Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner hinted last year that Shadows Fall was planning something for 2020. Turns out they absolutely were, but COVID-19 screwed things up. Shadows Fall vocalist Brian Fair tells Thunder Underground the band was in the process of working out everyone's schedules between their other bands and full-time jobs prior to the country being shut down.
For those unaware, Bittner currently drums in Overkill, guitarist Jonathan Donais is in Anthrax, other guitarist Matthew Bachand is in Act Of Defiance, and vocalist Brian Fair has Overcast, Downpour, and Hell Night.
"We've been trying to figure out a way to play some shows and work it out. Schedule-wise, it's been pretty tough, just with Anthrax, Overkill, and Matt's been busy, on and off, with Act of Defiance and his own studio, and things like that. Me and Paul are working — well, were working — full-time. Now it's real hard."
"We had some framework rolling to try and get some things kind of to the next level of really moving forward, and now it's all just at a standstill. But we really do wanna play some shows. We really stopped playing just because logistically, it was getting harder between guys playing in other bands, and then also just financially, if we wanted to survive, we were gonna have to tour 10 months out of the year, like we always did, and we just weren't at that point right then. I was having a kid, then had a second kid, Paul had a kid. So it just became too tough. But as far as playing together, we never broke up because we didn't wanna do it; it just didn't make sense at the time."
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