That is music to my little deathcore ears. Winds of Plague, who just lately reunited with their unique members, haven’t launched something since 2017’s Blood of My Enemy. Now that they’ve acquired three exhibits—together with taking part in this yr’s Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky and Aftershock in Sacramento, California—underneath their belt, they might be itching to a bit extra.
Whereas at Aftershock final weekend, frontman Jonathan “Johnny Plague” Cooke-Hayden spoke with Sultans of Slack about a couple of issues, one in all them being how this lil reunion took place within the first place.
“ Actually, we acquired requested to do these two exhibits, which type of blew our minds. Like, effectively, we are able to’t not do it, proper?! So I reached out to all the unique guys. All of us grew up, going to highschool collectively and we began the band there, and I used to be, like, ‘Hey, it’d be actually cool to do that’ because it’s the precise 20 years since we began Winds of Plague; that’s once we acquired the title and all that. So, everyone wished to do it. We had been, like, ‘Let’s see how these two exhibits go.’ And it was a variety of enjoyable. I believe that the overall consensus is, sure, we wanna preserve doing extra. However as of now, that is all we now have deliberate. Immediately was the top of it. So I suppose we’ll see what’s subsequent, however I believe there’s positively extra to come back.”
When requested about band discussions on risk of that 2008 shit turning into some 2025 and past shit, Johnny Plague had a hopeful response:
“…We even have a pair songs that we by no means recorded, from a pair years in the past. So we began type of revisiting these, punching these up a bit bit. So there’s nothing set in stone proper now, however we’re positively leaning in the direction of making new music, taking part in a few extra exhibits, attempting to do a pair a yr. And it’s enjoyable. It’s actually superior.
“We’ve all type of moved on from the band stuff in our private lives. And it’s enjoyable to take a step again into it. It appears like a former life, and we’re all simply right here only for the love of it at this level. It has nothing to do with paying the payments or being the most important band or something like that. It’s only for the love of it. It’s superior.”
They’re doing it for the love of it, and we’re listening for the love of it. I’m manifesting new Winds of Plague. Finish of story.
