Still working on the package. If things go as planned, this tour is gonna be slammin'."

SKINLAB bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel told BLABBERMOUTH.NET back in September 2006, "We're basically gonna be writing a shitload of material and see what happens. There's like five song ideas so far that are pretty badass — just super-heavy stuff.

"There will be another SKINLAB record," he added. "Snake [guitar] and I will be busy with RE:IGNITION for the cycle of our debut album, which means SKINLAB will trailing shortly behind."

SKINLAB 2007 lineup:

Paul Hopkins - Drums
Glen Telford - Guitars
Steev Esquivel - Bass/Vocals
Snake - Guitars

SKINLAB's last studio album, "ReVolting Room", came out in 2002. A double-disc set, entitled "Nerve Damage", featuring alternate versions of studio tracks, several live tracks recorded on the band's "ReVolting Room" tour, plus two new songs, came out in 2004.

RE:IGNITION — the band featuring Esquivel on guitar, Snake on bass, Dave Moore (ex-MINDBENDER) on vocals, Tim Howell (ex-FUELED, SACRILEGE B.C.) on guitar and Mark Hernandez (ex-TECHNOCRACY, TORQUE) on drums — released its debut album, "Empty Heart Loaded Gun", via Corporate Punishment Records.

"Empty Heart Loaded Gun" features guest appearances by guitarist Phil Demmel (MACHINE HEAD, ex-VIO-LENCE) and vocalist Brock Lindow (36 CRAZYFISTS).

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