Napalm Death's guitarist Mitch Harris is a prolific musician and plans to show us all with his new Menace project, which will drop a debut on March 14, 2014! Wait until you hear who's in it!
For starters, the project will feature drummer Derek Roddy (ex-Nile, ex-Hate Eternal, Serpents Rise), current Dragonforce bassist Fred Leclercq and current Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury, stringed instrumentalist Nicola Manzan. According to Blabbermouth there are other unlisted contributions to the album. Harris had to say about it:
"The band is called Menance, but to me, it is more than just a band or a solo project. It is the result of my life's work. It's a concept that has been in production for some time with most of the songs and intense work done in the last two years.
"The initial idea for Menance began with a plan to work with Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy) and drummer Brann Dailor (Mastodon). Although Brann recorded two songs initially, his responsibilities with Mastodon didn't allow time for such an intricate collaboration. In fact, we all became incredibly busy and as a result, new directives evolved, and to achieve my goal for Menace I needed to see the album through myself.
"To me, Menance is the old meeting the new; heavy and melodic, descriptive and adventurous, epic and futuristic, carnal and primitive, and so on. Menance brings unrealized dreams closer to fruition. It is about overcoming loss and hardship, and a combination of many interests, including spiritual philosophy, psychology, science, physics, theatrics, the supernatural, the paranormal, film, poetry, photography, art, sculpture and video; the things I've focused all my energy on over the last twenty years. It's an organic meets technological approach to exploration and self discovery through a direction I term audio-installationism (A.I.)."
