With a new, dynamic demoing process leading to the creation of the most songs they’ve ever written for an album, The Beast You Are delivers 13 doses of sludgy, heavy rock music. Warren has also once again hacked up some construction paper for one of his unique cover art pieces. The two performed everything on the album, which was recorded between the early November and early December of 2018 at El Studio in San Francisco by Phil Becker (Pins of Light, Terry Gross). Coming back to that lineup felt natural,” continues Willis. It makes sense because that’s how we established ourselves in the beginning and how we learned to write songs together, it was just the two of us. It gives us more room to be weirder in certain aspects and try different things. We work faster, and we know what we’re both going for. They remain in that lineup today for their sixth full-length, The Beast You Are. Along the way, they picked up guitarists Toshi Kasai and Scott Martin, but on 2016’s Command Your Weather, they returned to their core duo format. ![]() They recorded three albums, an EP, and various songs between 20 with that iconic grunge/doom/experimental act, all while maintaining their own identity as Big Business. This mattered little though, as their idiosyncrasies eventually caught the attention of The Melvins. In an odd way, their first few albums didn’t mesh well with their label HydraHead’s “post-metal” aesthetic. They officially combined as Big Business in 2004. His bandmate, bassist / vocalist Jared Warren, was a member of the noise rock band Karp. ~ Coady & Jared Big Businessīefore Big Business Coady Willis did some time with the band The Murder City Devils. Enter as often as you like, peel off that smelly old human costume and relax, bud! You’re a gorgeous beast. If you just let the Biz do the driving for the next 45 minutes or so, you could win an all-inclusive vacation from this spacetime ghetto we’ve been forced to subjectively experience. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you want, or what you’re willing to do to get it. It’s all yours now, isn’t that great?! It’s a cosmic sweepstakes, all are eligible. We humbly submit unto you our sixth full-length album. The press kit for the new record included this note from the band: The band has released 5 albums over the course of their 15 year existence and “The Beast You Are” is their sixth full length album. ![]() The tour that followed was called “the Double-Drumming Rock for Peace tour.” It featured Warren and Willis playing a set as Big Business before being joined by Crover and Osborne to perform as the Melvins. In late 2006, after relocating to LA Jared and Coady both became members of The Melvins, first appearing on their album (A) Senile Animal. Formed in Seattle 15 years ago, they made some waves with their first release “Head for the Shallow”back in 2005 and the band has been churning out fantastic sludge / stoner rock ever since.
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