SOIL: Cover Of SOUNDGARDEN's 'Rusty Cage' Posted Online

December 15, 2007

Chicago-based metal band SOIL has posted a cover of the SOUNDGARDEN classic "Rusty Cage" on the band's MySpace page.

Commented the group: "This song is a gift to you [the fans], but in some ways it is also a gift to us. When we recently started playing together we just felt refreshed and inspired. So we started jamming out some cover tunes by our favourite bands, one of which was obviously SOUNDGARDEN's 'Rusty Cage'. It flowed so well that we decided to record it. Instead of going into a traditional recording studio, we decided to bring in a mobile recording unit and record in our rehearsal space. Sort of the same way METALLICA did the 'Garage Days Re-revisited' EP. Fun, raw, in your face jamming to some favourite tunes. So crank it loud, have fun with it (we did!) and enjoy SOIL's 'Garage Days Re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-revisited'!!!"

In other news, SOIL will embark on a U.S. tour with ILL NINO in January. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon.

SOIL recently amicably parted ways with guitarist Shaun Glass due to "personal differences." The band will not seek a replacement guitarist but will remain a four-piece, with vocalist AJ Cavalier filling in on some of the guitar duties.

SOIL is completing the songwriting process for its forthcoming album and will enter the studio in early 2008.

SOIL's latest CD, "True Self", was released in May 2006 via DRT Entertainment. The follow-up to 2004's "Redefine" was recorded and mixed at Bomb Shelter studios in Los Angeles, California with producer Ulrich Wild (STATIC-X, TAPROOT).

Following his departure from SOIL, Shaun will focus all his efforts on DIRGE, the new extreme metal project which he formed with THE DOOMSDAY SOCIAL drummer James Knight (ex-THE BLANK THEORY, CHACOPA) and A TEXAS FUNERAL vocalist Jermz.

According to Shaun, who previously played bass in the 1990s death metal act BROKEN HOPE, DIRGE's musical direction is "total fucking extreme metal in a very modern thrash style."

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