Stabbing Westward Frontman Adds Insight on Band’s 2002 Break Up
Stabbing Westward are again with Chasing Ghosts, their model new album, which is out at this time (March 18), and is their first since 2001. To commemorate the album’s launch, frontman Christopher Corridor joined Loudwire Nights host Toni Gonzalez for a chat, and he elaborated on why the band initially broke up again in 2002. “I feel…
Stabbing Westward are again with Chasing Ghosts, their model new album, which is out at this time (March 18), and is their first since 2001. To commemorate the album’s launch, frontman Christopher Corridor joined Loudwire Nights host Toni Gonzalez for a chat, and he elaborated on why the band initially broke up again in 2002.
“I feel {that a} bunch of simultaneous issues occurred. The music trade was crumbling, it was proper — 2000 is correct when Napster and musical downloads have been simply at an all-time excessive, and report labels have been hemorrhaging cash. They weren’t promoting. For some time that they had a monopoly on the $15 CD, so that they have been getting cash hand over first, after which when individuals found MP3s, they have been like, ‘Oh, we are able to get each music ever recorded free of charge if I wanna simply spend 72 hours straight ingesting Mountain Dew and downloading songs,'” Corridor recalled.
On account of the shortage of earnings the labels have been pulling in, they began dropping bands, and Stabbing Westward have been one of many victims dropped by Columbia. They found the information previous to the discharge of their fourth album, which Corridor admitted put a number of stress on himself and his bandmates.
Nonetheless, the band continued, and landed one other report deal on an indie label, which the vocalist pinpoints as when the dynamic inside the band actually began to get messy.
“There’s individuals outdoors the band that have been sort of whispering in our ears, saying issues like, ‘When you guys modified your sound, you can be a lot greater than you are actually. You must’ve been method greater than you might be.’ Individuals within the band have been sort of shopping for into that, so there was a number of stress to try to reinvent the band, after which a few us have been like, ‘No, we predict that we must always simply be who we’re, we’ve a very good, strong fanbase. Let’s simply hold onto them, not need extra,’ and it simply sort of pulled the bands in two totally different instructions,” Corridor continued.
Stabbing Westward launched their eponymous fourth report by way of Koch Leisure, which was acquired by Leisure One in 2005. Corridor famous that the album, certainly, had a special sound, and it wasn’t profitable for them. This solely furthered the tensions between the band members, as a few of them had pushed for a brand new sound, whereas others had not.
The band reunited for a tour in 2016 in celebration of their thirtieth anniversary as a band, however they did not plan to make the reunion everlasting at the moment. Nonetheless, in late 2019, they introduced {that a} new EP titled Useless & Gone would come out in early 2020. Within the fall of 2021, they carried out a handful of reveals, after which dropped the music “I Am Nothing.”
Now, Chasing Ghosts is out there all over the place. Stream the album beneath, and tune into Loudwire Nights tonight at 7PM ET to listen to extra particulars concerning the reunion and the album.
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