He said they have been working on performing since before COVID and that killed it and now they have been working on this show for 6 months and didn't want to cancel. He did do the last 2 songs (with help) but it was really rough, he was suffering through it.
The first Saliva album with no original members drops on August 14th. 1. Hit 'Em Where It Hurts 2. Cope (feat. Trevor McNevan of Thousand Foot Krutch) 3. Too Broke To Fix (feat. the Founder) 4. Breaking Through 5. Sadistic Love 6. Edge of a Knife 7. Rivers 8. Peace of Mind 9. Fight of My Life 10. Sin City Mistress 11. Last Goodbye 12. Weird 13. Longshot (feat. Lynyrd Skynyrd)
I don't know about better, but I think definitely of a comparable quality. I am interested how they sound now though with Swinny's passing and if there's any further change.
Saw Red last night with Ra, Kingdom Collapse and Twist It. Kingdom Collapse was extremely generic Octanecore. Ra had only Sahaj and a drummer (from Phineas). The backtracks were very distracting, even the vocals ones but overall it was a good set. Red's temp singer is fine but he is nowhere close to ben, not in range and especially not in stage presence. I'll give him credit because you can see he is still trying to find his footing and get more comfortable. The other members of the band have great energy and presence so it just made him look like he is not catching up.
lol to be fair there’s been quite a bit of overlap between Red and Breaking Benjamin members at this point, maybe that’s why they were confused they should start a new supergroup, Breaking REDjamin
I saw Sahaj explain why in their Facebook comments and it boils down to not having time to get other members up to speed with rehearsals and feeling like he does a better job without that distraction, which is... incredibly wild reasoning. I mean, with that logic, why have a band?
I spoke to him for a few minutes last night and asked him if he plans on doing a headliner and he said he is done with headliners since it's too nuch and he doesn't have the time and energy to put everything together.
Yeah, apparently that was announced a while back. Disappointing but at least that is relatively understandable.
I hope Wes sues them, not because I think they should be sued, but it's the next logical scenario in this comedy of errors. It'll be hilarious.
It seems like it's a trend now... It happened with Mushroomhead recently and maybe another band I don't remember. I won't be surprised if Josey Scott pulls the same thing.