Fall Out Boy + Anthrax = TheDamned Things

Wed 2nd Jun, 2010 in International News

The Damned Things is a new project for Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley, Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley and Anthrax guitarists Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano.

The band describes its sound as ” a heavy/classic-rock, blues-oriented, riff-based band while trying to stay away from what makes that sound generic and overplayed.”

“This is an amalgam of three very different bands,” Trohman explains in the band’s bio, “It seemed unlikely, but it turned out we were on the same page musically.”

Anthrax’s Scott Ian claims that “This is still all so new to us. There’s no baggage yet. We’re still very much in the honeymoon period. I remember what it was like to be in Anthrax back in 1984. It’s just really exciting to get to do that again. I’m in a new band again. It’s a blast.”

Rough mixes of the groups first two offerings, We’ve Got A Situation Here and Ironiclast, have been loaded to the band’s website.

According to Trohman We’ve Got a Situation Here is probably the best example of the band’s “hybrid approach… It has the sludgy riffs, but there’s a catchy chorus, a tempo change breakdown, and some leads/solos. There’s a real bluesy feel to the verses. [It’s] everything the group stands for.”